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Craig Grebeck, Jr., Esteban Beltre, Jr., and Norberto Paco Martin, Jr., all expected to get looks at second base.

You forgot to include our annual obsession with Joc Pederson.

Jay and Alonso (aka Family and Friends Plan) should have stopped the sane ones. Those three ESPN imminent signing headlines that offseason really took a lot out of many that live and die with the Sox.

I am November 3, but 1969, haha. My mom is April 3rd, and son is March 3rd, 2015. 45 years apart again (for a grandchild) would be a bad trend because that would make me 90. Putin or a junk food and soda-fueled diet will get me before then...although my mom is almost 93 now. And a White Sox WS is STILL much more likely than Iowa winning an NCAA championship in basketball or football. Which reminds me I now have to resubscribe to MLB Extra Innings again.

I'm just happy Passan has a new baseball-related topic to write about finally.

Al, is that you?

Eric Hosmer will finish Top 10 in 2022 ML MVP voting.?

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2022/03/free-agent-notes-rodon-kikuchi-correa-soler.html Yankees and Twins in on Rodon and Kikuchi...

One can easily imagine lady luck turning against the Sox and Giolito, Kopech or Lynn (especially with such an abbreviated spring training) struggling with conditioning injuries out of the gate, leading to some type of season-altering impact on the rotation. And that's with our #30 rated farm as our back-up plan/support system for filling in and/or trades. Eventually, the Tigers are going to jump up and bite the Sox, perhaps not this year yet, but it's not that far off if they are willing to spend more liberally in FA.

There does seem to be a rule of Sox karma that bringing back someone like a Montas or Bassitt or fill-in-the-blank name (what's his name we traded for Lynn, for example...from UF via the Nationals)...scares the H.E.L.L. out of everyone. When's the last time that Billy Beane was actually in charge of day-to-day decision making for the A's? He's rent free in our heads at this point. It's like Michael Lewis' Moneyball is still embedded in the Sox fan psyche. The irony there is that Miguel Olivo led to Freddy Garcia, and that Cotts eventually became one of the most important members of the 2005 bullpen.

Look at the track record of teams like the Braves, Brewers, Indians and Rays developing starters over the last decade. White Sox have had almost no successes internally except relievers, and almost all of their pitching staff was imported from elsewhere, so it's natural to be just a little bit skeptical when you compare organizational track records head to head. (Not to mention the most recent "wave" of young pitching in A ball pretty much all ran into a brick wall last year.) Giolito gives most of the credit to an outsider, Lopez was almost a lost cause before the second half of last year and we all know about Kopech's travails.

That sounds ominous ("resolution expected one way or another.") I can just see it now...."we came to the conclusion as a front office that it was most logical for someone of Craig's pedigree to have the opportunity to rebuild his trade value." Kimbrel, the gift that just keeps giving.

They have to do a reverse CBT to penalize teams in different tiers spending under $100 or perhaps as low as $90 million.

Perfect timing....don't want to wait until late Sunday because NCAA tourney selection swamps all the news pretty much.

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-post-lockout-trade-candidates-16-players-who-could-be-dealt-before-2022-opening-day/ Obviously includes Kimbrel...

You would pretty much have to eat all but $6-8 million of his 2022 contract to get him off the roster...

For those who missed it... https://mobile.twitter.com/BaseballBros/status/1499174358857797632 Druw Jones is eerily reminiscent of his father at the same age...just not quite as thick through the upper legs and torso.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BauerOutage/status/1502014843292839946?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

Not a big believer in Stiever or Lambert? We better hope Vera is #1 on the top prospects list one year from now....or one of those 3-4 A ball hurlers can figure something out and magically stay healthy.

Or alternate Lopez and Keuchel depending on matchups and keep trying to build up Reynaldo's trade value where you can pair him with Sheets or Burger.

Or for Kimbrel, since the front office and owner usually has to double down on being right. At least they admitted failure with Cesar Hernandez early in the process. There's that.

KW still has Dunn nightmares, for Hahn it's LaRoche and Alonso.

Would love to see, but also one of those "prove it!" moves the Sox haven't distinguished themselves with more than a handful of times the last four decades.

With Eloy, you're 75% worried about him injuring Moncada, Anderson and especially Robert. We only have a replacement for one of those positions...because you can't count on Leury to have a repeat season.

He's a kinder, gentler Rongey. My prediction: Ron stops bringing up his plan to defect to the Cubs.