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  1. They're going to push him to like 80 pitches unless he's getting shelled.
  2. No, they have only 1 scheduled Offday before April 11. They will need their 5th starter soon unless there’s a rainout. They wrote that they would do something stupid like pitch Crochet on normal rest in game 5 and call up the 5th starter for game 6, rather than giving Crochet extra rest (obviously with his history as a reliable innings eater he doesn’t need an extra Offday betweeen any of his first 3 starts).
  3. Y'all be writing that without realizing that this is the official policy of the White Sox. Both in game and front office.
  4. How about “this is super weird as presented and for it to go this way a whole lot of safeguards have to break down in a very peculiar way.” Between the bookie giving a $4.5 million credit line to a guy who probably wouldn’t make that much in 10 years and these transfers not setting off alarms with Ohtani or anyone he employs, it seems worth some real skepticism to me that this is the whole story. Is that fair?
  5. I really wish I could convince myself that the Royals will take a leap this year as I believe they spent as much or more in FA as any other AL team this offseason (in terms of 2024 spending).
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    If they’re not certain how the schedule is going to go, can they actually have him pitching normal games at Charlotte?
  7. 1. Yes, Martin Maldonado can be a downgrade from the catchers spot last year, because he was worse than the White Sox’s catchers last year. Imagine Grandal except he also doesn’t walk and you have to constantly hear what a great job he’s doing, that’s what Maldonado was last year. Hopefully Lee can do something with this opportunity. 2. Nicky Lopez had an OPS last year 30 pints lower than Elvis Andrus last year .630 is not “way less bad” than .660. 3. Note how much of your concept Is “maybe they will all break out this year”. That was supposed to be a part of their competitive team last year! We heard that all the time. Maybe it happens this time, but with this coaching staff and the GM having no control over rushing people upwards I will believe it when I see it. 4. You’re right, that bullpen performance last year was unusually bad for the resources put into it. However. Same coach, same pitching coach, less talent. Will count it as improved when it is improved. 5. The Sox have some downside risks too. Luis Robert was their only real contributor last year, and he counts as injury prone and likely difficult to coach. Room for improvement if healthy the whole year, but where are they without him or if he slows down a tiny bit? 6. The White Sox had fewer WAR and a worse run differential than the Royals. They only wound up in 4th place because they were a little lucky and the Royals were unlucky. That could repeat this year, they get lucky and it carries them to 65 wins, or a team with better talent could also drop into the 50s, even if you believe they have better talent. I’ve seen way too many people give credit to a GM who was making poor moves that made people feel good only to proclaim no one could have seen issues coming when they happened. So personally, I still think they’re crap and the jury is out on whether they have learned any lessons from how they got into this mess. That last part is all I’m interested in this season, and the rushing guys upwards who haven’t earned it does not give me any confidence.
  8. I think they probably had plenty of interested parties, but Grifol told them what a great job they were doing and played to their already-existing prejudices about how baseball should be run.
  9. I understand Joe Espada wanting no part of this, but I can't believe no one else was willing to go for one of only 30 MLB manager jobs. Maybe no one else wanted it at the salary Reinsdorf was willing to pay, but that's different. Weren't there a ****ton of reports about Bruce Bochy being interested?
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    If they were talking about him being ready why were his minor league numbers not better? Do those coaches just not know what they're doing?
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    Especially now with the low but nonzero chance at extra draft picks, combined with how the whole org looks, I'm not going to get bent out of shape about service time. I am getting more bent out of shape about the fact that he really doesn't seem to have earned it. ERA over 4 at AA all year last year, including once traded, 4 starts at AAA, ERA over 4. This feels like a guy being rushed to the big leagues by default, because there's an open spot, not because he's actually been good enough to earn it.
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    Assuming you pretend yesterday didn’t happen.
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