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Amen. Reds in Four - X x.com › RedsInFour › status 23 hours ago · I would have claimed Canario prior to the Austin Hays news. With the Hays injury news rolling in, I think it's a no-brainer. fathom Posted August 2, 2023 "Callis glowing reviews, you can tell he thinks it was a great Sox trade." "This is great."

Right. Then you have to differentiate between ace/TOR and 2/3...and only the former group connoting greatness, but frontline by definition would be one of the 90 best pitchers in the entire world. That sounds pretty great to me. Nobody was projecting him back then as a 4/5 or reliever.

https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/brothers-fight-over-autographed-baseballs-leads-to-lawsuit/ These two sons...Pogofsky.

So maybe Eder wasn't "great"...just a great return lol. You're not going to see a single quote from me that's not on the Burger side of the equation. Selling high I'm sure will repeat itself over and over again...questions about Burger's ultimate defensive position, contact/K rates, etc. How many times did KW and Hahn fall in love with former Top 100 guys from other organizations?

15. Angels at White Sox, 4:10 p.m. Yusei Kikuchi vs. Sean Burke Kikuchi was excellent after the Astros acquired him at last year’s Trade Deadline, but now the question is whether the version of Kikuchi we saw in those 10 starts is the real one going forward. As for Burke? Well, this will be his fifth career MLB game and fourth start, with the 2021 third-round pick having made his debut last September. mlb.com ranked pitching match-up 15th out of 15 games...shocker White Sox: Young players and top prospects need to develop The team believes not only will it be improved at the Major League level from last season’s dismal and actually record-breaking 41-121 showing but will be competitive. Yet, in this latest version of their rebuild, the story really is how their young core develops. The White Sox have six of the Top 100 prospects, according to MLB Pipeline, and five of those six have a chance to reach the big leagues at some point this season. But it goes beyond the headliners, as the White Sox look to bring along more from their sixth-ranked Minor League system overall. -- Scott Merkin SP matchup: Yusei Kikuchi (LAA) vs. Sean Burke (CWS) -- Kikuchi, who signed a three-year, $63 million deal with the Angels over the offseason, will make his first career Opening Day start. Burke, who made his MLB debut last season and made four appearances, will be the first pitcher since the Dodgers' Fernando Valenzuela in 1981 to start on Opening Day with fewer than 20 career innings in the Majors. See this new face: Along with Kikuchi, Jorge Soler also enters his first year with the Angels. Acquired from Atlanta during the offseason, the Angels are banking on Soler -- owner of 191 career home runs and a .464 slugging percentage -- providing power for a lineup that severely lacked thump in 2024. Note to know: Both clubs are looking for their top stars to stay healthy. For the Angels, that’s Mike Trout (29 games played in 2024), while the White Sox are hoping for a full season from Luis Robert Jr. (100 games). mlb.com

Elsewhere in the TV right world, things are very much in flux. For fans, however, 2025 presents a refreshing, encouraging new era of ballwatching. Fans of 27 teams (all but Houston, Baltimore and Washington) can watch their favorite clubs in-market on MLB.TV, without the infuriating blackouts that for so long frustrated fans across the country. That, amid all the confusion around local TV carriers, bankruptcies and the ESPN situation, is unequivocally a good thing. yahoo.com sports

The Rangers released outfielder Cody Thomas from his minor league contract. Texas also officially selected Kevin Pillar onto the 40-man roster after announcing yesterday that he’d make the team. They had an opening after outrighting Dane Dunning earlier in the week. More -fWAR/-bWAR outfielders, lol. Ex White Sox sighting in Pillar making the team...kind of fitting, basically switched places with Jankowski's role for Bochy/Venable.

At least he has all the physical tools...off the chart. Except for hitting breaking balls.

Breakout Candidate: RP Mike Clevinger The 34-year-old former starter was excellent in the latter part of last decade for the Guardians, then mostly sank out of relevance. But he’s healthy again after undergoing disc replacement surgery last August and is occupying a relief role that should limit his medical issues. While Clevinger may not get many chances to close on a bad White Sox team, he’s in position to extend his career if he excels in the opportunities he does receive. — TC LOL. Sports Illustrated has us 29th but their breakout candidate is the most hilarious part. https://www.si.com/mlb/opening-day-power-rankings-breakout-candidates

It goes all the way back to Camp Cora days...

$2.7 million

Hey that was generational wealth for the Garcia family thanks to Hahn.

Not good news for JR and sons...

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/03/rockies-mickey-moniak-agree-to-major-league-deal.html To the Rockies...guess they preferred him over Colas lol.

11. Chicago Bulls: Khaman Maluach, C, Duke "The Nikola Vučević and Zach Collins era has to end soon when their contracts are off the books in 2026, right? A center is a need. Maluach is a towering rim protector with switchable mobility, erasing shots at the rim and shadowing quick guards on the perimeter. But beyond dunking lobs, he’s a work in progress on offense with a lack of seasoning as a screener, shooter and creator. Such a raw skill set should come as no surprise since the South Sudan native didn’t start playing basketball until he was 13. So taking Maluach would make a lot of sense for the Bulls since he can learn as a rookie before getting heavier minutes moving forward." yahoo.com sports Mock Draft

https://soxmachine.com/2025/03/white-sox-finalize-opening-day-roster Fegan story on OD roster....lots of solid details and behind the scenes stuff.

What is the word you would use to characterize Eder's depiction or characterization in the threads after he was originally acquired from the Marlins? High potential, high (I won't say unlimited) ceiling...what else? Not "great," but what word comes right below that on the adjectives/superlatives chart? There's no way to objectively prove something that's essentially an opinion/non-quantifiable. It's like normative vs. positive statements in Economics 101.

I at least spent two years working for a professional baseball team and have an MS in Sports Admin from one of the better graduate schools in the country in the 1990's for that major. I was Director of Stadium Operations and PR for the Augusta GreenJackets in 1994 and 1995 (South Atlantic League champions), and also worked for an NFL football player's charitable foundation after that. We introduced the most successful-selling hat in all of MiLB (168 teams) at that time, for example. We also had our games on ESPN during the baseball strike (had just built a new stadium as well), and I worked with Steve "Psycho" Lyons to put on one of those broadcasts. Our owner was Bill Scripps from Scripps-Howard News Syndicate out of San Diego/La Jolla/Scripps Cancer Institute. (Of course, back then, minor league team valuations were still in the single digit millions of dollars.) One of my best friends from that program is still Director of Pro Scouting for the Atlanta Hawks after starting out as a mere video intern with the Orlando Magic in 1992, to the Supersonics, to the Bucks (George Karl connections) and Atlanta (Karl coaching tree). What qualifications do you have, exactly?

No thanks. Nobody cares that much about our major league roster. I only want to watch Shane Smith and Booser pitch, to be honest. I guess Martin, as well. Zero interest in anyone on the OD roster other than Robert's trade value...well, I guess there's Baldwin, who the White Sox are already casting in the utility man role that disappeared the likes of Marcus Semien and Romy Gonzalez.

The only anomaly is Burger on the Rangers...who are one of the leading competitors for the AL Pennant IF deGrom stays healthy. Yes, a HUGE IMMENSE MASSIVE GARGANTUAN IF.

Well, here we go again. How many of his at-bats did you actually watch? Because if you're not giving Venable enough reasons to take him north, well, Will went way out of his way to provide glowing accolades about his defense at 2B and SS as recently as 2-3 days ago...above and beyond anything the eye test would indicate. But he hardly talked about how he looked at the plate, like, at all. So it's not the worst thing in the world he's not starting his service time and has to actually earn his recall, not unlike Colson Montgomery. I'm also not going to be overwhelmed by AA/AAA numbers in the Red Sox system when there are so many offensive stars over there on the position player side. It's all about trust. Venable doesn't know Meidroth...but he does know, for example, Jankowski, what he can and CAN'T do, very precisely. But he trusts him to play late inning defense and as a pinch runner (which is exactly the same skill set Greg Jones has but younger, although that's a digression for another day.)

Half of those teams make no sense...the Nationals already have a crowded outfield with James Wood and Dylan Crews. The Rockies outfield is REALLY crowded with like 8 guys pushing for playing time, that's one of the reasons that Jones came available in the first place (Greg and not Nolan). Marlins? Maybe, they're terrible and will soon trade Alcantara. Mariners are pretty well set in the outfield afaik. They just dumped Haniger.

https://www.google.com.hk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/26/are-chicago-bulls-good-now/&ved=2ahUKEwihspK_-6iMAxWI6ckDHazqB64QFnoECBQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1EysN5f9wIBzJ5JaMIi0nf Are the Bulls good now? In honor of Tray...

Minus the Univ of Michigan name drops...

Because we're STILL debating the word "great." Okay, slight internet hyperbole to provoke conversation...gee, that never happens online or specifically around here, right? So if I said that lots of posters said that Eder would be "very good," then there's no argument at all? Semantics. The reason I picked Meidroth is because he's exactly in the same #7-10 prospect range as Eder originally was after the trade. But hardly anyone would argue Chase is going to be "great." Or would they run out and buy his currently non-existent jerseys in the Sox souvenir shop? Serviceable is not quite the right word, so "above average" major league production, maybe??? Except Eder was at one point a consensus Top 100 MiLB prospect...something Meidroth has never been classified as. Whatever the word for Meidroth's CURRENT potential is, it's fair IMO to apply to a prospect at roughly the same level organizationally in a much weaker system two years ago, 45 FV.