TheFutureIsNear

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ May 31, 2017 -> 01:15 PM) Kendall and Adell are 1A & 1B for me. If somehow J.B Bukauskas slips to 11, I'd run to the podium and make him my selection. Bukauskas is a 6' righty with a lot of effort in his delivery...reminds me of a certain extremely questionable 1st round pick we already have in the organization. No thanks. I'd also be very surprised if he doesn't have a major arm injury within 2/3 years

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ May 30, 2017 -> 11:04 PM) If Hostetler's changes are a legitimate thing, I would think Hiura would be the pick unless Haseley or Smith is there. Hiura fits the Collins/Call/Fisher profile, whereas Kendall fits the Hawkins/Walker/Mitchell profile. Exactly what I was thinking and exactly what I don't want. Give me a baseball player over an athlete with a high ceiling.

Not going to pretend I've done a bunch of scouting on these prospects, but I'm tired of + tool prospects that isn't a hit tool. Also don't care about premium positions for that matter. Let's get a guy who has a good shot of being a good professional hitter for once? This organization has a serious lack of them. If Burger or Hiura are the pick I won't be upset, although I'd prefer 1 of the kids from Virginia if possible.

I think Davidson is the most likely to be able to continue what he is currently doing...although his average will drop some. Leury is more of a 4th OF'er/utility guy. Which isn't a bad thing. Yolmer is probably hitting over his head right now...although I think he too can be a useful bench piece, possibly even a league average 2B

Hit tool just isn't good enough for Engel to think he'll ever be more than a 4th OF'er, nothing to get excited about. Probably a Drew Stubbs 2.0

QUOTE (SoxAce @ May 25, 2017 -> 06:34 PM) No idea why the sox just don't put him in LF and leave him there. Unless his range at 3B is so good and he just makes bone headed errors (ala Jose Valentin). From all reports though, he's a butcher over there. Why not 1B? He can't be any worse than Jose and we don't have much else at the position.

QUOTE (WilliamTell @ May 23, 2017 -> 10:54 PM) I'm definitely OK with the offseason trades, but imagine where this team would be with Sale pitching every 5 days instead of Covey who basically gives up a run an inning. Doesn't take much imagining to know the Sox still wouldn't be a playoff team

294 AB's in '14 at AAA and 298 AB's last year in the majors. Other than that he hasn't really shown the ability to be a competent hitter above high A. I think he's just hitting like...Tyler Saladino, which is a glove 1st bench player. Nice utility infielder to have on the bench, but I'd say your expectations were too high if you were expecting him to be a good hitter this year.

To me the obvious problem is that he tries to pull every pitch, regardless of location or speed. Can't be a major league hitter like that unless you have ridiculously fast and strong hands. Frazier isn't that guy. The only pitches he's going to hit are mistakes since every pitcher in baseball is going to know what he's looking for and how he's going to swing. And the sad part is that he's going on 700-800 PA's like this and there have been 0 adjustments. Don't see it changing anytime soon either, he's pretty much toast as far as I'm concerned. Unfortunately he's most likely going to be trotted out there on a daily basis for the foreseeable future. Chicago White Sox: where hitters go to die. It really is crazy

QUOTE (ron883 @ May 4, 2017 -> 01:42 AM) In the world of 1st basemen. And yet it was good for 10th best in the league last year for 1B...so again, in what world does 10th out of 32 = pedestrian? Your expectations are just way too high based on his 1st year. Considering what he is paid relative to the other top 1B getting an .820 OPS out of him is perfectly fine. Now him not being a full time DH is another discussion...but out of all the things wrong with the Sox organization you seriously choose to spend your time and energy bashing Abreu's hitting?

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for tanking and everything...but WOW that lineup is awful.

QUOTE (Tony @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 02:44 PM) Except that isn't the same thing, at all. Blaming Hahn for this is such a simplistic approach to the situation. Explain to me how it's not the same thing. Because it is. Fans expect athletes to be like robots, but I don't care who you are, if your mind isn't in the right place you're not going to perform your best. It's unrealistic to think Q was just going to show up to spring training like nothing was going on and be at his best to prepare for the season. I'm not saying Hahn is the reason Q is pitching poorly, because at the end of the day it is on him to make pitches. But to act like he didn't have huge distractions going on in the offseason that is directly leading to his bad start is a "simplistic approach to the situation." It could have been avoided is all I'm saying. Either keep your business out of the media, or actually trade the guy. 1 or the other.

QUOTE (Tony @ Apr 15, 2017 -> 02:33 PM) Or you could perform like a professional. If you go to your job Monday morning and they tell you that they are doing everything in their power to make sure you don't work there anymore is your focus and performance going to be the same? No, no it's not. I'd bet Q was watching out for trade rumors everyday just like all of us were. How could he not?

Idiotic to publicly try and trade a guy and expect him to pitch like normal. He's a human being and the distraction would be too much for anyone. Hahn really screwed this 1 up

Hawk gets excited over a "tremendous" catch that Luery should have been standing under to catch...save the excitement Hawk, you don't have much left in you at this point

Hopefully no clear evidence to overturn but pretty sure he's safe

Robertson with the nasty curve tonight? Probably impossible to hit when you're expecting a 90+ mph cutter

Santana makes a base running error and Jose just gives him the run. Shoulda have been dead out at home

The White Sox as a team have probably 5 or 6 good swings tonight....let's hope the kids get called up sooner rather than later because it's going to be hard to watch the dreck for long. Not that I'm expecting much, but a major league AB shouldn't be too much to ask for.

How much time do you think Hawk spends talking about the game in front of him? Maybe 10% of the time?

Come on Davidson...those fastballs were 90 mph. Gotta crush 1 of them

Frazier is going to struggle to keep his average above .200 this year...his approach is just awful. We're stuck with him

Hughes owes his outfield a steak dinner

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Apr 7, 2017 -> 08:44 PM) If Frazier goes and Moncada comes up later in year he can play 3rd. I'd like to see that as well, but we seem pretty committed to Moncada at 2b. We'll have to see if they move him around at all in the minors. They aren't going to bring him up to the majors to play a position he hasn't played all year.

Holland definitely looks better than I was expecting. Little more zip to his fastball than I thought. And I kinda wish Saladino could stay at 2b....