Bob Sacamano

QUOTE (beautox @ Nov 8, 2015 -> 01:13 AM) With the rays snapping up Miller, I would love for Hahn to check in with Texas regarding Jurickson Profar. He appears to be a great buy low candidate here are his stats in the AFL .238/.314/.452 - .766 with 6BB and 7K in nearly 50AB the important thing here is health, which he appears to be. Hes been shuttling between SS and 2B with Surprise. Profar will only be 23 at the start of the year and is blocked at every infield position with texas (Beltre/Gallo 3B, Andrus SS, Odor 2B and Hanser Alberto for utility). Steamer projects him for nearly 2WAR next year. Texas is looking to bolster their rotation after letting Gallardo and Lewis go. You think there's a package that could be had for Quintana?

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 01:17 PM) I'm not in denial about anything. Montas needs to command the fastball and come up with some semblance of a 3rd pitch if he ever wants to be a big league starter. I apologize. I didn't know that Mella was dealing with issues.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 01:12 PM) Mella has had rotator cuff issues. He throws 96, Montas throws 100. I will take the pick and the $2 million in additional pool money. BPs write up on Mella last year said medicals and mechanics would make him a reliever. Oh yeah me too but I was just giving an estimate originally on what we could have probably gotten back. I really don't want to give up that pick either unless we sign one of the younger free agents.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 12:45 PM) Mella will end up being a reliever. The pick the White Sox will receive is a better return than that. You're probably one of the people in denial about Montas likely being ticketed to the bullpen in the near future aren't you?

QUOTE (ChiSox59 @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 12:23 PM) Hahaha, putting the band back together, eh? He forgot the step of bringing back Buehrle haha

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 08:16 AM) Wait, what? lol The guy that loves Gordon Beckham. The guy that said that we have one of the best OF defenses in all of baseball. Stop it. My thoughts exactly lol

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 11:27 AM) My Realistic Wishlist for this Offseason: 1) Let Shark walk in FA, receive compensation pick 2) Resign Alexei to a 2 year deal $12 million deal with a $3 million team option for '18 (Ramirez made it clear he wants to stay and retire on the South Side) 3) Go after Matt Weiters and lose out on him courtesy of ATL on a lucrative deal, settle on a 1 year deal with AJ Pierzynski worth $3.5 million with a $2 million dollar player option for '17 4) Sign Garrett Jones to MiLB deal, depth in case of Abreu injury, could have a Dan Johnson-type year with Charlotte 5) sign Dom Brown to a MiLB deal, depth in case of Melky/Avi injury, All-Star in '13 6) Hire Rick Renteria as bench coach, seems to be popular choice among fans, managerial experience 7) Sign Juan Uribe back as 3B depth, veteran clubhouse presence 8) Sign Shaun Marcum/Bronson Arroyo as a RHS, Shark is gone and a vet RHS is needed, should be cheap 9) Sign Neal Cotts as an extra reliever, solid statline 10) Hopefully this is the South Side's final year with a protected first rounder for a LONG time, could make a splash with Weiters or go safe route and bring in Howie Kendrick for 3 years/42 million, KW loves him 11) Deal Courtney Hawkins, Spencer Adams, Carlos Sanchez, Jacob May, and Chris Beck for Todd Frazier and lock him up for big money, hopefully our long term 3B 12) Trade Saladino for a promising young C (Plawecki or someone of lesser magnitude like Andrew Knapp) A '16 roster of: C: Pierzynski, Flowers 1B: Abreu 2B: Kendrick, Johnson 3B: Frazier, Uribe SS: Ramirez DH: LaRoche LF: Cabrera CF: Eaton RF: Garcia, Thompson Rotation: Sale, Rodon, Quintana, Danks, Montas 'Pen: Robertson, Duke, Jones, Jennings, Webb, Putnam, Petricka Looks promising I seriously wouldn't mind AJ back at all. Straight platoon with Flowers (Flowers also catching all of Sale's starts). But you'll likely get flamed on here for suggesting him though I think he is the best option personally (unless we work out a trade to bring someone in).

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 11:19 AM) "SATURDAY: Neither the Indians nor the Tigers submitted the winning bid for Park, via MLB.com’s Jordan Bastian and MLive.com’s Chris Iott (on Twitter). The Indians did bid for Park, although their bid came up short; the Tigers did not bid for him." Per MLBTR That eliminates two teams. Certain it isn't us or any NL team locked in at first. My prediction is Pirates.

Worth mentioning Buehrle didn't receive a QO. Many on here insisted he would.

We don't know what Shark could have gotten, but before deadline when we were winning, there was a tweet saying sox had a deal in place with SF for Shark but wanted to wait and see. I think it was the next day Giants got Leake for their number one prospect Keury Mella. I believe that's who we could have gotten.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 10:38 AM) NY Post did predictions. Had us signing Desmond for 5/80 I'd s*** myself if we did that. In a good or bad way?

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 7, 2015 -> 10:24 AM) What the White Sox need to do is go crazy during the Latin signing period. Any team that rebuilds through the draft will need a long time and some big breaks. The Cubs don't have a bunch of their draft picks on the field. KC with all their top 5 picks the last 10-12 years didn't have a huge amount of their draft picks on the field. A case could be made that the White Sox actually had a better draft than KC each of the past 6 years. They need to get a big influx of international guys. Pay the penalty over paying a Howie Kendrick. Through the draft you get one first round pick a year. Taking the penalty internationally you can get 2 or 3 . Yes they need to go out guns blazing next period with no Cubs, Dodgers, Giants, Yankees and Red Sox being able to.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 04:34 PM) How is the order of the comp picks chosen? 20 QOs could mean that pick becomes a few slots higher than previously thought. I think it's the order the free agents sign. So we want Samardzija to sign quick.

Fister was not offered a QO. I know someone had mentioned him in a thread yesterday.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 03:09 PM) If Frazier cant be had for a reasonable price, I see the Sox going after Freese pretty quickly Yeah I'd rather sign Freese than trading for someone else giving up significant pieces.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 02:20 PM) One day of watching him try to catch would make the team scrap it's plan. It would never work, and would probably piss off a lot of your roster. I don't know if you're making a serious assessment but none of the previous posts about LaRoche catching were serious.

QUOTE (shysocks @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 02:12 PM) That's awesome. I think he'd probably call his agent and you'd have a grievance on your hands. The way around a grievance could be that you will make him catch without giving him the option of retiring to make it less threatening. That way he can decide he doesn't want to catch an go out on his own

QUOTE (SCCWS @ Nov 6, 2015 -> 01:19 PM) It is that time of year where every baseball pundit writes junk articles to justify their pay. Most of the opinions( little or no research/sources are involved) are less accurate than the TV weatherman's forecasts. Literally impossible to predict a teams' offseasons. People you may expect to be on the roster end up getting dealt and throw a wrench in the prediction.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Nov 4, 2015 -> 12:13 AM) Jesus, that's how many surgeries for Micah now? Kid is made of glass. Yeah I don't think he has a future here personally. I think he gets dealt this offseason.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Nov 5, 2015 -> 08:41 PM) Wonder if we'll get some more activity next week during the GM meetings. More than usual at the November gm meetings I'm sure.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 5, 2015 -> 01:26 PM) Again, the White Sox held all the cards. If a team wanted to give Alexei more than the QO and relinquish a draft pick, the White Sox certainly wouldn't have spent $1 million buying him out. They simply would have exercised the option and traded him, saving $1 million and adding talent to the organization. If you don't want to pay a guy $10 million and are willing to pay $1 million to get out of it, you don't go risking almost $16 million to hopefully obtain another draft pick. I guess that's a good point. They could have picked it up and moved him for anything.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Nov 5, 2015 -> 12:02 PM) I don't know about deferred money. Are we still paying Konerko? Buyouts happened in '15 not '16. As far as Turner and the other spots I made it pretty clear I was saying X amount of players costed Y amount of money. I know it wasn't perfect but more of where we are at with the most likely candidates on the roster. I think the buyout figure occurs the following season.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Nov 5, 2015 -> 12:19 PM) They can't decline his option and then offer him a QO anyway. Doesn't work that way. Oh that only applies to player options? Then this whole discussion is moot anyway. I really just got bored at work (first full time finance job stuck at a desk all day) and it crossed my mind. Back on topic: Alexei will re-sign with the Sox.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 5, 2015 -> 12:13 PM) If you think he will re-sign for a year, why wouldn't you think he wouldn't take the $15.8 million QO? Plus the million, that would be almost $17 million for 1 year. It was a scenario (like I explained if you actually took the time to read the original post) where Alexei made it clear he wanted a multiyear deal and wouldn't negotiate a one year deal at a reduced cost and they talked about it when discussing a new deal for next season before declining the option. Being far apart, they decide to offer a QO knowing he wants more than 1 yr/15.8 mill (maybe he thinks he can get 2-3 years 18-30 mill on the open market? Fa market isn't exactly good for infielders). I'm not saying this is what happened and in all likeliness didn't, but it was an angle I felt like tossing out there.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Nov 5, 2015 -> 11:50 AM) Why would the White Sox decline a $10 million option on Alexei, buy him out for $1 million, and then give him a QO? It appears we have a poster or 2 that has a serious crack habit. You don't pay $1 million to get out of a $10 million commitment, and then give something that is worth more than $15 million. If the White Sox didn't want Alexei and thought he could get more than $10 million on the open market, they would have saved themselves $1 million, exercised the option, and traded him. This was all under the assumption that they knew he'd decline it due to wanting more guaranteed money (not more annually than the QO but still more than he could make accepting a QO, sucking, and then finding no work next season). I know it won't happen either but it was just a topic I felt like bringing to the table. I'm actually one of the few in here that believes he will re-sign with us on a year (with option possibly) deal.