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Did they put that rule in recently?

Baldwin is 2 years younger than Kelenic and had a 92 wRC+ compared to Kelenic's 47 last year. The idea the Sox are hoping Kelenic wins the job seems farfetched to me. Baldwin is the better player, regardless of (now long gone) draft pedigree.

Thank you and a thank you to @Autumn Dreamin for all the updates. Doing a great job.

The games don't count fellas.

To me it suggests he's already strained something.

we def have some dudes.

One thing I've taken from watching and reading (translated) WBC Asian prep is that they take injury prevention quite seriously. Perhaps more seriously than NA based players who have a "win a job" mentality sometimes. Most of the comments on a KBO spring game are basically just "avoid injury, go through the motions otherwise". It's an approach I wish more US pro teams would take, although I get it's a fine line.

I might run into the Schriff when I'm down there. Maybe I'll bring him a printout of all the love Soxtalk shows him.

They say W. Michigan is one of the cloudiest places on earth. As someone that did 20 some odd winters there I think they ain't lying. Misery loves company. It's 38 today with a venus like cloud cover. Had some flurries this morning. I figured we were done with winter and on our way to spring but we finally got a gulf of alaska low pressure the last week. Had some hail too. Oddly we had no real winter weather in January or December. Climate is def changing. It was 50 and dry for most of January here. Anyways, go Sox. Glad to be getting into the better part of the calander.

I can't stand when announcers b**** and moan about their job. Especially when you're being paid to be at spring training.

It's February 20th. I'd do the same s%*#. I ain't getting hurt going back to the wall on a towering fly ball in a high sky.

Cubs sideline reporter said it's "freezing" in Phoenix today? Come on it's 61 and partly sunny. Not exactly that cold for mid February down there. Freezing relatively would be like high 40s.

Nice swing buddy.

Good stop Murakami.

lol cannon. either straight down the middle or he's hitting a guys back foot.

Is Cannon throwing a circle change now? He needs something like that.

freezing my ass off this week at the office. nice to see some baseball in the sun.

Will is a good leader. I like him. One thing fun about Sox spring is they do share Camelback with the Dodgers.

The B1G really went from Kevin Warren to Tony Pettiti. Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Sorry Bears, he's your problem now. We'll deal with Tony in due time.

Not even the Sox can screw this one up. If he doesn't pan out he doesn't pan out but this guy looks like the easy choice. An average to good defensive SS that hits like 270/330/450 is a 4 WAR player. Be nice to inject that into the club in a couple years and move Colson over to 3B like Machado did.

Eh, we don't have any real superstar projections. Offense will probably be bottom 1/3, pitching bottom 1/4. Maybe we can improve to an average overall position player crop given that on paper we should have strong defense up the middle.

I just want to see some continued progress from the young position players. The pitching for now is what it is. We have maybe a couple decent 4th starters, maybe a couple solid relievers, and that's about it. Can't win much with that.

Rooting for Taiwan, US, Mexico and PR in that order.

That is a guy that needs some work on his swing. Nothing we didn't know.