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Homer surrendered to old friend/potential trade target Jonathan India. 5/6 outs by K.

You know things are truly bad when MLB.com doesn't provide live data like balls strikes pitch location and velocity for most of our spring training games. 3 Cease strikeouts in 4 outs already...make that 4/5.

As long as it's Moustakas over Sheets...all we can ask for at this point. Sigh. Maldonado. At least 2 runs scored. De Jong and Lopez continue to stand out...whatever that's worth.

Current 38-124 pace would probably get Grifol fired in the regular season, right?

The biggest problem with firing Grifol so soon is that their entire philosophy of promoting 2014-2015 Royals' Way with all the front office additions starts to collapse if they actually have to admit Pedro is absolutely the wrong choice for the organization...especially the "building a winning culture" aspect. Just like never admitting publicly they're in a rebuild. It's idiotic...to insult your fans with these spring training lineups day after day and continue to hem and haw about "retooling."

Points for honesty, lol? Looks like he is totally out of the loop here, which you might not want to communicate to the entire world OR your own players who are supposed to trust you, ideally. Should have gone to Montoyo for a quote. Seems almost nobody in the media ever tries to talk to him. Narron was simply known for his scorecard script, considering both guys were former big league managers, but whatever.

https://www.mlb.com/news/best-prospect-tools-in-spring-breakout?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage Berroa Speas Leasure get mentions for best tools...upcoming futures games.

Doesn't trying harder (what else could putting the pedal to the metal even mean?) usually end up with the exact opposite of the intended effect, where letting your emotions get involved is simply going to exacerbate the problem (playing free and easy) instead of fixing it? Or he just means the first two weeks of moral victories when the team has such a putrid record are suddenly over with...that results are now starting to matter all of a sudden?

Plus, it's more than likely insured, so they would be receiving 40-60% back anyway...just not sure how expensive coverage for pitchers with previous TJ surgeries would be these days.

Pee Wee Reese would be more like it. Character and HoF credentials.

Cooper 'errr Katz will will fix him.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39652798/mlb-rank-2024-baseball-top-100-players

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39703275/trevor-bauer-pitches-vs-dodgers-prospects-exhibition-game

It will be Elly de la Cruz with McClain moving over to 2B...

Buehrle deal would definitely not been cheap in JR's description of it...he basically told him, or advised him, to go with the Marlins where they would guarantee him more money/years.

But who would the White Sox have even given an extension to, besides Cease? Giolito wasn't worth it after his combined last two seasons and not sure when you would have given it to Kopech where it actually would have been halfway justified. After a relatively successful but not entirely injury-free year out of the bullpen? Before his debut with the Sox? That would have simply provided more justification not to EVER do it, ultimately...along with the Moncada and Jimenez contracts.

Trade him to the Dodgers, or DeJong...just no way that Mookie Betts can handle SS with this little transition time and not have it affect his offense in a negative way. Flipping their double play combination at this late date is something you would expect out of the White Sox, especially when he's played something like 12 starts there his entire MLB career.

That's really going to put some pressure on JR to come up with something like $300-500 milllion between all the investors or they're going to look like a minor league organization in comparison. Obviously, the figures attached to the NFL are in the stratosphere, but it's going to be challenging not to make direct comparisons...outside of franchise values and revenue generated numbers.

Draft all pitchers nearly every year (see Guardians) and make sure you know how to develop them because $100+ free agent deals or even pitching extensions are anathema.

Of course. Shaw with the hanging breaking ball to allow Tom Murphy to walk it off. Did get it up to 96 at age 36. 4-12 record

Prioritizing character at the cost of performance doesn't seem to be the greatest strategy. Maybe it's just me.

For the team to start to legitimately buy into the shift in approach...seeing a change in either individual results or team record would tend to be at least one indicator of some type of positive change. This just feels like more of what was expected...even with the rising positives on the minor league side of things.

Let's Go Grifol!

Right right. Lewis visibly looked really weak...always had such vitality and self-reflective witticism, especially the standup routines at the heart of his career.

I'd rather have the Rays' front office. Alas, reality.