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The difference is on the positional change from SS. And who would actually replace Anderson? They were never going to spend on Correa, Seager, Semien, Story or Baez. A certain SD shortstop had the same defensive problems last year, but his move to the outfield was more about preserving his health/shoulder.

Burger, Sheets, Jimenez and Grandal all best suited for DH. That doesn’t even count Abreu, Vaughn and Pollock…who’s at best an average LFer but arguably lower than that this year.

Tapia on a 19/44 tear now…

But a team with Harrison/Mendick/Leury at third isn’t going anywhere, either.

Just lazy/bad habits. And it should have been 2-1 Sox now, full two run swing against them.

Burger can’t pick that misplayed ball up with the glove hand. He just needs a lot more repetitions down there…and to at least make the average difficulty plays.

Still, playoff teams consistently advance and score runners with situational hitting…

Wrong shift there. Robert with longest current hit streak, ten games, in the AL. Still needs to learn how to advance runners…that’s the one time you don’t pull the ball to the LH side.

And Nomar Mazara only 75 miles to the south...not too long ago they had too many outfielders in LA. Sure would be nice to have Alek Thomas as a LHH to play RF about now but the Sox deliberately passed him up due to their relationship with his father in, you guess it, strength and conditioning. JB Wendelken still hanging in there with DBacks as well. https://theathletic.com/3147254/2022/02/24/hes-going-to-be-knocking-down-that-door-soon-the-alek-thomas-era-of-diamondbacks-baseball-is-rapidly-approaching/ Luis Gonzalez and Mazara still hanging tough statistically.

Well, minus some of the wear and tear from alcohol, hopefully. (Unless you're Liz Hurley and Tom Cruise.)

If Mendick succeeds, it makes them look dumb for signing both Harrison and Leury. They have made two good moves out of ten...Graveman and Cueto. Pollock for $10 million and 0 fWAR is hardly what I would term as a win.

Greg, what happened to the likes of Joe Mauer and Buster Posey? Playing that position shortened their careers by 3-5 years. Anderson could surely do it, but why end the career of one of the best hitters in baseball prematurely? Look at Grandal today as another example. And SS's that are $100+ million studs don't grow on trees. There are only 8-10 in the entire world. If there were too many, we would have a good 2B by now by simply converting one...but the future MLB 2027 All-Star list has a high schooler in Terrmar Johnson listed due to the dearth of quality depth at even second base in the majors. You can always find a guy. But acquiring/paying for THE guy is not so easy.

TWTW is back in vogue, at least in Granger, IN.

Great news on Leury. Not! Just means Mendick will get injured and Harrison will get yet another two week reprieve.

Doesn't seem the decision on Mendick/Harrison/Burger will be coming soon enough to placate the masses.

Haseley Pollock Hendriks...three most commonly misspelled names this year.

Meanwhile, CLE @ Minny battle for 1st place, coming up Tues… https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/payroll/ Phillies, White Sox, Angels only Top 13 payroll teams not in playoff position right now. Phils obviously trending up but so are the Braves. Cubs down to #14 and falling.

Urshela and Garlick at 30 are the two oldest Twins’ position players. For the Guardians, Maile (backup catcher) is 31 and Jose Ramirez turning 30 before the end of the season.

It was somewhat petty to try to control/punish Merecedes like that by keeping him in the organization. At least after last season ended. They had zero intention of recalling him. Even with Collins gone, Zavala and then Carlos Perez were 3rd and 4th on the depth chart. I can understand why he celebrated his departure, even if it also came across as immature. The Giants are the much better organization to play for right now. Everything they do has a purpose and plan behind it, both short and long/er term.

Adam Haseley, former first round pick of the Phillies.

and Cueto as a steadying presence with a WS ring to match Cain and Pollock.

and Cueto as a steadying presence with a WS ring to match Cain and Pollock.

That's not enough to override TLR's influence. Pollock won a WS title two years ago, but veteran outsiders are going to have a tough time breaking up that Cuban Connection, TA7, Giolito and Hendriks core of leadership...they're kind of stuck in neutral.

If Kopech’s knee discomfort is going to limit him, not seeing a very realistic path to chasing down two teams now that seem to have the White Sox number at least in the early season…

Pollock would be on second and not driven in by INF GO 99.8% of the time as well…crazy bounce there.