QuickJones81

Time to give those Cubs a hard time in the Central. Looking to make a splash and I just might be persuaded to part with McCutcheon. Who wants a star? Neal Huntington

Sorry, I know it's not a popular opinion, but I'm just not a fan of Inciarte. I think he is one of those guys that the metrics love but just isn't actually worth what the imperfect metrics say. If we're dealing with Atlanta I want Swanson, Maitan, and some pitching. Not really interested in Inciarte.

Not familiar with the writer, but here's a scouting report from his kanny debut http://notesfromthesally.com/2016/08/29/sc...-by-dan-victor/

Musta missed that news. Any idea if he has a history on the mound?

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Jul 28, 2016 -> 10:42 AM) CBS Sportsline has a story this morning that the Yankees have called Hahn multiple times and are pushing to try to get Sale. Mark Hopefully this is just to bait Boston to up their offer.

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Jul 27, 2016 -> 07:09 AM) Sox should net similar to what Chapman's return was considering Robertson's 2.5 years left on deal with fair pay. Chapman got the #24 prospect in baseball, the #75 prospect in baseball, throw in 'pen reliever in Warren, and a low level prospect in Crawford so I think it's fair Sox would get the #54 prospect in baseball, WSH's #10 prospect, WSH's #14 prospect, and a throw in either in the form of Brian Goodwin (closer to MLB) or Rhett Wiseman (Low level). Chapman is a much more dominant pitcher though

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jul 27, 2016 -> 07:34 AM) Gotta think they're buyers if they win 3 of next 5. Which is completely short sighted, beyond disappointing, and completely in character with this management team. Did the exact same thing last year with Shark. But hey, that playoff run was at least enjoyable to watch.... oh wait.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Jul 27, 2016 -> 07:17 AM) "Rebuilding properly" doesn't mean selling off everyone who has any kind of value, you need to keep someone around. Why? To have a mediocre record and lesser draft picks while your young talent grows in the minors? If you're rebuilding let the majors squad be a full on dumpster fire, being mediocre is much worse because you're always spinning your wheels.

Lazarito expected to sign with the Athletics for a $3M bonus

HE WALKED!!!!! This is as exciting as R + L = J finally being confirmed.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jun 14, 2016 -> 10:49 AM) It's about pool $$. The Sox had like $9.5 million to spend on the draft. Their 1st pick is taking the full $3.3 million allotted, Burdi is probably close to the $2.2 million slot amount there and I would imagine that Hansen is slot as well. You can't just take the BPA on the board each time because guys wouldn't necessarily sign. For example, they took Michael Hickman in round 13. If he's over $100,000 he counts against their overall draft pool. They took 3-4 guys that will be under slot to save some $$ to sign Hickman and probably Ian Hamilton. It has t be done this way. If they took Hickman in round 7 and he doesn't sign, they don't get the player and they lose the ability to spend the money for that allocated slot. I understand all this. The Sox approach meant they ended up with less of a share than others, who had the same constraints, and used a different path to more talent in terms of volume of top rated players. So are we less efficient with our dollars, or top heavy, and how do we differ from the teams that have had the best success in the draft since the new system was put in play? I understand how we got to where we got to, but are we laggards in understanding how best to work this system like we are in the international market? Ithe seems like our approach is to put all of our money on the top players and gamble that they'll succeed while hoping one of the cheap buys is a steal.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jun 13, 2016 -> 09:48 PM) It's unrealistic to take the best player in every round though. You know that. I don't think I necessarily agree. If we are taking less than our share of the top 200 or 500 that means somebody is getting more than their share. If they can do it, why can't we?

QUOTE (QuickJones81 @ Jun 7, 2016 -> 10:06 PM) On the old side for his current level, though this is the first year the Sox are starting him, as he was out of the pen in '14 and '15. Lately he has been on a very filthy run. Last 3 starts 22 IP, 9 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 31 K. For those keeping track that's a 0.5 WHIP, 1.23 ERA, 15.5 K/BB, 12.7 K/9 over that small stretch. He's been economical too this year, 4.7 pitches/out. For context, Kershaw is working at a 4.5 clip this year, Arrieta 5.1, Sale 5.0, Quintana 5.3 & Latos 5.5. What's crazy is that is a sizeable increase from his rate for his career prior to this year of 2.9 while maintaining a 12.8 K/9 rate over that time. Insane. It's probably time to see what he can do in AA. Another note, that stretch of games was against the Braves, Red Sox, & Nationals affiliates, with the former 2 being considered to be in the top 5 or 10 systems in baseball, and the Nationals right in the middle.

On the old side for his current level, though this is the first year the Sox are starting him, as he was out of the pen in '14 and '15. Lately he has been on a very filthy run. Last 3 starts 22 IP, 9 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 31 K. For those keeping track that's a 0.5 WHIP, 1.23 ERA, 15.5 K/BB, 12.7 K/9 over that small stretch. He's been economical too this year, 4.7 pitches/out. For context, Kershaw is working at a 4.5 clip this year, Arrieta 5.1, Sale 5.0, Quintana 5.3 & Latos 5.5. What's crazy is that is a sizeable increase from his rate for his career prior to this year of 2.9 while maintaining a 12.8 K/9 rate over that time. Insane. It's probably time to see what he can do in AA.

How did Fulmer look?

QUOTE (GREEDY @ Feb 22, 2016 -> 11:44 AM) Wait until JRoll makes this team and takes 70% of the at-bats away from Saladino. If he does fangraphs projects nearly a win improvement next year. Not a bad thing if Saladino is only a bridge to Anderson.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Feb 12, 2016 -> 02:48 PM) OOOH also this about the Orioles.. The team’s first choice is to follow the expected signing of free-agent right-hander Yovani Gallardo with the signing of free-agent outfielder Dexter Fowler. But if Fowler joins, say, the White Sox, the Orioles’ backup plan appears to be a trade for Reds right fielder Jay Bruce. It goes on to discuss how the Orioles' backup plan is Bruce and how a trade seems nearly worked out as a Plan B The Orioles really seem to have a leaky front office, and so far this off season it really has played to their disadvantage. I like seeing news about the Sox but it's probably better that we're all mostly in the dark.

If decisions on rotation spots were made independent of paychecks this should be pushing on Danks more. We have 3 lefties in the rotation without him, it makes sense to keep Johnson over him from a right lefty standpoint. In terms of performance I don't have confidence that Danks can out perform Johnson. So the only reason Danks would be safer is because we gave him a really bad contract and would look bad to put that paycheck in the pen. Such a poor reason to make a roster decision. Good organizations don't make decisions that way.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 29, 2016 -> 02:46 PM) FutureSox.com ‏@FutureSox 28s29 seconds ago Question about Fowler: Hahn - "I think it's best I don't talk about players who aren't already in a White Sox uniform." Aren't already? I'm going to twist that in my mind to signaling that he will be soon. Let the hysteria begin, who's got the first watch?

The real question is whether or not Danks is in the competition, or if he's secure via way too big paycheck

Shocked at the omission of Fulmer. They must be dead set on him being only a bullpen arm.

CBS has Frazier at #7

All of these mlb network rankings have been a bit wacky so far. Too much emphasis on small sample results in some cases.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Jan 27, 2016 -> 10:12 PM) Would you trade Spencer Adams for Dexter Fowler at 3/$42M? I'd Keon Barnum or Keenyn Walker

QUOTE (Vance Law @ Jan 26, 2016 -> 05:33 PM) I'm not pessimistic about Saladino, but the projection seems to assume his elite 3rd base defense will morph into elite SS defense, and I don't think a reasonable person assumes he's that much better than average at SS. Not knocking him, just probably isn't top 5 in baseball. I'd be fine with him as shortstop, but I think Desmond is potentially too good of a deal to pass up. I'll keep the pick and roll the dice on Saladino till Anderson is ready