Balta1701

Assuming you pretend yesterday didn’t happen.

Ah Ty. Colson hasn’t been healthy yet either I guess.

At some point it would be nice to have a team where paying for this type of player made sense, but just in general the comment was that they’d rather extend Robert than Cease. Right now Cease has been healthy since he was called up while Robert has had one major surgery and at least one minor injury costing him several weeks over the last 3 seasons. If I had to gamble on who would be more likely to contribute at age 33, for now wouldn’t Cease be the obvious answer?

With his injury history?

Let’s just remember that Cease’s agent is Scott Boras, so an extension isn’t going to involve any massive discount.

No, that’s why I said 1/2 of a season, referring to 1/2 of a season.

Great. He has 27 games at AA with an ERA over 4, 4 games at AAA last year also with an ERA over 4. Send him to AAA and call him up when he starts impressing. Thanks for agreeing, entire career makes it obvious.

How about that 12 innings in spring training isn’t a good way to make a decision about whether or not a guy is ready for a callup?

Cease’s money for 1/2 of the season is basically one Martin Maldonado.

Whats ironic is that this is actually a pretty good description of how Reinsdorf viewed the draft for years and how he still treats the international signing market.

I complained enough about selling off Cease at a discount already, I will not complain about them avoiding paying Pillar and Moustakas $5 million or Clevinger anything. Those would be like Maldonado, bad signings and wasted money to make us feel Royal, it would do nothing to help the Sox in either the short or long term.

As CinC of the “the Sox can’t develop anyone because their front office are idiots” club, I’d like to note that “this guy failed to develop because he didn’t get enough at bats in spring training” isnt a thing. I was worried that having so many guys in camp would mean dumb moves like Pillar and Moustakas staying with the team would happen by default because of veteranyness.. Clearly this didn’t happen, so another minor correct decision here for Getz.

Yes, it has 350 innings and 4.5 of those War from Thorpe, Crochet, and Soroka.

Like you?

Brett Phillips is both able to back up CF and a former Royal, so him making the roster does make sense.

Unless he was playing for someone else the last 3 weeks I can’t imagine he’s ready for that, and I don’t see anyone having cut him. April 10 maybe?

Grossman hasn't been in camp so I'd guess that at the very least he stays in extended ST and gives the kid a chance in the OF for a couple big league games until they actually consider whether he can take the 4th of job.

Not a great look? Violating state law, potentially violating some federal laws (wire fraud, we'll see about obstruction) are things you probably should care about since if Ohtani did anything crossing certain lines himself that could actually cost him part of his playing career while in prison. If he didn't do any of that, and its the silly sounding story that his interpreter presented, then fine, but I'm happy to let the good people at the IRS and the State of California do their work before I buy that.

Well this makes a fair amount more sense then.

I'm pretty sure that the fact the IRS is in on this already is both the reason why this won't fully go away any time soon and why some semblance of the truth is going to come out, because the government has lots of ways to work on this. Money transfers, failure to pay taxes on $4 millions of earnings would leave a long paper trail. https://abc7.com/irs-investigating-shohei-ohtanis-interpreter-ippei-mizuhara-and-alleged-bookmaker-heres-what-we-know/14556859/ Also worth noting - Sports Gambling is still illegal in California, so the Los Angeles player or interpreter doing this, whoever it was, was also violating state law. As Tex is in a state where Marijuana is currently illegal and other states have legalized it, I'd assume that situation is comparable.

Part of the problem with many of these guys is that if you don't call them up early in the year, they're likely to ask for and be granted their release. The White Sox are such a mess that right now Grossman has a decent shot at a starting OF spot, but you can't call up all of the guys they've signed, there's not enough space for them. Where are they actually playing these guys, how do you decide in the next 7 days if Robbie Grossman is ready to go?

I am starting to think someone needs to take Chris Getz aside and introduce him to the concept of counting to 40.

Mark Kotsay?

With him already throwing 4 innings today does anyone still want to say that they have confidence he will only be used as an opener?

He was excellent in a limited stint in 06, but when Robert is fully healthy Robert has a step or two on him. Robert has a "Spectacular play" level that Anderson did not have.