Feeky Magee

*finally gets out of Danks contract* *trades for worse pitcher with equally bad contract* *refuses to trade pitcher after miracle fluky run* God bless you White Sox FO

The most frustrating part is everything about this was so obvious. If some idiots on the internet can point out that Shields was quite clearly going to implode, why couldn't Rick Hahn et al see it?

2 years in a row with a 79% groundball rate, holy hell

Dioner Navarro was a hell of a free agent signing

Hansen 6.0 IP, 1H, 0R, 1BB, 11K. Night done. Promotion please.

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Aug 5, 2016 -> 09:36 PM) Out of all the crappy relievers the Sox have had this season, Kahnle is the worst. Absurdly bad. Meanwhile Yency Almonte leads MiLB in strikeouts. Another lost trade for Rick Hahn.

Schnurbusch now 2-3, 2B, HR, K. Interesting note: Schnurbusch's BABIP coming into the game (will have risen) was an absurd .557 in 157 PA. The all-time MLB season BABIP leader with minimum 150 PA was Ross Barnes of the 1876 White Stockings with a .438 BABIP. Would be interested to know if Schnurbusch is chasing a MiLB record.

Hansen now 5.0 IP, 0H, 1BB, 10K. 9 swinging.

Alec Hansen 4.0 IP, 0H, 1BB, 8K. Dayuuuuuum. Joel Booker 2-2, HR. Alex Call, 1-3, HR, K. Zack Collins 1-3, K. Aaron Schnurbusch 1-2, 2B, K. http://mlbfarm.com/index.php?team=CWS&date=2016-08-05

That Zimmerman contract could start looking really bad really soon, he's not striking anyone out this year

Was literally in the middle of typing "Abreu homer coming"

QUOTE (South Side Fireworks Man @ Aug 2, 2016 -> 09:00 PM) I'd rather see the Sox win a few more games this season than have them lose to get a higher draft pick only to have them pick another Carson Fulmer. Speaking of draft picks, Zack Collins was 0-4 with 4 Ks tonight...

Matt Albers another good sign to heed the peripherals

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Aug 2, 2016 -> 08:03 PM) Who wanted him? Well we were dumb enough to trade for him despite his bad peripherals, unless you're arguing that we're the dumbest team in the league then somebody should have wanted him

Any chance this convinces anyone who was talking about how well Shields was pitching and blasting anybody mentioning his peripherals to reconsider?

According to Levine, Sox were asking for one top 5 prospect and 2 more prospects for Shields. Now obviously there's posturing there, but that tells me they were looking for at least something significant back, rather than taking advantage of some extreme luck to try and extricate themselves from an awful trade

QUOTE (whitesoxfan99 @ Aug 2, 2016 -> 06:47 PM) And you are allowing a bunch of hard hit balls. If there was any team offering to take on Shields's salary at the deadline and Hahn said no, that is a fireable offense

Not great D but s*** eventually happens when you're not striking anyone out

QUOTE (soxforlife05 @ Aug 2, 2016 -> 05:54 PM) He already hit .300 down there he doesn't have anything more to figure out against AAA pitching. Yes he does. He walked 3% of the time and struck out 23% of the time at AAA. He had plenty to figure out there.

Can we trade Rick Hahn for David Stearns?

Morosi tweeting that the Marlins are looking for a starter after the Rea tradeback

Absolutely love basically every move the Brewers have made in their rebuild

Holy s***, the Giants gave up Bickford and Susac for Will Smith

Love Cotton. He's gonna be a quality MLB starter imo.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jul 31, 2016 -> 09:38 PM) There's no reason to trade Gonzalez unless they get something of value He's a player they picked up on a minors deal pitching reasonably well at a ridiculous time for getting value for average pitchers, and under contract for one more year where they shouldn't be planning on competing. There's every reason to be aggressively marketing him. Sure, if you get literally nothing of value then you don't bother, but if a team can get something for Wade Miley, the Sox should get something for Miguel Gonzalez.