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QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 10, 2016 -> 10:21 PM) Torres - $2.8 million signing bonus Jiminez - $2.8 million dollar bonus Bonifacio - $3 million salary. Beckham - $2 million salary And we wonder why?....... Jorge Soler - $30M Gerardo Concepcion - $7M

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 05:48 PM) Or, to put it another way, which mid-market teams (payroll #12-18) have successfully risen up to become consistent playoff contenders without building primarily through the draft and Latin America? That have experienced sustained success by buying second and third tier free agents so astutely (success rate of 60-80%), as well as "winning" 60% or more of their trades...and that weren't willing to go through a prolonged period of rebuilding/Top 10 draft picks, etc.??? The LatAm pipeline is getting fixed.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 03:09 PM) The problem with this article is again, it comes from a Chris Matthews type, that is, a Hillary worshiper.. This paragraph made me stop reading: "Obama administration officials, up to and including the president, badly want to see her win — there is something in the way she acted after the election, in the soldier she became and the colleague she showed herself to be, that has curdled the pride they felt in winning the 2008 primary into something close to guilt." Yes, we know, Hillary is so special, blah blah. She's a compulsive liar, power hungry, elitist and the FBI doesn't care. ...you are incredibly tone deaf when it comes to Hillary.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 03:45 PM) Actually, they play most games on a back field - as do other AZL teams. So they have nice stadiums but rarely use them for the AZL games. Well that makes me sad.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 03:22 PM) Honestly kind of amazed that that's what the AZL stadiums look like. Some of them. The Sox AZL team plays at Camelback Ranch, which is gorgeous.

lol Greg

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 11:07 AM) If we can find 2015 Hansen, that is the Sox finding the #1 draft pick in the 2nd round. This is why I keep gushing about that pick. A few years ago looking at Rodon, Fulmer and Hansen in three straight drafts would have seemed damn near improbably for where the Sox picked. QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 11:20 AM) Since June 1st (31 games): .327/.397/.509, 5 HR (!!), 13 BB, 20 K in 134 PA. And his BABIP is .354, which isn't aberrantly high for a speed guy like him. I'd say he's got it dialed in now. EDDY! QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 02:17 PM) Here is video of the HR that Kim was gushing over.... https://twitter.com/luisc1123/status/752387604784394240 Wish the video would have stuck with the ball, but that ball was absolutely smoked. Oh my.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 11:07 AM) If we can find 2015 Hansen, that is the Sox finding the #1 draft pick in the 2nd round. This is why I keep gushing about that pick. A few years ago looking at Rodon, Fulmer and Hansen in three straight drafts would have seemed damn near improbably for where the Sox picked. QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 11:20 AM) Since June 1st (31 games): .327/.397/.509, 5 HR (!!), 13 BB, 20 K in 134 PA. And his BABIP is .354, which isn't aberrantly high for a speed guy like him. I'd say he's got it dialed in now. EDDY! QUOTE (ChiliIrishHammock24 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 02:17 PM) Here is video of the HR that Kim was gushing over.... https://twitter.com/luisc1123/status/752387604784394240 Wish the video would have stuck with the ball, but that ball was absolutely smoked. Oh my.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 11:43 AM) I disagree that he's projecting more as a reliever. I think he's a starter long-term. But I agree that a bullpen look THIS year probably makes sense. He struggled at first in AA, made a few adjustments, now he's dialed in. I think you send him to AAA now, and if he still looks good, you put him in the Chicago pen by August. Then he can go to the rotation in 2017. +1

QUOTE (Greg Hibbard @ Jul 11, 2016 -> 11:29 AM) People are really lynching Jose f***ing Abreu for 86 games in which he needed to literally hit just 4 more home runs to be at basically career numbers? If you don't understand things like variance and sample size please stop talking about anything, and if you aren't willing to give an all-star caliber first baseman with two EXCELLENT seasons a single mediocre half-season, JFC - baseball isn't the sport you should be following Because Ron883 gets off on Abreu not doing well.

Nah

Great philosophy shift.

Loving this draft so far. Probably more excited about Hansen than Burdi or Collins.

Well, at least Anderson's defense has been stellar

Damn it.

Keith Law bummed he doesn't get to TP Yost's house

Awww yeah

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 9, 2016 -> 09:09 PM) http://espn.go.com/mlb/stats/pitching/_/so...qualified/false Check out the -0.8 WAR line (bottom 40 pitchers in the majors, qualified and unqualfied). You'll find Matt Albers, along with the likes of Buchholz and Andrew Cashner, for example. Erik Johnson at -0.9. Shelby Miller at -1.2 (worst trade in years). Ubaldo Jimenez at -1.6. Tolleson, deposed Rangers' closer, at -1.0. Eric Surkamp and James Shields both at -0.4. Man, that Shelby Miller has a chance to be one of the worst trades ever.

It's three games.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 10:07 PM) The Univ of Iowa pitcher from the CPL that had TJ? Mike Hickman, this year's draft pick who was also taken last year but didn't sign.

Dear lord, Sale.

LOL

Speed is fun.

Mike why did you jinx this.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 03:57 PM) My requisite post Ok, this was fair. QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jul 8, 2016 -> 04:00 PM) Thanks for your input. We had no idea how you felt on the matter.