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Not sure Wilson becomes much of a trade asset if you let him start.

It would be an absolute crime to not let him be our 5th starter right now. He looked fantastic today, the stuff is legit. I hate use spring training as the basis for evaluating a player, but it's beyond me how the Brewers let him unprotected. It's front end stuff or legit closer potential. I think he's now our 4th best pitching prospect.

As someone who experienced fairly chronic back issues in my early 20s I can say with absolute confidence a stretching and core workout routine completely changed my life. I'm about to turn 40 and it's been over 12 years since I last experienced severe back spasms and I continue to do a 3-4x per week stretching/core workout routine.

So Carela was optioned today. Does that mean if they put him in the 60 day they won't burn his option? I forgot that Berroa was technical on the active roster so they didn't have to option him they could just place him on the 60 day, keep him on the MLB roster and just eat a year of service time.

I watched Jackson Jobe a bunch of times last year and man does he give off a Kopech vibe. I have a feeling he's going to have some command issues in the bigs. I also have no idea how Max Clark grades out to a 70 hit tool. Not even close.

I didn't realize you save a option year by using the 60 day DL.

This likely means Berroa is done with the Sox. He's out of options and he's likely not back until mid 2026 and he didn't exactly look ready for the bigs in his short stint. Seems like the most likely outcome on him is he gets DFAed next spring.

Bonemer is really gonna make or break last year's draft. Not seeing a lot of upside in the other position talent we drafted and our drafted college OF bats could fall off these lists really quickly. In '03 we at least stocked up on some quality stuff on the pitching side. Smith is a hell of a prospect but we also passed on some really solid positional picks so I feel like you almost need him to be a front end starter or the draft is a bust.

Excellent write up. The names on the list speak to the excellent depth the White Sox now possess on the pitching side. There's enough legitimate prospects on that list and some will definitely get big league opportunities. I was really impressed with Schweitzer and the overall quality of his stuff. At a minimum I think he'll find success as a reliever. It might be just a bad first impression but the quality of his stuff took a major dive out of the stretch. If you put him in a bullpen told him to forget about the runner and just focus on throwing a max effort fastball (while maintaining control) I feel like he could have some nice upside as a late inning reliever.

My first thought watching Colson this spring was he looks a bit leaner. But in my head I figured maybe the humidity in Charlotte just adds 10 lbs. It's just a matter of time until he's like a 255-260 first basement with total focus on power hitting.

If the plan is to let Shuster start it seems like he's probably the best candidate to fill starts until Thorpe is ready. You give him 3-4 starts to earn his spot and if he's pitching well you only give the spot back to Thorpe if the "rehab" stint went well. I'm not sure that Shuster has a lot of value out of the pen, but be might have value being a below average starter.

Adams got tagged for two rockets, but he has legit swing and miss in his repertoire. Everytime I see him pitch I'm left with the impression he's going to have a very successful big league career.

He had a lot of success as a starter in AA. There's no reason why you wouldn't at least give him an opportunity to make a few starts. He starts the year in the pen and mid year you work him up to 4-5 innings and let him start. I feel like you can do that with a lot of our AAA guys, give them a chance to have some success out of an MLB pen and give them the chance to start if they've earned it.

It will probably end up being more than you would assume. Last year was uniquely bad from an expected outcome standpoint. But with the exception of SS/C (on opening day) I would expect the guys out there getting playing time will likely have an OPS+ over 100. If they don't the Sox will just give that playing time to someone else. Thus it's likely we get 100 OPS/WRC+ output out of 2B/3B simply because we have enough options that one of them is likely to be average and we're probably going to platoon a lot of guys to minimize their poor split impacts on their overall output.

A lot of guys today showed promising velocity for their first outing of spring. Smith was obviously having issue with the release point on the fastball but he was 96-98 on a lot of fastballs. Nastirini and Booser both were up a few miles on their avg fastball velocity from last year. Mason Adams threw 8 pitches, all strikes and had two 3 pitch strikeouts. Every time I watch Colon play SS I immediately think he doesn't belong there.

In a world where he gets $5M a season the beer vendors better be making six figures this year

They might not need a new stadium, but they need a new location.

I don't really see an issue with the Sox trying Colson at SS even at the MLB level, but I do wonder if at least getting him some 3B time would make sense. Like a 5 at SS, 2 At 3B type of schedule. Do we really want all his experience at 3B coming at the MLB? I kinda have some concerns with his approach and swing too. He seems to take an absurdly high count of pitches right down the middle. It's like the scouting report says just put it dead center over the plate because he won't swing at that.

$20 a month isn't a bad deal. It got me to cancel my $200/month Comcast plan to watch the bulls. I tired the OTA antenna. It kept having issues with signal quality and having the the DVR options with the app seemed like a fair deal at $20.

One thing about Wolkow that immediately stood out watching a few games on TV is the dude moves really well. He's a legitimate athlete, given enough development time I don't see why he can't be a plus outfielder. The strike out rate is less of a concern if he shows noticible improvement year to year. If he's in AA at age 20 with a 25% k-rate I think everyone will be content.

Colson's value takes a significant hit if he can't stick at short. If Law doesn't see any chance of him sticking there, I'm not surprised to see him fall off a top 100 list.

The bullpen projection is probably going to be a text book case on why spending on the bullpen doesn't provide value. I'm willing to bet they find a way to find servicable pen pieces and end up with a bullpen that's not ranked last. That's not a high bar, but it also goes to show you can probably just keep sending bodies out there until you find enough pieces to make the bullpen servicable.

I haven't seen Meidroth play, but my guess is if you don't think he can handle SS at the big league level you won't think very highly of Colson at short.

Young A-Rod was not stiff. He was a great athlete (I think he even swiped 40 bags one year). He got big and stiff in his late 20s, but Colson is already way bigger than A-Rod was even on roids. Colson is a big dude, he's gotta be around 6'5"ish, 240-250. He would make most 1B look small.

I don't know if I've seen anyone in the entire prospect industry give Colson a passable review at SS. He's not a bad athlete, he's actually a pretty solid, but he's a big dude. He would probably make a solid D1 TE. When you watch him there are two things there seem to be very apparent. 1) He seems a bit stiff. It might just be his size but it just doesn't look that smooth when he's on the move, especially to his right side. 2) His reaction time, or the initial explosive first step you would love to see in a quality SS is not there. Once he's moving he might be above average in terms of sprint speed, but with each play as SS my only thought was this guy is just way too big to play SS. I don't even think I'm being critical of him. For a man his size to be this close to the majors while still playing SS is very impressive. I look forward to seeing him at the MLB level. If I was making the decisions I probably would have moved him to 3rd simply because at some point this team will likely be semi-competitive again and you don't want to fool yourself into thinking you have a viable defender at SS and then scramble to fill a defensive hole. While at the same time developing 3B options that might be blocked (Ramos).