WhiteSox2023

Are we sure he is going to AAA or does he have an opt out?

Tigers released OF Austin Slater. Slater exercised the opt-out in his minor league pact with the Tigers after he wasn’t added to Detroit’s active roster by the deadline in his contract. The 33-year-old veteran outfielder should be able to latch on somewhere as a lefty-mashing part-time bench player.

I can confirm this. I didn’t notice any issues with the site at all, but I had been on WiFi the entire time using my Xfinity/Comcast cable Internet connection. However, I just turned WiFi off on my phone so it is using my data, which is Xfinity Mobile, and the site won’t load at all. It just hangs forever. Xfinity Mobile uses Verizon’s network for coverage.

Justin Crawford wins the Phillies’ starting CF job and Andrew Painter earns a spot in their rotation, bumping Tajuan Walker to the bullpen. Unfortunately, I don’t think they would have any use for Benintendi.

Hopefully he doesn’t make Alexander Alberto look like the dumbest Rule 5 pick of all time.

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I don’t think much of ST stats but he definitely earned the gig.

6 innings 3 hits 3 walks 11 strikeouts 0 earned runs

Surprised about Kelenic with Baldwin still hurt. Does this mean Hill is making the roster? Yuck.

Tell Jerry to eat Benintendi’s salary then. Good luck.

Yep, and they want to help Wade get another gig somewhere after his big day.

His fastball is averaging 93.9 mph. Unfortunately, the next news on him may be announcing his retirement.

I’m surprised they haven’t tried Sosa in LF yet, which makes me think they have no plans to dump Benintendi any time soon. Even if you don’t think Meidroth is the long-term solution at 2B and want Sosa available to play there, the Sox already have better options in the pipeline to play 2B than Sosa.

Hilarious. Football players heights are just as ridiculous.

Fanboy Merkin isn’t going to ask the important questions. I’m surprised the title of the article isn’t, “Thorpe in the best shape of his life; anticipating breakout season”.

And after that “massive” Murakami contract, Getz had to dump Robert to make additional moves. Obviously things won’t be changing in free agency until Jerry is no longer the owner.

Agreed. It’s funny. I don’t mind looking at the lineup at all. But I cringe a bit looking at that rotation.

Regarding your first paragraph, I guess we will have to see. I already said that Robert is injury-prone and he could easily get hurt regardless of any of this early Spring Training protection. However, regarding your second paragraph, the Sox pulled the same nonsense of playing guys that were still injured with not just their franchise player but a veteran in Tauchman as well, and that was as recently as last season. In both cases, it led to further time on the IR for both players. How often was it mentioned that the Sox would keep injured players on their active roster instead of calling a healthy player up and still choose to either play the banged up player or simply play games a man down? The Sox have been pretty bad at injury and roster management for years.

I’m not familiar with either The 78 location or this new location. I am only familiar with the areas around Ogilvie and Union Station from commuting downtown via the Metra for a job for a year. I never traveled that far south from those two areas. And yes, I do remember that you never said it would be an impossible task/project. I believe you doubted it would happen because building in the area would be a money pit for such an undesirable location. I assume you wouldn’t be a fan of this new location for a new Sox stadium either since it is pretty close proximity to The 78? It seems like this new location is actually smaller than The 78 — 47 acres as opposed to 62?

Let’s be honest — the Mets are managing his injury-prone ass way better than the Sox ever did. Robert could still very well get injured, but I recall the Sox having Robert active and in the lineup when he wasn’t even healthy yet and simply told him to jog the bases rather than run full speed. He was clearly still hobbled. And it’s not like the Sox learned anything from that situation. Remember last season when Tauchman was obviously not ready yet and he reinjured himself running the bases at a snail’s pace? So they played the same stupid injury game with both their franchise player and an old vet on a one year deal. The Sox are historically dumb as hell when it comes to this.

Yep, he even included it in his infamous “He better stay outta White Sox business” tirade about the best player in franchise history.

Probably. He knows who made him rich when he could have been out of a job long before he finally was.

Unfortunately likely. That rotation is UGLY.

With Jerry still the owner, our local sports writers are probably still too cowardly to ruin their relationship with the Sox by spilling any dirt.