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For lack of a better term, he looks like he is trying to be more hitterish at this time.

For tonights game.

I am OK with this. As he gets more comfortable with the change in the strike zone from what he thinks it is, to what is actually being called, then he can start to add power back.

If he has surgery in the next week or so, that puts 18 months at the middle of March of 2020.

It seems like yesterday that people were pissed about Gomez still being in AAA.

Do people really believe this?

Nice to see Gio settle in and go deep again.

I am pretty sure that 7 million in Chicago would be less than 6.5 million in KC when you factor in taxes and COLA. Even if it isn't that isn't a lot of money to rebuild a life in a new City for 1 year.

And it will only effect one season. He will be able to be ready to go by 2020 spring training, even with 2019 full flushed down the toilet.

Wait, are people still upset about the return for this deal? Have you looked at Tommy Kahnle, who was actually the centerpiece of this deal in the last year? Hahn sold him at absolute peak value. If they had held on to him into this year, we'd be looking a return of a garbage reliever. Instead we got a top 100 OF. Also not sure why people think that $500,000 extra would have been enough for Moustakas to leave his comfortable life in KC for a 1 year deal with the White Sox. This seems a bit presumptive to me.

Yes. Looks like he started throwing the very end of January. https://southsideshowdown.com/2018/01/30/white-sox-zack-burdi-begins-throwing/

Burdi had his the last week of July in 2017 and reported to AZL for rehab in August of 2018. A similar pace would have him ready about the time that the season would be ending at the major league level.

Kris Bryant spent half of a season at AAA, before getting sent back briefly in 2015. Eloy Jimenez's time in AAA will be less than a half a season when he goes back next year. Vlad Jr spent 30 games at AAA. Peter Alonso has spent about as much time at AAA as Kris Bryant. All of these guys are causing outrages for spending about half a season at AAA. Kopech has already spent about a full year at AAA. If he hadn't been recalled, and had been sent back to AAA to game service time, we will be trying to say that the top pitching prospect in baseball needed parts of three different seasons at AAA, despite the numbers he was putting up. It is becoming harder to justify the first four scenarios, and those guys are talking about filing grievances. I have NO idea how you could justify leaving Kopech at AAA AND THEN sending him back to AAA again next year. I get wanting the control, but let's be realistic here and recognize that these scenarios are NOT the same.

I would love to hear of one, because I can't recall any.

Sure. But they still have a failure at the major league level to lean on. The Sox would have nothing.

When they sent him down, he had a .383 OPS going at the major league level.

Buxton's problems were performance related. That is 100% the difference here. Unless and until Michael Kopech comes back and gets beat up, you don't have a legitimate reason to do this. In a month at the major league level the kid had a .383 OPS. Even his MiLB numbers weren't anything special.

That isn't going to work. That would be a grievance, and Kopech would probably win it, unlike the others.

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