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You get a bill for every name drop that Soxtalk has had to pay royalties on.

Mendick is in the same boat as Leury Garcia. They are best when being plugged into solid situations a few times a week to give guys breaks. He's someone who won't hurt you, and will occasionally will help you. He is going to be a guy who plays a decade of MLB catching on as a primary defender off of team's benches. Think of what Gordon Beckham turned into.

Next year will be the 20th anniversary of Soxtalk.

94% efficacy is still 6% not. Honesty the fact that he doesn't have symptoms is a sign that he could have had the vaccine.

Well we just found Tony's bender burner account...

This year is going to be so big for the farm system to see if we can get some break out candidates to start to fill in for the graduated prospects. We have some potential guys who could blow up in the system, they just need to play some real games to see if it happens. This a great list, and still has some lower level candidates who aren't quite ready yet like Vera, Tatis, and a few others.

I don't believe major leaguers get paid either. https://www.businessinsider.com/uniform-major-league-baseball-contract-2011-4

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Its a market that even divided into 4 pieces is still way bigger than most single team markets. It would also serve to bring the Yankees and Mets revenue streams down towards the level of the other markets.

My guess? I don't think minor leaguers get paid for spring training so he wasn't "working".

It's crazy, but put another team or two in NYC. Divide up that market so that it hurts the Yankees and Mets.

Visa problems are not unusual even during good times, let alone during the pandemic. We had a decent amount of players also get caught up in this with spring training as well.

He was reported to be having visa issues a little while back. He is supposed to go to Bham when he gets those cleared up.

I think that depends on how long it takes for Eloy and Robert to come back, along with how well Cespedes hits in AA.

Leury is fine when he is left to the supersub role. Pushing him into the starting line up every day is the problem. The problem is that we don't really have anyone better to start on a daily basis in CF right now.

There is no doubt that Tony isn't the only bad in game manager around, but he is the only one recently who has been caught actively not understanding the rules of the game that he is supposed to be ultimate on-field authority for.

Since you want to yell... THIS IS LITERALLY NOT THE POINT, AND IT 100% DOES NOT MATTER. No one on this board is qualified to manage a major league baseball team. which has absolutely zero to the fact that neither is Tony LaRussa. Even if he was qualified, it still has nothing to do with anything, and is a worthless point. The only demeaning going on is people trying to associate laymen with actual baseball dugout staff. Also, if you were smart enough to realize it, you are admitting in your own post, by your own standards, that you aren't smart enough to comment about how good of a job that TLR is doing either, but has that stopped you from doing it? Nope.

How close is the park to Mall of America?

There is zero chance this actually happened.

The team following the starting pitching down the stretch last year.

But he hasn't, which is the point. He has shown capable of what he has been asked to do, so there shouldn't be a problem with asking him to hit in a leverage situation in late innings. Hell they are asking WAY more of him to be defending in LF, which he had never done before this year, than to be a hitter, which he has done everywhere he has ever been.

Part 1 isn't really setting him up for success, it is keeping him from experiencing high leverage early so that he can learn it and see if he swims or not. Part 2, we don't really know. We know there are whispers about player malcontent, we just don't know who they are. Just because they aren't public, doesn't mean it is, or isn't Jose or TA.

The Sox have actually done a pretty decent job in this space. Evan Marshall was a MiLB free agent signing. Jose Ruiz was a waiver claim. Yermin was a MiLB rule 5 pick. That is 3 of the 25 man roster who came in as under the radar signings. Expand it out to the 40 man roster... Jimmy Cordero was a waiver claim That is without talking about how many #1 White Sox draft picks are on this roster, how many low draft picks are in key spaces on this team, or how many of the minor leaguers we traded for have turned into major parts of this team.

Except Tony himself is batting inferior players in place of superior hitters, such as Billy Hamilton for Andrew Vaughn, so he really isn't even using "good players"