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QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Jul 27, 2014 -> 07:58 PM) Good idea to trade Reed, but a terrible move to waste 40 save value on such a flawed player. They were fooled by his semi-successful cup of coffee in the bigs - a 117+ wRC in AAA translates as a borderline MLBer. Bad scouting, I guess. Eaton trade looks good. RH will need to do better than 50-50 for the team to turn the corner, though. The word I got from the Phoenix Branch of my research staff is that the D'backs just did not like what they saw in his 2013 cup of coffee and were going to trade him to someone. The White Sox showed up on their doorstep, and the rest is history. Maybe Reed's velocity has gone down -- I don't know, but he is still a very serviceable relief pitcher. He came in to close a win Saturday and struck out the side. It looked like he was throwing pretty hard to me. I thinks he ranks well ahead of the likes of Lindstrom, Belisario, Webb, Paulino, et al in the relief pitchers' food chain. Then and now.

The Dodgers did the right thing. They immediately demoted their idiot hotheaded violent wannabe to a lower classification in the minors. Sent a message to their organization.

Flowers and his new glasses probably have as much trade value as any of these guys. Just sayin'.........

QUOTE (StRoostifer @ Jul 26, 2014 -> 04:27 PM) I think regardless of who they call up I'm sure you and I as well as others will be happy to see some young blood in the lineup. I certainly won't complain if it were Semien. I like Semien too. Can't understand why he hasn't hit better at Charlotte.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jul 26, 2014 -> 04:39 PM) Yes, everything that is reported is true. I have a bridge in Brooklyn that I'm looking to unload cheap. It's been sold.

Peavy sailing in the 5th inning vs dodgers

QUOTE (flavum @ Jul 27, 2014 -> 06:28 PM) Need fathom to talk smack about Davidson. He's getting close to falling under .200 again. Bad, bad trade.

How can you NOT pull for Chris Sale to win?

Never saw the sucker punch, but the Jax Mgr should be suspended. No reason to keep it going that long.

A year ago Stone was telling us that Danks' velocity would go up a couple of ticks in the off season. Maybe he just had the wrong off season.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 25, 2014 -> 02:31 PM) I see a lot of hating on Dunn, but little about the actual deal. People simply say it made sense at the time. Do you deny this? I'd say a majority of the posts on Danks mention getting "rid of him now" and disdain about the money he makes and wanting to free it up. I don't mind Danks at all. I think he's had a fine season. He's the least of the Sox problems. Sale, Danks and Q are a great 3/5s of a rotation I think. After the performance last night you wonder why Sox aren't winning more with 4/5s of it sometimes doing well. Greg, I hated the Dunn acquisition from day 1, and I said so to whomever would listen. I had seen him play in the NL and just don't like that kind of player. Then, you have to consider the deal long term (4 yrs) and expensive ($60 large approx), and we lost a #1 draft choice. It was lose/lose. His terrible years in early part of his era did not surprise me. Actually, he is hitting better now than I would have guessed or predicted. I'll be glad to see him gone, but do not hate him personally. Far from it. Another poster said recently that the crowd really gets on him in a tasteless fashion; I hate to see that.

Cody Winiarski has been doing a Mitchell Boggs impersonation.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 24, 2014 -> 04:55 AM) 7 games ago Wilkins with his "sweet swing" was an almost 26 year old hitting .251 with a below .300 OBP in AAA. While this streak he has been on is incredible, he has been pretty mediocre outside of these last 7 games. That's one way to look at Wilkins. Another is that for some reason, he got off to a horrible start this seaso, turning it on sometime in May. So from then on, his numbers are great. I don't know what caused the poor start -- injury perhaps? Don't know.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jul 23, 2014 -> 09:10 PM) Hahn said that the plan at closer was gonna be Nate Jones. In his eyes they had a closer on the team, he just so happened to have gotten hurt before the season started. Calling the trade laughably bad is silly. Hindsight it hasn't worked yet, esp with Gillaspie hitting the way he has, but Hahn apparently had more faith in Jones than Conor. When Greg said that the trade was "laughably bad" it was probably an exaggeration, certainly an inaccurate adverb. No one here is laughing. But it was not a good trade. It'll likely take another year before the trade can be accurately assessed, but I'm sure Hahn did not forsee Davidson hitting .210 in AAA with gobs of strikeouts. Reed now up to 24 saves by the way, which is a fairly predictable level for him.

Just saw that the Pirates called up Brent Morel from AAA where he was hitting .243 with 3 HR's.

and Wilkins isn't on anybody's top prospect list......

Question for Mr. Wite: IYO, who is the better prospect today, Davidson or Wilkins?

I think you guys are overanalyzing.

Was that base hit an example of Beckham's limited range?

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 08:15 PM) If they can't deal Beckham, can they send him down to build up his confidence (haha) and put Micah in the lineup. Beckham has 5+ years service time. Can't remember what the limit is before you cannot send a player down to minors. Something like 4-5 yrs I believe. I bet someone here knows the answer.

For years I have wondered if The US had normal relations with Cuba, if there would have been a major league franchise in Havanna.

Why would anyone want to leave an obvious playoff team? And then going public with it.

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Jul 22, 2014 -> 03:39 AM) Dunn's hitting plenty of HRs. He has hit one every 19.5 ABs this year. 19th best in all of baseball. Right on par with Pujols and Bautista. The reason his power numbers look so low is because he's lost 100+ PAs to our mascot. Add another 5-6 HRs and 15 RBIs and his numbers look a whole lot better. Had to laugh. Is this an old nickname, or original material from yourself?

What was Engel's injury earlier this year?

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Jul 21, 2014 -> 11:28 PM) Ravelo deserves a month in Charlotte. Dump Dunn and call up Wilkins to make room. Agreed. Hawk was touting Wilkins during the Sox game Monday night. Too bad Wilkins got off to such a slow start; then, his stats would really be impressive. Wilkins should be on everyone's prospect list. Almost everyone.