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Even if he's injured?

doesn't look that different than 2018 where he was bad but not awful. I hate colorado pitchers, all of their statcast movement graphs look like garbage, it's impossible to know what's going on.

Ah man, Polanco was good for 2-3 boneheaded plays per series.

Do you have any opinions on Gray last year and his lack of swing and miss? Someone mentioned a shoulder, but I don't see anything specific in his numbers, it just all looks worse.

funny story, all reactions that exist give you a "+1" to your reputation points. So there are no negative reactions. The confused one didn't even take away, it was just neutral.

He had a velo increase at instructionals and was getting everyone out according to BA.

The other guy to look out for for me would be Kade McClure when pitchers and catchers report.

Yes, that was discussed. We'll see. It talked about how it may result in reduced power but he already had been light there.

just an excellent piece: https://theathletic.com/2345601/2021/01/26/four-white-sox-prospects-are-heading-to-spring-training-to-make-their-mark/ I will just give some bits: - Collins sure sounds like he expects the backup - Sheets has dropped to 225 in an effort to be an outfielder, and also has tried to start selling for power in favorable counts to increase his slugging potential - Burdi is happy to have a real offseason to work on stuff, where he had a familiar issue that sox pitchers have had - his stuff was cutting and not dropping, leading to worse numbers than you'd think for his stuff. Katz tried to get him in sync. - Lambert is back to form and blamed his injury on the start-stop-start-stop last year. I honestly completely forgot just had a strain and wasn't under the knife again. I had just internalized that he was out for a year when it happened. Happy to have him back, he was fantastic in July's "spring" training. Burdi/Lambert could be interesting bullpens. I'd love if Lambert could try as a starter, which he seems like he is hoping he can try. That will be some nice depth. I believe in Lambert more than a Flores, for sure.

Dexter fowler and Trevor Rosenthal would be interested to hear that.

The one team I wouldn’t be shocked by that hasn’t been mentioned is Seattle. They have some good young talent arriving, Cruz is just a one year deal, and the division is garbage. They overperformed compared to expectations last year. Their payroll is really low historically for them. I don’t know that it’s likely but if one team jumps in I could see them doing it.

There's no doubt. But I'll defend chw42 here. When you get to end of careers, players don't always gradually slow down as much as fall off a cliff. Nelson cruz was the most insane hitter in baseball last year. But his k% has gone up three straight years. He had just 6 doubles compared to his 16 home runs. I'm not going to say Cruz won't be awesome, but we saw Paul Konerko go from 30% better than average as a hitter to 20% worse once season later, and then another 20% worse the next year.

yeah nevermind, still have rooker/larnach to move in.

very good vaccine. Very very good.

Reading Rosenthal on this, the word from the Union to the league that they rejected the DH for Playoffs proposal came last week, which would make it more likely that Hector could have heard positive Cruz to White sox messages last week. Interesting turn. Feel bad for Cruz. If I'm Twins I think I'd rather get the 4th of Odorizzi or Tanaka, and hope that Donaldson provides the offensive production you'd want with Cruz while introducing Kiriloff/Larnach.

I think he's still good personally, he just had bad luck last year. But when there are 100 decent relievers on the free agent market and probably more to trade, and you make market and had a bad year against lefties, you aren't going to find a market.

amazing story. The Yankees signed Adam Ottavino to a 3 year 27 mill deal. But in the third year his alotted salary was worth more to them than Ottavino's production, so they traded him, even though he wasn't that good. You can trade salary when all you need is the salary space. If they are your most talented asset AND most expensive is when you are in deep doo doo.

I think we are better off hoping for a structural change to a draft where they have a more enforced budget. I will say I think sox international scouting overall has been immensely better since 2016. Guys like Jose Rodriguez and Bailey weren't even players we were aware of until they showed up in DSL, and Ramos was very successful last year. The high-level guys like Robert/Abreu hit, and now we get to see how Vera/Cespedes may pay off. There's also intriguing guys like Guzman. So it's been productive for the sox just far too narrow.

Yes. My bad! Must be an extremely old man brain thing where I just looked in my memory for "two letters sox two numbers" lol

Nice map of where doctors live.

@dasox24 is going to love/hate this forum over the next three months lol.

Right, the "I'm not sure what it has to do with the sox" stuff is that a bunch or pitchers they targeted (taillon excluded but is an example of market) were traded for young, high upside players. A rebuttal isn't "well rutherford sucks" because the benefit of drafting a Rutherford is he maintains his value a lot longer than a Gavin Sheets. Rutherford sucks yet still was valuable to the Yankees. And I don't want to hear about how the sox were better at drafting college than high school. The white sox didn't draft high school at near enough volume for it to matter, including a stretch in 2015-17. Now they have, and they are some of our best trade pieces, despite (or likely because of) the lost year last year. It doesn't mean only HS players, but there can be a much better mix, which I think sox had started to hit starting in 2019.

This weekend we were able to secure appointments for all of our over 65 fam in IL through Jewel Osco, and in SC with Walgreens by calling and learning they typically had extra supply EOD and getting vaccines for our 85+ y.o. Grandparents. Feeling immense relief. My dad is only one left to figure out. I missed NC dates when I tried to keep track.

He’s talking about the cardinals.