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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:

Melissa Sage-Bollenbach previews today's matchup over at SouthSideSox: Game Thread: Reds (1-2) at White Sox (4-1) | South Side Sox

Acuña's making the roster. I'd imagine Baldwin and Acuña share time in CF, and both back up the IF.

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I think Caulfield was saying that he would have more confidence in Baldwin developing if he was a Cardinals' or Rays' prospect, not that he thinks Baldwin should be traded. I agree with you on your win totals, though. I feel my prediction would top out around 78 wins, but yeah, 82 wouldn't surprise me.

SoxMachine takes a look at the roster battles lining up in the rotation: If White Sox rotation remains stable, how does Charlotte's shake out after spring? - Sox Machine

"Organizational incompetence!"

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He played negative defense, as per FanGraphs last year, but he was ranked 23rd out of 30. for 2B over 200 PAs. Not the absolute worst.