WestEddy

You do understand that Kannapolis isn't high-A, don't you? I dare you to not make things up.

Again, please link to anything that implied more than his name "coming up". Of course he felt the need to clarify his reporting when people made it into something he clearly didn't report.

It's a good thing he graduated, then.

Any reporters that have discussed this said they thought the return didn't get much better sending money along with Robert.

The original reporter also debunked his own story. He said Keaschul's name "came up". By all means, please link to anything that mentions a trade that could have been aborted.

SouthSideSox wrap: White Sox extend winning ways, edge Royals, 5-4 | South Side Sox Bloom's Times' notes: White Sox manager Will Venable explains switch of Sunday starter - Chicago Sun-Times - Venable's day of decision to start Hicks instead of Murphy - Missing Dominguez - mini-wrapup - Next up: Rockies - Kyle Freeland v. Jedixson Paez LaMond Pope relays Shane Smith's thoughts on being named opening day starter Chicago White Sox announce Shane Smith as opening-day starter

And the supremely important 1 run victory.

The pitching and offensive sides of the roster are different. The White Sox ostensibly chose to keep Lenyn Sosa over Romy Gonzalez. Let me know the next time Romy hits 22 HRs.

Because even though the jury's still out on the Crochet trade, we get to list it as Boston "getting the best of" the White Sox until proven otherwise.

Does Italy charge their players for lost or damaged helmets? Seems like he would have gotten across the plate quicker without trying to catch and carry his helmet.

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If they keep Lee on the roster, that means they want to put Teel and Quero at DH on their catching off days. That makes Benintendi useless. Sosa also has to play as often as possible. The other thing about Pope's guess is that the outfield has 4 OFs, two of which will back up the infield, and one of which they want to primarily DH. I don't believe they're going to eat 2 years of Benintendi's salary. Lee and Mead both have to be raking to make the roster. I'd say one of Lee or Mead has to go to make room for Kelenic or Pereira. I'd expect Pereira to open the season on the IL. I suppose in a perfect world, they'd cut Benintendi, trade Lee, then roster Kelenic and Hill (or Pereira if he's fit).

LaMond Pope writes up the positional and pitching battles shaping up in camp Chicago White Sox: Who will make the opening-day roster His guess: Rotation - RHP Shane Smith, LHP Anthony Kay, RHP Davis Martin, RHP Sean Burke, RHP Erick Fedde Bullpen - Newcomb, Murphy, Vasil, Cannon, RHP Grant Taylor, RHP Jordan Leasure, RHP Jordan Hicks, RHP Seranthony Domínguez C - Kyle Teel, Edgar Quero, Korey Lee IF - Munetaka Murakami, Chase Meidroth, Colson Montgomery, Miguel Vargas, Lenyn Sosa, Curtis Mead OF - Andrew Benintendi, Austin Hays, Brooks Baldwin, Luisangel Acuña

Bloom's piece in the Times covers the same ground the Garfien interview did. Kelenic's dealt with some adversity, and shows a new maturity in dealing with setbacks. White Sox might be former top prospect Jarred Kelenic's final stand - Chicago Sun-Times

SouthSideSox wrap White Sox sink Mariners, 5-1 | South Side Sox Sox on 35th summary White Sox 5, Mariners 1: Pitching dominates again in comfortable win | Sox On 35th - Tanner Murray day to day after being hit by a pitch on the hand - Chris Murphy v. Noah Cameron as the Sox begin their Daylight Savings Season against the Royals. 3:05 start time. Bloom's post-game notes White Sox' Grant Taylor pleased with his start, although he's more of a finisher - Chicago Sun-Times - Grant Taylor happy to face some big leaguers - McDougal and Schultz cuts discussed - Thorpe snapping back quicker, better on next day - mini recap

On the pitching side, Payton Pallette had a nice AAA season. Yoendrys Gomes started 11 games in AAA and basically won him a rotation spot on the big club.

Brooks Baldwin was OPSing around .580, went to Charlotte, and OPSed 1.180, hitting 12 HRs in 29 games.

SoxMachine's game notes: Pregame notes: While the White Sox were out of sight - Sox Machine - quickie wrap of yesterday's performances - 31 players come to "agreement", but Vargas had his contract "renewed" - recent cuts - WBC stats - Injury updates - Last Daylight Standard Time game

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