WestEddy

I would have liked to not have traded anybody, too. Honestly. But I do think Fletcher is a good get for a type of arm they have a surplus of. Fletcher can hit, he's a good fielder. If he clicks, then maybe between him, DeLoach and Colas, they have a couple of (at least) league average outfielders.

Wow, that's a long list of bad decisions. Good thing that GM doesn't work for the White Sox anymore.

The next couple of years were spent on sphincter rehab.

Fletcher is going to be the strong half of a platoon in the short run, and possibly our starting CF for a couple of years. All for a middling pitcher who still has major flaws to fix. If we didn't trade Mena, everybody would pounce on any person touting him as a future building block. When he's here, he sucks. When he's traded, he's a Hall-of-Famer.

That's kind of the point of spring training this early. Watch the individual performances, especially when they're putting AA guys up against the pros.

Crochet vs. Ohtani. I wonder if they switch this game to prime time.

If acquiring Fletcher serves to light a fire under Colas, and he becomes what he was touted as, then it's a great trade.

I like how, if they win, the games don't matter. If they lose, of course they matter!! Pick a lane, Duber. I hope he's not referring to Fletcher's misplay on that triple. The sky in Arizona is notoriously hard to judge fly balls against. And the no-hitter wasn't an "almost" no hitter. That's petty of the score keeper to rule a clear hit as an error to keep the "no hitter" going. Jonathan Cannon seems to have thrown a nice 2 innings. Each team had 3 walks and 8 strikeouts. I'd call that a draw.

Colas is growing on me, again. Just stay off of Instagram.

Cool, thanks.

Looks like a nice outing for Jonathan Cannon. I wonder how hard those two fly outs were hit.

Maybe DeJong plays his way off the team before St. Pat's day.

Of course it is. Bellinger looked totally cooked for 2 whole seasons. Even the kings of all baseball evaluation, The Dodgers, non-tendered him. The Cubs signed him for a cheap, one-year, show me contract, and here he is. Bellinger's having a hard time cashing in on his resurgence.

The Cubs have a pitcher named Richard Lovelady. I wonder if his family name was changed at Ellis Island by a very nice border guard. "Mr. Lovescock, your American name will be Lovelady."

That was nice hustle by Colas. Maybe he's cured, and it was all the bad attitudes in the clubhouse, after all. God, Fletcher is short. Harry Chappas short. I would think that between 2 announcers, somebody could tell me who this guy without a name on his jersey is in the batter's box. Okay, I'm ready for DeJong's and Lopez's replacements to make them expendable. Jesse Chavez will tell his grandkids about this game. Tonight, he'll call them and tell them. I'm on the Bryan Ramos train. They should cut Gil Luna so they can just make him a roving instructor to teach all the pitchers in the organization that pick off move. Johan Dominguez should start opening day.

That's not really unfathomable. Between replacing negative production with better than replacement, and the veterans regressing to the mean, they could scrape 72 wins.

Sorry, 6 pages back, so this was probably answered 5 times, already. Fringey. Strikes out a lot, so it's expected that Elko will get exposed as he plays higher up in the minors. But that was a nice dong. The flyout to right-center was loud, too.

Monty's on the bench for this game.

Vaughn, Ramos, Elko, Fletcher. Murderer's row? More like tickler's row.

I think until my sports team starts asking me to disassociate myself from friends and family, or even hate and shun non-believers, I'm good.

Wait, who went out with TJS?

Alas, 'twas but a joke.

I saw it as a good thing, where they can put him on the 60-day IL, evaluate him in Charlotte on a rehab assignment, and stow him jut long enough on the MLB roster to keep him. Every single news item doesn't need to be the white sox messing up at every single level spectacularly.

Joe Musgrove looks horrible in his first 2/3 IP of spring training. I wonder how many conversations Getz has had with San Diego in the last hour. Hurry before anybody posts video of Cease playing catch.

The downside? Leading the league in errors again? Another couple of bench clearing brawls over nothing? I'm not skilled enough to know if TA is done or not, but he's certainly a change of scenery candidate. They don't need every single player on the roster to be "flippable". I'm guessing Cease, Soroka, Brebbia and Knebel will get attention. I don't even think TA's a shortstop anymore. Which means he's Elvis Andrus. In a good year. I'm fine with DeJong and Lopez.