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As many know I am extremely high on Colas. He is a prototypical RF . Power LH and 7 assists in only 32 games in RF for Birmingham last. The other games for Birmingham were in CF and DH. I don't think the whole OF had 7 assists combined all last year.

If you go maybe I can share the driving and gas. Ive never been to ST.

Ha could've fooled me when earlier in the off season I was angling for Andrus and felt like the whole board was against me. Maybe at that point they wanted better but most of the arguments were Leury was just as good as Andrus.

No one is going to make that move and you wouldn't either if you were manager unless you wanted all your bosses to say WTF are you doing ? You wouldn't even get out of ST saying I'm moving TA to 2b in favor of our last minute $3M guy.

Tim all love .

Tim back on track ck

Cross Cuban Christian Lopez off the list although I'm not sure it's the same guy since Cristian is now spelled Christian and he's now 20 instead of 18.

According to Romero the Sox have the most money left @$1.699M . 2nd :St. Louis $1,474,000, 3rd: Arizona $1,370,500 4th: Reds $1,250,000 5th: Boston $1,054,500

Francys Romero @francysromeroFR · Feb 15 Replying to @francysromeroFR Except for OF Speck Ramírez (2024), the others players will be able to sign from February 24.

He had 8 HR's by June 11th. If not tops on the Sox it was close. He was sent down and hasn't been back since because he was booting balls all over the place. He was hitting LHP very well but wasn't very good against RHP . But he did have a 112 OPS+ Burger was placed on the 7-day IL on July 6 with a right-hand bone bruise and was optioned to Charlotte after his rehab assignment.Burger suffered a non-displaced left wrist fracture in late August.

White Sox signed LHP Ricardo Sánchez to a minor league contract. Sánchez made a trio of relief appearances for the Cardinals during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season and spent last year at the Triple-A level between the Phillies and Tigers, finishing with an underwhelming 4.95 ERA, 1.50 WHIP and 103/41 K/BB ratio across 116 1/3 innings (26 starts). The 25-year-old left-hander is merely upper-level organizational starting pitching depth for the White Sox entering the 2023 season.

He's a saint you aren't simple as that. Should be used to it by now from him. You read into things . He never does. He'll try to cancel you out by innuendo and guilt by association .

I'm glad. That's why I post them so Soxtalk can hear these things for themselves and not just rely on tweets or portions taken out of context. The team seems to be responding well to the Grifol message. Now somehow they stay have to stay a lot healthier than usual . This team has a wide variance of outcomes. I would imagine the, predict the number of Sox wins for the season thread, should be coming soon.

A certain amount can be put on the team. As usual JR stuck his nose in and made a mess. You talk as if Tim wasn't his own worst enemy. Maybe he's bothered because he doesn't feel anyone has his back and sticking their noses into his personal life and drawing conclusions from very little knowledge. Losing and injuries and upper management decisions will tear you down but most players in his situation would say I have no control over that and I'll let my play do the talking and if I do well and keep my nose clean I'll reap the benefits. There's not a whole lot to gain from being outwardly disgruntled and pointing fingers. Jose just did what he had to do and went to a team with a good chance to win a World Series if that was what he is seeking and didn't think the Sox could do it.

We aren't victims. Being in California I don't spend money on the White Sox. I am a fan. Plenty of things to hate about the team and I've been vociferous about those many many things, many many times, which basically is all on JR. Fans aren't at fault and aren't to blame for anything but my recent positive comments have got a good response mostly. You aren't going to stop watching and rooting for the team are you ? It that respect you must have some emotional investment in the team doing well . Feel free to be as angry as you feel you have a right to be. If I was doing what you said I am I'd be a hypocrite because I am extremely vocal about their shortcomings as an organization. I just temper my expectations, but like this time of year because I can see the what usually amounts to delusional wisdom in "hope springs eternal". I can't always be a grump about it.

I think he meant a cliche response instead of a PC one like, "This is a good team and I want to be a part of it." Instead he just said I need a job and they offered me one.

I guess I just disagree. There are issues and big ones.especially Clevinger and the health of Liam but at least in the Liam situation Liam is such an upbeat and yes uplifting guy. He is providing inspiration to his team mates and fans alike that given a life and death disease he's out there with his teammates when he can be. I don't know about you but that's something to find joy in. Plus if TLR and injuries were the demise of 2022 we no longer have neither of those things. We have a LH savage with a strong arm providing the most hope for RF in a long time. I spent all off season whining. That time is over at least for a month . It's a long season where I can start griping at any time but I suppose I just find it disturbing that this place is mostly joyless. I knew a long time ago what it seems like many just discovered, that JR doesn't care about winning as much as we want him to. If that has created so many Eeyores so be it, but it's not the end all be all of my fandom.

The way I see it it's his time. He's had plenty of experience from his time in Japan. Even with all the rust from not playing much in the last year he came out guns blazing and even got better in AA in Birmingham, a bad place for Sox prospects in the past. Once he switched to RF in Birmingham he racked up 7 assists in RF in only 32 games. That's an absurdly high amount of assists in so few games. You can say any player or prospects has issues because even very good players getting on base 35% percent of the time are still not getting on base 65% of the time. You can focus on the weaknesses to get better, but lets not downplay their strengths and he has plenty of strengths. He's also about 24.5 years old and once you reach your mid 20's you start to lose the feeling of a prospect and get into the "it's now or never time" to show what you got. Plus in order to try and mitigate teams trying to gain the extra year MLB provides Prospects Promotion Incentives (PPI).https://piratesprospects.com/2022/10/breaking-down-the-prospect-promotion-incentive.html "In order for a team to qualify for the PPI program, they must roster a qualifying prospect long enough for the player to accrue a full season of service. Going into the season, a qualifying prospect must still have their rookie status intact with 60 days or less of service and be included on two of the three Top-100 prospect lists from the following publications: ESPN, Baseball America, or MLB Pipeline." These incentives also apply to Arbitration eligible players and, if you recall, Cease got around an extra $2M for finishing 2nd in the Cy Young voting. Colas qualifies having made the Top 100 in both Pipeline and Baseball America which to me is quite an accomplishment given the fact the odds where stacked against him coming in being an older prospect dropped into A ball to start the season when these prospects lists focus more on the younger players, Colson Montgomery for example. Although Montgomery deserves his high ranking it still is just opinion based and he has a much longer way to go to prove those opinions correct. Colas is knocking on the door barely a few months after making the lists despite the Sox slow playing his rise. That decision only led to more doubts among the people who do the rankings and apparently some fans because his time in AAA was so short . So I wouldn't exactly call him a Fringe Top 100 guy. I'd call him a guy who impressed a lot of people but given how the rankings work perhaps they needed to see more. But I really don't know what else he could've done. The main thing is he hit LH and RHP equally well and fielded his position very well. His walk to K ratio wasn't good and he's been working on it in the off season but I'm pretty sure his main goal was to show his skills with the bat and in the field and he did that amazingly well. No one comes to the majors a finished product. There's really no reason to take Colas' defense out of the OF unless you plan on putting Marisnick in RF against lefties and Sheets against RHP until they deem Colas ready. Even if the service time manipulation is transparent Colas won't win a grievance. More than likely wouldn't even file one because he'd lose even if he had a red hot ST and was still sent down. He has built in disadvantages because it took him so long to get to the states in the rankings and among fans.