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That's about the 12th ex player or minor leaguer who has now spilled the beans on no longer open secrets in the organization. A microscope on every hidden corner and dark secret of the organization is kind of refreshing. After all...that's the ONLY thing that will serve to bring about needed reforms/modernizations in the "good 'old boys" way of running (what needs to be a more highly-modernized) an organization like it's STILL the 1980s.

There will certainly be a lot of skeptics waiting to see what impact Ryan Fuller's Camp Colson AZ Version will have...and obviously you have to feel for him even more if he's really not feeling close to 100% physically, but is just trying to prove his toughness. You want to be optimistic for the kid. Definitely. And "articles" coming out like the Osik Chronicles make you even more furious they won't (yet) move on from Andrew Vaughn, when so many since-departed Sox players have been rapidly cast aside as villains, egocentric fools and malingerers.

That's really fast track coming off a mostly lost draft season and pretty significant injury.

But you don't spend on a bullpen when you're actively trying to lose 100 games or more. So was Alonso the best free-agent signing of the offseason? We posed that question to 20 executives, and while Alonso was named by three of them, two players received more votes: • Alex Bregman (8 votes) 3B • Nick Pivetta (4 votes) SP • Pete Alonso (3 votes) 1B • Carson Kelly (1 vote) C • Jorge Polanco (1 vote) 3B/2B • Roki Sasaki (1 vote) SP https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-executives-discuss-best-2025-free-agent-deals

Dodgers giving 40,000 Vin Scully bobbleheads out next week. More than GRate seating capacity.

JR happy...elated dare say...to save $150,000 to reallocate to under the radar Rule 5/"cash considerations" moves.

Or somehow lose in arb based on rather pedestrian RBI and homer numbers at first base. What was the original projection? $7.5-8 million?

Brilliant psychoanalysis...insightful knowledge of the makeup of your own so-called franchise players. Graveman/Kelly Moncada Jimenez Lance Lynn Grandal Tim Anderson Benintendi Robert Keuchel

Benetti and AJ doing Fox Game of the Week Mayo up for Baltimore now

His father (Osik) played ten years in the bigs as a journeyman with the Pirates…so he understands exactly where Elko is coming from compared to a Top 3 overall bonus baby pick that has experienced the glide pathway in the minors. Was in Augusta 1992-93.

https://www.mlb.com/news/white-sox-express-confidence-in-prospect-colson-montgomery “The intimate environment we can create here in Arizona,” Janish said of the benefits for Montgomery's reset. “Fuller is down here with him, working the last couple of days, and then will for the next few days, as well. Just give him a chance to get back to neutral is a good way to say it, and really allow him to take a breather. To be clear, the intention is to get him back out to Charlotte sooner than later for sure. “The response from Colson was pretty mature. He hadn’t performed the way he knows that he can. This is an effort to remove him from the environment briefly and reinsert him hopefully this coming week and give him a little bit of a fresh start with going all the way down to the daily routine and just getting him into the mindset of just competing every night. “Just grinding out four really, really tough at-bats every single night, making the pitcher miserable,” Janish added. “Using his skillset he’s really good at, which is controlling the zone. That’s the philosophy behind it.” He’s going through regular daily work at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Ariz., in terms of taking ground balls, lifting weights and continuing the workload from a running standpoint, but he’s also doing extensive cage work with White Sox director of hitting Ryan Fuller. “It’s not necessarily about having success in Charlotte. It’s about getting him into a position where he’s confident and comfortable enough to compete at some point this year, he’ll go to the Major League level,” White Sox director of player development Paul Janish said during a Zoom prior to Chicago's 8-3loss to the Astros on Saturday at Rate Field. “That’s what this is about, right? We still have a great deal of belief in Colson.”

Buddy Bell/Mark Teahen

Nobody higher than Bergolla's 785 ops at "hitter killer" Birmingham Pallette a questionable #10 prospect without even a closer's profile at the moment 147 .444 Wolkow

"Cutting edge" opener strategy blows up in Charlotte...NastrinI still not so good Adler(L, 0-2) 1.0 3 5 4 1 2 1 7.56 Nastrini 5.0 5 6 6 4 3 1 7.24

Think the Orioles might be able to use Kyle Stowers about right now? StowersRF 5 2 2 6 0 1 .324 .944 100 .354 Sox can finally acquire Joc Pederson !!! Marcus Semien barely over 500 ops too

PCA has gone absolutely insane...9 homers now Ahmed Rosario to play SS clearly the better/cheaper choice instead of Josh Rojas (which is the obvious hindsight call now)...everyone ripped Rosario's defense, but nobody can equal Amaya's offensive ineptitude Nationals already had CJ Abrams too 268 /727

"Over 3 1/2 years ago, Astros center fielder Jake Meyers tore his left labrum while scaling the Rate Field wall in an ill-fated attempt to rob Gavin Sheets of a home run in Game 4 of the ALDS, sidelining him not only for Houston's playoff run but also the first three months of the following season. On Saturday, Meyers exacted his long-awaited, brutal revenge. Houston's No. 9 hitter smacked two homers to left, a game-tying two-run triple past Brooks Baldwin making his first start in center, and a wholly unnecessary RBI double off Jared Shuster in the eighth to set a career-high with seven runs driven in." soxmachine.com

Alex Call .339/866

Who was the sponsor...RJ Reynolds Corp?

Tatis Jr. just made a series of highlight plays to maybe steal the game. Deked Canario into a double, stole third and then stole home on a ball into the dirt that squirted no more than 3-5 feet away from Joey Bart. Bednar didn't even have time to get to the plate...Bart attempted to dive for him at the plate. Announcers comparing to Rickey Henderson and Jackie Robinson...lol. https://www.mlb.com/padres/video/david-bednar-in-play-no-out-to-fernando-tatis-jr https://www.mlb.com/gameday/padres-vs-pirates/2025/05/03/778065/final/wrap

319 /820 Romy Gonzalez

The Comet is headed to the big leagues. Infielder Hyeseong Kim, whose first name translates to "comet" in a Korean dialect, is being promoted to the Dodgers from Triple-A Oklahoma City to make his Major League debut, the club announced on Saturday. In a corresponding move, infielder/outfielder Tommy Edman was placed on the injured list with right ankle inflammation, retroactive to April 30. The Dodgers signed the 26-year-old Kim during the offseason after he spent eight seasons in the Korea Baseball Organization. Kim batted .304 or better in every season from 2021-24 and stole 20 bases in seven consecutive seasons

Still prefer Matt Davidson…

At least we succeeded in making Jake Meyers the mlb story of the weekend so far...so there's that. Barely 20000+ for a sunny but windy early May 50 degree Dick Allen bobblehead giveaway day? Did they cut the number given away to 1000 instead of 5-10,000???