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And Benny rescues Rogers anyway.

Terrible play at 1B.

He has one challenge left.

And he still gets out of it. Wow.

yeah, I caught a lot of 93s along the way. Trying to figure out if he was holding back for movement, because everything was moving like CRAZY, or if something is up.

Bold of you to show up at all, much like his career since he signed with the White Sox.

WTAF was Benny doing?

I would say that he is much closer to ready than Braden. Not sure I see the need to rush him either, but I would rather see Ant than Braden now. Let these guys force the issue. This is a lost year, let them earn their way in, instead of jacking around with them.

I feel like this would be messing with his development because they are cheap. Why is everyone convinced he is ready TODAY? He's got like 140 AA ABs.

#1: I am not convinced that today is one of the best 25. #2: Even if he was, why would you start his clock in this dumpster fire and waste a year of control for no good reason?

It's really early for him to be called up to a team when it isn't anywhere close to competition. DOn't start his clock until you NEED to.

There is not a good reason for the international players to exist in some different realm than the American ones. The NBA and NHL have figured this out just fine. Create requirements for these players and put them into the general draft with everyone else.

Or in winterball, or something. I mean the whole argument for keeping Benny around is that his bat is still useful. Offensively they put up almost mirror image seasons in 2025, and you still don't know if he could play a defensive position in the OF well enough to help this team. For a team that loves playing guys all over the field, the are weirdly set on NOT doing that with Lenyn.

That's the entire point. You have no idea when you use him, versus when you use him later in the game, you have a MUCH better idea of situational awareness.

No, it is worse because you don't know which ones are garbage appearances when he starts, because you need everyone else after him to hold their weight, including the inferior relievers you are now putting into high leverage.

And maybe we lose the game anyway, and then the pitcher isn't available when we could have really used him most.

A teams best hitters are going to come up 4 times in a game. Do you want them to face your best pitcher with the score 0-0, winning 10-0, losing 10-0, or up 4-3 with the bases loaded in the 7th?

This is a big point. the KNOWLEDGE of what is already happened, and what the current situation is in a game should dictate usage.

Also, it would have been a great time to have played Lenyn Sosa in LF this spring to see if he could handle it so you could also still have his bat in the line up. Cant' wait to see Benny back out there every day.

If only world. It was pretty universally regarded as one of the worst (if not THE) OFs in baseball going into this season. Let's just say this isn't going to help. Good thing we weren't counting on this being a winning season.

Aliens man. Look we can spend all day back and forth on if what the Sox are doing NOW is going to work or not, but where the franchise is TODAY is obvious. The fan base is gone. It's a dead horse. We are literally 30 of 30 when it comes to revenue, which is the quickest measure of where the fan base is. And on top of it, we aren't even particularly close. This is a disaster of a franchise at this point in time.

NEXT VERSE SAME AS THE FIRST!

That's what so weird about it. Everything happened exactly the way that the NFL wanted it to happen, and then poof. It's like they pissed someone off. Either that or they are scared of being seen as DEI by you know who.

DUSTIN HARRIS COME ON DOWN!

Man this would have been a great draft with the two extra comp picks. Really sucks the NFL screwed the Bears over some BS definition of control.