WestEddy

You know? I'm not really worried about their bullpen. Between Knebel, Shaw, Barlow, Jake Cousins, Justin Anderson, Tanner Banks, Deivi Garcia, Jordan Leasure, Dominic Leone, and Alex Speas, Jimmy Lambert, I think they'll be okay.

I certainly don't see these guys as a possible .500 team, but I don't totally agree with the pitching being bad. Soroka and Kopech have a chance to break out. Fedde will have to adjust, I think, to lefty lineups.

Being extremely pie-in-the-sky, I come up with: c - maldonado / stassi - 0 1b - vaughn - 2 2b - lopez / sosa - 1 3b - moncada - 4 ss - dejong / montgomery - 1 lf - benintendi - 2 cf - robert - 5 rf - fletcher / pillar - 1 dh - eloy - 2 bench - 0 s1 - soroka - 2 s2 - fedde - 1 s3 - kopech - 2 s4 - flexen - 1 s5 - crochet / kuhl / nastrini - 1 bp - 3 That's 28 WAR, total. That's about a mid-70's win team, right? Don't you roughly start with around 47, then add individual wins? That's if they don't run through all their dumpster dive pitchers by May 15, and the bullpen doesn't implode. I'm being especially positive on Vaughn, Moncada, Benny, maybe even Robert to maintain. Two of those rotational top four have to be league average, and the other two middling.

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I wish Stassi would start over Maldonado. Fletcher's going to get the larger platoon slice, so DeJong and Lopez are the weakest links.

I don't know if it was you. Like I said, there's a lot of people with similar names. But it happened.

Hey! I like this guy!!

...And there is a White Sox winnah!!

I know age is a thing, but they still have 5 years of control.

I would really like somebody to identify anybody on this site who is "loyal to JR". Donald Trump could buy the team, and I'd probably still watch with the same level in interest.

I was surprised Scholtens made it through the winter on the 40-man. I don't get the Tanner Banks hate. Dude's a solid lefty reliever with an option remaining.

We went through a weekend of me arguing with one of the guys named White Sox, or something, because he called me a "yes-man", which I don't really understand in the context of being a fan of a team.

I don't want to ignore, because you're a very good, informative and engaging writer. (But you know that.) When you start posting gratuitous, inaccurate, angry things, it's like changing TV channels, and seeing something gross, or whatnot. Keep doing it. I don't care. I try to take whatever feedback about how irritating or mean or trollish I get. Do it or don't.

Thanks for pointing that out. You see, I understand quite well that it would be one of the greatest seasons in Nicky Lopez's life if he hit .250/.300/.625. So when I said I hope the .429 hitting Nicky Lopez is the one who comes north, I meant that, instead of the .180 hitting Nicky Lopez. Nicky Lopez is coming north with the team regardless of what he hits in Spring Training. I was just telling a joke that touches upon dreaming of a player staying at the level of a hot 3 game streak.

Of course it will be. I'm not loyal to Jerry Reinsdorf. I'm loyal to me. The guy who likes to watch a baseball team put together the team's roster in Spring Training, and takes interest in the numerous comeback, trade, development and success subplots. I get tired of being told I'm stupid, a sheep, a yes-man or sadly deluded because I don't click the like button on or agree with the 10,000th diatribe that says the same, unimaginative nonsense. Reinsdorf came in and spent like everybody wanted. Then he didn't. A new owner will come in and spend like everybody wants. Then he won't. Because he's a baseball owner.

You seem to feel that the sun coming up is a reason to rip Sox ownership a new one. Unquestioned negativity is as bad as unquestioned loyalty. It's a flip side of the same coin.

Yeah. I feel that Getz's approach is significantly different from the KW/Hahn show. They had 16 winning records in 23 seasons from 1990 to 2012. Is that the same as the Hahn years, or is it different? I don't care if you feel differently, or not. I don't even care if you keep posting the same negative inaccuracies, tying a mild bout of shoulder discomfort to an historic short-coming of the Sox. It's irritating, and it's not Jerry Reinsdorf's fault. I'm not sure what you think you're informing people of that didn't stick the previous 900 times you posted it.

The pitching looks good, only as the written word. I sure hope .429 BA Nicky Lopez is the one who comes north with the team.

The negativity isn't "informing" anybody of anything. It's just irritating, as I think Liptak has interesting things to say, even about this ownership group, the way they conduct themselves in certain situations, and all. To me, stomping on a thread with "the team will never change while Jerry's alive" is more about being resentful that others might be deriving joy from something that died inside the grumps long ago.

Apparently, this is what the kids are listening to, nowadays, but it seems appropriate for Grifol.

Everybody says this, but you cut one middling relief arm, and the crowd wails for weeks.

Actually, I've experienced Mr. Liptak going all the way back to Tribune chat boards on AOL, mid to late 90's. Dude's consistent.

I think back to when the top five was the most recent #1 draft pick, a utility infielder, a bullpen arm, and two pitchers acquired in low level trades that would never go anywhere. It seems like they're doing a good job, even without the trades.

It's not his throwing shoulder. Why do White Sox injuries make you so gleeful?

I also don't know why they don't take and post a 2nd picture of the performance schedule and tell us about it. There's an extra article right there.