CLEVELAND – According to Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and confirmed by team cultural affairs director Jackson Miranda, right field superprospect Dayan Viciedo has re-injured the thumb that was broken in spring training by a Dave Bush pitch.

Guillen said on Sunday morning that what he heard was that Viciedo aggravated the injury about a week ago and has been bothered by it since.

Viciedo has slumped recently, his OPS falling from the low 900s to .865, and this injury helps explain it. Over 96 games and 411 plate appearances, the Tank has hit 16 homers and driven in 65, in this his breakout offensive season.

Viciedo was removed from last night’s Triple-A game vs. Louisville, prompting speculation that he may be on the verge of being called up to the Show.

While able to quickly dismiss the prospect of Viciedo’s callup today due to his injury, Guillen spoke at greater length on the prospect before Sunday’s game at the Cleveland Indians.

“Are people in Chicago getting tired about talking about Viciedo?,” he asked. “We are going to keep this recording about Viciedo for people in Chicago because sooner or later, they are going to hate Viciedo—at least for a week—and talk about how bad Viciedo is and how crazy we were to bring this guy from Cuba here.”

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Not nearly as crazy as you are for continuing to trot Adam Dunn out there everyday.

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Well, I agree with Ozzie on something, I think Viciedo is being slightly overrated around here. Is he good, yes, but I don't think he's going to help the team's other issues (Dunn, Rios, stranding runners in scoring position, etc...) simply by showing up.

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No offense there Otto but seeing how he hasnt hit 40 HR's here, its not exactly going out on a limb saying he wont do it somewhere else.

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Do you think there are ten better outfielders than Quentin?

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Easily.

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Okay, who are they?

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10 players in the American League? Prob Not. 10 players in MLB? Hmmmmm. Might be interesting. If you put Quentin on the Yankees he'd be an All star with more HRs and RBIs. He's better than Swisher. Offensively anyway.

Off the top of my head,

Buatista
Hamilton
Granderson
McCutchen
Holliday
J Upton
Braun
Kemp
Cargo
Bruce
Ethier
Victorino
Stanton
Choo
Ellsbury
Crawford
Heyward
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Werth
Cruz
Beltran
Markakis
Gardner
Rasmus


All the guys above the line I would unquestionably take before CQ. The guys below are debatable due to age, injury, or some other reason.

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I did my home work and I was wrong. Better OF is a vague description because Carlos is having a better year than say Carl Crawford but I and probably most people would rather have Crawford.

Crawford
Ellsbury
Cuddyer
Adam Jones
Granderson
Lind
Bautista
Wells
Hunter
Ichiro
Nelson Cruz
Josh Hamilton

Thats 12 off the top of my head from the AL. These players are better PLAYERS than CQ. And all but Bautista are way better Outfielders. I still like Carlos but his first year was kind of a fluke.

In spite of both of those lists, there's a really good case for Quentin as a top ten outfielder in the game. To suggest the Sox would be lucky to get a couple prospects for him is absurd.

Curtis Granderson is the guy who appears to be having the fluke year. Who knows what the deal is with Bautista. Obviously, over the last year and a half he appears to be better than not only Quentin, but also better than Ted Williams and Hank Aaron. Anyway, I'm not going to argue against him.

Here are the guys I'd say are better than Quentin:

Bautista
Kemp
Braun
Holliday
Ellsbury
Hamilton
McCutchen

Anybody else is reaching because when you started making a real objective comparison, you discovered that Quentin is a lot better than you thought he was. Be honest. I made the statement and you thought, "Ridiculous! Of course there are tons of guys better than Quentin." But there really aren't. You found that out when you looked at the numbers. You're a pretty knowledgeable baseball fan, but you're stretching here on guys like Victorino, Crawford, and Ethier. And to suggest guys like Stanton and Heyward are better than Quentin is pure speculation. They certainly haven't proven such a thing. Yeah, they may have more long-term value than Quentin, but I don't think you could call them better right now.

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Heyward might be a stretch but Stanton is better than Quentin right now.

Ethier is certainly a better all around player. Not sure why thats a stretch.


Ill tell you another two that are better than Quentin.

Chris Young and Justin Upton

and Jay Bruce


Quentin is a top 25 outfielder. Thats it.

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I like Quentin on this ballclub. Two of your supposed run producers have done absolutely nothing, and outside of Konerko, there's really nobody else but those 2 in the lineup that can carry the club for weeks at a time. Your suggestion that Quentin is somehow underrated, I can't really address anything other than to make the assertion that I feel I am rating Quentin correctly. He can heat up and mash homers in bunches, with the caveat that he plays half his games in one of the most homer-friendly parks in the game. How good would he be in say, Petco?

CQ has had one MVP quality year, but also a bunch of injury-riddled campaigns and is prone to going into slumps. His defense in left was questionable, and he looks absolutely statue-like in right. I also tend to give guys who can play CF a bit of an edge, as they possess tools that players like CQ simply will never have. The only elite-level OF mentioned that you can even argue that CQ is better than defensively is Buatista. I just don't see a Top 10 guy here, if you want to go 15-25 MLB I can feel comfortable with that.

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That's just wrong, Bryan. There's no objective measure that suggests Stanton or Bruce is the player Quentin is. Quentin has an adjusted OPS ten or more points higher than both of those guys while playing in what is universally considered a tougher league right now. If you want to say Upton is similar, okay. Chris Young isn't even in the discussion. He just can't compare to Quentin offensively.

Bottom line is no one has listed ten outfielders that are definitively better than Quentin. The argument against him is being supported with "I don't think sos" rather than facts.

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I agree. But there are precious few of them that have close to Quentin's offensive skills and even being Devon White isn't good enough to make up the difference.

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Joe are you talking strictly with the bat and strictly this year?

Seems like it


Because Upton and Young are better all around players.


And if you look at the three year numbers its even more evident


As much as you discount the stolen base stealing 28 at an 80% clip, like Young did last year, helps the team offensively


And are any of these guys prone to LOOOOOOOONG slumps like Quentin?


To say nothing of the fact that he's prone to stupidity (broken hand)


You say we havent definitely proved it. Well you certainly havent proved he IS a top ten OF.


If you were drafting a team for the rest of this season, would Q really be in your top 10 of's?

Easily.

Slightly better defense on an outfield corner cannot make up for 10-15 points of OPS+. It just can't. If you had an elite centerfielder, that's something that must be considered. I've granted you Kemp and McCutchen. I just don't think Young is that kind of player although he has improved over the last two seasons. You want Upton? I'll give him to you. There's just not ten better outfielders than Quentin.

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Of course I want Upton.

I want Bruce (left handed)

Thats 7 you gave and one you granted.

Then there's Granderson and Adam Jones.

So Granderson gets penalized for having a great year (as players in their second year as a Yankee are prone to do?)


I still dont know if were judging on just this year or career.

Going forward all the players apologist listed are better and so is Upton and likely Stanton and Bruce.

I guess we'll disagree.

And your idea of "slightly better" defense is pretty liberal.


I would probably rank Quentin in the high teens to low 20's.

So were basically arguing over 5 spots.

Id be willing to bet that out of

Bruce, Stanton, Upton, Young, and Bruce

at least 3 of them will outproduce Quentin from this day forward til the end of the year.

That would put him out of the top ten right?

We're judging by right now. Let's call it over the next 200 games.

Jay Bruce isn't really close to the offensive player Quentin is. I don't care if he holds the bat with his teeth. Stanton may well improve, but he hasn't yet shown that he's superior to Quentin. As I said, Upton and Quentin are similar players. I don't think it's reasonable to expect a well-established guy like Granderson to keep playing at a level he never has before. To me he looks like a guy having his best year. Adam Jones has a 102 adjusted OPS over pretty much the same span in which Quentin has delivered a 118 (and that includes a year Quentin played with a pin in his wrist). I know OPS+ isn't the be all, end-all stat but it's as good as anything for comparing offensive players in the same league at the same time. The difference between Dwight Evans and Adam Dunn in right field probably isn't worth 10 points of OPS+. That's what I mean by "slightly".

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