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As someone who experienced fairly chronic back issues in my early 20s I can say with absolute confidence a stretching and core workout routine completely changed my life. I'm about to turn 40 and it's been over 12 years since I last experienced severe back spasms and I continue to do a 3-4x per week stretching/core workout routine.

Why not ? It doesn't happen very often and it may have been their best game of the Spring. Sox had 11 hits and hit for the cycle Korey Lee provided the double and triple while Vargas had the HR. With the HR and a single Vargas looking cromulent hitting .294 with .839 OPS. Lee continued his good spring. Robert had a single and walk and Sosa also had hit. 3-7 with RISP. Shane Smith pitched 3 innings 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 walks, 5 K. Grant Taylor bookended a nice performance all around by Sox pitchers by pitching 2 innings getting all 6 outs via the K , 1 walk ,0 hits . All together Sox pitchers struck out 16 Dodgers. Shane Smith K'd Ohtani twice. Sox committed 0 errors

Vargdong

I've been telling everyone I know about Grant Taylor for a year now. Maybe I'll get one right this time. :0 )

South Side……staaaaaand up!

By the end of the season, the rotation could be fierce.

Meidroth will turn 24 in late July but I would still play the hold him down in AAA for a month or two game to get another full year of control out of him.

Taylor , Schultz and Smith all might arrive at the same time and all be in the rotation in 2026. Would be cool to get some surprisingly good pitching this year among the starting pitching and try to trade for some bats in the offseason. Taylor struck out that last hitter to end the game 3 times. All 6 outs by K .

The stats like Meidroth more than the scouts. I am always skeptical of MiLB players who derive the majority of their value from walks. Long term, I think the Sox have better options at 2b. I am Antonacci curious. He could either rocket up their list or prove to be just a guy. Either way, I think we find out fast.

Whomever said Meidroth isn't there yet I agree. I very much wanted him at 2nd opening the season. His eye is great but his hard contact isn't there. I'd very much like our opening day catching tandem to be Teel/Lee. When we talk about vets taking young at bats to me that is Thaiss. Id like to see more Quero too. If Quero/Teel don't break with the club I feel they'll be there by June at the latest.

Michael Taylor looks awful....which is too bad I've always liked him.

Shane Smith being a viable mid rotation starter would be a big win.

Lets hope that something happens soon. Most White Sox fans aren't too optimistic about things turning around under the present ownership. I couldn't help but notice on Ticketmaster that the White Sox home opener has thousands of unsold tickets. New ownership would provide some hope for the future.

I don’t know. Rojas isn’t really a ss. I would rather have a plus defender at 3b and let someone else ply ss.

Just talked to a dude who is friends with Justin Ishbia. Was told that Ishbia was negotiating with Jerry for the past year to do a deal and that “it’s happening” now after Jerry reached out to him with some sort of proposal. Sounds like it will happening in the not too distant future. Nothing we don’t know other than than the timing.

He’ll go on 60 day when they need a spot

This is why @southsider2k5 and others always say you need basically 2 or 3 times the prospects that you think you need. Many will need surgery and many will bust. Brutal. That Santos trade went from looking good a year ago to pretty bad.

Illinois probably shouldn't try to be more like Texas. Arlington somehow managed to f*** up their ballpark complex, at least in terms of generating revenue for the municipality/state. They clearly don't need a new stadium and everybody knows it. It certainly isn't an "issue". It's only an "issue" because JR mentioned he wants us to give him a billion dollars. I wouldn't describe that as an issue, I'd also like it if you guys gave me a billion dollars, I'm not sure that I have issues.

Good thing we listened to the fans tweeting immediately after his first outing that they were done with him. Ready to send him back

For sure but the game thread was a nice respite from the usual everything sucks stuff . We can dream on a new owner and great pitchers and some actual ML hitters .

Key year for Taylor.It'll be his shot to show he can pitch at least 5 innings and pile up some innings and stay healthy. Something usually goes wrong but they could have a great 1-2-3 punch at the top of the rotation in a couple of years.

Things can go sideways real fast, but this was a fun one to dream on. Vargas and Sosa becoming regular contributors would be a huge step for the whole team.

It would be an absolute crime to not let him be our 5th starter right now. He looked fantastic today, the stuff is legit. I hate use spring training as the basis for evaluating a player, but it's beyond me how the Brewers let him unprotected. It's front end stuff or legit closer potential. I think he's now our 4th best pitching prospect.

Probably not.Every organization has this happen.

My dropping MLB.TV has probably gotten through to JR that the time is now.

Love to see the 2-fer by Vargs, and the tight outings by Smith and Taylor.

Ha, what an ending. 6 straight Ks for Taylor to secure the save, but ABS challenges made him work for the last one. Called strike 3 -> overturned, missed by 0.1" Called strike 3 -> overturned, missed by 0.3" Swinging strike 3 to finally end it Great eye (and/or lucky guesses with little to lose) by the batter, and solid stuff from Taylor to not by fazed by it.

Taylor probably just put himself on a path to being a top 20 prospect if he stays healthy

Grant Taylor looks and acts like he's ready now.

I love asking my gold obsessed friends who believe the end is near. When the currency collapses how they will buy groceries with gold? Will Jewel have a scale to weigh it?

Love Nancy playing the Jeopardy theme and Mr. Roboto during challenges

I wonder when we just switch Nastrini to the pen.

Rojas third Baldwin SS Sosa 2B Meidroth has to show more with the bat.

That is pretty much the idea behind investing. For funzies, gold closed at 493.75 that day. Today it is 2911. That is 5.9X

Jeff Cohen has a column of random observations. FutureSox is certainly worth the couple of dollars a month through Patreon. These guys do great work. White Sox 6th Ranked Farm System Fuels Spring Optimism

Interesting to see Arxy Hernandez in that B game. The competition for infield spots in A ball is gonna be intense. I could see any outcome between starting every day in W-S to sporadic play in Kanny for Arxy. Hope for a jump in impact for him.

I think Berroa is more valuable with an extra option than an extra year of service time. I’d put him on the major league DL.

I think it’s fair to say they just don’t consider Colas

The Sox Way is this: Drury has a great spring, makes the team, we cut someone who's out of options and younger.. then Drury proceeds to have a terrible May, June, July and is DFAd

In a way, I would rather have these guys have this surgery now before they are any good then when we are counting on them. Hopefully, they come back better than before, like the $6 million man.

Yep...the golden age for owners...not so much for fans.

You don't have to imagine. Check the purchase price and the current valuation. They bought the team for $19 million. Now it's close to $2 billion.

Poor Oakland fans. If only their team was forced to spend money earlier. Good for Butler, though. Dude can ball.

If you're going to keep him down, I would keep him down long enough to where it seems like he couldn't win RoY though. Because then he gets the full year anyway.

Anyone else feel like Teel may get a chance on the OD roster with a strong spring? It also allows both catching prospects to work every day at either MLB or AAA. I forgot which thread it was posted in but that write-up sounded really good on him to where I'm in on him winning RoY lol I'm in on him at +4000 odds

Man Lee really finished last season poorly. Looking at this ZIPS is depressing. Maybe he can make a leap but he's got a long way to go after looking fairly promising early last season.

A couple things before hand. I see Gallo being this year's Mousotakas, cut before the season starts. Last year Cease got traded before ST was over because he was really great in ST. I don't see that with Robert. He'll be completely unmotivated like he was as the trade deadline approached last year; this nick or injury and chasing balls low and away. He'll be starting in CF for the Sox, and we hope he shows something so we can trade him at the deadline. So, here's my lineup, (not so much bench pieces). 1. Vaughn at 1st 2. Drury at 2B. He will be this year's DeJoung. The Sox will hope he has 10 or 12 home runs by the deadline and they can flip him. Then it's Sosa 3. At SS will be Rojas to start the season. All this talk from Merkin and the Sox PR people that Colson has a great chance to leave ST as the starting SS is total BS, and the fact that they're all saying it, makes me really think it is BS. They want that extra year of control. When the time is over, then he'll come up. 4. Vargas at 3rd. Rojas will be the back up with Vargas doing some 1st and DH. 5. in LF, a platoon of Fletcher and Stater. 6. In CF, Robert until the deadline and Getz will be forced to give him away because his stats will be less bad than last year, but still not very good for him. Then Taylor. 7. LF - Benintendi 8. At catcher: first Lee and Thaiss. The two minor league guys will be up after the all-star game. Starting pitching -- I am really concerned with this. I keep hearing on various podcasts that it seems likely at Perez will be our opening day pitcher. If this is true, the rotation is in horrible shape, horrible. What is Perez? The 3rd, 4th, or 5th starter on a team with a real rotation? If we can't get, at least, two starters clearly better than Perez, our rotation will be terrible. I don't know; maybe the Sox will have him as their opening day starter to give him some false credit so we can flip him later. This is who I see as the Sox best starting pitchers in order: a. Cannon b. Martin c. Perez d. Wilson e. Burke But if anyone knows me on this board, I am a huge Thorpe fan. If he is not injured, (that is a big if) I see him as the ace of the staff when he comes up, maybe after a 3 or 4 weeks. I don't know about the bullpen. Let me use the same logic for Anderson as I did for Perez. If Anderson is our closer more than a few weeks into the season, the bullpen must be and will be absolutely terrible. So that's my opinion.

Not very many people have seriously projected Iriarte into the rotation...so I guess that's the hottest take. Karinchak's stuff has degraded greatly from 4-5 years ago. CLE definitely knows their bullpens.