WestEddy

I see this homestand as a huge positive. The Tigers and Royals have been eating our lunch for a couple years, and we played them even. We really could have gone 6-1, but it's a young team. I think Altavilla's the closer until somebody tells me different.

Well I've been kicked by the wind, robbed by the sleet Had my head stoved in, but I'm still on my feet And I'm still, Bryce Wilson

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I think it's fair that some looked at the team in spring training, and concluded it was the same level as last year's team. Especially when it looked like we were replacing guys like Nicky Lopez with the slightest of upgrades. But I agree that if anybody's grousing now by saying this team is as bad as last year's, that's really not accurate. You can see an actual core group gelling, and maybe none of Vargas, Elko, Sosa, Davis Martin, Burke, etc. are on the next winning team, but at least it looks like a step B team instead of the same old garbage.

I can understand why you bristle at people who have been called names and jeered all winter feeling vindicated by this team's improved play. Especially when you were pounding the lectern with stuff like this: Own it, take the L, and quit hating on the happy people.

He's not even very good in the field, as per FanGraphs.

If you give him weed, whites and wine, and you show him a sign, Bryce Wilson will be willin'

Tavern's just the cut, right? Square slices instead of wedges from the middle.

Mexican Heritage Night.

There's also the concept that everybody on Earth knew that Yoan, Eloy and Robert would all be injured by the 11th game last year, and Getz should have known that, too. But no other GMs should have known that and should have traded all their best prospects for Robert in 12/2023, or they should have known that, and Getz should have *sold* them on Robert being better than what they should have known, and fleeced them, anyway.

I'm led to believe from any discussion of trade rumors on the internet that most of the negotiation hinges on how hard one would slam down the phone after a trade offer.

Nick Madrigal OPSed .764 with the White Sox, and hit .300 both years on the Sox. Meidroth is OPSing .742.

I mean, the FutureSox dudes thought he would be kept down until September.

I think they're well beyond the extra year. Probably even past the super-two cut-off. I've read thinking that they were going to wait late enough to preserve Teel's rookie status into next season.

The 4 guys nobody likes (Palacios, Rojas, Taylor, Capra) clocked in with a 6-13.

Yeah, I wouldn't expect the team, as their core players get better, and they gel as a team, to forego a closer or power hitters.

They played Seattle, the Mets and the Tigers close. This team really isn't that far away.

The knock on the head has him thinking he's Napoleon.

Oh, I understand your post. It just has nothing to do with anything I said. "Older" players who are non-stars have seen their salaries drop off from the $4-8M that Jon Jay and Yonder Alonso were paid by the Sox in 2019 (they traded for Alonso) down to near the league minimum. So loading up on $1M players to form a platoon or start for half a season is a new "market inefficiency". The Padres just tried doing this with Jayson Heyward and Conner Joe. I have no idea why you reject that and have to argue against that. It's a phenomenon that owners' recent decisions to cut rather than pay controlled non-stars has created. So that makes for a bunch of free agents who take what they can get. That was my point. Because you can't stand to read anything that doesn't slam Chris Getz, you have to pretend that I said that Getz invented this, and he's a genius, and whatever else you claimed. The signings of Tauchman and Slater were a good move. And yes, I would expect Getz to do more of this in the coming off-season until the young core matures, and the Sox get their TV situation straightened out.

The Padres did exactly this. Heyward/Joe blew up in their faces, and poor Tirso Ornelas is now blocked by Heyward and Tyler Wade.

I have no idea what you're arguing, or why you responded to my post with this.

Schweitzer did great at AA, then got promoted to a tougher level, playing in a bandbox. I think that the injuries making room for lesser pitchers is one factor that accounts for some of the walks. Then a guy like Christian Oppor dominates at low-A, gets promoted, and can't throw strikes. I would think him getting hammered when he's in the zone causes him to start nibbling and missing. I have no idea what happened to Nastrini and Iriarte.

Sheets, totally. Rodon was a free agent. Tauchman would be great for teams like the Royals or Padres. Cheap and controllable.

There's some talk the Sox could hold on to Tauchman for next year. I'd imagine they take more pitching in the Rule 5.

Riley Gowens at AA is probably the closest thing to a starter they could promote, and he's really a year away. Jesse Scholtens is throwing rehab starts at AAA, but he doesn't look ready at all. At this point, their best options might be a 2-headed, 5-inning monster of Vasil/Shuster, or waiver wire churn. The guys they have starting at AAA are really just depth. Chris Rodriguez and Owen White would be worse than what's on the big league squad.