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LH power Sheets and Haseley.

Electrolytes and water Eloy. No coffee, no caffeine pills. no caffeine, no diuretics of any kind.

I don't understand the proof that he's soft comment. Unless you feel what he feels how can there be proof ? Certainly not proof that would hold up in a court of Law. Class action suit: White Sox Iron-Men fans vs. Yoan "House of Pain" Moncada.

Probably not but between the defense and the decent pop he's been showing he looks great. Haseley too. Is he good enough defensively to play CF ?

Damn what did Alberto do this winter ?

Mercy rule approaching

Harold Reynolds was raving about Anderson's 2nd base play before the game. Said he could be up there with ALtuve among the best 2nd basemen in baseball if he switched and wants to see him switch.

DO you think he'll start in A or A+ ? A+ seems aggressive for a guy from the DSL but he's 21. But he looked really good in the DSL.

He was the Sox best DSL player last year. .344 .448 .636 1.084 That's a great slash line even if he was 20 and the most of the DSL is younger. 154 AB, 7 2b, 7 3b, 8 HR 29 BB 22 K From The Sox 2023 Prospects page where he is ranked 28th. "Built like a slightly taller Jose Altuve, Chapelli's clean left-handed swing and disciplined approach produce a lot of hard contact. In two seasons as a teenager in Cuba's Serie Nacional, he batted .304/.419/.438, a stat line that doesn't do justice to his power potential. With his hitting ability, bat speed and sneaky strength, he could hit 15 or more homers on an annual basis. After playing the outfield corners in Cuba, Chapelli switched to second base in the DSL. His solid speed, quick hands and decent arm give him a chance to become an average defender at second. He'll be 21 this season and could make the jump to High-A to show what he can do against more age-appropriate competition." He'll be a great follow this year in A ball. People said the same thing about Altuve when no one wanted to sign him. I think Altuve was one of those 15K signees. They knew he had a quick bat, was a leader and good instincts but he was 5' 5" at 16 years old . Hasn't grown much since then.

Best Spring Training among Sox players with 20+ AB's by OPS. Hanser Alberto 1.190 Erick Gonzalez 1.089 (he's been hot lately) Elvis Andrus 1.073 Adam Haseley .979 Grandal .939 Vaughn .880 With just under 20 AB (18/19) it's Eloy 1.106 , Zavala 1.084 , Ramos .955

Since a RHP will be on the mound roughly 70% of the time and if we assume Anderson will always be the lead off hitter then its important to go RLRL even RLLR in the order. Now you can always start it LRLR which is better against RHP especially if Moncada leads off because of his OBP, then ideally Tim singles him to 2nd or 3rd .Then you have a lefty to bat 3rd against the RHP .Maybe that's Grandal but he may hit into a lot of DP's unless you steal or hit and run with Anderson . Or you can just put Eloy 3rd and go with Grandal 4th but still that DP looms. With Grandal and Vaughn DP's are always a factor. A lot of different ways to play it against a RHP. Moncada ,Benintendi ( 2 LHB so if Moncada gets on you want Benintendi to hit behind the runner (pull it). If you go LRL its Moncada, Anderson Benintendi ? But probably rather see Eloy 3rd if you need a HR late in the game or in the 1st for that matter. The problem becomes as @VAfan pointed out that we have no idea how any of these guys are going to hit or the amount of HR's. We can take our best guesses based of numerous factors. We have a bunch of guys capable of 10- 20 HRs and maybe 4 -6 with 20+ HR potential, Eloy,Vaughn, Robert, Grandal and maybe Moncada &Colas. The trouble is Colas is a Rookie. Moncada hit 25 in the bouncy ball year but will he ever do it again ? Vaughn and Robert haven't done it before, Grandal has done it 5 times but at this point of his career can he do it again ? Eloy hit 31 once and we always hear predictions that one day he'll hit 40 but hasn't been above 16 since because of injuries. Grifol will have to figure things out fast. He should have a lot of tools at his disposal with all the different splits and data to analyze things . But a new season and early health hopefully makes last years bad data obsolete. A fast start in the 1st 25 games would mean decent pitching along with better than last year hitting. Go Sox !!

Looked like soft toss so probably just working on going the other way without the need for getting the bat around so fast. I'm sure it s much quicker against the high speed machines. He did pretty good in the DSL last year but he was older than most of them.

You're probably good. Really hard to win ROY.

That's why I'm pretty stoked about now having Benintendi and Colas in the lineup along with Grandal who is looking very good so far. Hoping that can last for a while. Would be really fun to have Moncada make me eat my words about his hitting too. He's indispensable at 3rd because of his glove but as contenders the Sox need more from him.

They can't all be pretty depending on where you start and where the ball is. But I do like how after he caught it he got rid of the ball quickly. Just by seeing that I assume there was someone on base that he didn't want to advance. Heads up play.

Key AB with 1 out and 1st and 2nd for Romy and he K'd . Followed by an Andrus FO.

As of right now on some betting sites he's the eighth favorite for ROY. The top 2 are clear favorites but after that it's tightly bunched It will change based on injuries and performance.

When I post my opinion on something I take many things into consideration, what I think the chances of the team of making the playoffs, how I think those chances can be improved, my opinions on the ability of the players and the players he is surrounded by. All baseball talk and MY OPINION. I don't care about conventional wisdom in player development in certain situations if I don't think it will hurt the team or the player. Your answers to me were condescending and insulting when you talk about conventional wisdom and no team that knows what they are doing would do what I suggest. There are a lot of teams doing things a lot of different ways. There are no absolutes and stating things absolutely as you do and asking me why I can't understand that concept is insulting . There are no absolutes and you are asking me to run with the pack of hive thought. You can state your opinion without being that way. You are telling me I am wrong because I don't agree with people you consider wiser then I am. Opinions have nothing to do with intelligence or what the majority thinks .That is not a valid argument. As our parents used to ask, If everyone was jumping off a building would you do it ? That was our parents' way of saying have the confidence to draw on your own innate intelligence and depend on your own judgement, having your own views and values to guide you, rather than someone else's. There are many times I think the same way as the majority and some where I don't. When I don't that's when things get ugly and it is never me that starts the ugliness. I don't care about being right so much as I care about being asked to join with the rest of the majority in thinking the same way. Just because you get angry will not dissaude me from MY OPINION even when it's different than the majority and the majority attempts to silence me by trying to make me feel wrong and outnumbered . This is why I bring up past attempts to do the same things and the outcomes . I know no one likes a braggart but I feel it's the best way to show that even when in the minority of popular opinion that people can be right and encourage them to stick to their guns and continue to think independently.

Don't you know that conventional wisdom for teams that know what they are doing says you can't put Colas 5th on Opening Day ? You'll scar him for life.

"gets Getts" "Hard concert" since you seem to take such joy in my typos/mistakes . Childish I know but below you quoted my error of typing idiotic instead of idiot. No I have no idea where you got that from. I didn't post anything about where they batted on opening day and why does one day even matter . Fine put him 7th or 8th on Opening Day and bat him in the top 6 the rest of the games. Happy now ? Not in the middle of the Order Opening Day. I'm not trying to prove you wrong. It's your opinion yet my opinion is a "long nonsensical diatribe" . You can be a Moncada homer and I can't be a Colas homer . Got it. See above 1st insult from him not me. If it was only civil discussion but somehow because I am persistent against the vast majority it makes people angry just like when it happened with Vaughn in 2021 when I said he was a bad OFer and couldnt hit, yet no one wanted him off the field or out of the lineup in what might be the best season of the attempted rebuild or thinking Andrus was a good choice for 2nd base but the vast or maybe my most persistent opposition thought he was no better than Leury. I am persistent and outnumbered yet I'm doing the brow beating ? It's not my fault because I am persistent and a Colas homer that he feels brow beaten and has to lash out. I don't take that crap lying down. I don't turn the other cheek. We had a crappy .500 team last year and @Tnetennba picked the Sox to win 78 games this year. I don't understand why he cares so much where Colas bats on Opening day. Might as well just send him to the minors and get the extra year if he thinks that instead of arguing how important it is to keep him down in the order. Yet he applauds you suggesting the reason all the rookie of the year candidates ( with the exception of Rodriguez who you didnt mention) in the AL had so many PA's in the top 6 in the order was because they were on either bad teams or teams had no offense. He thinks the Sox are a bad team and last year they had no offense. He should be telling me, based on his own posts and emojis that Colas should be in the top 6 asap.

My arguments were very civil until that guy got personal with me so I got personal back ( riled up as you call it.) Talking about the middle of the order was a way of saying he should be higher than 7th or 8th which is where everyone is putting him which is why i used the 1-6 argument with the other rookies. The OP wanted him platooned with Romy hence the arguments about the other OF's be it Romy, Hamilton or Marisnick. Why is winning not important to the argument ? It would seem to me that a guy picking the Sox to win 78 games shouldnt give a f*** about where anyone bats so vehemently unless he somehow thinks batting him in the middle of the order will somehow ruin him. My argument is erratic yet it's his argument for Colas not to be in the middle of the order only on one day Opening Day if i am to take him literally because no team ( who knows what it's doing) does it ever.

ARe you some kind of moron? Are you arguing for only not batting Colas in the middle of the order for just one day , Opening Day ? WTF is that? Talk about undermining your own posts., You don't even think the Sox will have more than 78 wins so what does it matter to you who bats where ? Plus I don't see how you get that I underminded my own post . I didnt look up where they each batted for just one day . My stats were for where they batted the vast majority of the time they played and it was overwhelmingly not 8th but in the top and middle of the order.

Hmm so you think the mighty Moncada might sit against LHP sometimes for a journeyman infielder who the Sox signed to a minor league deal based on ST ABs. Leury gone ?

Bobby Witt Jr. Batted 1-6 in all but 34 of his 632 PA's the majority coming 1-3 Julio Rodriguez all but 78 of his 560 PA's came 1-6 , vast majority came 1-3 Steven Kwan 638 PA all but 55 came 1-6 with 576 either 1 or 2 Adley Rutschman 470 PA , all but 9 came batting 1-6 Jeremy Pena 3rd rd. draft pick , slick fielder not expected to be a top hitter in a strong veteran lineup with players who have consistently shown how good they are in a long competitive window .253, .289, .426 , .715 not that impressive except for the 22 HR. July and August struggled pretty bad. STill 321 PA 1-6, 227 7-9 Doesn't seem to me like there was much conventional wisdom going on for the top vote getters for ROY in the AL. This is so simple and only an idiotic would think otherwise wisdom of yours is just a pathetic attempt use anecdotal evidence to make to make you appear wise. Back it up with facts or shut up. Yep no team did it. It just didn't happen .

Look you either think this team can win or you think they won't make the playoffs .If they don't make the playoffs again. That's it, the window is done . Massive trades forth coming with the same group who failed to build the sustained winner and long periods of either sucking or mediocrity with little to sustain anything in the minors. He will struggle all players struggle . Look what happened last year and those guys aren't rookies. Eloy and Robert have struggled to stay healthy for 3 years or not be good at the same time for extended periods. Are we better off with Sheets and Hamilton, Romy, Marisnick in the OF ? Do you think we will ruin him ? Do you want to wait a month to see if Moncada can slug over .400 ? Enough babying these guys. Treat them like men. Put expectations on them . Failure is part of the process but some of these guys needs to get their acts together or it's going to be a long next 5 years.