Chicago White Sox

While the system definitely deserves its 30th place ranking, it could move up substantially in a hurry. Honestly, by mid season I’d expect Colas to be considered a top 100 guy. And by season’s end, I’d expect Montgomery & Ramos to be there as well. Going from zero top 100 prospects to three would be pretty sweet given our lower draft positions and lack of additional picks in recent years. And I wouldn’t be shocked if a fourth guy snuck in there between Vera, Burke, Popeye, or Kath.

So sounds like Tony considered skipping the 5th starter’s spot, but wants to give the guys an extra day of rest. As such, it seems like it has to be one of Banks, McClure, or Bilous as all three pitched today and should be good to go on Thursday. Banks: 2 IP, 0 R, 4 K, 2 BB, 0 H McClure: 5 IP, 4 R, 0 ER, 3 K, 1 BB, 7 H, 2 HR Bilous: 4 IP, 2 R, 1 ER, 3 K, 3 BB, 2 H Banks definitely seems like the favorite, although he’ll greatly limited innings wise. Really seems like we should replace Mendick with an arm who can multiple innings as the next couple days could get real ugly.

?…he literally says “I wonder what the Reds were asking for Gray”.

Colson with 2 H, 2 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI, 2 K, 2 BB, & 2 LOB

Hey Oakland, go fuck yourselves…thanks!

These Garfein interviews are so weird on when watching on MLBTV

JFC

Bryan Ramos is going to be a top 100 prospect by the end of the season.

Thanks for making me eat crow Danny!

Believe so

Amazing! Give him a full year at Charlotte and see what happens. He’s worth rostering for another six months.

Don’t stop now boys!

Come on Vaughn, time to knock Skubal out of the game!

It’s amazing how good our core lineup is against LHP. Like it’s not even fair to opposing pitchers.

The issue wasn’t quantity is the point, but that we were lacking another quality starter to push Dallas to the 6th spot.

No not really

Giolito, Lynn, Cease, Kopech, Keuchel, Velesquez, & Lopez is seven starters.

Tony seems to be going with one despite the off day tomorrow

McClure pitching today does setup him up for next Thursday.

So obviously we know four of our starters in the near term while Giolito is out (Cease, Kopech, Velesquez, & Keuchel), but who is going to be the 5th guy! Given it will take a few weeks for Cueto to be ready, I think we all assumed Lopez would get the job. However, it sounds like he’ll be in a bullpen role for the rest of the month and that they have someone else in mind for the 5th spot. Any idea who that might be? As crazy as it seems, Banks seems like the most likely guy.

Nervous guys? Yeah, how dare anyone think trying to win games against a divisional opponent while our team is in a weakened state is more important than letting everyone “officially play” in the opening series.

There obviously could be more there, but I really doubt this about anything more than just giving every guy a start the first series.

I don’t think any positional player needs two out of four days off to start the season because of a short spring training. These guys aren’t pitchers where a buildup is necessary and they should be completely fresh right now.

Mendick shouldn’t even be on the roster now that Tim is back and can get ready in AAA.

JFC…I hate these “let’s give everyone a start in the first series” type lineups. Grandal has a 152 wRC+ against LHP the past three seasons whereas McGuire has been terrible against lefties (15 wRC+) and pretty solid against righties (102 wRC+). Maybe just wait until next series to get him a start to better optimize the lineup each game? And then you have Burger on the bench despite destroying LHP in AAA last year (1.035 OPS). Realistically he should be at 3B every time we face a southpaw, but if you feel compelled to play Harrison today why not do so at 2B? Mendick has reverse spits (55 wRC+ vs LHP in his short career) and really has no business getting playing time with Tim now back and Leury actually being slightly above league average against LHP. I know this will trigger some people here, but I truly believe Tony doesn’t understand how platooning / splits work and it’s extremely frustrating as he’s leaving a lot of value on the table.