4yrs/36m

Brooks Boyer defends the Sox 2012 slogan, "Appreciate the Game" in today's Crain's Chicago. Apparently Robin Ventura was the inspiration. Sadly, SSS is snubbed in favor of White Sox Interactive for snarky fan commentary.

I accumulated a variety of sources and weighed each prospect based on where they were ranked by each list to come up with a top 36 list. This also includes links to all of the lists and a spreadsheet that contains all ranks for each player for each list.

Unless I missed one, the White Sox have exactly ONE in the Top 101, and he comes in at #81.
Read it and weep.

I hope you understand that I would never sacrifice my reputation by arguing that a player belongs in the Hall of Fame if I did not sincerely believe this to be true. Yes, Dwight Evans works for the Red Sox, and I work for the Red Sox, and I'm not saying this is not relevant to why I am writing, but … I wouldn't argue that Dwight Evans had a Hall of Fame quality career if the kinds of analysis that I do all the time did not show this to be true. It's not really that I wouldn't; I couldn't. I've spent years explaining to the public every step I take in evaluating a player. If I didn't follow those steps, the people who have read my stuff over the years would know immediately that I wasn't playing by the rules, and they would tear me a newbie over it right away.

So we are at the bottom of his list. And I guess we are not very close to 29 either.

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I really enjoyed this documentary(except for the shmaltzy narrative bits).

I feel really bad for Pete Rose after seeing how he reveres baseball history so much in this movie.
Its a fine way to spend 2 hours.

As we assess how much we care that Albert Pujols is now an Angel and José Reyes is a Marlin managed by Ozzie Guillen, as we remind ourselves that we love baseball for the game itself, maybe a new glance backward is in order! This year’s roster of spring books on our national pastime is tilted more than usually toward the academic and the deeply historical, but there are also testaments to the game’s notable personalities and the predictable stories of fathers and sons bonding over baseball. Some things never change, no matter what uniform a player is wearing.