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The Yankees had a ridiculous amount of scouts there to watch Cease yesterday.

I wonder where we got "Gio" from GIOlito. It will remain a mystery.

Your user name is literally short for Robert.

Lance Lynn made his spring debut today. He got pulled after 24 pitches in the 1st, topping out at 93. Came back for the 2nd and pitched a clean inning (nearly gave up a 2 run HR, but it was caught at the top of the wall). Got ejected by Angel Hernandez after one out in the 3rd for chirping about the zone. Final Line: 2IP, 3H, 4ER, 3BB, 2K, and one ejection. Maybe two ejections, because he went to the bullpen to finish his pitch count, and he's apparently being kicked out of there too.

Oh my first instinct is 100% "f*** off another nepo / loyalist hire". He will need to earn any benefit of the doubt. I just don't have the energy to be big mad at Getz yet. It's all reserved for the man upstairs smoking his stogies.

They probably wanted to bring this guy in sooner, but had to be sure Tim Anderson wasn't coming back first.

Cease? He looked great. Touched 97 and was completely in control. One hanging curve was smashed for a homer but that was really his only mistake.

Maybe JR should ask the taxpayers of Illinois and Chicago to help fund a Dylan Cease contract extension. I'm sure the City or State can install a license plate reader at the 35st Street exit off the Dan Ryan. Every car that uses that exit is tolled fifty cents into a White Sox free agent fund.

I don't know bob.

ReYlO was taken.

Fedde seems to be maintaining his high ground ball/weak contact rates from KBO. Second inning: Naylor popout, HBP > steal > seeing eye RBI single. A second GIDP ends the inning. Third inning: Walk, pickoff (commentators compliment the move), two groundouts. He's done after a pretty efficient 3IP with 1ER, 2H, 1BB, 0K.

It's where I am at, but if all of the crap he signed and traded for plays like crap, he has to take a lot of the blame. This, we were told, was a year that couldn't be wasted.

baffling to have a rebuilding clubs with some many people with known negative future value

No. Sorry Bob, I don't believe I can. I'm still trying to figure out how we got ChiSox.

Benny and Nicky worked walks to leadoff the first, but were stranded by a LRJ K and Sheets GIDP. Fedde gave up a leadoff hit to Kwan, immediately erased by a GIDP. Jammed Ramirez for another groundout. Very quick inning, like 6 pitches or so.

Thinking back to the TA/Keller thing, what a huge bummer the ways things have played out. TA flamed out with the Sox in embarrassing fashion and now we have the cowardly pitcher who got offended by a bat flip.

Including Yankees scouts being at Cease start. I’m sure they’re just enjoying a baseball game though.

Yankees media frenzied concern over Rodon is putting some pressure on Cashman. Let's take advantage.

Ugh. Are they gonna plow through every single washed up bullpen arm on the planet? I mean, I guess it's low risk, but it reveals a mindset of trying to build a 'pen whose average age is 38. I'd really like to see more opportunity for guys like Leasure and Speas.

Blake Snell does not come close to making this an 85 win team.

Most reasonable people aren't saying the White Sox shouldn't get any incentives at all. It makes sense for the City and State to kick in some $$$ to fund the infrastucture and improvements to local public transit that will be needed with a new stadium. It appears that Jerry and company don't want a just a few incentives though. I haven't seen any reporting yet that JR plans to open up his checkbook at all for this new stadium and that is absolutely insane. Again, he wants to socialize all the risk, but there is no way in hell he will share any profits. JR needs to pay his fair share if he wants to get this project off the ground. It is really that simple.

Former Royal? ✔

That is how I was able to go to Sox games as a kid, and why I'll forever love Bill Veeck for creating the program. Also why I linked this, hopefully families and kids who normally can't afford to attend games can take advantage of this and other programs, buy Jerry some goodwill beyond his stadium ask.

I think that's the point. Should have kept Colas around and played him at 1B instead.

The really insist on Gavin Sheets, don't they? Why the f*** wouldn't you just give those 1B innings to Colas this spring? Fucking idiots.

Do you guys remember the straight As/perfect attendance tickets they used to give away?

Crazy the Royals have had solid teams their first two decades yet only one BBHOF who played in Kansas City for multiple seasons. plus one potential future BBHOF over their first 50 seasons (1969-2018, the latest BBHOF ballot eligible season). The Athletics have more players during their brief 12 season stint. Multi-season Kansas City Baseball Hall Of Famers: 7 Players + 1 Potential Inductee 2 Players Inducted as Managers 1 Owner (1) Kansas City Royals (1969-2018) In: George Brett (1973-1993) Potential Inductee: Carlos Beltran (1998-2004) 57.1% vote in 2024 (2nd Ballot) (1) Kansas City Monarchs (1920-1948) and Kansas City Athletics (1955-1967) In: Satchel Paige (Kansas City Monarchs 1940-1947) & (Kansas City Athletics (1965) (2 + 2) Kansas City Athletics (1955-1967) In: Catfish Hunter (1965-1967) Enos Slaughter (1955-1956). Plus Managerial Inductees: Whitey Herzog (Player 1958-1960 & Manager 1975-1979) Dick Williams (Player 1959-1960). (3 + 1) Kansas City Monarchs (1920-1948) In: Willard Brown (1937-1944 & 1946-1948 - Served in Military during 1945 season) Andy Cooper (1928--1929 & 1937-1939) Jose Mendez (1920-1926) Plus Owner Inductee: J. L. Wilkinson (Owner 1920-1948)

Obsession? These are most probably pitchers that Bannister has worked with in the past. We've also signed some guys who were with him on the Giants. It's a minor league signing. We need to fill out a pitching staff at AAA, too. If he's got anything left in the tank and is a small fix away from being a 5th starter option, so be it. The injury to Scholtens and Touki's disastrous outings highlight the need for fungible arms.

It would even be more weird if some other team had an obsession with ex-Sox players and signed a bunch of them.

True. After all, this is the first note from any so-called insiders we've heard the entire offseason. It's not like they've yelled "Things are about to go down" after literally every other thing that happened the entire offseason and been wrong every time.

I think in totality it's been a decent offseason. I just don't think you can judge Getz until he's got a couple years under his belt. It's hard for me to care too much about any and all the moves until we see if he's improved the Sox' overall talent by 2026.

Some of this is still a little bit weird. The obsession with the Royals is a little bit weird. Seemingly over-buying on veterans, I have no idea where they think they have roster spots for all these guys, and I'm the one who complained the most about lack of depth the last 3 years. Some of the money they spent on these veterans is a little excessive for a team trying to massively cut payroll (Maldonado is tops on that list). Otherwise, despite the weirdness this would mostly be fine - if we weren't also making moves like the trades with the D-Backs and Cubs, where we gave away lower-level minor league pieces for back of the roster pieces to help improve the team now.

To fill out a roster with cheap guys you can easily cut while you wait for the younger guys to come up and take their place. Also hope some of them give you a little something so you can trade them at the deadline.

It s because it's all BS. All of their projections are like Rick Hahn's team projections where nobody ever gets hurt and 26 players always put up career years.

I mean it's pretty obvious the plan is to field a team while spending around the least money possible. Is what it is. Just wait until July when we've got 5 guys injured, you'll really see some stiffs.

Weak ass Brad Keller. This is like Justin Morneau on the Sox except Morneau had an infinitely better career.

The people saying "not one dime" of public funding for what should be a good project are as unreasonable as the ones saying "we need $1 billion in public funding for a $1 billion stadium or the team will move to Nashville." The difference? The former of those are random folks on a message board. The latter of those is...Jerry Reinsdorf.

Gavin the Oaf lives on. Make it make sense.

I think their editor is drunk.

RIP Oscar.

I really admire this 60 win team's ability to field spring line ups almost completely devoid of players under the age of 25. Explains heir new slogan: "The Kids Can Sit."

And he's been consistently inconsistent. He would come here and be terrible.

Local art museums out here catching strays.

It is a tough one.

If Blake Snell can’t get a contract worth $200 million when he has 2 Cy Young awards on his record, what is Dylan Cease worth? Right now I don’t have a clue. He certainly wouldn’t be a guy I would want to commit to for 8 years based on his current performance.

Jerry’s passing replaced by a non Reinsdorf ownership group is the one scenario this may occur. Jerry likely has lined up a buyer who will run the team in a similar fashion, hopefully at least without the bad statements or keeping on La Russa, Getz, Boyer et al around beyond a transition phase. I still have hope Sox fans will get a new ownership group who will at least try to regularly compete in this weak ass division, and build a smart 21st century competitive franchise. Not expecting a Cohen or Guggenheim Group, just hoping to avoid another Fisher, Nutting, Dolan, Reinsdorf etc. regime.

A few years ago I wrote JR a letter requesting to be interviewed for the GM job. I thought Hahn was going to get fired. He was fired years later. JR didn't respond to me. Matter of fact he hasn't responded to any of my other letter after that. Its really a shame I'm not the GM. Teams are not willing to give a ton of players for Cease. Looks like he's staying with the White Sox. If I was the GM I would try to sign Cease to a long term contract. He's only 28 years old. If this team is ever going to sign a pitcher to a long term contract Cease should be the one.

Not a very well thought out post, huh? I bet you are feeling it right now… you literally had no clue how bad you were trolling yourself as you hit that post button. Man, I bet it burns…

Apparently they don't know how these things get done. They are supposed to roll over and give the dufuses with money whatever they want.