QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Mar 29, 2018 -> 04:49 PM)
Expected Hawk for the road game. What will his role be this year?
Sunday home games, the home opener, and the rest of the Cubs home series.
QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 29, 2018 -> 04:12 PM)
Just gonna throw this out there, i'm not sure losing the first four innings of opening day with james shields on the mound in kansas city is a doomsday indicator.
It’s not. Giolito and Lopez starts are win days- or hopefully win days. The rest are whatever’s until better prospects are ready.
QUOTE (flavum @ Mar 29, 2018 -> 01:02 PM)
Bold predictions today:
Shields goes 6+, 2 ER
Davidson goes deep twice
I tried.
Opening Night on Saturday with Giolito on the mound.
Very tough to pin down a number this year considering the vast amount of AL teams that are already out of it and what they (along with the Sox) will do with trades.
74-88, but +/- 4 wouldn’t surprise me.
I don't think Kopech and Jimenez are as close to being called up as some.
Minimum, I want Kopech to pitch three months in Charlotte.
Eloy, just let the 21 year old play at Birmingham for 4 months, and see what's the deal on August 1st.
Agree about Cordell though. Could be Matt Skole if Abreu got hurt.
QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 1, 2018 -> 12:37 PM)
Had his bell rung in a collision with Tatis also ?
Tatis stayed in. Saw his ABs last night. I’m thinking he’ll be similar to Machado. Star player.
QUOTE (wrathofhahn @ Feb 27, 2018 -> 11:40 AM)
I mean one of the sort of blessings for this type of injury in Burger case he wasn't guy who was overly reliant on his speed tool to begin with. One thing you sort of hope is he uses the time off to get himself in better shape.
He’s already talked about focusing on his nutrition. Hopefully this all turns out fine. Maybe winter ball, and then 130 games at Birmingham next year. This may not be the end of the world for him or the Sox at all.
If Jake Burger makes his debut the same age as Todd Frazier did, he’ll debut in July, 2021.
Just saying, Frazier has had a decent career debuting at age 25, and Burger still has a chance to be up way before that if his rehab goes well.