Dick Allen

He had extended spring training. They said 2 or 3 rehab starts.

Rodon starts either tonight or tomorrow in AAA, so I would imagine his next start is with the White Sox.

I often wonder how different pitching would be if there were no guns in MLB parks.

The Orioles only owe Chris Davis a little more than $100 million. Talk about a guy who should be doing time for stealing.

Correct. He did make sure he was dead though.

Because they pay them a lot of money. Most of these guys know players on just about every team. How many examples are there of teams who trade for premium guys in the last year of their contract, and re-sign them after they become a free agent? It's a nice concept. It's just not based in reality. Money talks. Then winning. Then maybe playing with your friends.

That jackass actually had the nerve to ask for "privacy" when his wife was taking his kids away from him for being nuts. The fact that the President of the United States considers himself a fan of this guy's BS is really hard to wrap your head around. It's unbelievable.

Look at it around baseball.

Randy Johnson was called up when he was 24 years old. Pedro was used mostly as a reliever initially. Kopech is averaging 5 innings a start. That would most likely go down if promoted. I would think at the very least, you would have to be pretty sure he can average 5 innings a start before a promotion or you will be killing the rest of the staff, just so you can show off the new toy to play with.

Baltimore is a pretty pathetic team.

Does anyone know how bad Kevan Smith is injured? If he's good to go in a week, that's one thing, if it's a month or longer, that's another. And does minor league DL carry over to the major leagues? If it was just precautionary in Charlotte, could that be cancelled ?

KJU is very honorable. I'm surprised this happened. I think Trump should get his prize anyways. Everyone is saying he deserves one. He just wants world peace, and the only way to get it is to threaten to blow up everyone.

Yeah. Let's face it, Kevan Smith is probably the best guy to fill it. Too bad he's hurt. That Oakland guy can't hit at all. Everyone available, especially with what the Sox want to or should pay are going to most likely be pretty, pretty, pretty, awful.

I just want to emphasize I think the Sox would be more interested in a RH hitting guy since Narvaez is LH.

When it gets this this point, I think either they weren't going to appeal or the appeals process has played out.

Will he be suspended before tomorrow’s game or after? If before, it is an afternoon game, they need someone quick.

And this was against a line up that featured Caleb Jospeh batting clean up. He set a major league record in 2016 when he had 141 plate appearances and didn’t have any runs batted in. That is the most plate appearances while getting shutout of a RBI in history.

Supposedly Boston’s asking price for,Swihart is ridiculously high.

They probably want a RH bat

He is now I ineligible or the postseason should the Sox make a run.

Wouldn't Castillos spot open up?

I think you would find just the opposite. Players traded to another team for their free agent year sign elsewhere to the highest bidder. And you better believe the cold, the losing and the empty park could play a role.

I think everyone understands the concept, they just don’t buy it will work. In the past, it has worked 1 out of 3 when the extended Freddy Garcia. It was a bit different because he was really tight with Ozzie and he didn’t become a free agent, and signed a slight discount. Samardjiza, Bartolo Colon are 2 guys who didn’t seem to find it a place they couldn’t leave, plus it would have cost good prospects. Right now Russell and Schwarber is what I hear it is going to cost, so they would have had to beat that. I personally think the whole point was he was going to like losing so much in the frigid empty GRF, that they would convince him to take a discount. It wasn’t going to happen. If they offer him the most money this winter, I like their chances. I don’t think they have a chance if they don’t. And I don’t think they would have had a chance if they traded for him during the winter and didn’t offer the most cash.

Google weather Houston, looks like rain.

The column was always meant to be smartass. I really don't know why people are so offended by it.