WestEddy

Everybody's your boy

They're not throwing Hagen Smith to the wolves.

Oscar Colas was part of that last procession.

Found this while looking up other music:

It gets mentioned, too, that as a kid matures from 12-16, some don't develop as planned, and the team renegs. Or the kid grown into a monster, and they want more money.

As it gets repeated every time this comes up, International classes are usually lined up 4 years ahead of time. There were a few Yankee commits they released who might have been bouncing around, and once they said they were signing with Phil or Cleve, they traded money slots. That's more appropriate than kidnapping and baseball trafficking.

Hey, why waste a good rage trigger? Sure beats shaking one's fist at the clouds.

Mason Adams reinstated to AAA Charlotte.

...And proves the old adage, a good man is hard to find, but a hard man is good to find.

I just got back from our walk. The sky was dark gray in the north, and by the end of our two mile jaunt, it was sunny, and the sky was overcast north of us. It's overcast, but not as foreboding.

Fegan's on the beat Chicago White Sox trade Derek Hill and international bonus money to Philadelphia for prospects - Sox Machine

Well, that's an Oklahoma Hello! Or an Iowa Hello.

Opens a 40-man slot. Neither dude seems like much more than org depth. Teams can still spend the minimum if they find a guy. The Latino markets are pretty much picked clean by now, aren't they?

Hill did seem like a very nice guy. After Braden's game-winner the other night, the rest of the team mobbed him, but Hill came up and gave him a good, long hug, and said something to him.

FanGraphs had Dylan Campbell ranked as the Phillies #19 prospect this season. I don't see anything on Colmenares. Philadelphia Phillies Top 34 Prospects | FanGraphs Baseball 19. Dylan Campbell, RFDrafted: 4th Round, 2023 from Texas (LAD) Age 23.6 Height 5′ 11″ Weight 205 Bat / Thr R / R FV 40 Tool Grades (Present/Future) Hit Raw Power Game Power Run Fielding Throw 30/45 50/50 30/45 50/50 30/45 60 Campbell was a high school infielder who ended up settling into right field during his college career at Texas, where he had a bit of a power breakout as a junior. Drafted by the Dodgers, he slashed .251/.331/.372 in the chilly Midwest League in 2024 and stole 42 bases in 49 attempts, before he was traded to the Phillies for some of the pool space required to sign Roki Sasaki. Campbell had a pedestrian first season as a Phillie split between High- and Double-A (a .215/.298/.367 line, good for a 95 wRC+), then got white hot in the Arizona Fall League, where he carried a 1.044 OPS. Campbell’s regular season performance was more in line with a player who gets a cursory mention at the end of these lists, but his Fall League look and the Phillies’ willingness to experiment with him on defense has kept the pulse of his prospectdom alive. Short levers and strong wrists give Campbell notable hitterish traits, and he told MLB Pipeline’s Sam Dykstra that he was working with a new swing in the AFL (for what it’s worth, it looked the same to me). Though he has kept his infielder’s mitt handy for occasional second base duty in pro ball, Campbell was introduced to first and third base for the first time in the AFL. A stocky athlete whose meaty torso and trunk taper down to toothpick ankles, Campbell runs well in a straight line but isn’t the best lateral mover. Defensive versatility is going to be important to his rosterability, but he played the corner infield so infrequently in Arizona that seeing him enough to satisfactorily evaluate his prospects there was difficult. Campbell is back on the radar as a potential bat-first utilityman who plays the outfield corners and hopefully at least one infield position.

They are in Milwaukee August 21 with a day off before and after that 3 game set, and they play the Cubs at Wrigley 3rd week of September with a travel day afterwards, so they'll be near. I still hope they play it. 26_Schedule_8.5x11_1-21-26

Wow, a full game in 2021 - starting lineup and all Chicago White Sox vs Kansas City Royals Box Score: July 29, 2021 | Baseball-Reference.com

Were the Sox to get to the World Series, I'd fully expect ESPN to write about the White Sox possibly breaking the 100+ year old curse.

I'm not. Read the string and stop replying.

Pro-tip: When your 3 favorites attack people for being too positive or for being right, tell them to knock it off. That'll stem most of the run-on arguments here.

I responded to a mod, and your 2 buddies jumped on me. Your other buddy won't let his "post links" screed drop. Weird how trolling people isn't a problem, but responding is.

Can somebody explain who is proclaiming this "greatness" that's triggering you? It's weird that you know so much about how to build a baseball team yet nobody's reached out to you to fill a GM slot. Maybe you just stink as an interviewee. It's silly and short-sighted to proclaim a GM a failure when he takes over a smoldering crater and loses a lot. Every rebuild starts with losing. I suppose it's a victory getting guys like you to finally start calling it a rebuild. Welcome onto the bandwagon. There's room for everybody!