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Cardinals have lost out on Garcia, Arozarena, Luis Robert and of course Oscar Taveras....a lot to lose from one generation of players. They were just fortunate Price and Heyward hesitated about playing in that “Southern” market.

Why would you sell so early on Burger when he still has to prove he can remain healthy for a full season and can play an above average big league 3B? That provides a lot more value than Sheets, Gonzalez, Adolfo and Rutherford combined. If they get far enough ahead in the second half, personally would like to see Adolfo get some big league at-bats and see if there’s anything there before we lose him for good...that said, it’s 90-95% likely his shot comes from a rebuilding organization with Cespedes and Colas coming up behind him and applying pressure. Of not for all the injuries, he might have been ready in 2020 or definitely this season but unfortunately one too many setbacks it seems.

Garcia? Seems he's more of a corner guy...no doubt, Cain in 2014-15-16 was awesome. Phillips has an A+ arm. JBJr's offense is so horrid he could never be considered for any defensive awards based having to contribute at least something offensively. Inciarte and Juan Lagares really stand out from past years, as well.

Buxton, for sure. Kiermaier used to be right up there. Ramon Laureano has to be considered. Bader, Herrera, Robles and Cain are the next tier, arguably.

This just in. Blue Jays, Rays and Astros are not "trap" series but clearly measuring stick (like NYY and Boston). We do get the Tigers again on the road, which won't be easy with how familiar the teams already are we each other on the early season.

RS/RA current standings 1. White Sox +85 CLE -15 2. LAD +83 3. TBR +75 4. SFG/SDP +70 6. Houston +69 7. Boston +51 Toronto Blue Jays +36 Chicago Cubs +31

7-0 versus the Tigers, all-time. Unfortunately, not likely to be one of our playoff opponents...

What is the connection between Jerk and sticks, or, perhaps more ominously, Jerks and Ticks?

Sounds like Ozzie vs. Brian Anderson.

You realize the only non~minority on the list is Hendry, right? A bit of an unusual pattern. Especially with Hispanic players and coaches.

Devil Rays... no longer exist. There is a team, however, called the Rocket City (NASA) Trash Pandas in Huntsville, AL.

Orioles up by five early on Indians, still hitting bottom of second. Make that 7-0. Only four outs recorded so far by CLE, Quantrill already replaced by Sandlin.

In a survey of baseball executives and scouts, there are seven teams that could be involved in a bidding war for Bryant’s services: the San Francisco Giants, Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox and Washington Nationals. source: Nightengale, yahoosports.com

Please don’t bring that up, lol. It would be one thing if Archer actually was productive for the Pirates. Glasnow worth around 6 fWAR, Meadows 5.5...then Baz. Archer worth around 2 fWAR over two seasons. Tatis 8.8 in 185 career games. Shields with a negative overall with the Sox.

The intimation here being that Stone has a similar trend of going after non-white players in his most pointed criticisms...

Cooper didn't see eye to eye with him...fwiw.

The trend in the minors though is back towards more steals...the new Moneyball niche, playing like 2014-15 Royals on offense, manufacturing runs unless you have big bopper sluggers on your roster.

BDacks on a 5-27 slide, haven't won on the road in ages. 15-13 to 20-40.

Some overly sensitive people these days are even triggered by the word triggered...but maybe getting rid of the smiling/laugh emoji would help at least somewhat? Probably not easy to do as it sounds. Then some will be upset they can't mock others, I suppose.

Yeah, but he was piling them up at a faster pace. 5D Chess, right there. He wouldn't have been a joy to be around in high school debate or Model UN, on the other hand. Reminds me of one of the stars of the documentary Boys State.

So if you're not banned you still feel compelled to come here and post? I've never seen SoxTalk referred to essentially in terms of being a reckless addiction, lol. Almost a compliment.

Juggernaut though? Not without Jimenez, Robert, Giolito (the ace version), another outfielder and a veteran RH bridge reliever to get the game to Hendricks. And quite possibly not with this manager, either. Wiping out other teams would be disrespectful to the game.

Sheets back to Charlotte, 0 for 2 tonight so far. Burger 1/2 with an RBI. Stiever 6/3/0/0/4.

He might not even have played in any minor league games by then, and Robert/Jimenez will be nearing returns. Something will have to go (even more) terribly wrong to see Cespedes at the big league level this year.