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  1. Little Slide Rooter
    Hasn't been a lack of desire to upgrade so much as lack of desire to do something stupid in the effort to do so.
  2. Little Slide Rooter
    At the end of the day, we'll still be 9.5 games ahead of them and that much better. Turn it off and shrug it off.
  3. Little Slide Rooter
    Middle relief is middle relief. If it was better, it would be late inning relief. It's just that we need to figure out a new middle relief go to guy now that Grimm isn't good anymore.
  4. Little Slide Rooter
    Is 2016 Justin Grimm one of those better than the results situations or did he turn into Bob Howry?
  5. Little Slide Rooter
    No Hendricks is boring and yeah, the top 30 talk gets annoying, but this team can't afford to give up young, healthy, cheap starting pitching with some major turnover coming for 2018. He and Lester are the only ones under contract after 2017. ---- I found Concepcion boring despite the results. If need be, we have the resources to acquire more starting pitching if need be. But I do agree that there's no reason to be actively shopping Hendricks. But if we're taking a part of a package for someone like Teharen or Fernandez (who I am very much aware that they are very different commodities,) then we could afford trade him.
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    Nobody's It's been noted several times, they would go to a 6 man rotation before and probably after the ASB. What happens a month from now is another question And there's also the fact that we don't have a ton of SP depth in the event of an injury. As of now, if we needed to dip into AAA for an option, we'd be kind of screwed.
  7. Little Slide Rooter
    It all depends on who's still her come August 1st. As long as Soler, Baez, Almora, and Szczur are around, there's not going to be room for another RH OF. As a trade chip, despite his impressive on base skills, his lack of power could be limiting. I could see him as a part of a trade package or called up in the event of one of the afore mentioned guys being traded or injured.
  8. Little Slide Rooter
    Between trades and graduations, putting together a prospect list this time of year is going to be like putting worms in a can, so I'd just wait until August 1.
  9. Little Slide Rooter
    I wouldn't say I don't care, but we do have the depth to pick it up. The fact that even with 2 of our opening day starting OF and our 4th OF on the DL, putting together a surrender lineup would take more effort than a strong one speaks volumes.
  10. Little Slide Rooter
    Yeah. Crow, Peralta, Matusz, and Nathan. Surely one of them helps at some point. The only one that truly baffled me is Peralta. With Nathan, there's the glimmer of hope that he can give us a month or two of his former greatness late in the season. With Crow and Matusz, there's the hope that they're not too broken and Bosio can work some magic. But Peralta's just an old relief pitcher.
  11. Little Slide Rooter
    Jeimer with a 2B and 3 BB. Not much else of note from the I Cubs 5-4 win over some other AAA team.
  12. Little Slide Rooter
    THIS was your post in the middle of Contreras exploding into our lives? It was composed moments before. Had been listening to the game on the radio and his night had just come to an end.
  13. Little Slide Rooter
    Randy Wells hurt his shoulder and was never the same. Kinda different. Yeah, but wasn't he collapsing before that happened? But my point was more about the fact that Hendricks doesn't have overpowering stuff, and with guys like that, a lot of people think there's only Greg Maddux or junk baller with no in between.
  14. Little Slide Rooter
    [expletive] the NBA How on earth is something that began before Haloween just now wrapping up anyway?
  15. Little Slide Rooter
    Celebrating a World Series win.
  16. Little Slide Rooter
    So are there still people who expect Kyle Hendricks to turn into Randy Wells? Because he sure isn't showing any signs of it.
  17. Little Slide Rooter
    Seeing as the Red Sox are going to chow down on the bulk of his contract, perhaps something along the lines of Christian Villanueva, (whom once he's off the DL we're going to have to offer a roster spot we don't have or he can walk) plus a few million $s make it a bit easier for them to swallow while giving us a possible option to add to the 2017 OF mix, which other than Heyward has no sure things? Despite his noodle bat, his dWAR has kept him above water in the WAR department, so at least he could be a decent 4-5 OF. I know that being right handed, he'd be mostly redundant, but the FO has always had the policy of judging the player by potential value regardless of position.
  18. Little Slide Rooter
    This Eloy Jimenez fellow appears to be pretty good at baseball.
  19. Little Slide Rooter
    If you are asking would any of those teams pick up his contract, I think there is 0 percent chance of that happening. Not the entire contract (though I wouldn't put much past the LA teams or the White Sox at this point.) But a portion of it along with a moderate prospect return.
  20. Little Slide Rooter
    Red Sox Place Rusney Castillo On Outright Waivers https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2016/06/red-sox-place-rusney-castillo-on-outright-waivers.html I know this would be the exact opposite of a low risk, but is there still a high reward to be had? Are his issues something that can be fixed or is he a lost cause? I could see any Chicago, New York, or LA team rolling the dice here.
  21. Little Slide Rooter
    Did James Shields grow up hating the White Sox? Because I've heard of guys having a rought adjustment period to a new team, but he's been beyond brutal.
  22. Little Slide Rooter
    Very happy to see that score; following on Gameday, and the top of the inning was one of those when I had to put the device down and walk away after ball 12.
  23. Little Slide Rooter
    The Yankees should sign him. Between he and Chapman, they'd be the most feared team in baseball...just not for baseball.
  24. Little Slide Rooter
    What's a Vimael Machin?
  25. Little Slide Rooter
    Willson Contreras has been with the organization longer than anyone on the 40 man roster. If anyone cares. Which they probably don't.
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