WestEddy

They might want to look up James Kruk's TED talk about how to keep pitchers healthy.

Everybody wants Ben Cowles; Nobody wants Ben Cowles

Motor skills and consciousness probably cut off around 89 wins.

Only 5 more days of watching guys playing catch and batting cage work. The only bad news, so far, seems to be Thorpe being pushed back a little bit due to soreness. (Knock wood) It's well past time for the Sox to run into a little luck.

Hagen, McDougal, Oppor and Lucas Gordon have to be in the AA rotation. Gowens has spent 2 seasons at AA and will probably be pushed up to AAA.

With losing a draft choice. Pass.

Yeah, I'm kind of pumped for Acuña. I think he'll be fine, defensively. If he can hit a lick and get into the 80's for RC+, it will be a win. AND I hope Robert wins the MVP for the Mets, too.

It's like one of those arguments where your spouse/partner wants to know WHY did you close up and throw out the garbage bag when she once asked you to let her know before you're going to do it. And it's not going to drop until you give an answer "why", you know, analyze your own behavior you gave no thought to, in the moment, and be very tactful and calm about it or you have anger issues. And every sentence is a new line of attack, but how could you even think that I'm just waiting for a sentence to attack?!?!? I guess sports talk and SoxTwitter is all like therapy. Dudes get to be the boss and throw "fire-able offenses" around.

I'd take Hays and Fedde. I believe Fedde has a higher ceiling than Quintana if you take 2024 into consideration. And even though Hays elicits an eyeroll over his "Jesus protect me from sin" stuff over LBGTQ day, Castellanos seems like a real clubhouse cancer.

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James Fegan's day 5 notes: White Sox spring notes: A little extra time to get familiar with Munetaka Murakami - Sox Machine Murakami w/Sox til Feb 27 thoughts on Dominguez rating the bullpen field RIP Joe Nossek

What is this even based on? Other entities have models that run simulations. Is this guy just making it up? They don't explain it anywhere.

"Concentrating on catching" doesn't mean "...And nothing else!!" For those without Twitter

I wonder if with a guy like Blake Larson, they saw the damage and drafted him knowing they could lose the time up front, then train him up, properly.

Nightengale article on strategies for the ABS system. MLB ABS system, 'robot umpires' and new rules are a whole new ballgame

I think most of Getz's early trades were unremarkable. Whether that was because of poor scouting information, or whatever, I feel that the difference between the Bummer and Cease trades, then the Vargas and Crochet trades, targeting Shane Smith and Vasil - he found a weakness, and got better at it. If this is some sort of issue (which I don't believe is), I trust the guy to identify and correct a serious flaw. If he actually thought for two(?) years that he was targeting and pursuing a switch-hitter, I think they'll fix that. Again, I think it's ridiculous to think that for two years (or however long they had been after Acuña) NOBODY thought it important to find out which way he batted - is a level of stupid I find insulting and feel no responsibility to take on and be outraged over. My take on this is that scouting and R&D worked together to put together a list of targets that were probably either post- or beneath hype they could work with. They got the guys they wanted and Getz either mixed him up, or as he said, got overly excited and said a wrong thing. It's already been a thing he misuses words (Overstate vs. Understate). I fully encourage everyone to be concerned and see this as a red flag. I'm not, and I don't. And - I don't mean that like I think you're insulting me. There's a level of outrage here that just grows to the point where I'm expected to take on somebody's outrage because "this time, it's really concerning", when they turn every single gaffe or slump into evidence of tragic incompetence.

I think it's a nothing burger and will be a "remember that time..." once games start. People did a mini-flip out a day earlier over Getz saying that Quero and Teel are going to concentrate on catching. "OMG, are they going to let them DH?!?" I'll wait until he's regularly making mistakes like this before I become "concerned".

I've said it makes him look dumb, and it's a distraction. This makes me believe that he delegates more than I thought. That doesn't change my opinion of him, and how he's building this team.

He made a verbal slip. Four times. He didn't trade away a future Hall-of-Famer. He didn't get a schlub back in trade when he expected a dude. I would really be surprised if anybody without an agenda is talking about this in a week.

Robert would have been, too. While I like and am enthused by the return, if Acuña gets to within 20% of league average, offensively, it will be a victory. And he was the headliner. Words have set meanings.

While I did not like the move to promote Getz, I believe it's inaccurate to say he had a general lack of qualifications, and I don't agree with your 85-90% of other teams' GMs remark. Let's not gossip about other board members, okay?

Counterpoint: Moving Luis Robert was not a key trade. We got back a utility player out of options, and a 12th round arm. I am very optimistic about both, but it's not exactly like he was calling Kyle Teel a pitcher for a week.

There is no better board friend than Cali. That's some next level spin on the concept of trolling. I've not had your experience with the subject.