WestEddy

These are great. Thanks.

It's like the 7 other times people explained to you why Canario doesn't make sense for the Sox never happened. LOL. We're probably starting 3 players with less than a full season's service time on offense. You're going to have 3 pitchers with similar service time in the rotation. Fangraphs also guestimates 5-7 rookie/pre-arb pitchers in the bullpen. It makes total sense to anchor a couple of positions with seasoned veterans when most of the rest of your roster is going to be rookies. He's an interesting prospect. The Sox probably looked at him, and either didn't like the profile, or felt they weren't in a position to help him pick up his contact rate or cut down on the strike outs. And if Canario sucks, you will be screaming at the entire board about how Getz made another mistake. Go back and read the prospect reports on Canario. Here's a refresher from Fangraphs: "Canario’s swing-and-miss issues give us substantial pause when it comes to projecting his role. His tendency to misidentify sliders against righty pitchers destabilizes his entire profile and is probably going to limit his role to the short side of a platoon where he’s mostly facing lefties. He’s best at hitting hanging breakers and spraying high fastballs the opposite way. A stiff lower half makes it tough for Canario to bend and do damage in the bottom of the zone" Keith Law wrote: He’s got big power, with 37 homers in 2022 and strong exit velocities to back it up, with a lot of swing and miss. He wants the fastball, and swings hard, leaving him vulnerable to anything that isn’t a fastball. It’s corner outfield, with the plus arm for right but limited range, and if he plays every day it might be 30 homers with a .290 OBP or less. That’s not really a regular, but someone teams will keep taking fliers on. Northsidebaseball wrote: The hard-hitting outfield prospect, Alexander Canario, is in a very weird position in the Cubs' organization. On the surface, Canario had a pretty good year in Iowa, hitting 18 home runs in under 300 plate appearances while posting an isolated slugging over .270 and an overall line good for 116 wRC+. However, a longer look at the righty gives you some pause as to what he can be moving forward. Canario's sub 63% contact rate was nearly 10% below that of the Triple-A average, and if he carried over the same contact rate to the MLB (which, considering the jump in talent, would be hard to do), would put him below every qualified hitter at the level. The results at Iowa suggest one thing, but the processes suggest another. FutureStarsSeries wrote: Canario has produced better batting averages and on-base marks than his contact rates suggest are repeatable, but he did it again in Triple-A last year once he got healthy.

So, we should pick up Canario, and start him for the next 6 seasons, regardless of what he hits? Makes sense.

Every pitch he throws makes that trade return look better.

And being only 23-years-old makes Iriarte more valuable than Dylan Cease or anybody over 28.

Truest outcome for Gallo. I have no curiosity for him as DH.

Gameday makes it look like Iriarte's throwing a bird at home plate, and it just takes off for a dugout.

Not the most dominant outing for Burke, but he settled down and limited the damage.

This spring's starters at 2B / SS / 3B: 2/22 - Meidroth / Monty / Vargas 2/23 - Rojas / Amaya / Sosa 2/24 - Gray / Meidroth / Vargas 2/25 - Sosa / Monty / Rojas 2/26 - Meidroth / Amaya / Vargas 2/27 - Rojas / Gray / Sosa 2/28 - Baldwin / Amaya / Vargas 3/01 - Sosa / Meidroth / Rojas 3/02 - Baldwin / Amaya / Vargas 3/03 - Rojas / Meidroth / Drury

Knock-man!!

Jeff Cohen, while enthusiastic, gets a bit out there, sometimes. As of right now, Benintendi's shooting for OD, but if he misses, it's Colas or Fletcher. I don't think Gallo makes the team. Narvaez is just a body. Multiple games being played every day with multiple sets of 9 position players. Gray is infield depth with a little jack. There's really 8 guys who will be jockeying for starts at AAA. Some of those guys should move to the pen if they can't pull it together.

Coffey threw 35 games at AAA last year. He'd probably go back to AAA.

No. He was hitting 94 on the 23rd and sitting around 93 on the 27th.

Can it be dead arm period? Eder's gotten through his first 2 appearances fine. Where is he supposed to be? 95-97? Other than that, S. Wilson and Pallette looked steady.

Something something about Enzo Hernandez, Tito Fuentes, Bill Almon, Kahlil Greene and Tim Lollar. Oh yeah, Sixto Lezcano and Luis Salazar, too. Alan Wiggins.

Eder was throwing 94 against the Royals on 2/23. Sitting 93 against the Guardians 2/27.

Teoscar swung 3-0, also. I guess desperate times call for desperate measures.

Tyler Glasnow has been in the league for 9 years, and he's only amassed 13.7 fWAR and 8.8 bWAR. crazy

Oh, of course. I mean, the Dodgers only put 2 of their future Hall-of-Famers in the lineup today. Andrew Vaughn may someday get his number retired by his high school if he keeps up the alumni dues.

Sure, the team who signed every single free agent pitcher available this offseason is going to shut down an offense. Weird how a "laughingstock" is getting this reaction from the World Champs. They must have thought today would be easier.