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QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 11:16 AM) I'm looking at March 19th as the start of the countdown to opening day and being worried about stuff. When Sale makes his first start, they should go around the rotation three times before opening night. Hopefully the 3-19 to 4-2 period will go smoothly, and they'll be healthy and ready to roll on April 4th. This is what I'm thinking as well. Nice post. As long as none of them are hurt, 3 starts each should give them more than enough reps for the beginning of the season. There's no need to overuse them in exhibition games IMO.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 08:46 AM) 2006 was on the pitchers for sure. Buehrle had a 5 ERA, Vazquez was horrible... they were all pretty bad. Then, on the other hand, you get 16 HR/.295 BA from Pierzynski, .313/35/113 from Konerko, .281/18/67 from Iguchi, 21/71 from Uribe, .283/30/94 from Crede, 40 SB's from Podsednik, .315/44/120 from Dye, .288/42/109 from Thome, .285 in 304 PA from Cintron, .290 in 290 PA for Mackowiak, .328 in 203 PA for Ozuna, .327 in 167 PA for Gload... such a stacked team offensively, but horrible pitching. Reminds me of the 2015 Blue Jays, to some extent. Imagine that offense with the current pitching staff. Wow.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Mar 8, 2016 -> 08:17 AM) Find an organization that has a backlog of AAA outfielders and trade Olt there. Since Olt already went through waivers, any team would have been able to claim him for free. With that in mind, I highly doubt any team would want to trade for him.

I'm going to bump this up to add some of my predictions for the newest members of the team. Todd Frazier - .271, 172 H, 29 HR, 97 RBI Brett Lawrie - .263, 158 H, 19 HR, 74 RBI Jimmy Rollins - .252, 118 H, 9 HR, 43 RBI Austin Jackson - .263, 134 H, 12 HR, 56 RBI Mat Latos - 12-9, 3.72 ERA, 159 K's Feel free to share any predictions you might have as well!

John Danks goes 33-0 with a 0.00 ERA, wins the MVP, CY, and GG Awards, and leads the Sox to the World Series.

I ended up trading Cole Hamels and Ender Inciarte for Carlos Rodon and Curtis Granderson in my H2H points dynasty league, so my team depth chart is: C - Posey/Vogt 1B - Encarnacion/Vogt/Bell 2B - Pedroia/Lawrie/Happ SS - Russell/Miller/Swanson/Bregman 3B - Seager/Lawrie/Nunez OF - Kemp/Pence/Granderson/Piscotty/Yelich/Calhoun/Miller/Winker/Happ/Clark SP - Sale/Price/Bumgarner/Tanaka/Quintana/Chen/Rodon/Finnegan/Norris RP - Papelbon/Ramos/Street/Perkins/Tolleson I probably lost this deal short term, but I love Rodon and his potential so I had to pull the trigger.

Does this move take Shuck out of the 4th outfielder position? If Avi is on the team as well, I just can't see the Sox carrying 5 outfielders at the same time.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Mar 6, 2016 -> 05:01 PM) That is the only way you would be pumped for baseball to start? Don't be so greedy. C, 2B, 3B, OF all improved I'm already pumped, I'd just be more pumped haha. Either way, the Sox have improved so much this offseason and I can't wait for season to start.

Cut LaRoche and trade for Reddick, and man, I'd be so pumped for baseball to start. It won't happen but it's fun to dream lol.

Obviously Jackson wasn't my first choice, but he makes this team SO much better. The defense just improved significantly and I'm taking the Sox seriously now.

Jackson should bat 2nd IMO. Put another speedburner behind Eaton and infront of Abreu and Frazier.

f*** YES.

I asked Brian Bilek (raBBit) who he thinks the Sox are targeting regarding outfielders, and he said: Take it for what it's worth, but I figured I'd post about it.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Mar 5, 2016 -> 02:08 PM) CarGo stuff is bull. Sox interest in Bruce isn't that high. They are working on something though. Why must you always intrigue us with these vague posts and then leave?

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Mar 5, 2016 -> 12:49 PM) Ethier? Thompson?

QUOTE (iWin4Ron @ Mar 4, 2016 -> 11:14 PM) @WhiteSoxLifer, that article's comment section is a fun read. Someone proposed a Ben Paulsen + Cargo for LaRoche + Adams (prospect) trade. Uh, hell yeah. I dig some Paulsen. Um, why would the Rockies do that deal?

I want Ryan Braun, assuming that Milwaukee eats a good portion of his contract.

YES!!! YES!!! YES!!! f*** YES!!! This news should lower Sale's ERA by at least half a run.

This draft has been so much fun so far! Thanks for creating this league, Condor. I've had a great time.

Carter Capps is most likely having Tommy John Surgery in the near future, so the Marlins need another reliever or two. Putnam, Webb, and Guerrero for Marcell Ozuna?

Can he play the outfield?

I don't understand the reasoning why people want Sanchez to be in AAA again. In my opinion, he's already proved himself there and putting him back there again does him no good. To me, he should either be in the big leagues or be traded.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Mar 2, 2016 -> 12:05 PM) #1367 richest worldwide - Jerry Reinsdorf http://www.forbes.com/profile/jerry-reinsd...st=billionaires ...and yet he couldn't afford a decent outfielder?

I don't have access to Twitter right now. Could someone please tell me how much Rodon is making this year?

I'll run around my neighborhood completely naked if Rollins gets all 3 of those incentives.