The Ginger Kid

QUOTE (shysocks @ Mar 31, 2015 -> 01:24 PM) A few nice soft grounders forced by Rodon in the first. Soto had Puig thrown out but he lifted his left arm and dodged the tag. Alexei should be aware of that trick, he pulls it all the time. Lexi's one consistently bad tendency is bad positioning on the throw to 2nd. Used to drive Ozzie nuts.

Rodon is just going to DOMINATE at AAA

this feels like the longest ST ever. I was there for 4 days and it seemed everyone was just ready for the season to start already.

Man, I've found my cynical groove long before the season even started.

Gordon popped up to 2nd? That never happens.

Tyler Flowers, ladies and gentlemen.

Oooo...Hawks says Gordon's hitting the ball hard. I'm psyched!

Great summary, thanks. Is there any chance Beckham doesn't make the team? I personally prefer Sanchez (although I know a lot of people would prefer to see him get regular playing time).

i see Tyler Flowers decided to arrive at spring training

Watched his bullpen session on Friday and he was really throwing well, didn't seem to have any limp at all. The only thing I saw was he shook his foot out after one pitch. Was cussing a lot when missing spots but man that FB had some real life on it.

Inordinate amount of KC fans at the game today. Lots of chirping. Was glad they stuck around to get a taste of Hawkins. Penny looked good. Gillaspie needs to stop hanging his head every time he makes an out.

QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 18, 2015 -> 04:16 PM) 9-4 win Off day tomorrow. Sox-Cubs on Friday, CSN and MLBN on Friday and Saturday. And I will be there!

Coop's teaching him a cutter. Could get interesting. Loiza interesting? Don't know.

QUOTE (fathom @ Mar 16, 2015 -> 01:41 PM) Just give Johnson the starting 2nd base spot, he's earned it But Beckham's having a great spring!

Surkamp gives up the first dinger of the spring

wow. nice catch

Courtney Hawkins at least saw 4 pitches against Sergio Santos

Melky K's. What a bust of a signing.

game is live on Sports Net LA, if you get it

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Feb 26, 2015 -> 08:53 AM) Micah Micah Micah!!! +1 +1 +1

DVS has some nice youtube vids Sox ST videos

If you've ever dipped snuff it's TOUGH to quit. Horribly addicting. I read that a pinch of snuff has roughly the same amount of nicotine as 1 pack of smokes. Hell, Gwynn couldn't quit even AFTER he got diagnosed with oral cancer.

I like 154. It works better with the added wild card to the post season. But how funny that he wants to speed up the game AND add more offense, which are opposites. The more offense you add by taking away the low strike, the longer the innings, the more frequent the pitching changes, the higher the pitch counts, etc. And no matter how effective the clock would be on pitchers and hitters, it won’t offset the added time for longer offensive innings.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 12:05 PM) Until he can learn to take a better route to a ball, his defense is going to be bad. He can throw which helps, but he could cut his weight to 150 and become the fastest player in the league, if the routes don't improve, everyone will still cringe when a ball is hit his way. Realistically, IMO, I think if he became average defensively, I think the White Sox would take it. There's probably some sort of metric to disprove what I say, but I think this criticism of his defense and the routes he takes is exaggerated. Seems like if a guy makes a bad read or two then suddenly he takes terrible routes to the ball, period. I watched every game he played last season until he got hurt and I don't think he was awful.

I wonder if Alexei could still be available to a team like the Mets, who have a real need for SS. With Syndergaard in the wings, they could move a starter. But it would probably be Gee who's a 3 at best, imo.