chitownsportsfan

madrigal has a squirt gun for an arm.

TA heating up!

it's horrible here too. 50 degrees and raining and the cloud cover is so thick right now it's about dark 3 hours before sunset.

Harrison is at least good defensively I guess.

his running fastball is insane tonight.

I'm so happy Kopech decided to take the time he needed away from the game and has come back so well.

fucking cock shot and this bum pops it up.

small ball!

hey a little luck!

play adam engel every god damn day until he gets hurt. he's actually kinda decent now.

Figures the young pitching comes into its own just as half the lineup is either hurt or slumping.

"the riser"? Seems like it.

hang wiff'em.

I think most people's beef with Sheets is that he's apparently the starting RF.

There's a difference between being hurt and just sore. If these guys are this sore and tired already something is wrong with the training staff. Robert is the peak of his athletic prime he's a fucking specimen if that guy can't play 150 games a year and still be fresh something is wrong with the training.

Really? Even if I really hated Kimbrel and was a cubs fan I'd have to think I wouldn't have been thrilled getting a hurt Madrigal back as the return. Is he just a huge Cubs homer and thinks every move is gonna be a smash success?

bad combo of injury prone types and an overly cautious mindset. I'd play the guys until they can't. It's not like Robert can't get hurt a million other ways outside of slipping on wet grass.

I'm not a huge Madrigal fan but I'm with you on Harrison. The Sox created a hole at 2B and didn't fill it. The guys they have brought in haven't worked out. Hindsight is 20/20 but right now I'd rather have Nick at 2B than Harrison and the other bums.

I'm over it. Guys get hurt in 80 degree sun too.

Resting guys doesn't prevent them from getting hurt anyways we've seen that over and over.

the dead ball has really hurt him. his expected weighted on base has gone down each year. The quality of his contact just isn't there. It's going to be very interesting to see if he can maintain as a 2 WAR player. I think he can but there's also a chance the Sox sold about as high as they could on the guy.

You might as well wait a couple weeks. He'll be sent down and I'd imagine his owner would be even more motivated then. There's still like a 1/3 chance he develops into a productive regular but the chances are now higher he's just a 4th OF or borderline regular. Wouldn't surprise me to see him bounce between AAA and the majors for a couple years until figuring something out around age 26-27. If the world is still spinning in 2025 maybe he's a useful fantasy player then. I mean, look at this. You could pull up random A ballers and they would hit better than this:

Is it just me or this an absurdly promising start to the prospect season?

chicago really trying to take "worst weather in the country" title yet another spring.

Schoenfield is good but these broad review articles hardly ever have much insight for a hardcore fan. It is a good way to catch up on some of other clubs however. I think doing the playoff odds' approach is a bit misguided this early but the other side of that argument is the games count as much in April as May. For the Sox at least they were missing about 15 projected WAR the 1st few weeks so that's sorta a mitigating factor.