Jose Abreu

Still waiting on a Doug McDermott sighting.

Derrick Rose looks very good so far.

Hoping for a good game scoring-wise from Butler. A lot of interesting matchups tonight with Rose-Parker, Butler-Leonard, and Gasol-Duncan.

Rose has been cleared for extended minutes.

Andrew Luck says he's "deflated" after the loss. No, I didn't make that up.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jan 22, 2015 -> 12:25 PM) The season and home openers are both 3:10 starts. Not that I didn't see it coming, but that's inconvenient. I was really hoping for a 6:10 start or something.

A friend was arguing that Fister had a 2.4ish ERA last year, which is true, but he had a 3.91 FIP. That's a somewhat alarming difference.

QUOTE (thxfrthmmrs @ Jan 19, 2015 -> 09:32 PM) No Chris Sale. Hopefully because he's too busy preparing for a Cy Young, MVP caliber, sub- 2.00 ERA type season.

I'm just hoping for a Ken Rosenthal tweet "The White Sox have talked with Washington about Strasburg/Zimmerman" but I know it won't/can't happen

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jan 18, 2015 -> 11:16 PM) Finally watching this episode for CFs, and I didn't know Eaton's WAR was 5.2 last year. That's insane. Didn't he have a 2.7 fWAR? Or am I missing something

Dan Hayes ‏@CSNHayes 25m25 minutes ago Sounds like a lot of White Sox position players plan to arrive early to spring camp in Az., some up to two weeks.

I agree, we've made many moves that make us a contender for the AL Central. Spending some more to acquire/sign a Zimmerman, Scherzer, or Shields would move us from division contenders to World Series contenders. We've gone this far, so why not finish it off?

Nats would consider trading Strasburg if they sign Scherzer... that would have to be more expensive than Zimmerman, right?

QUOTE (OsweGo-Go Sox @ Jan 18, 2015 -> 11:11 AM) The Shredder put McCutchen over Trout...? Yes, it did, and I agree with it.

If I had it my way, Eaton would be #6, Alexei would stay at #8, Sale would be #2, and Abreu would be #1. However, I am a little biased.

I watched those episodes. I predict Robertson to be unranked, Melky to be #6, Sale at either #3 or #4 (they might put Kluber ahead of him), and Abreu at #2. This isn't necessarily what I think is right, but I have a feeling this is what The Shredder will say.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jan 15, 2015 -> 07:47 PM) I think of possibly getting Castro makes this line up obviously much more dangerous. Didn't he hit something like .220 last year? That's even worse than Flowers. Yes, obviously batting average isn't everything, but Castro only had one decent hitting season.

Brian Anderson. Offseason completed.

Isn't he a pitcher now?

Max Scherzer. Realistically, Casey Janssen to be our RH set up man. We can't bank on Petricka or Putnam delivering again.

The backup catcher race will be an interesting one, though. I think Brantly will win it, but Kottaras and Nieto have a shot.

QUOTE (TheFutureIsNear @ Jan 11, 2015 -> 12:14 AM) IF Micah wins the 2B job I can definitely see us keeping Tank. A bench of... Sanchez-SS, 2B Bonifacio- CF, 3B, 2B Tank- LF, RF, DH Shuck/Campana- OF Brantley/Kottaras- back-up catcher Pretty good and covers pretty much all of our needs in my opinion. I agree with most of that, but I'd lose Shuck/Campana because we already have the whole OF covered with Viciedo and Bonifacio.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Jan 10, 2015 -> 11:55 AM) Actually 3 Garcias. And two Danks. Jordan Danks was DFAd, and sure, I forgot Onelki.

Three Garcias, two LaRoches.

Matt Eddy ‏@MattEddyBA #WhiteSox sign RH power hitters 3B Andy LaRoche and 1B Chris Jacobs to minors deals, re-sign OF Michael Taylor http://bit.ly/1I8uhBI