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Grandal FO LF Sheets K Alberto bloops a single to RF, Remillard PR Marisnick single Remillard to 3rd Haseley FO to RF right in front of the wall.

in CF when Grandal was up ? yes

Defensive Substitution: Romy Gonzalez replaces second baseman Elvis Andrus, batting 1st, playing second base. Pitching Change: Reynaldo Lopez replaces Lance Lynn. K, HR by Garrett Mitchell 5-1 , GO, K 5-1

Top 3 in the order have 2 hits apiece, Andrus, Colas, Vaughn Bottom 3 have 1 hit each Marisnick, Haseley, E. Gonzalez 9 hits through 4

Marisnick FO Haseley double Erick Gonzalez K Andrus double RBI 4-0 Colas chopper maybe a hit but bobbled by the pitcher who then threw it away .5-0 .Colas stays at 1st Vaughn K 5-0

Lynn 4 shut out innings 5K ,1 walk , 2 hits

Colas single, Vaughn chopper Burnes dives , fields it and throws it away Colas to 3rd , Vaughn to 2nd Grandal deep Sac Fly RBI to RCF Nice catch Colas scores, Vaughn to 3rd 3-0 Sheets short FO to CF Vaughn stays at 3rd Alberto lines out to SS leaping grab 2nd 3-0

Lynn's 3rd inning GO, single , single, 1st and 2nd, Yelich K, Winker Force out at 2nd

Marisnick single Caught stealing Haseley GO Erick Gonzalez single steals 2nd Andrus FO

Lynn fairly east 2 inning 2 K 1 walk DP GO

Burnes pitching Andrus single Colas walk 1st walk of spring Grandal Vaughn single and error on Yelich ,RBI, Colas to 3rd 1-0 Grandal weak chopper to short. GO Vaughn to 2nd Colas scores RBI 2-0 Sheets FO Vaughn to 3rd. Alberto Line out to SS

Seasonal depression to Valentine's Day to Spring Training, St. Patrick's Day, Opening Day. You understand now ?

Yeah it's just a new face to make familiar to Sox fans and interesting because he is hitting well so it's a ST story. Long way to go. It's like people thinking Burger deserves a roster spot because of 2 early ST HR's . At this point Alberto is more useful than Burger just because his glove works. Sorry Jake learn left field , make yourself tradable.

They were playing a local Taiwanese team Taichung.

That's not going to happen 50-75 is a lot. Benintendi and Colas would both have to miss time . I don't foresee Colas being a big enough detriment with the bat to give up on his defense . More than likely if you stick Eloy in the field you're just asking him to get injured. If the Sox haven't learned by now that they need Eloy's bat in the lineup, they never will. As a manager Grifol should want Eloy to play the OF if needed .After all he wants him to be fully prepared. Did you know Colas had a higher OPS against LHP than RHP in the minors ? Most of his HR came against RHP because like most LHH he had 3 times the number of PA against RHP. I don't expect Colas' transition to be seamless. Like most players he'll go through periods where he struggles but i do expect him to be in the OF most of the time. Sheets also had a .900 OPS at home last year. I don't expect him to repeat that but I also don't expect his puny OPS on the road either. But I'm not expecting him on the OD roster and if he isn't as a LHH 1st baseman then Burger won't be either considering the vast majority of pitchers are RH.

It's like people forget what ST is all about.It might mean some times it might not mean anything and that applies to the people doing good too. In that case you hope it does mean something. After all a good ST can elevate a players status for making the team. Like Colas if he came out sucking and K'ing a bunch it's easy to say send him down and get the extra year. But he's got hits off a few LHP and is spraying the ball all over and not K'ing much. Any day now he'll hit a bomb. 9 players from the Sox gotta be leaving for the WBC soon so plenty of chances to show your stuff.

Well at least it's a game now .

Terrell Tatum ?

3 runs in still no outs .SHeets singles up the middle to cut it to 5-4. 1 out 2 on.

Sox scrubs rallying

Oscar hurt the wall.

I'm not Outman back patting . It's only spring training and I made a point of saying "a nice spring" not a nice season or career and I wouldn't have said anything but @bmags said Outttmannnnn ! since he liked him too and I responded to him. Long way to go before I can say he's a good player.

Outman is having a really nice spring. I took a lot of crap for bringing him up so much lol.

Going to die on that Colas to AAA hill. Well I guess I might die on the Colas to play on opening day hill also . But at this point I think people are assuming Colas on opening day. I'm not really but the extra year might be a good idea if he is really really good and I have always thought he would be very good. But that's also a reason to have him from the start. If this might truly be the one final push year in the window I want every advantage no matter how small. Who knows where the Sox will be in that extra year. I actually have no idea who the bench will be besides Zavala. All the names are out there in this thread. Marisnick, Hamilton, Alberto, Leury, Romy, Sheets. Really hard to say who has the advantage. Grifol really letting them run wild on the bases so far as steals are concerned. That might eliminate Sheets along with his defense. Grifol might be stressing defense along with speed to enhance ways of scoring and preventing runs to increase wins. Would be nice if some of the speed and defense guys could hit a little too. That's the main problem with choosing bench guys.

Gotta credit Burger for the hustle too seemed like a pretty routine DP ball. He's not slow. Surprised he hasn't expanded his horizons to LF . I always wonder if his Achilles is pain free now.