http://www.southsidesox.com/2013/11/6/5071...tove-simulation

 

 

 

Thought this was interesting...

 

You have a controversial Sale for Puig trade (in the comments section, some idiots think the Puig contract is a better one than Sale's)....leading to the White Sox Cuban Defector Team with Ramirez, Viciedo, Abreu and Puig (someone had a funny hat combining the Chicago city logo with the Cuban cap for Sundays, also in the comments section).

 

The White Sox trading away Gillaspie to open up time for Semien at 3B.

 

Dioner Navarro finally coming in as at catcher after other options disappeared (Flowers non-tendered).

 

 

 

The most intriguing trade, and one that's probably the most unrealistic. Keppinger and Kevin Vance for Mark Guthrie and top prospect Sam Selman.

 

We'd all love to get rid of Keppinger, but I doubt the Royals are THAT desperate they trade him for Jeff Keppinger (then again, Dayton Moore fell in love with Willie Bloomquist) and throw in one of their top prospects to make up for the cash differential.

 

 

 

That would leave the line-up as:

 

DeAza/Viciedo (platoon)

Ramirez

Abreu

Dunn

Puig

A.Garcia

Viciedo/DeAza (platoon)

Navarro

Beckham

Semien

 

(Just to make it the most entertaining team of free swingers in history, you can sub Juan Uribe for Semien at 3B).

 

Or you could trade DeAza just for fun and leave Puig playing CF, with Garcia and Viciedo around him...since Puig might be the greatest CFer in baseball history who has played there for less than 5 games.

 

 

Now, the scary part.

 

Quintana

Danks

Santiago

Guthrie

E. Johnson/Rienzo

Edited November 12, 201312 yr by caulfield12

Man, that De Aza trade and that Keppinger trade was really nice. I loved all his moves except for Sale for Puig. Should have made it Sale and Viciedo for Puig and Joc Pederson.

Edited November 12, 201312 yr by Chilihead90

Vance doesn't really have any trade value, just to be clear. He puts up good K numbers at an age appropriate level, but he is fly ball-heavy, prone to inconsistency, had control issues this year, and his average fastball so far in AFL is below 90. He may turn into a middle reliever in the majors at some point, but even that is a stretch, and his value in a trade is basically zero.

 

Man, that De Aza trade and that Keppinger trade was really nice. I loved all his moves except for Sale for Puig. Should have made it Sale and Viciedo for Puig and Joc Pederson.

 

That Sale-Puig trade is terrible, You could get so much more from him. I know its a simulation, but that was a terrible trade.

Removing Sale from the rotation looks so gross even if you are getting a young star positional player back.

Jeremy Guthrie? I assume it's Jeremy Guthrie since Mark Guthrie retied after '03.

 

 

Yeah.

 

Someone said that he traded DeAza (in the simulation)....

 

Where was that? Didn't see it.

 

It doesn't make sense to carry Alejandro on the roster at $4+ million as a back-up unless they're going to bench/trade Viciedo. A L/R straight platoon would only leave Viciedo with about 150-200 at-bats on the season...pretty much wiping out completely any trade value that he might have had.

 

Of course, keeping Viciedo and trading DeAza would force Garcia or more likely Puig into CF.

 

 

Yeah.

 

Someone said that he traded DeAza (in the simulation)....

 

Where was that? Didn't see it.

 

It doesn't make sense to carry Alejandro on the roster at $4+ million as a back-up unless they're going to bench/trade Viciedo. A L/R straight platoon would only leave Viciedo with about 150-200 at-bats on the season...pretty much wiping out completely any trade value that he might have had.

 

Of course, keeping Viciedo and trading DeAza would force Garcia or more likely Puig into CF.

 

In the comment section below he updates recent moves he is making...

 

"Chicago sends Alejandro De Aza and Jake Petricka to the Dodgers in exchange for Onelki Garcia, Jesmuel Valentin and James Baldwin JR. The three are ranked in the top 20 for Dodger prospects."

 

and he also signed Brian Roberts for 1 yr/$5m, and Freddy Garcia and Jon Garland to minor league deals.

In the comment section below he updates recent moves he is making...

 

"Chicago sends Alejandro De Aza and Jake Petricka to the Dodgers in exchange for Onelki Garcia, Jesmuel Valentin and James Baldwin JR. The three are ranked in the top 20 for Dodger prospects."

 

and he also signed Brian Roberts for 1 yr/$5m, and Freddy Garcia and Jon Garland to minor league deals.

 

 

LOL