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I would LOVE to see them trade Russell for a rental.

He's nobody right now. He's got a fair amount of work to do to put himself back on the radar for the major league track right now.

Top 4?

Agreed 100%. Mid-April is time one, and then Mid-June is time two.

If you wait until May, you might as well wait through mid June. Realistically the one way we shouldn't see Eloy relatively soon is if he runs into a roadblock at AAA.

Forget the Alamo.

If Greg was a builder, he wouldn't worry about building a foundation, only the street facing side. If Greg was a newspaper writer he'd only write headlines. If Greg built cars, he wouldn't put engines in them. If Greg wrote books, he'd only design dust jackets. If Greg wrote a dissertation, he'd only make a pretty cover page. This has been another lesson in Greg only caring about how it looks on the surface and not giving a damn about what goes into things.

Foster and Shields. This game may get you out of purgatory.

Sound the cannons.

Injury updates: Rodon will throw at Kanny on Saturday MiGone had a set back, won't throw for at least 10 -14 days. Avi progressing slowly through Grade 2 hammy strain, no timeline given Alec Hansen continues to progress, and is throwing bullpens. Robert is participating in extended training, expected to join game action late this month in Extended ST, will likely hit W-S in early June https://chicago.suntimes.com/sports/white-sox-carlos-rodon-to-make-rehab-start-saturday/

This mess was never meant to compete. I am not sure why anyone would have thought it was.

Who are you on record as the Sox should pick in order of 1-4 since we pick 4th?

Yes. Even if you want to discount the guys we traded for, even though the Sox had to scout, evaluate, and coach them, even just the draft and signed guys group is having a lot of big years. And that is even discounting the injuries to Robert, Burger and Hansen knocking out the top 3 internal guys.

To be fair, Dan Jennings basically had zero trade value anyway, so weren't going to get much in return. Getting a guy who was a fringe top 100 player recently isn't a bad play if they saw something they thought they could fix.

Obviously the grade right now is incomplete, but all we can go off of today is positive signs from guys, and we see a whole lot of those. Even the class of 2015 has some guys showing signs of life with Fulmer in the majors, Stephens in AAA, and Seby Zavala killing it in A+, and a couple of others on the fringes.

A live look in at the Sox starting rotation...

Cubs could be gearing up to try for Machado https://www.nbcsports.com/chicago/cubs/manny-machado-thecubs

If Lavine +#7 gets me into the top 3, I will drive him to ORD.

Mike Trout would probably be the closest thing to an 80 as a position player. Clayton Kershaw as a pitcher would be it.

Why? He didn't use a quantitative term to signify how many.

I was really close. The crib in Chicago is 51. Deep Water in Michigan City is 50 https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?issuedby=lot&product=omr&site=lot Also for a full view of the lake temps. http://www.coastwatch.msu.edu/michigan/m53.html