PolishPrince34

What progress have you seen made in the Latin America Academy's/Dominican Republic under Marco Paddy and after observing them what players stood out that might be useful players down the road 4-5 years from now? How has Chris Beck offseason look? Last year Chris bulked up too much which effected his velocity and mechanics. Did he lose the muscle weight over the offseason and has his fastball reappeared?

voted. Good luck

He also had logged 3 concussions on record that they know of while playing baseball.

Sad to see you leave, but smart baseball decision by Hahn

The Brandon McCarthy signing was also confusing. They are stacked in the rotation and ton of young starting pitching talent coming up. I guess you can never have enough pitching. Kennedy, Cahill, Hudson, McCarthy, Skaggs, Corbin, Miley, Collmenter. They have by far the most starting pitching to deal. Just not sure Bauer for shortstop Didi Gregorius was the right move. Towers has always been shaky as a GM.

That's shocking!!! How they just gave up on Bauer? I think his stubbornness and not willing to change his pitching approach got him shipped out. Wish the White Sox would of jumped on that.

This is why Andrew Friedman is considered the best GM in baseball. This will keep the Rays fighting at the Top in their difficult division. Hopefully they could some how make a deal for David Price, but highly doubtful. Will be interesting to see how much they would get for the Cy Young pitcher. Very obvious who won this deal. Myers is future All Star and Ordorizzi will be a solid mid rotation pitcher. Also, if they can somehow fix Montgomery's mechanics this will be highway robbery. Service time hasn't even started for these 3 prospects. Getting 6 years of service time is huge for the Rays.

Embarrassing. Commissioner should veto the trade and banish Loria from MLB. All the owners need to to pressure him to sell. City of Miami should be up in arms

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2012/10/dbac...-team-deal.html

A's get Chris Young Bell goes to the Diamondbacks with cash considerations Marlins get a minor leaguer

Former White Sox Draft pick from the 7th round 2 years ago Matthew Grimes will undergo Tommy John Surgery this week.

QUOTE (Cali @ Aug 20, 2012 -> 11:59 PM) DeMichele is a little (and I mean little -- 5'11'') XBH machine. He's a bit of a sleeper... That's around the average height of a 2B in MLB. Jose Altuve is little 5'5". Phillips, Uggla, Kendrick, Pedroria, B. Roberts, Weeks are all 5-11 or smaller. Kinsler and Cano are 6-0. The only giant at 2B is Neil Walker at 6'3".

Baseball America on their Daily Prospect Reports have been showing stats the last 2 weeks on a player in the White Sox DSL League-Antonio Rodriguez-OF. Anyone have information? I find it interesting their following him.

QUOTE (RudyLawRules @ Aug 14, 2012 -> 10:22 PM) He was a beast in '08 and '09: YEAR TEAM GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB CS AVG OBP SLG OPS OWAR 2008 SEA 159 644 80 191 41 1 17 89 27 67 6 3 .297 .322 .443 .765 2.9 2009 SEA 153 613 69 167 42 0 25 96 24 69 3 3 .272 .303 .463 .766 2.1 Love the signing of Lopez, but those 2008-2009 that was back before the steroids testing. No where near that player

Where is Bristol playing all their games in the Amazon Forest

Worried way too much on that PTBNL-Myers was a steal. Great trade by Williams.

Very good move by the Pirates picking up Snider. Snider still has big potential at Age 23. This trade might put Starling Marte as trade bait for a bigger deal before the deadline.

Shocking how much the Cubs got for Maholm and Johnson. Vizcanio has big potential. I think his best days though are in the bullpen.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jul 30, 2012 -> 12:23 PM) The Indians would be crazy to trade Choo. If they can't afford to pay him $7.6 million, Dolan should just sell off. Santana, by the way, has been MUCH better the last month, but his first 3 months were Beckham-esque, and considered he was considered a future hitting superstar, along with Hosmer, lots of disappointment in KC and CLE over those two guys. The concussion Santana had early in the year really effected majority of his season. Carlos Santana is finally putting his bat together the last month. Santana is still a stud who gets on base on a ton with his keen batting eye. Future is still very bright.

Hopefully it's between Soptic or Semien. If it's Walker, Johnson, Snodgress, or Smith-it's a horrible deal. Plus we still have to worry about this option kicking in. We have 62 games left and only needs 14 more games. We're in a playoff race, so this should be easily achieved by Myers. Still no word on how much Houston would give us if the option kicked in.

I'm a little nervous who this PTBNL will be in the Myers deal after seeing this in Baseball America. Lunhow came out and said the PTBNL in the White Sox deal will be a significant piece. What caliber of player would we expect considering the money we sent and what we already received? Jim Callis: There aren't a lot of significant pieces in the White Sox system, but it makes sense that the PTBN will be of value because the other two players (Heidenreich, Walters) in the Brett Myers deal are fringy. I really don't have any clue who it might be, though.

I'm a little nervous who this PTBNL will be in the Myers deal after seeing this in Baseball America. Lunhow came out and said the PTBNL in the White Sox deal will be a significant piece. What caliber of player would we expect considering the money we sent and what we already received? Jim Callis: There aren't a lot of significant pieces in the White Sox system, but it makes sense that the PTBN will be of value because the other two players (Heidenreich, Walters) in the Brett Myers deal are fringy. I really don't have any clue who it might be, though.

Haven't heard a peep about the innings watch from Kenny, Ventura, and Cooper.

No need to make any more moves. I'm more worried about the handling of Sale and Quintana. Which can put us back 3years.

Chicago Tribune reports that Keon Barnum is going to start playing this weekend. Hopefully good news.