Quin

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 8, 2015 -> 02:42 PM) This one will be the ugliest of the 3. Saturday night. Shark a good but not great pitcher. Royals fans wanting blood on Shark with a full house again. If I were Shark I'd hit Cain. All hell would break loose and it might wake up our boys. Shark's the kind of guy who might do it. He plays for such a noncompetitive team it'd put him in the headlines and really would shake up the s***ty frontrunning KC fans. Gonna be hot with game starting at 6 and stadium baking in 90s. KC 10, Chicago 4. Really, you're advocating this s*** again? You're advocating that Samardzija hit someone on purpose after this is how you reacted to him hitting someone on accident? Really?

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Aug 8, 2015 -> 02:40 PM) Just my opinion. I think Ramirez is gone after the season and unless Micah can stay healthy and get over his hamstring issues, his futue with the Sox is dubious at best. Can't play Tyler at third base. Third base is a power / RBI position. You've got to have a masher at that position who plays decent defense. Now who that can be for the Sox I have no idea. I can see Tyler as the all around utility guy next year since Gordon and Bonafacio will be gone. Sanchez is settling in nicely at second leave him there. Mark Third base isn't that position anymore. It used to be and the top guys at third still are, but now it's a place where 10-15 homers and 50-70 RBIs is plenty.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Aug 8, 2015 -> 10:58 AM) I wouldn't call him special because defensively he remains a huge work in progress. He definitely has skills that cannot be taught: speed and patience at the plate. Hopefully, he finishes up strong in High-A and plays in the AFL. He is way more advanced than anyone could have imagined after taking significant time off. His season is extremely encouraging, but as always, the more he produces against better competition, the more excited I will get. He definitely has gone from a organizational player to legit prospect though. Even defensively, it's mostly mental. He told us that it was the unexpected mental toll that baseball takes. He also said all throughout his baseball career he's prided himself on defense so he's working on fixing it. He does have great defensive tools.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 10:08 PM) Really? Even I'd PH for Flowers here. Nah

Rex Hudler is blaming the pitching staff for not getting the ball to Flowers quick enough to throw out runners.

However bad Pods is, Rex Hudler is worse than him and Hawk. God I hate Rex Hudler.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 03:45 PM) That makes me feel pretty optimistic to be honest. Bet the house.

QUOTE (Swingandalongonetoleft @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 12:58 PM) oh lordy +1

QUOTE (lasttriptotulsa @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 09:26 AM) I don't think Abreu has the demeanor to be a big fighter. He seems like more of a lover than a fighter. The guys on the team I wouldn't want to f*** with would be Samardzija, Garcia and Flowers. For me it's Abreu, because he's such a lover over a fighter. If that massive man gets pissed to the point of fighting, f*** it, I'm out.

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 08:09 AM) I really wonder what they see in these guys that they like or think they can fix, Tago wasn't the first and won't be the last...CWS might not be able to develop any sort of productive hitter but they always pop out quality arms Thing is, while it's tempting to let all the arms develop and have them pitch on the big league club, there's only so many spots. They need to start trading some pitching depth to get hitters.

http://www.chicagonow.com/soxnet/2015/08/b...history-part-3/ In the latest What If? installment, Mark looks at how the Sox were incredibly close to having Fernandomania on the South Side.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 07:40 AM) If Abreu gets plunked, there will be benched clearing brawls. I feel like Abreu would be terrifying to fight.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Aug 7, 2015 -> 06:49 AM) What a terrible suggestion I'd love to see Abreu get plunked. Who wouldn't?

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 09:53 PM) Great to see, so happy we didn't trade him for a rental bat (he would have been the most likely to go) The org LOVES Adams.

Great stuff as usual from Brian.

QUOTE (GreenSox @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 10:27 AM) The starting pitching - shark, sale and Quintana- has been good most of the season until the last 2 times through. Meanwhile Rodon still lacks command, control and a third pitch, while using a year of service time. EJ may be ready to join in, but that's TBD. Sox need an athletic outfielder. That doesn't mean get rid of AVi. nothing wrong with some quality depth for a change. And of course a 3b and c. It won't happen in one offseason. The amusing thing is the White Sox current backup OF is probably one of the most athletic in the game. Thompson's family genes are pretty nuts.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 6, 2015 -> 09:46 AM) Brilliant, Adam LaRoche has an ops not even close to Semien, but we wouldn't be better off with a 23 year old at DH making close to the league minimum. You probably thought Royce Clayton was a much better defender than Valentin because Jose had a lot more errors. Why do we have advanced metrics if it's 2015 and we're still going by error totals? I guess some on this board know more about baseball than Billy Beane. Because by advanced metrics, Marcus is still pretty bad at defense at short.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 04:31 PM) what happened. Gameday froze Eaton on third. One out. Abreu and Melky both intentionally walked to get to Avi. Avi gets a not intentional walk.

Avi has two walk off walks this year.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 04:26 PM) The double intentional walk. They really want an Avi double play ball.

Why is Avi hitting.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 04:08 PM) I agree, but the odds of both making their ceilings are much more favorable for Fulmer versus Anderson. Which is why I voted Fulmer, personally.

If both Anderson and Fulmer reach their ceilings, Anderson will be better. It will be a minuscule difference and the White Sox will be very happy.

Wait. Why is Rodon being lifted after 75 pitches and two walks?

QUOTE (LDF @ Aug 5, 2015 -> 01:03 PM) really..... sox came close but never had the ummmm to put it all together. ...2005?