Dick Allen

If he was legit, he would sneeze and not flinch. Anyone who thought Moncada could make it through the season without being injured was fooling themself. But you had to think he could make it to the season. The one thing about Yoan is I don't think he has a very high threshold of pain. If he cut his fingernail too short, he'd make it look like someone needed to roll an ambo.

The DFA gives them a few more days to try to trade him, but yeah, getting someone serviceable would have been a miracle.

It's at least better than the all in team with Navarro catching, 56 year old Jimmy Rollins at SS, Brett Lawrie at 2B, and Austin Jackson patrolling CF. You are right though, this team is going to have to score a ton of runs.

The window is closed the first baserunner for Detroit.

Can they DFA him? It could give them a few more days?

Out of options guys who have 0 MLB ABs, net you a lottery ticket at best.

He has upside but he also has a ton of questions. Can he make enough contact? And the kicker is his no options situation doesn't change if you need to send him down. You would probably lose him for nothing. Hahn would be very lucky to get anything useful for him. Probably a lottery ticket we forget even existed in a month or so..

Last spring training game that doesn't count. The adrenaline must really be flowing.

I'd take anything that can help now, or has some potential with at least an option left, and call it a win. Coming into spring training, you would think he would be worth nothing in trade, but a team like the Reds or Pirates would be nuts not to claim him. For a few spring training ABs to net you something would be a positive. I hope the guy has a nice career, but the Sox were stuck here, and it really isn't their fault.

I agree. This move has less than a 5% chance of working out. Although he is probably a better option than most of the Sox minor league starters. There is a reason he is available on a minor league contract right now. AL + Guaranteed Rate Field vs. pitching with pitchers in the line up in SF, is a big change. He used to be great.

Ervin Santana must have said no.

I think pinning that on the coaching is a stretch. Players are different, just like in anything else. Some parents have kids who are uber successful, and other kids who are dangers to society. Are they bad parents or good parents. Teachers have bad and good students in every class. Are they bad teachers or good teachers? The Sox have developed good defensive players. The problem is, they usually don't bring those types in. They have to be developed, and you see the success stories. You don't pay attention to the players who remain bad with the glove. People whined about Marcus Semien getting better defensively. That took a while, but the same guys teaching him in the White Sox system told Yolmer, who was pretty good with the glove. Moncada was pretty bad with the glove with the White Sox at first and at Boston. He's pretty good now. Maybe I missed them, but I never have seen kudos fo White Sox coaching for that. I seem to remember the disaster being predicted when it came out the Sox were moving him to 3B.

Not much difference in the sample size you say makes Collins "quite poor" and McCann's which doesn't count because it's a positive.

So, if it improves, it doesn't count. It isn't true.. While you love to live om the White Sox do everything wrong platform, a guy like Narvaez was acquired from the minor league rule 5 from Tampa. Tampa must suck too, correct? They didn't teach him how to catch.

James McCann was coached by the same guys as Collins and he went from bad framer to good with the team. I don't think it's a reflection of the Sox. It's the player. Some can do it, some can't. Some want to, some don't. They said Collins worked very hard on his defense. Maybe he just can't be a good defender.

Probably nothing, but any team claiming him will have the same problem the Sox currently have in that he is out of options. I think the team will not put too much stock in spring training ABs, especially since they acquired 2 OF last week, and either try to trade him or get him through waivers. The one caveat being if you keep him a month, roster size shrinks and maybe the odds he is claimed. But it does appear they have moved on.

Why? He was caught red handed.

Is his nickname Spanky?

He used to flash some power, now he flashes other things.

You can't beat that.

He would still be out of options. It could scare teams away from claiming him. But circumventing the rules to stash guys in AAA would certainly result in a grievance.

Supposedly he has been running and hitting on back Fields for a few days.

Frank Thomas and Paulie Konerko also say hello.

It bothered him last season, he did some rehab and rest an entire offseaon, and it's already back. If it isn't anything that requires surgery, there is no reason to think this isn't going to be an issue all seaon.