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Welcome to the bigs, Shane Smith

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I wonder what the thought process was behind throwing Davis Martin in the B game, and Shane Smith against the Dodgers. LF CF RF DH P 22-Feb Colas Robert Tauchman Dalbec Shuster 23-Feb Benintendi Taylor Slater Baldwin Gilbert 24-Feb Fletcher Robert Tauchman Drury S. Smith 25-Feb Benintendi Taylor Slater Lee Martin 26-Feb Julks Robert Tauchman Gallo Burke 27-Feb Taylor Robert Slater Benintendi Perez 28-Feb Julks Fletcher Tauchman Gallo Cannon 1-Mar Slater Robert Veras Drury S. Smith 2-Mar Colas Fletcher Tauchman Ramos Martin 3-Mar Julks Robert Tauchman Gallo Burke 5-Mar ss Gallo Robert Tauchman Thaiss Perez 5-Mar ss Julks Fletcher Colas Ramos B. Wilson 6-Mar Julks Fletcher Colas Narvaez Cannon 7-Mar x Taylor Robert Tauchman Sosa S. Smith 8-Mar Taylor Robert Tauchman Vaughn S. Smith

I'd like to see a lot more Vargas at 1B and Vaughn at DH. C 1B 2B SS 3B 22-Feb Thaiss Drury Meidroth Montgomery Vargas 23-Feb Lee Vaughn Rojas Amaya Sosa 24-Feb Narvaez Gallo Gray Meidroth Vargas 25-Feb Thaiss Drury Sosa Montgomery Rojas 26-Feb Lee Vaughn Meidroth Amaya Vargas 27-Feb Narvaez Drury Rojas Gray Sosa 28-Feb Thaiss Vaughn Baldwin Amaya Vargas 1-Mar Lee Gallo Sosa Meidroth Rojas 2-Mar Narvaez Vaughn Baldwin Amaya Vargas 3-Mar Thaiss Sosa Rojas Meidroth Drury 5-Mar ss Lee Vaughn Rojas Amaya Sosa 5-Mar ss Narvaez Drury Meidroth Baldwin Vargas 6-Mar Thaiss Gallo Baldwin Amaya Drury 7-Mar x Narvaez Vaughn Rojas Meidroth Vargas 8-Mar Lee Vargas Meidroth Rojas Sosa

A team can only use the 60-day IL when they need to add a player. They can't just put a guy on the 60-day and be at 39 players.

No, he's on the 40-man. If he's not on the 26-man, they're burning an option.

I'm pretty sure that on the 60-day IL, you stay on the pro squad, albeit, on the IL. He burns a year of service time, but they save the option.

And if they run up against it on IL time, they can also get an extra option, I believe.

Fangraphs indicates Berroa has one more option which won't be used this year if he gets put on the 60-day IL. I would imagine they do that with either Berroa, Carella, or both to avoid playing the season with 38 active players on the 40-man.

Well, it could be something that, with a regular stretching routine, is manageable. Without, it's random. I think Dan Hayes was talking about Royce Lewis from the Twins on the SoxMachine podcast. Lewis played about 30 games through the end of July, and finally got on a regular stretching routine, and played the rest of the season.

It has been.

Back, as in - he's under contract with CHSN?

Shane Smith went 2 innings in the 3/01 game against the Mariners. While that seemed to be the normal allotment for that cycle, Nastrini threw 3 in the same game. I'd rather the Sox go into a 2-game rotation of Baldwin and Meidroth at SS and move Amaya out. Brooks and Chase (there's a country duo for you) cover a lot of positions on the same roster.

Carella was less of a fire-baller, wasn't he?

While Gilbert certainly seems to be in their plans, Shane Smith seems to be in the actual 5-day ST rotation, for all that's worth. I was concerned with Baldwin's lack of starts in ST, but maybe he was just dinged, or they were bringing him along slowly from last year's injury. He seems to be on the regular rotation of every other day starts, now.

Great article at SoxMachine about how Shane Smith is being brought along. What do the White Sox have in Rule 5 pick Shane Smith?

Mason Adams is the next live arm up, a la Davis Martin. I think he's a guy you bring along with the focus of getting the extra year of control.

Thorpe is actually throwing and working towards a return.