WestEddy

Uh-oh. Jimmy Lambert getting "2nd opinion".

3 innings? If they're hitless after 3, let him go for the 9-inning no hitter, and pop his value through the roof.

I think the fact that Bob Nightengale is tweeting about the Yankees engaging Getz on Cease indicates that nothing is close.

I really hated the "empower our players to succeed" buzz-phrases. Corporate speak sucks @ss.

Maybe there's a lot of resentment over owners who break the bank to sign a FA. The other 29 think "choke on that one, dude", when it's time to move them to get competitive.

There is no existence. Everything is just data.

DeJong with De Dong!!

Real good teams like the Rockies are going to punish you for mistakes.

I'm wondering if Sosa is starting regularly in the B games. And if they're giving him OF reps out of the spotlight.

Thanks. I knew what optioned meant, but was wondering the difference between minor league camp, and being assigned a level at this point. I would think they'd start Monty at AA, let him get his sea legs back, then move him to AAA when appropriate, then to the majors when Ozzie and Frank turn on DeJong. The hesitation makes me think they're still having the conversation. They have no 1B prospects, so Elko is it for now.

Those 3 walks to start the 4th, yesterday, probably didn't help his case, any. Does a "minor league camp" assignment mean they still need to evaluate which level they're going to assign a player? I wonder if that means they could be contemplating Elko and Monty to AAA. But they're going to make Ramos play his way out of AA.

Has he said that? Stepping back and looking at the management situation since about 2012, you had KW and Hahn pulling in different directions. Players have complained about the toxic atmosphere going back to the late 90's, what with clubhouse spies and all. We all know this emanates from JR. It's pointlessly circular to keep coming back to JR joking with another owner about finishing in 2nd place, or KW chiding the fans for not showing up. The White Sox wormed their way down to an untenable situation. Players didn't want to play here. I'd surmise that Benintendi was probably worth a 3-year deal, and it took a 5-year commitment to sign a mediocre player coming off of injury. We had one other team to beat out for Erick Fedde, and had to add a 2nd year to beat out the Mets. To get a player like Cody Bellinger to hold his nose and come to the South Side, you're probably talking a massive overpay on a short deal. Do you think this team was one 4-win player away from competing? How many season tickets do you think a Bellinger signing sells? Does Bellinger change the clubhouse atmosphere? Does that signing suddenly make you like JR?

I love the dichotomy of "Free Agents will never sign here" and "JR could have signed [player X], but didn't". What makes anybody think that Cody Bellinger would have signed with the White Sox? AJ Pollock left $6m on the table to NOT play here. The Sox would have to pay a premium to attract a player like Bellinger that would make it an insane overpay. Like, Kris Bryant insane.

Why? does he choke other women until they pass out, then beat them while they're unconscious, then admit to it on a monitored phone line? The guy is a scumbag. I hope rats eat his pitching arm.

The White Sox have a problem. Players probably don't want to sign here while we still have the reputation as a sh*t clubhouse. So, the fastest plan for Getz was to shore up the defense, and clean up the clubhouse a bit. Everybody can throw out 2-5 names of guys who would have been "better" than what they did at catcher, 2B, SS and RF, but who says any of those names actually sign their name on a contract? You might be paying a rich premium just to get replacement level schlubs to sign. Getz grabbed up the guys he wanted.

I think Nastrini, Soroka and Crochet would be a nice core of a rotation for the next year or so. Is Davis Martin a possible rotation dude, or a swing man? He had a couple of nice outings in 2022.

The fielder's choice rule states that if a fielder fields a fair ball, and tries to get the runner out instead of the batter, the batter being safe at first base is a fielder's choice. There's no assumption that the fielder would have thrown out the batter, just that the fielder chose to not make a play on the batter. The batter winding up on 1st base isn't scored as a hit.

I guess it's a play that should have been an out, but the runner made the difference. It's not an error, and not a hit.

Nicky Four-Hundred.

8 baserunners over 3 innings. Zero runs.

3 free baserunners, no runs. Gotta make them pay for their mistakes.