Bob Sacamano

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 28, 2016 -> 09:16 AM) Are you sure it's 48 and not 49? Did you account for the Nats receiving a pick for Desmond? Yeah when I started it I had it as all the players were signed already. I've been taking away picks as the offseason has gone by. Example: started with Sox at 33.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Feb 27, 2016 -> 03:02 PM) That is all. Tat brothers.

QUOTE (soxfan85 @ Feb 28, 2016 -> 08:49 AM) Another one bites the dust. Cheap organization, man. Absolutely ridiculous. Go Austin Jackson! Fixed hopefully. Wishful thinking.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 28, 2016 -> 08:41 AM) Does this move them to 26? There have been some good players picked at 26 including Alan Trammell 40 years ago. this is going to be interesting as Desmond will be a LF. He did go to a good park to put up some numbers. Yes it does. Updated my sig. Also takes them out of a potential run at Austin Jackson.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 28, 2016 -> 08:24 AM) Contreras was, in the sense that we felt he was vastly undervalued...received a significant financial subsidy over a multi-year commitment and sold high on Loiaza as well. It worked exactly like a second tier signing for a first-tier talent. Pods was coming off a disappointing sophomore season and they simply wanted to dump Lee's salary and redistribute it over multiple players. Or you could just argue Politte and Contreras came from the scrap heap...since Cashman dumped him largely because of the Red Sox owning him in some key head to head match-ups in 2003 and 2004. They weren't free agents is my point.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Feb 28, 2016 -> 07:10 AM) You forgot Pods, Hermanson, Contreras, Vizcaino, etc. F. Garcia is the only one we really paid a seemingly "high" price at the time of acquisition...and Politte was yet another scrap heap deal. The problem is we've gone eight years without that combined amount of success that we had over those 18 months. Pods, Contreras and Vizcaino weren't second or third tier free agent signings for what it's worth.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 27, 2016 -> 10:03 AM) I expect him to now be a National before I get back to work on Monday. I am actually predicting him to be a National again by the end of Spring Training.

I'm still into the idea of Jackson being the CF. Move Eaton to left, Melky to right and you for sure upgrade left and center defensively (right field would probably be a wash). Let Avi play a little RF in games where Melky could DH against lefties. Or if he struggles in the spring, let him work on his new swing/stance in the minors while getting another platoon bat for LaRoche (Raburn comes to mind). That's how I'd go about the next month.

QUOTE (Thad Bosley @ Feb 26, 2016 -> 05:14 PM) Are they really, though? They've only had a handful of quality ones dancing in front of their nose for the past few months, there for the taking, and nuttin'! Based on Hahn's comments it sounds like it. Granted you can only take that with a grain of salt until something actually gets done.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 26, 2016 -> 12:45 PM) @CST_soxvan Chris Sale's first Cactus Lge start won't be till March 19, Don Cooper said. Showed last spring doesn't need 6 spring starts. What the deuce? He had a 5.32 ERA in April last year. Are they that worried about his arm? I'm perfectly ok with this.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 26, 2016 -> 12:57 PM) or trade for Bruce Or that.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 26, 2016 -> 12:43 PM) Rangers sign Stubbs to minor-league deal. Seems like Jackson has run out of options besides the Sox and Orioles. Come on Orioles! Sign Alvarez to DH moving Trumbo to RF!

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 26, 2016 -> 10:12 AM) Always a chance of crazy injuries, etc. True. Both Rollins and Saladino can both look uninspiring the first few weeks leading to a signing. Don't think it's gonna happen though personally. I think Desmond ends up back with the Nats.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 26, 2016 -> 07:50 AM) Will Venable sucks. Takes away a potential landing spot for someone better though (Jackson).

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Feb 26, 2016 -> 07:43 AM) I'd offer Jackson a 2 year deal for $16 million. Would be a nice deal. I bet a one year deal with a starting role is more likely what he wants so he can re-establish himself and enter free agency at the end of this year.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 02:22 PM) That's true. I grew up across the street from a long parkway. We "made" about 4 or 5 different fields, and every summer until HS would play from 9 AM until guys started getting yelled at to come in for dinner. Then we would go back out and play until it was too dark to see anything. My sister lives pretty close to there now, and says she hasn't seen anyone playing baseball on the parkway since I stopped playing. I'm 25 and I'm saying that. All the way from when my friends and I were young through when we finished ollege we'd play as many games as we can all spring/summer/fall. If we didn't have enough guys we'd just do BP (sometimes we'd have 4 guys only). In college we'd have to wait for more people to be home from school. Not just our group too, anytime i was in the car with my parents I always noticed kids outside playing (not just baseball). Now, people have moved and have regular jobs so it's tough. I'd kill to consistently get pick up baseball games going again. You seriously don't see too many kids outside doing anything anymore. It's really sad.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 07:24 PM) That is the first time I have heard a number put to Jackson that I can recall. Me too. Hopefully his situation is more about playing time and re-establishing value on a one year deal than about multiple years.

QUOTE (fathom @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 07:20 PM) Jackson rejects Angels offer of 5-6 mil http://m.angels.mlb.com/news/article/16546...-austin-jackson Lack of playing time may have been a turn off apparently. Let's offer the same deal and tell starting CF gig.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 06:20 PM) If you were Oakland, would you take that package for Reddick? Exactly. He puts down everyone in the deal and then expects someone else to want it lol

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 04:52 PM) They have like 7 outfielders now. How are they going to be able to play them all? Doesn't mean they have to move Reddick for a mediocre deal.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 04:32 PM) Meh. I disagree. Shuck is nothing but a 4th outfielder, Sanchez is essentially Semien 2.0 with better defense and a worse bat, and Danish struggled mightily in AA last year. I wouldn't be sad to see any of them leave to be honest. Couldn't see the A's accepting that deal.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 02:57 PM) Can the Cubs make Fowler a qualifying offer if he is bought out after 2016, or would the buyout make that against the rules? Yeah they can make him a QO. Same situation with Gordon this offseason.

Well let's hope Orioles sign Alvarez leaving Jackson for us lol

QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 12:38 PM) Heard from #WhiteSox they actually hold picks 10, 27 and 49, not 48. #WeRegetTheError https://twitter.com/CSNHayes/status/702924842270523392 That's how I have it calculated.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Feb 25, 2016 -> 12:25 PM) Technically, they didn't regain one of the picks they lost by signing other free agents. That would be true if he signed elsewhere.