Jose Abreu

QUOTE (Sox Fan In Husker Land @ Jul 25, 2016 -> 11:52 AM) Q is an elite pitcher. The only thing he doesn't have is W's next to his name. Hell, Sunday he went 6 2/3 0 runs 1 BB 3 H and he got an ND. If that doesn't sum up his career as a Sox pitcher, I don't know what does. Since his 1st full season as a starter his #s are elite among pitchers. 2013 - 3.5 fWAR 30th overall (15th in AL) 2014 - 5.1 fWAR 10th overall (8th in AL) 2015 - 4.8 fWAR 14th overall (6th in AL) 2016 - 3.2 fWAR 9th overall (on pace for 5.1 fWAR), (3rd in AL) Look at his trajectory among AL pitchers 15th, 8th, 6th, 3rd. He's 27, easy delivery, no signs of arm issues, and locked up cheap as hell for the next 4 years. MLB pitching leaders in fWAR from 2013 - today: Kershaw 28.9 fWAR. 4 years 141 left million contract. 28 years old. Scherzer 20.7 fWAR. 5 years 170 million left on contract. 32 years old. Price 19.8 fWAR 6 years 187 million left on contract. 30, will be 31 in August. Kluber 19.4 fWAR 5 years 59.1 million (could increase to 70.9) left on contract. 30 years old. Sale 19.1 fWAR 3 years 38 million left on contract. 27 years old. Quintana 16.5 fWAR 4 years 37.85 million left on contract. 27 years old. Both Sale and Q should bring back a huge bounty if one is traded. If there are no MLB proven young players thrown into the trade I do not see how they can take anything less than 3 top 50 prospects, and 2 more top 100 prospects for one of Sale or Q. Very well put

I think Kopech/Devers/E. Rodriguez could easily be attained from a Sale/Robertson combo. But then I think we get 2 out of 3 of Betts/Moncada/Benintendi. I feel as if they'll do everything possible to not give us one of the 3 B's, but maybe they'll cave if we get some good leverage.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Jul 25, 2016 -> 10:09 AM) Clubs talking with Red Sox say they're still trying to do "something big." But for what high-end starter? Chris Sale? Sonny Gray? Mystery P? https://twitter.com/jaysonst/status/757592639252238336 A 5.49 ERA pitcher is a "high-end" starter? That's more than just a down year for someone I'd consider high-end.

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 25, 2016 -> 10:00 AM) That reminds me of tweets from college recruits that are like "can't decide what I want" and people are like OH NO HES DECOMMITTING and he's talking about a drive thru. Or during late 2014 Samardzija trade rumors, when Tim Anderson tweeted sad emojis, and everyone here assumed he had been traded to Oakland

I saw an insider tweet yesterday saying that the Sox will receive an insanely large package in exchange for Quintana, so I don't know what Heyman is talking about

Holy overpay

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 24, 2016 -> 05:03 PM) Why would you pitch to him? Oh well, nice day Abreu was having a great game behind him, but the DP was still there

Poor Quintana

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jul 24, 2016 -> 04:55 PM) It's unbelievable, I swear every year our only tradable guys do something like this From August 2 to the end of the year Robertson will have a 0.00 ERA

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 24, 2016 -> 03:27 PM) Nice to see these guys continue to be focused on winning Of course the group included Sale

Detroit hitters with the smart approach of working into deep counts with a tired bullpen waiting.

Rosenthal Article

Yeah, what is wrong with Eaton today? He had no emotions after the walk-off too

Abreu now batting .300 in July

bump?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 24, 2016 -> 02:08 PM) Is tonight's game really 6:10 as this thread says? I assume it's on national TV? Would not make much sense to make the players/fans come so early and have to stick around. You're in the wrong game thread, the game is going on right now and we have 2 men on

In fact, Nate Jones is 3-19 in his career for save opportunities. Sucks to be a set-up man, as allowing a game-tying run in the 7th or 8th when your team was leading, or giving up the lead, = blown save.

QUOTE (Lip Man 1 @ Jul 24, 2016 -> 01:46 PM) And Nate Jones breathes a sigh of relief. The guy has seven blown save chances already according to the official box score. And some were advocating that he become the closer. Right now he's not even a reliable set up guy. You do know that all 7 of those blown saves came in the 7th or 8th inning, right?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 24, 2016 -> 01:42 PM) I have yet to be convinced this actually happened. All of the slave local media was all telling the "flu" story. I think the Sox were trying to cover for him again. Even barstool Dave still maintains that it didn't happen.... but I'll trust Ken Rosenthal over him.

First pitch at 2 PM CT

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 24, 2016 -> 01:29 PM) Eaton could at least act happy Honestly it was weird to watch

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 24, 2016 -> 01:24 PM) Bunting is so worthless fixed

So basically he misses one start

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jul 24, 2016 -> 10:04 AM) So one guy says it will take your best five prospects, another guy says it will take Mookie Betts, Benintendi, plus. I know Dave is usually right this year, but I don't know if I trust him on this. I mean, this is a guy who is still maintaining that the uniform cutting thing never happened, so

there are still rumblings that he wasn't sent home and rather left on his own