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QUOTE (ChiSox1917 @ Jul 13, 2017 -> 02:52 PM) This one? http://m.mlb.com/news/article/241991408/ma...picid=151437456 I took it to read that those three will fill in the bottom 2/3's of the White Sox top 30 You're right. I ignored your reading because I stupidly read bottom two thirds as 21-30, which was too low. So my bad, and they probably won't be Top 100 MLB.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 13, 2017 -> 02:00 PM) Where he say this It was in an article on the front page of MLB.com. Wording was a little vague (he said they should fill in the bottom two thirds of the list), but yeah, what else could that mean. I'd find it surprising though, at this moment at least. More amusing is that the first comment, apparently a Sox fan, thought Eloy was a bad get because of his K rate, and that the Sox should have targeted Zack Granite, or Brinson, or Happ instead.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jul 13, 2017 -> 11:38 AM) Rose I consider a lotto ticket. A guy with that kind of power is definitely trying to turn nothing into something. Flete is filler. Not that it really matters, but Flete is putting up decent numbers at A+ this year. He's old for the level, but should we really dismiss him so quickly?

So do we see Eloy in WS tonight? And wasn't Cease's start skipped the other day? Could they both debut tonight?

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jul 13, 2017 -> 10:09 AM) Frankie Montas was a throw in the Peavy deal and he at least turned into a top prospect we could trade. Just woke up and stunned I'm old enough to remember when Frankie Montas was one of the most interesting WS prospects to follow...

Rankings also do not include Burger, Sheets, and Skoug, who are three players I'm really intrigued by these days.

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Jul 13, 2017 -> 09:29 AM) I wouldn't have hated Happ over Cease, just because we need as many bats as we can get, but I am not at all disappointed. You can never have too much pitching. I LOVE that, barring FA signings or "buying" trades when our contention window starts, our 2020 rotation consists of the best of Giolito, Lopez, Fulmer, Rodon, Kopech, Dunning, Hansen, Flores, Adams, Stephens, Guerrero, Cease...

FWIW, Cubs Reddit loves this. They say they got what they need and they're probably right. One guy was elated that they didn't need to use Schwarber, Happ or Baez. I would have been disappointed to see either of the top two switched out for any of those three.

So, just for fun...how about the 2020 Sox? CF Robert 2B Moncada RF Jimenez C Collins LF Beer 3B Burger 1B Sheets DH Delmonico SS Anderson SP Rodon SP Kopech SP Giolito SP Cease SP Hansen CL Burdi Yes, I know some prospects fail. Just daydreaming here.

I'll probably get mocked for this, but I don't like that Brinson is 23, with the clock running, and has had a May-esque cup of coffee in MLB. I know 35 PAs are stupid, but it just bugs me. Didn't like it with Moncada, Giolito or Lopez either. Give me Albies and some other Braves (Gohara and Pache would receive no complaints here). 20 years old in AAA, plus defender, low K rate, yes please. Although, I will ask, how's Brinson's D? All MLB says is that his speed can compensate for shaky reads and jumps, which sounds iffy.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Jul 7, 2017 -> 06:03 PM) Holland Braun cramp on grounder to mound. Went to third instead of second for a GIDP attempt A s***ty pitcher, a poor fielder and a baseball idiot.

I really hated the Holland signing from the moment it happened. Yes, I get this is a throw-away season but there's gotta be someone who's starts could be more exciting and insightful than this wash-up.

Ok, Fulmer sucks, yes, but where is Robert????

Anderson's OPS is now .617.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 30, 2017 -> 10:38 PM) Why did you catch feelings about this then? It's stupid to bring LaRoche's religion into this every single time he's mentioned, especially when it has nothing to do with his dumbassery, and also especially in light of SoxTalk's rather dim view on personal attacks of this nature. My own religious viewpoints are irrelevant.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 30, 2017 -> 09:34 PM) Let me guess, you're a super evangelical. Nope. Catholic who hasn't attended mass in over a year. Nice try, though.

QUOTE (Jenksy Cat @ Jun 30, 2017 -> 03:50 PM) "Why do I all of a sudden suck at baseball?" "It MUST have been the drugs and losing my faith in god!!!!" Oh cool, another SoxTalk Laroche thread where it's totally rad to make fun of a dude's religiosity. That's swell. FWIW, I think Laroche sucks. He played terribly for us, and then quit because he thought being a baseball player exempted him from a pretty ordinary workplace expectation. But being a super evangelical has dick-all to do with it.

QUOTE (maxjusttyped @ Jun 24, 2017 -> 01:23 PM) This rotation is Q and 4 replacement level pitchers until Rodon is officially back. Don't see what Q has done to merit the distinction, this year.

Just DFA Shields. He is entirely useless. Scrap Todd with him. Also, STFU Benetti. Nobody cares that Mark Buerhle is so down to Earth that he offers to replace his chair. No one cares for your s***ty jokes either.

I am truly saddened that Greg's "Convert to TA to being a catcher so he can be a Sal Perez style star with low OBP and 70 RBIs" post was allowed to be deleted without notice. In light of that situation, I'm more concerned about SoxTalk than I am about Tim.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jun 16, 2017 -> 04:57 PM) The Extra Innings package does not appear to be working at the moment on DirecTV. Q give up a home run? Yeah, to Kendrys Morales.

We're gonna win this one easy, but I fully expect Quintana to continue to s*** on himself. Maybe someone will give us a top prospect for him because he had a nice fWAR, once.

s*** ABs by Davidson and Anderson, there.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 16, 2017 -> 10:18 AM) I dunno, the Red Sox won the World Series with Peavy that year, kind of hard for me to say that they didn't win that one. Meh. Peavy was mediocre for them, even in the playoffs. We can still win this.

Could be any of the hitters, but I went with Avi. If he keeps this up, or even close, we retroactively win the Peavy trade and that would be huge. Kahnle and Swarzak are nice, but it's hard to be too excited about bullpen pieces. Polite went from dominant in 2005 to out of baseball in 2007. Also, Swarzak has a 6.75 ERA since giving up his first run a month ago. I think I got a little off from "most surprising", but whatever.