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QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ May 31, 2014 -> 08:30 AM) Commenting on the original post. Better late than never . I know that was really hard to figure out. Not.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ May 30, 2014 -> 04:45 PM) Tyler Perry's House of Pancakes, the marathon. sounds great. That's WCIU

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ May 30, 2014 -> 02:31 PM) I'm confused as to why anyone watches WGN if it's not for their sports???? I used to watch Bozo's Grand Prize game in the 90's.

QUOTE (Melissa1334 @ May 30, 2014 -> 02:32 PM) So on mlb now , Brian Kenny is talking about the best defenders based on saber metrics and he said right now Johnny peralta has been the second best defense short stop in baseball. Better than alexei and Simmons ,Hardy etc ? Well if that's what the numbers say then ok then lol It's weird, but the advanced defensive metrics have ALWAYS liked Peralta. Might be one of those guys with better instincts than range.

Wow

Go glangon, go!

Ok guys this is "must read." Doug Thorburn is basically worth subscribing to Baseball prospectus all on his own. Mechanical breakdown of Rodon/Aiken/Kolek/Hoffman: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article....articleid=23731 It is SUCH a shame that the TINSTAAP podcast he's on includes Paul Sporer. That dude is SO OBNOXIOUS and all he does is talk over Thorburn. Ruins what could be a flat-out amazing podcast. Anyway, this is a very rosy look at Kolek, IMO, who grades out better than all of the others mechanically.

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ May 30, 2014 -> 12:11 PM) Wonder if the Sox are leaking the Kolek stuff to get other targets to lower their demands in effort to work out a pre-draft deal. Hahn has seemed to use mis-information much more than ninja KW ever did. We will find out soon enough. A $3.5M deal would free up $2.2M to spread throughout the draft and is nearly equal to the sixth overall slot. http://www.baseballamerica.com/draft/2014-...-top-10-rounds/ I don't think there's any chance he signs that low. He knows he's projected to go around #3, so he's going to want #3 money or else he can go to college.

QUOTE (Tmar @ May 30, 2014 -> 01:52 PM) Why I oughta. cause you guys aren't worth my knowledge

QUOTE (IowaSoxFan @ May 30, 2014 -> 01:01 PM) If you can turn Q into two SP's though, wouldn't that help you quicker than waiting to for someone to develop? If you deal him to the BJ's, Orioles, or Rockies and get an MLB ready arm back, a near MLB ready guy, and another prospect, it would fix the rotation more quickly than waiting for Danish to develop. Unless you find a way to fleece someone, no. Anyone who wants Quetzalcoatl is someone who also needs the very guys you're saying we should target. You'd have to get prospects with more risk, who generally have a greater than 50% bust rate. Sure, you could end up on top in a few years, if everything goes right, but you're not going to get two guys with any more than a hail mary's chance of being within a year of making an impact. You could maybe get one and a rawer arm or two.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 30, 2014 -> 12:31 PM) The White Sox spotted and fixed a flaw in his delivery,. There you have it. Reason to believe. BELIEVE.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ May 30, 2014 -> 11:22 AM) Dan Bernstein wrote another White Sox related column today. It is right here: http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/05/30/ber...wers-white-sox/ Just your annual "here's what you've missed, Blackhawks fans" post. No juicy Soxtalk controversy forthcoming, alas.

This is why when you don't have the benefit of statistically significant performance samples, you have to rely on peripheral information. So like: Did Noesi gain velocity? He he appeared to gain stamina? Has he learned or mastered a new pitch? Or have balls just not been dropping?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 30, 2014 -> 11:58 AM) The White Sox need starting pitching. Not shedding it. Exactly. What do you want to trade him for? The offense is currently better than the staff and there's way more help coming from the minors on the position side than on the pitching side.

Aw.

When was the last time two of the top three teams were over .500 this close to draft day?

QUOTE (southside hitman @ May 30, 2014 -> 09:46 AM) http://www.baseballamerica.com/draft/mock-...t-from-fiction/ New Baseball American mock draft has the Sox passing on Carlos Rodon for Tyler Kolek. His reasoning is below... WHITE SOX: The talk to this point has been that the White Sox would not pass on Rodon if he were available here. That talk persists, but so do the rumors linking Chicago to outsized Texas high school flamethrower Tyler Kolek. The Cubs are watching closely because while Kolek is not a Cubs target, Rodon is. The White Sox have a bigger bonus pool than the Cubs, but Rodon likely would eat up more of it. Projected Pick: RHP Tyler Kolek In his scenario, Houston takes Aiken and Jackson goes to Miami. I think I just want Rodon at this point.

I get scared on Kolek simply because he is, by definition, an outlier. Our standards of injury risk have never included someone THIS young throwing THIS hard. This, of course, doesn't mean he's absolutely at higher risk, but I've got to feel like it's more likely to make him higher risk than lower risk. It's more stress than ever on a younger ligament than ever.

I'm having trouble finding league average strong side split data. Is that kind of an OPS even remotely sustainable?

No -- it's a similar argument to why you don't trade Sale. These are the guys you hope the prospects turn into. At some point you have to retain some of them in order to build a core.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 30, 2014 -> 07:48 AM) Then why weren't you concerned about the $2 million they would be blowing on Paulino? Isn't that money that could have been spent elsewhere BUDDY? Gregor Polanco was signed for $175k. There is plenty of money, and not a lot of future committments. Seriously? You don't understand why I'm less concerned about $2m than I am about $50m and a draft pick?

Also, if not supporting the idea of DFA'ing Adam Dunn and eating $15-30m in salary apparently = "sticking up for Adam Dunn," you're really grasping hard for an analog to Ubaldo.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 30, 2014 -> 07:40 AM) My wager proposition was with Balta because of the Jimenez/Noesi ERA issue. For some people who think Jimenez sucks and always will, you guys sure do seem nervous he might wind up with a decent ERA. No one is nervous, we just aren't interested in how you're insisting on ignoring the entire argument solely for the sake of finding one pointless piece of data you can be right about. Everyone's opposition to signing Jimenez was always about way, way, way more than whatever his ERA is this year, whether you choose to acknowledge it or not.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ May 30, 2014 -> 08:33 AM) Considering you were using ERA to rank relief pitchers of all things and never even mentioned salary when telling us Addison Reed was really a middle reliever, I am shocked now ERA doesn't mean anything. And why are so many people hung up on salary? Are you an heir to JR? You have often stuck up for Adam Dunn. He probably has about as bad of a salary/WAR as any player who has actually played the last 4 season. No one said ERA is meaningless. But it would be a pretty dumb numerator if you were including salary, wouldn't it? QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ May 29, 2014 -> 06:08 PM) You're operating on a bad premise that money is unlimited. The fact that 4/50 will not, by itself, cripple the Sox financially does not change the fact that it still represents $50m of a finite total payroll that will not go somewhere else.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ May 30, 2014 -> 08:28 AM) If we really want to make it fair, it's the salary/WAR of Jimenez vs the salary/WAR of Noesi + the salary/WAR of the second round draft pick. Or if we REALLY want to make it fair, it's the salary/WAR of Jimenez over the lifetime of the deal vs. salary/WAR of the sum of the 5th starters the Sox use + the salary/WAR of the second round pick this year, with an asterisk for concessions made for the value attained if the second round pick is traded or other picks are signed overslot as a result of the bonus pool money attributed to the second round pick. Our collective point, of course, being that this argument is so much more complex than Hector Noesi's ERA in 2014, and everyone knows it.