WestEddy

Lawn seats look like $40 each. $58-$60 for 3rd baseline - they're not really calling them grandstand or box seats. $83 for field level.

LF CF RF DH P 2/20/2026 Hays Hill Peters Lee Cannon 2/21/2026 Kelenic Acuña Baldwin Benintendi Murphy/Davitt 2/22/2026 Hays Hill B. Montgomery Teel Vasil/Burke 2/23/2026 Benintendi Acuña Kelenic Murakami S. Smith 2/24/2026 Hays Hill Baldwin Wade Kay 2/25/2026 Benintendi Acuña Peters Kelenic Martin/Cannon 2/26/2026 Hays Hill B. Montgomery Quero Newcomb/Burke

First week's starters C 1B 2B SS 3B 2/20/2026 Teel Murakami Antonacci Murray Mead 2/21/2026 Quero Wade Meidroth C. Montgomery Vargas 2/22/2026 Lee Murakami Sosa Murray Mead 2/23/2026 Teel Wade Meidroth Bergolla Vargas 2/24/2026 Quero Mead Antonacci Murray Sosa 2/25/2026 Lee Murakami Meidroth C. Montgomery Vargas 2/26/2026 Teel Galanie Sosa Murray Mead

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What are you even responding to? Do you plan on even acknowledging anything I've responded to in good faith, or will you keep ignoring and flitting off to another leading question with no context?

2) Murakami should be better than Vaughn. C. Monty for a full year. Less Sosa/Benintendi. Pereira/Acuña are good defensive OFs. Growth from Meidroth, Vargas, Teel, Quero. brotherhood So teams that finish under .500 never become close or learn how to play together? I'm not sure who you're responding to, here, but predicting 75-78 wins isn't "competitive".

Sox on 35th with the recap: Reds 3, White Sox 2: Colson Montgomery Goes Yard, Bats Stay Quiet | Sox On 35th SouthSideSox game wrap: Jonathan Cannon fires, and Colson Montgomery blasts off in a 3-2 loss to the Reds | South Side Sox DVS post-game notes in the SunTimes: For White Sox, strong start in spring training has its merits - Chicago Sun-Times - 4-2 record nice change of pace from last 3 years of losing - Iguchi happy Murakami w/Sox - Venable likes Acuña in CF - game cap - next up: Dodgers, Sean Newcomb vs. Tyler Glasnow

1) 54 in the prediction thread, and 60 in the bold predictions thread. We both picked the 53-56 slot in the poll I'm linking. 2) Who cares who will be on the team in 2028? That's you trying to obscure the subject. I've laid out my thinking on why I think this is around a 75 win team many times. It is optimistic. But again, it's certainly well within a reasonable spread of possible, expected outcomes. 3) Any talk about any future event or outcome is presumptuous. You calling something presumptuous is itself, presumptuous.

I have no idea what you're talking about except to take a whack at a guess of 75+ wins, which is certainly with the realm of possibility. You say yourself that Braden Montgomery isn't ready. So without Acuña, Baldwin and Pereira, who plays the other 2 OF positions? Peters? Dru Baker? They're also "place-holders" until guys like Bonemer, Antonacci and B. Montgomery push them out.

For taking on money, they got to trade a ho-hum arm for somebody with stuff to dream on, Hicks, who had a couple nice seasons in him, and we don't even know the PTBNL pieces yet.

Well, the trade's not complete. If they put Paez through waivers and he's one of the PTBNLs, that's a nice bit of restocking of the mid-levels just for taking on money. And if Hicks is any bit of his former self, it's a win. I see Cannon with a ceiling of place-holder. He's probably got a 3 WAR season in him somewhere down the line. He's just going to be swamped by better pitchers, soon.

Perhaps that was his way of saying that if he set up a blind date online, the park reminds him of Stone Phillips.

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Peoria, Surprise, Brewers, Tempe, Mesa, Sox in Tucson. I'm pretty sure I've been to Camelback. Giants in Scottsdale. Yeah, some are a little "prettier" with the team colors and such, but they're all pretty much lower deck, short upper deck lawn to me.

I've been to a bunch of spring training games, and no parks have ever really stuck out and "impressed" me. Unless they've been building them different in the last 7 years, it seems odd to complain about a spring training park. They're all pretty much the same, from what I remember.

Yeesh. Spring Training sites are glorified AA parks. One would think these guys get regular HR "training" that tells them to just shut up about women's looks.

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would be cool for Cannon to make Venable's job harder.

What is it they're "unimpressed" by? Is the upper deck too high there, too? Stadium facing the wrong way?

I haven't tried, and don't see any way to even try. They don't think I'm even worthy of a "learn more" button.

Reader asked if any of the current starting pitcher core is worth keeping. They said Shane Smith. Somebody asked about a rumored Houston interest in Benintendi, and they threw cold water.

Borucki and Gilbert throwing today:

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