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Defense was spectacular today and it confused me.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jul 10, 2015 -> 06:15 PM) Ok, the Sale line got me. Sale will now go strike out 21 batters at Wrigley to break Wood's record at Wood's old stomping grounds.

I think Bonifacio or Conor will be gone before Gordon if Saladino is able to stick. Gordon is at least providing stellar defense, it just comes down to Saladino starting or being a utility player like Bonifacio was supposed to be. That means backing up the entire infield with the ability to go to the OF in a pinch.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 10, 2015 -> 05:49 PM) That was fun! Like I said in the gamethread: These guys are having fun but we need to start scoring more, not sure how much longer we can continue to win scoring 3 or less Hitless Wonders 2.0?

DEFENSE?! Also, Sox are now 8-2 in their last 10.

HOT DAMN, SANCHEZ

Wow, that's a break.

All of these have been exciting double plays.

QUOTE (RaySox @ Jul 10, 2015 -> 04:05 PM) Imagine if he had nasty stuff AND control See: Sale, Christopher Allen

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jul 10, 2015 -> 04:03 PM) Not going to get a DP every inning Carlos. I blame this post.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 10, 2015 -> 04:03 PM) Another walk. How can someone have so much control problems and be a major league pitcher Cause he's got really, really good stuff.

Hendricks is now right handed Mark Buehrle. Never change Hawk.

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jul 10, 2015 -> 03:49 PM) Well, this should stand. That was 100% a catch. But you see, we are the White Sox, they are the Cubs.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jul 10, 2015 -> 03:47 PM) What the hell was that? I am so damn confused lol He didn't catch it. Nevermind he did catch it. This will take 10 min for NY to decide and we will get screwed over He actually did. It's all about the transfer.

WHAT THE f*** IS GOING ON?

Dear lord.

Great bunt by Rodon.

Came to chime in that Alexei's DP was sick as hell.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jul 10, 2015 -> 11:59 AM) Maybe, but I am starting to get the feeling Gillapsie is next. They obviously don't like to put him in the field anymore. At least Bonifacio can PR. Agreeing with this. Robin clearly hates Conor's defense and his bat isn't even close to offsetting it.

Excited to finally see him up. Maybe we get a situation where he just keeps hitting, so he stays up.

Man, Delmonico has been on fire. Delmonico, Blackmar and Almonte are all intriguing. We traded Gordon Beckham and Alejandro De Aza for those three.

The only pitcher I want getting called up is EJ followed by Danks to the pen, otherwise this move doesn't help. Albers does nothing for me and Carroll is a good LR guy Saladino meanwhile would be intriguing.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 07:31 PM) I'm watching the Bartman story on ESPN Films. Some Cubs fans are just the worst... Saw that the same day as the highlight of the Cubs fan grabbing a ball from Adrian Gonzalez, which seemed to be massively celebrated.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 05:41 PM) Then waste your time working him out? They only have a few hundred thousand dollars left under this years cap number. Yeah, they're not working out him out for kicks and giggles. They know what signing him would mean.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 9, 2015 -> 03:34 PM) wait what Arguing to the point of absurdity. Inspired by Wite's amazing post on keeping Gio QUOTE (witesoxfan @ May 31, 2012 -> 01:22 AM) I read the topic. Didn't care about anything else anybody else has said, so if what I say is aforementioned, then many kudos. - It depends upon which time you were talking about. Had the Sox not traded for Jim Thome, they'd have been left with an 02-04ish offense, hoping and praying that Frank Thomas could stay healthy. They'd still be destroyed by great right handed pitching, and as a result probably would have only won 87 games instead of 90. That's IF they had kept Thomas. Had they still let Thomas walk, the best case scenario I can see is that they would have ended up with Nomar Garciaparra. They still lose 3 wins. That's at the very best. Now, if you're an old school type who believes that protection in the lineup helps generate production from other players, than perhaps Jermaine Dye doesn't hit 44 home runs, perhaps Paul Konerko doesn't put up the exact same numbers as MVP Justin Morneau, and perhaps other pieces from the lineup fall as well. Perhaps the Sox lose 10 wins, are ridiculously far out of it at the break, and deal Freddy Garcia for 2 other prospects. And then never get Gio back, and after another very bad year in 2008, the Sox fire both Williams and Guillen and hire Dan Evans and Gene Lamont to run the team. I think we all know how that one goes. Now, had they not traded him the second time, which is the one I think you are getting at, having never read a single word of your post, then the Sox don't end up with Nick Swisher. Now, depending upon how strictly and strongly you believe in the statistic WAR, and whose definition you believe most in (baseballreference or fangraphs), the Sox are either better off without Swisher (-0.5 bWAR) or Nick Swisher was worth more than 1 win for the 2008 Chicago White Sox (1.3 fWAR). I give much more credence towards fWAR but I'm a homer, so do as you please. But since, in this revisionist's history, we are using that, and we are using it to mean Nick Swisher was literally worth 1+ more wins than the average Joe they could have put in place, then what we would have seen would have been DeWayne Wise putting up 2 WAR in August alone and -3 WAR in the months outside of that, given general estimation. On top of that, even had the Sox found a perfect replacement level player to play instead of Swisher, who would have put up exactly a 0 fWAR, the Sox would have given up the division lead in the second game in the Metrodome, the final win against Cleveland wouldn't have mattered, they'd have never played the makeup game against Detroit, and the blackout game would have never taken place, thus, no Griffey/Thome/Danks show, and we would have never seen the batting champion-to-be bunt in his last plate appearance of the year attempting to get on base. At that point in time, 2009 would have been far more disappointing, and the Sox almost certainly would have never had the resources to sign Dayan Viciedo during the 2008-09 offseason. They'd be in a full blown rebuilding mode, still with Dan Evans and Gene Lamont in charge. Going into the 4th year of Reinsdorf's always too generous length of stay, the Sox would be coming off their 2nd straight 90+ loss season with an absolute garbage product on the field but hope beyond hope in the minors with a top 10 system in the league. But atleast they'd still have Gio f***in Gonzalez.