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"Beni is a consistent pillar in our lineup. He [Fletcher] has to wait for an opportunity and take advantage of it.'" Pedro Grifol Veterans are given their playing time; young players must earn it. Believe in Pedro.

Is there even room in the Birmingham rotation for him? Sox have probably 10 starting pitching prospects who are looking really good.

The money is eaten; it's gone and is not coming back. They have to do something. Because this is ridiculous. They need to eat Pedro's contract as well - he's also ridiculous. it's an insult to the players for him to manage.

No, the complex doesn’t need any money. .

Send Benitendi to Arizona. If he still can’t figure anything out there, the Sox are still better off. Vaughn can go with him.

To bring players in, you have to move players out. There will always be a list if he's doing his job. The affectation with Bryan Shaw cost the Sox. They chose him over Chavez out of the Spring, and Chavez is having another good year with the Braves. They then dumped Jose Rodriguez, who is really the only really lamentable cut they've made (in my eyes) to keep Shaw, only to cut Shaw a few days later. Trading for Bailey Horn was silly; cutting him shouldn't make much difference. As for his other trades, trading Mena was a bad move. Cease return was a bit disappointing; but perhaps it was overhyped and there was a some doubt thanks to a so-so 2023. With an inexperienced GM who also really didn't have the background for the job, not terrible.

I felt better about this, once informed that the young pitcher we dispatched was a reliever; loss of relievers really isn't lamentable (unless traded for a wife-beater). Julks had a solid minor league career and wasn't terrible with the Astros last season - a lot of good players start off with a year like he had. With the Sox, so far, so good. But for sure we should pick up any Astro named K/Corey.

I would be surprised if Pedro is fired this season. And they'll win some games against Toronto. They're not the Yankees and they'll have to face our 2 good starters.

Just looking at the rosters of the winning teams across the league, it's amazing how many sub .700 hitters each has. It's generally 50%+. Now they have a couple of guys who are raking, but, man, it wouldn't take that much to be competent offensively, on a relative basis.

I wonder what the skipper's reasoning was in wheeling Flexen out there in the 5th to face Soto and Judge, after he had given up a homer to Babe Berti in the 4th. And then after the single to Soto, he still won't make a move. Any of those relievers he used to mop up the rest of the game would have made more sense. It's like he doesn't even watch the game and how it is proceeding.

I felt the same way...until I saw Mendick is back. These guys are all the same.

Yea, I remember; the dimwits declined Rodon and picked up Kimbrel.

Draft this guy.

We have a Stivers who we drafted a couple of years ago and it’s Stievers who’s been injured since forever. Which one is this or is it someone else?

Don’t do it.

There was one pitch where it looked like Maldonado started his swing after the ball was already in the catcher's mitt. Remillard picked off 2nd. FFS. Bring up the young(er) guys please.

The key is to find the guys are going to be good prospects tomorrow. They need to have scouts all over these teams. GMs hear it from the fans when they dispatch their top prospects. They get a lot more leeway if they give up someone unheralded who turns into a top prospect. A lot of Sox fans gave Hahn “who could’ve known” leeway for Tatis e.g. It’s the inverse of college recruiters, who better sign those five stars, regardless of whether they can play. The Sox came up with several good prospects last August, for what was essentially a bunch of riffraff. Hahn finally took August seriously.

Good to see that the prospects acquired in the Bummer and Sleepy Middleton trades have pitched well for the Dash.

I hope it works out. Sure could use a good outfielder. While I haven't been awed by Getz' moves, I want to go easy on him, at least for now, after suffering 10 years of Hahn and his dog-and-pony show.

My hope is for a hitter, who plays a position other than corner infield, without a swing hitch/cocking during the swing.

Good point. But this is the White Sox organization, where bullpen work is often a promotion, not a relegation where a large part of free agent resources has been spent on relievers; where given the choice between an option pickup for a starter in his prime coming off an ace-level season or an aging closer, the Sox chose the aging closer; and the org that put what appears to be an ace-level starter into middle relief for his first 3 seasons.

If that were to happen, he should still receive the Rickey treatment.

I think Fedde's value will accelerate with more quality starts under his belt. Objective evidence that he really made substantive changes and he's not just a flash-in-the-pan will maximize value extracted. Same thing with Crochet, really, although part of it for him is to show he can hold up physically (and it's really annoying that the Hahn & Co squandered > 50% of his control years). Of course it must be balanced against his contract expiration. But I think the offers will be better in July than now.

Trading a young prospect for a AAAA player. Hard to understand.

The other teams are going to want to send their last proctectees from the Rule 5 draft and other marginal types for most of the players the Sox will try to peddle. If that's the best the Sox can do then there's really no point, beyond dispatching the old pitchers. But they did surprisingly well for Grossman, so perhaps they can do better. Not so anxious to dump Feddie: he was someone that the Sox had some insight on (and it appears that they were right) so it would be nice to get some real premium.