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Lotta exciting players to watch on this team.

He batted .105, I wouldn’t exactly call that murder. Not mad at all if they call him up, I’d wait til we can retain a year of control though.

I don’t see the rush tbh.

Think I'd rather have Acuña over Vientos too. Would've rather gotten a deal done with Philly or Cinci though. Or just kept LuBob til his value recovered, he's certainly off to a nice start.

It ostensibly just means "rising" or "daybreak" or more relevantly "east" in Latin, but the term isn't in use anymore and it bothers people. "Oriental studies" isn't a department at universities anymore. Chicago's "Oriental Theatre" is now called the "Nederlander Theatre". You're probably not saying "colored people" or "negro" anymore, right? They're not specifically racial slurs, but you'd look like an asshole if you said it. Times change. And it's not specifically a new idea either, Edward Said wrote that book in 1978.

He reminds me a lot of Nicky Lopez. Which could be good or bad. Nicky did put up a 4.5 WAR season, hit .300, stole 22 bases, played good defense. Bergolla makes a lot of contact but has only hit 1 HR in 1000+ PAs.

He might be my favorite player in the system. Then again, I really liked Duke Ellis.

The current staff is only pitching 4 innings lol He’s had two starts against two bad teams, but it’s nice to see him pitching well again. 15 IP, 0 ER.

After two weeks, we can call up Smith, Schultz, McDougal and retain a year of service time, right? Just do it.

Probably can’t turn this game on til toward the end, just checked the box score, probably not going to turn it on at all…wtf man. Edit: somehow 2 more runs were scored in the 30 seconds it took to look at the box score and navigate to soxtalk to share my incredulity. wtf Shane

Yup. And then to replace him with Sims...gotta hope it's just to buy an extra year of service time on someone like Wikelman. Might've rather even seen Cannon in a long relief role. Or obviously Pallette who probably would've made the team regardless of his rule 5 status.

He hasn’t looked good in spring or the regular season, but I think he’ll be good in a couple years. I’m not convinced we’re actually challenging for a playoff spot, so any influx of future talent is helpful. He’s likely at least 2 years away from contributing in MLB, so I don’t know why they would’ve picked him to begin with thinking anything else. Which is why it’d be nice if he could come back as the PTBNL and start off at A+ or AA.

Pretty good in wbc, but 2-22 in spring training, good for .292 ops. Just don’t think he’s a very good hitter. Has some power for sure. Defensive stud. But I think this and the Hoerner contract are going to bite the Cubs. Not committing that money and re-signing Tucker should’ve been their priority imo.

Weird move on both fronts.

He was playing shortstop, the only position that's more important where he graded at 60. He's probably better suited for CF since he's speedy and that's more of a benefit in the outfield than infield.

Kinda just skimmed through to watch Carlson's ABs. 0-3, 2 groundouts and a flyout. The third out was hit pretty hard.

Petey off to a sizzling start. .596 OPS, more Ks than hits, no XBHs.

Thing with Smith and Vasil is that they're 4 years older than Paez and went to college. More time to develop than an international guy signed at age 17 before being exposed to Rule 5. Same thing with Pallette who I wish was still on this team. All 3 were more or less ready to face MLB hitters, sink or swim. Paez is an actual prospect unlike the other guys, who may indeed regress. Worth a shot and I don't wanna send him back, but I don't think he should be exposed this much this early. Wish he could hide on the injured list and go to AAA next year.

Wilson was actually a pretty good 6th, 7th inning pitcher regardless of what this board thought of him. Palette would've been a nice replacement (2.45 ERA so far in 3.2 IP). Wikelman should be on the MLB team, DFA Hicks and just eat his contract. Think the bullpen is still better than what it's shown, we've just been playing the worst guys in there. Leasure, Taylor, Newcomb are dudes. Dominguez is fine if he has a clean inning since he walks the world. Venable's bullpen management has been questionable since he got here.

Don't really expect much of a pitcher who makes the leap from A+ to MLB. They should hide him so he can develop, not give him the most appearances of anyone on the team. Especially in winnable games.

I like Paez, but Venable calling him in to finish off the 7th then bringing him back in the 8th is just incompetence. a 4 run lead isn't insurmountable but he threw in the towel.

Antonacci just stole home. what a dog.

I think it was a strike but probably worth a challenge on 3-2.

Mune trusts all of them apparently. Diplomatic answer but I hope he's lying.

Bring Grant in for 1.1 innings imo.