WestEddy

Ian and James always put out a podcast worth a listen. The most interesting is the convo about Baseball America's raving about where the Sox are going with Development (BA thinks the Sox could have a top ten system after the draft), and James talks a bit about what he hears the Sox want to add soon. Give a listen.

Garfien had a good talk with Phil Nevin about why he came to the Sox and what he does.

Interesting argument for German Marquez.

Non-compete clause. If he quit, JR wouldn't let him work for another team for the duration of his contract.

Let's set down our pretentions. All jobs suck.

Mama Mia!! If he was wearing a White Sox uniform, that jumping high ten landing would have resulted in a blown-out knee.

He looked like a dubious #5. I thought he could get something like 1/3 as somebody's rotation depth.

Kona Takahashi goes back to Japan.

I think that's what they're doing. If somebody comes banging on the door with a package, the Sox will listen.

In your article, you name Outfielder Sebastian Romero but then refer to somebody called Rivero. Are there two different players, or is it Sebastian Rivero, and you mistakenly subbed in Francys Romero's name?

Verdugo, Verdahgo. They're all just bodies, pile 'em up, run 'em out. Feel no shame, all teams do this. Kelenic is their particular poison this spring. The weird thing is that MLB has completely f-ed up their off-season, so teams are still building their rosters in the middle of February. It gets tiresome refreshing Twitter for 3 months.

That's the problem when ball players get out beyond "can just play one game at a time" and all that gibberish. Somebody had him on camera and probably asked him to comment on the signs. That's the thing he remembers about Segura. It would be weird if he knew about that struggle, and then only talked about his sunflower seed eating, or whatnot.

And if the Sox make him the nominal offer, they get the 2nd overall pick as well as their regular 1st rounder in next year's draft.

Have you missed all the kvetching around here over Taylor starting his MLB career in the bullpen to ramp up his innings?

"How did you handle getting unwanted advice from more established Japanese players when you really just wanted to figure it out on your own?"

Don't we have that in Tristan Peters and Dustin Harris?

I wonder where this puts guys like Giolito.

Good night, mike.

Rootin' for that guy.

Or he doesn't want attention and is messing around. Who knows? He's only got 921 followers. He could parlay this s%*# into much more if he wanted the attention.

Or he's a bit drunk and having a bit of fun.

Or, he's just a dude with some connection who doesn't really want to be relied upon to this level. We'll see what's what.

Cocaine's a hellova drug.

Actually, if he signs in America, it IS imminent. Can't go too much longer.