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Taking Stock: A Look At Jose Quintana's Trade Market

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While the White Sox have been more enjoyable to watch this season than I anticipated, the truth is that, in the bigger picture, how they look on the field this year doesn't matter. While other fan bases watch their teams hoping to see them make a playoff run, if not more, there is no World Series for White Sox fans this year. Instead of the World Series, we had the draft in June and the trade deadline coming up. A deadline that's approaching rather quickly, as June is about to become July, and eventually, July becomes July 31! So what better time than now to start taking stock of where the Sox stand with their trade chips this summer? Today we look at the player whose trade stock we've spent all season (as well as the offseason) thinking about: Jose Quintana . HOW IS HIS STOCK? It's doing rather well, and I don't think it's just because he seems to have turned a corner in his last few starts. The truth is, while we may have been gnashing our teet

Taking Stock: A Look At Melky Cabrera's Trade Market

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While the White Sox have been more enjoyable to watch this season than I anticipated, the truth is that, in the bigger picture, how they look on the field this year doesn't matter. While other fan bases watch their teams hoping to see them make a playoff run, if not more, there is no World Series for White Sox fans this year. Instead of the World Series, we had the draft in June and the trade deadline coming up. A deadline that's approaching rather quickly, as June is about to become July, and eventually, July becomes July 31! So what better time than now to start taking stock of where the Sox stand with their trade chips this summer? I don't think the White Sox would mind moving Melky Cabrera in a deal this summer, but how much interest will there be in the human gif machine? HOW IS HIS STOCK? It's improving, but it's not high. Melky's 2017 season got off to a horrible start, but he's turned things around in the last month and a half. Follo

Taking Stock: A Look At Todd Frazier's Trade Market

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While the White Sox have been more enjoyable to watch this season than I anticipated, the truth is that, in the bigger picture, how they look on the field this year doesn't matter. While other fan bases watch their teams hoping to see them make a playoff run, if not more, there is no World Series for White Sox fans this year. Instead of the World Series, we had the draft in June and the trade deadline coming up. A deadline that's approaching rather quickly, as June is about to become July, and eventually, July becomes July 31! So what better time than now to start taking stock of where the Sox stand with their trade chips this summer? One player the Sox will be looking to trade this month is third baseman Todd Frazier , but how successful are they going to be doing so? Let's figure it out. HOW IS HIS STOCK? Not great! Frazier hasn't lived up to expectations since the White Sox sent Micah Johnson , Frankie Montas , and Trayce Thompson to the Dodgers as pa

Taking Stock: A Look At David Robertson's Trade Market

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While the White Sox have been more enjoyable to watch this season than I anticipated, the truth is that, in the bigger picture, how they look on the field this year doesn't matter. While other fan bases watch their teams hoping to see them make a playoff run, if not more, there is no World Series for White Sox fans this year. Instead of the World Series, we had the draft in June and the trade deadline coming up. A deadline that's approaching rather quickly, as June is about to become July, and eventually, July becomes July 31! So what better time than now to start taking stock of where the Sox stand with their trade chips this summer? This is the first in (what I plan on making) a series of posts about individual players and how their markets are shaking out. We're going to start with White Sox closer David Robertson . HOW IS HIS STOCK? It's better than it was over the winter. While the White Sox wouldn't have minded moving him before the season began, the

The Cardinals Have Been 'Linked To' Avisail Garcia Apparently

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Here's a sentence I never thought I'd even think within the deepest recesses of my mind, let alone type onto the internet where people could read it and know I feel it: Avisail Garcia is garnering trade interest, and I'm furious about it. I'm serious. I read today that the St. Louis Cardinals are interested in Avisail, or at least have been "linked to" to him this year, and it made me angry to think about it. Now, the good news is that it comes from Nick Cafardo, and as we've documented here in the past , Cafardo can sometimes be a tiny bit off when it comes to trade rumors. He's essentially Boston's answer to Phil Rogers in that I'm never quite sure whether he's told these things, or if he's just making his fantasy trades and writing them down and presenting them as real things. Cafardo writes that Avi and Detroit's J.D. Martinez are the " two names linked most often to the Cardinals ." He also mentions that How

I'm Not Sure Why Kevan Smith Gets So Much Playing Time

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My girlfriend is in love with Kevan Smith . All right, love might be a strong word. In truth, she’s more in lust than anything. Anytime we’re watching a game together and Smith shows up on the screen there is a visceral reaction within her. I haven’t seen her this excited about a White Sox player since Carlos Quentin was wiggling his ass in the batter’s box. None of this is the reason I want to see Smith playing less often than he already is, but it would be a bonus. I’ve mentioned this on Twitter more than once, and I figured it was time to actually write a post about it because A) I haven’t written anything here in a while, and B) seriously, why the hell is Smith getting so much playing time? Geovany Soto last played for the White Sox on May 7 since going down with an elbow injury that I’m guessing will cost him the rest of the 2017 season. Since then Smith has started 16 games for the White Sox. Omar Narvaez has started 13 games since Soto’s injury, and that incl