Jake

It's not that I want it to be the Sox and no one else. I want it to be whichever team is doing it. I wanted the Cubs to get in trouble with Bryant too. I do think that it should be pretty easy to at least have no service time penalty to the team if the player is called up in September. Then you just add a provision that if the player is used in the playoffs that same year, then the September service days are added back to the service time.

I think the lack of Dunning is probably more about him having accrued a decent amount of innings already this year. No reason to push him back up to game speed when he might benefit from the extended rest.

We should have called him up a month ago. If it is true the Sox approached him with a contract offer designed to secure the extra year while also calling him up this season, it would be proof positive of the Sox's motivations. I would be happy for the Sox to get sanctioned for this stuff because it's bad for the game and something has to be done to stop it.

Every player is different. Moncada was obviously pretty immature when he arrived stateside and there's no telling what kinds of emotional traumas go on when you leave Cuba like he did. In baseball terms, he spent a year or more out of organized baseball while he left Cuba and that's something that surely set back his developmental timeline a little bit as well. There's just no reason to panic at this stage.

Let's be clear: Kopech appears to be experiencing no negative consequences from this beyond mild embarrassment

I'm not mad at the people who found the tweets even if they did it for silly reasons. Kopech said the stuff and he should answer for it — and he did. I don't think what he said then appeared to reflect a deep-seated bias or hatred, but that doesn't make it okay. But he was young and he hasn't made excuses or pretended it wasn't wrong, so I'm happy to move on from it.

And whatever the number is right now, you'd have to double it after a good month in MLB.

I'd lead with an offer of $40M for 7 years with 2-3 team or possibly vesting options.

Yeah now that I think of it, it's almost criminal that we didn't call up Bummer

Stupid. There was no rush to move Avilan and he's the type of pitcher who should get you a prospect more in the mold of Charlie Tilson.

Worth noting that the CBA will be renegotiated before these guys potentially reach free agency and all the monkeying around with service time happening now may not even matter.

I am sympathetic to the view that pitcher health is so hard to project 6 years into the future that you need to optimize for the next 2-3 years and just let the rest shake out. And if they are about to trade Shields and ended up calling Spencer Adams or something, it would have made the games they're (no longer) playing way too obvious.

Still happy with his ABs tonight. That was a pitch that would have been tough to hit and wasn't close.

FWIW I think Anderson had said his vision problem was very minor

I hope Abreu is a White Sox forever

Changed his approach so much that he purged the concept of the walk from his mind

After Beckham, Flowers, and Anderson, I won't be buying the glasses as the fix until I get some more compelling evidence

If Hahn gets to the point that he wants to trade Rodon, then you fire Hahn and let the next guy do it. If he can't get the team to at least think it is competing before Rodon becomes a FA, then we need new management.

That was indeed a weird article because it doesn't really include any new information from anyone about his defense other than Collins saying he has improved his work with the pitchers, whatever that entails. If you're going to puff, at least get somebody to say that he's doing X Y and Z. FWIW, I think we kind of screwed the pooch by having him catch fewer games this year than he did last year. This was because of the time-sharing with Zavala, but it has to have been a negative for Collins who has talked in the past about being affected by the heavy catching load. His offense has trailed off a bit since he's taken a larger share of the catching duties as well, suggesting the need for acclimating him to the workload.

Absurd that Kopech hasn't been in MLB for the past few weeks.

Ryan Sweeney comp still holding up reasonably well for Rutherford

Just sign the kid to a long-term deal and call him up

I'm not as high on Madrigal as some others are just because I haven't yet seen that he has a lot of physical talent. There is some mystery about whether he can play SS, and for some reason the Sox aren't trying it yet, but for now I see a 2B who gets very good reviews with the glove. I worry about what will happen when the better-than-eyeballs analytics get their hands on his defense. Maybe he'll be a great defensive 2B, it'll be important for his value that he is. He clearly isn't super strong, but it's hard to tell where he is on that spectrum. He can make contact with the best of them, but that isn't everything. I worry that you could end up with a guy who bats .300 but with such little power that he's still not actually very valuable. Overall, I see his floor as Chris Getz and I'm not sure who his ceiling is but it doesn't strike me as super high. I wasn't against the Sox drafting him because he's relatively low risk. But I'll also say that I was more enthusiastic about Trea Turner as a draft prospect, who ultimately went later in the round than Madrigal did. Of course, I hope I'm wrong!

lol, Sox really plastering the ball right now

This time he did know it was a strike by the time the catcher caught it, he was just badly fooled by the pitch. Still clearly battling two (or more) different thought processes up there