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I'd like to pair him with a decent project for a trade with Arizona for Mena.

This, Dominic Fletcher, and possibly not starting Crochet in Charlotte to stretch out just scream "we're gonna rush this rebuild."

IIRC in Eloy's last game, he fouled a ball at the plate that sounded like it bounced up and caught him in the junk. He finished the AB after walking it off for a while, but maybe he's got some swelling in a sensitive spot. I imagine they don't see a lot of harm done in him missing a handful of spring ABs with an extra day or two off. He's obviously got his timing at the plate and it's not like he needs field reps to DH. But they also might not want to come out and say his balls are bruised or whatever, lol. He's playing tomorrow.

I also don't think he's far off from the majors but may as well keep that year of service.

One of the bonuses of being a dogshit team is you can manipulate service time with relative impunity. May as well use it. Jerry might die tomorrow and it will actually matter, who knows.

This should be a wake up call for the Bears who wanted to keep Fields over drafting Williams and yet it definitely won’t be.

I do wish Getz had grabbed up Smith-Njigba when on waivers. The league seems to view him as a AAAA player. DeLoach hasn't been lighting the league on fire, either. Perhaps breaking camp with the Sox is so stressful to a rookie that most of them just choke. Where have you gone John Cangelosi, our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you.

There is almost no version of a merit based promotion where I’d say that a guy who has barely pitched in AA should come north based on a few innings against inconsistent lineups in the spring. Send him to BHam and if he’s dominant for a month move him to Charlotte. If he’s dominant there for two months, great let’s see him at the all star break. Thats merit based promotions.

Give it time.

Here's that Burke catch: Touki threw a 10 pitch 1-2-3 inning. It was late in the game so not really against the best talent, but the efficiency is progress I guess.

There is basically no circumstance that made sense to keep him, and clearly the Bears agreed with that line of thinking as they were only able to obtain a 6th for him. The Bears have never developed a QB, as we all know. They are to blame for that, but it’s also incredibly difficult to do, as many other teams around the league also know. They are investing the largest draft capital possible in Caleb, they better do everything in their power and give him every possible chance to develop and succeed. Having Fields on this roster hinders that in multiple ways, and clearly they decided he wasn’t going to be part of their long term plans. Once they made that determination, getting him off the roster was the only choice they had, and I believe other GM’s knew that, which is why they accepted the best offer on the table, which was a 6th.

I’m pretty excited to watch them. I assume they’ll just move to crying how it’s a mistake instead of admitting how embarrassingly incapable they were of admitting reality.

The White Sox are the only team in baseball that use spring to fight for every roster spot. Spring is completely meaningless

Both the Mariners and Giants are playing split squads too so it's a mixed bag, but I would say Mariners have more of their main guys vs. the Sox. Giants have Chapman, Soler, Conforto, etc. in their other game. I think Shewmake is still in the running for bench IF. His baserunning especially is a plus for him, stole his 6th today.

Hitting 100 on the stadium gun apparently.

I have to imagine Chris Getz specifically must be petrified of telling Jerry how promotions are often based on merit.

He should but Getz would lose face....so he'll start as the platoon RF on the big club.

I wouldn’t trust Pedro if he was asked to name the color of dirt.

So is Clevengers problem his accusations against him or that he still wants too much money? Or a combo? Chapman has had no problem getting jobs abd he fireda gun at a woman or at least tried to scare her. And now he's on TMZ fondling his mother's breasts.

British A-Levels and IB...pretty standardized cuuriculum that looks at these issues more objectively/historically without attempting to suggest a best or ideal model. But Keynesian is the one that gets the most attention...as well as supply side 1980's Reagan/Bush/Thatcher/Stockman voodoo economics style.

Geeze I hope you aren't married ?

What is your job? The most common thing teachers hear is that just about anyone can do that job...vacations and benefits are too generous, but very few people have the patience required. Which is only about 1/4th of the challenge. I teach Economics, not English...fwiw. And it doesn't matter anyway...I will retire next year at age 54 and enjoy the rest of my life to the best of my ability.

I don’t like the internet for many reasons.

And if you consent to some rough sex you consent to everything including being choked until you pass out then continuing to have sex while unconscious? Let me help you with that. 1:10 in will get to the important part. I actually give a s%*# about infidelity and would never cheat on my spouse. But you be you.

C

Why would you say such a cruel thing? You are clearly not on my side.

Big day for my QB1 Bagent

You haven't heard the Nationwide jingle... so far...

https://southsideweekly.com/stadium-shenanigans-chicago-white-sox-reinsdorf-billions-public-dollars-new-stadium/ The numbers below don't include significant interest payments paid on behalf of bonds.

From what I heard, I didn't hear the Nationwide jingle so I'm ?

No, no such curse, the Bears just suck at evaluating QBs (Mahomes, Stroud) and even worse at developing them. That said, I hope Williams is the clear franchise QB we've all been waiting for but I have my doubts about him and I truly hope I'm wrong. JF is a good guy, I hope he gets the coaching and development he clearly never got in Chicago and wish him a nice NFL career. If the Bears f this one up with CW, I will officially turn in my Bears fan card and just resign myself to the fact that we will never have a top QB lol

Who says you can't go home again. https://www.si.com/mlb/orioles/news/baltimore-orioles-acquire-outfielder-from-chicago-white-sox

Thanks for the consistent updates here and the minor league forum. Hopefully shewmake can carve out a nice defensive bench career. Seems like a nice kid.

In a league where Mitch Trubisky gets multiple chances, I can’t imagine a team that wouldn’t mind having Justin Fields at least as their back up QB.

If poles price was a starter price, nobody viewed him as a starter. This is a backup price that got worse as backups with longer contracts were acquired.

I don’t think that’s necessarily true. They didn’t want to pay Poles price. He didn’t adjust until he ran out of options.

And Bears fans. Clueless. A QB’s most important ability is to be able to throw the ball accurately, not run.

https://x.com/tompelissero/status/1769133559426510853?s=46&t=9lkBcVJmwvxFpyVi5DNtCg This guy just had zero support from the rest of the league. That said I’d be shocked if the Steelers locker room doesn’t side with fields and push a change.

I would have to see more before saying I’d like to see him converted to a full time hire, but definitely like the sound of Manager Montoyo for Memorial Day Weekend. Would have liked it last year around that time as well,.

Probably for the best. He can now use his one attribute. Velocity. Rather than throwing low to mid 90’s as a starter.

They’ll finish in 4th or 5th place.

I'd drop any of my objections if (when?) JR comes out and says, "We are contributing _____ million dollars towards this project." We'll see if that ever happens.

The kid can pitch, and he beat all his cases. f*** it. Bring him on.

I'm of two minds here: 1. I can't wait to be rid of him and 2. He might actually turn into a great reliever. I look at Liam Hendriks as an example and how god awful he was as a starter between MIN, KC, and TOR with an ERA+ of like 70 and a FIP close to 6 for four years. Toronto decides to bring him back and turn him into a reliever, focus his energy on just max effort for a short run. Like a bulldog with horse blinders on. Kopech is worth nothing to anyone as a starter anymore - he is what he is at this point. But I can squint and see the talent, MAYBE we can get that bulldog 9th inning out of him and he can turn his career around.

If Kopech works out of the pen and is throwing 98+ and mixing in his breaking pitch - he will dominate and teams will pay up for that. How much, I don't know, but its worth a lot more than whatever failed attempt at making him a starter. By the time he finally could start he'd be leaving the Sox for nothing and there is no way he's going to just break-out this season to point you could get real value for him with a year of control (cause there is too much not good with him starting). As a reliever though - I think if he was bringing it and it was dominating - you could get his value up real quick. If he it doesn't work - well than you weren't getting anything for him anyway.

Exactly

C. I think it needed one more solid secondary piece if Thorpe was headliner. Swap Snelling for Thorpe or add one more guy in the Zavala range and I’d be happy.

This is fair. C or C-. I'm not impressed by Getz work and I have no clue why Harold is constantly praising him.

C. it's not a D because I think Zavala is better than his ranking.