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I wouldn't give much of anything for him. He just adds payroll and not much better than Flowers. Only thing different is he hits left handed and comes at 40 million for 3 more years. I don't know what i would even offer.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Nov 20, 2014 -> 10:22 PM) No sweat. Never said it was straight Q for JB, btw. Then what did you mean by Q+? Is that with acquiring a pitcher too?

QUOTE (StRoostifer @ Nov 20, 2014 -> 09:42 PM) Q for Bruce? There had better be more coming back with Bruce and the name better not be Phillips either. The only names I'm interested in if its for Q is in order Cueto, Latos, Frazier, Leake, added on with Bruce.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 20, 2014 -> 08:56 PM) Call me skepical of this"inside source". Rock, I believe.20 minutes afte mlbtraderumors comes up with Jay Bruce being available, this comes up. I would bet my home the White Sox wouldn't offer Q straight up for Bruce, let alome Q+. He is playing you guys. Agreed, unless we get Cueto back with Bruce, then I would be ok with giving up Quintana. But I really don't even want to do that. No way I would even do Q for Bruce straight up. I don't see how they have leverage when Bruce is coming off a horribly down year and Quintana has generated two good/great seasons in a row on a great contract.

QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Nov 20, 2014 -> 08:29 PM) Definitely. Could grow to a very significant deal. Rick is going to be very agressive at the meetings. Any idea of a 3rd team that would make sense? QUOTE (bucket-of-suck @ Nov 20, 2014 -> 08:35 PM) Or he lands a RHP along with JB... Latos or Cueto come to mind. Don't want any part of Leake.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Nov 20, 2014 -> 07:48 PM) I wouldn't term their discussion "aggressive" You hearing anything regarding free agency Rock?

QUOTE (LDF @ Nov 20, 2014 -> 05:28 PM) yep I just remembered when I saw the name. Ortiz is another big power arm pitcher. damn the future is looking nice.... 2016 many thanks. If Ortiz could actually find the plate.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 20, 2014 -> 04:45 PM) White Sox or Dodgers list? White Sox. Sorry.

Not that it matters, but Garcia got placed at #19 on top 20 prospects list according to mlb.com

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 20, 2014 -> 11:05 AM) Bob Nightengale ‏@BNightengale 2m2 minutes ago The #Nats are informing teams that ace Jordan Zimmermann is available,but only if they get strong return,emphasizing it is not a salary dump I'd love to add JZ, but his price would be huge.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Nov 20, 2014 -> 12:31 PM) of course, the problem is you posted this with the Bulls about to play the Kings. As the season goes on, I think a Kings W would be more valuable than a Bulls W right now. Bulls will be just fine, but the Kings are so inconsistent that I hope they win tonight lol.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 20, 2014 -> 11:23 AM) I don't see the White Sox being done reliever shopping. I bet we see a right hander with closing experience signed. There are still about half a dozen guys who could be targeted. Agreed. Even Hahn said that they aren't done in the reliever market after they signed Duke.

For Bulls fans, we should really be rooting for the Sacramento Kings this season. So far they are 6-5 this season and if they finish outside of the bottom 10 of the league, the Bulls will get their first round draft pick from the Luol Deng trade. This pick could become a huge asset in next years draft to move up or acquire players.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Nov 20, 2014 -> 02:39 AM) Phil Rodgers actually hits the entire article dead on IMO. 5 Things the Sox Should Do Next I actually agree with all 5 points from Rogers. What's Maeda's ceiling? I thought I read he was a back of the rotation type guy?

Oh he did have another one? Wow, i didn't see that. My apologies board.

Recently DFA'd by the Braves today. Yes he has had injuries, but when healthy, he was a key member of the pen. 1. Are you interested in him as being a low risk high reward type guy? 2. Would you claim him off waivers?

I think it depends on Danks this off season. If the Sox somehow manage to trade Danks and Rodon performs well in ST, then I think he will be the #4-5 starter. If not, he starts in AA or AAA.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 19, 2014 -> 08:59 AM) This may seem a little silly, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Sox made a major move today or tomorrow, as tomorrow the first installment of season ticketholder money is due. Plus the 40 man roster is due tomorrow to protect from rule 5.

Should be seeing some moves today, as the deadline for adding players to protect them from the rule 5 draft is tomorrow.

I brought the up in one of my off season threads. I would love this. If they can add him and Sandoval or Pederson that would be ideal.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Nov 18, 2014 -> 01:05 PM) Playing devil's advocate to raise a point here. Is it double standard that we constantly use WAR to grade players nowadays, but when it comes to actually paying the players, we aren't thrilled to pay $10 mil for a 2 WAR player but are fine with $5 mil for a 1 WAR player? Even without looking at WAR, Miller is still a 8th inning/ closer material while Duke is more of a 7th/8th inning guy. If you want to argue about years here, Miller will be 33 at the end of a 4 year deal and Duke will be 36 at the end of this deal. Duke will be 34 at the end of the deal. He turns 32 next April.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Nov 18, 2014 -> 12:48 PM) ‏@zach_duke I am so thrilled to be joining the @whitesox family! This team has some elite young talent! Can't wait to get started! Atta boy Duke. He sees the young talent Hahn is building.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 18, 2014 -> 11:42 AM) If it is any more than a couple million guarantee, it is pissing money away. Well they threw away 3 million at Belisario last year lol sooooo I wouldn't be upset if it was that number.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Nov 18, 2014 -> 11:40 AM) If Ethier or Crawford were to be included, I'd eat a hat if Danks didn't get sent to LA. Same. That would upset me very much. No reason to take on a bad contract even if the Dodgers kicked in money.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Nov 18, 2014 -> 11:35 AM) I'll take one of their best pitching prospects, Pederson, and one of the Cuban infielders to fill in at short for Alexei. We have leverage. Hope this gets talks with the Mets started up. We have leverage, but I don't think we have that much leverage.