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Robert really committed to chasing that SB title is a new pursuit.

Inspired by Jake Meyers?

Taylor Thaiss Baldwin Amaya your bench...

There are no quick fixes for that bullpen no matter how often they shuttle the deck chairs. Freeman, Leasure, Vasil, S.Wilson Eisert Gilbert Booser Shuster

Jac Caglianone. After a 1-for-3 night, MLB's No. 19 prospect exited the contest with a .307/.392/.515 slash line in 26 games at Double-A this season. His fifth home run marked his 11th extra-base hit on the year, as the 6-foot-5 lefty has blown his numbers from his brief pro debut last year out of the water, boasting a 70-grade power tool, tied for the best among ranked prospects. Cags homer blasted on top of a building beyond RF... https://www.mlb.com/news/royals-prospect-jac-caglianone-homers-onto-nearby-building?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/royals-prospect-jac-caglianone-launches-home-run-out-of-ballpark-onto-roof-of-adjacent-building-162836018.html On Thursday, the Kansas City Star's Sam McDowell advised the Royals to stick to their timeline and give Caglianone all the development he needs (both offensively and defensively), even if Kansas City's lineup continues to flounder early in the regular season...

Who's next, Justin Anderson? Last year it was Carson Fulmer. Jake Eder back down. Anderson/Moncada. Lots of bad...Ryan Newman one of their other infielders. He just can't hit. TT the right-hander has spent his twenties bouncing between the Braves, Angels, Guardians, and White Sox organizations with well below average results at every stop along the way. His most recent stint in the majors came last season with the White Sox, for whom Toussaint posted an eye-popping 7.43 ERA while walking 15.4% of his opponents. His stint in Chicago last year wound up lasting only 23 innings, but now he’s poised to return to the majors for a second stint in Anaheim. mlbtraderumors.com LAA 4-15 over last 19. Second worst RS/RA in majors.

No just speculating. Feels inevitable though. Dalbec SS extraordinaire didn't last long.

Dalbec back to Boston...surely. Cash considerations.

Or Bregman. But that would have blocked Vargas. 50% LoL. Actually, they have never really provided a suitable answer for who was blocking Bryce Harper, exactly...other than Boras Corp. Nor have they legitimate solved RF 1B 2B SS or 3B (Machado vs. Moncada) since then. Until this year (maybe maybe maybe).

Teel needs to improve in some of the raw aspects of his catching game. In Chicago...he automatically takes catching time from Quero. There's zero rush. If he was hitting 900 or at least 825-850 rather than 750 or whatever, most reasonable fans would have zero issue with Kyle getting promoted as well. He'll also have to get at bats from DH and/or 1B eventually...unless they try to pull another Andrew Vaughn emergency outfield conversion with him too. They also need to decide what to do with Thaiss (best player fWAR on team) or RH Korey Lee first.

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