Chicago White Sox

Doesn’t Bauer want to go year to year? If so, that might be right up our alley.

This process also just started though and over a holiday weekend to boot. I think the testing operations will be much smoother going forward and if not then the season should be cancelled. Playing through this shit only works if testing is on point.

Fully agree

I think it’s too early to single out Madrigal yet, given that most of the non-starters haven’t been seen just yet and are likely in the afternoon group that the media doesn’t have access to. I still haven’t seen McCann who seems to be the next biggest name after Moncada and Collins was practice with the morning group for some reason...

Go back to the Spiders IMO.

How long does a phone order take with 70 items in it? Where does the grocery store stock all the items that need to be refrigerated or frozen and are awaiting pickup? Those are only two simple questions that would need to be addressed, but operationally what you’re suggesting would be a huge challenge to execute for all of America.

To me, indoor restaurants / bars are the biggest problem. Zero reason those should be open to the public right now (outside of carry-out / delivery) and the government should use its resources to take care of the companies, small business owners, & employees impacted in those industries. I think with that simple change along with making masks mandatory you’d see a world of a difference in the trajectory of this thing.

There definitely is a plan, try to ignore it and hope that America is dumb enough to re-elect Trump.

Give me Mitch and the cap space!

There will still be some rainouts, so there will still be some double headers.

That would be such a lame team name.

What’s a clusterfuck?

Agree.

His barber is there so he decided to stay a week because it’s also a hot vacation spot ?

Aren’t players being tested every two days? If so, hopefully they’ll be able to catch positive results fairly quickly after a false negative.

The Sox have already reported both players are asymptomatic. Maybe that could change, but right I would definitely not assume the worst.

Yup, I obviously don’t want anyone to get it, but selfishly now is definitely the best time for a position player to miss time.

Why though? It’s not like we won’t notice when certain players are out for 14 days. I don’t really see the harm is speculating.

The Sox players have requested privacy, so there will be no formal announcements.

More speculation from me, but it appears the 38 positives that were just reported by MLB only included those tested during the intake process. Also, the two players in question for the White Sox are currently under quarantine in Chicago. I think this likely means Kopech isn’t a part of the two, but leaves open the possibility that his “personal issue” was a positive COVID result in the last handful of weeks while at home. Would explain the complete vagueness / uncertainty by Hahn given an inability to disclose COVID.

I’m currently driving from Chicago to Nashville and have nothing else to do but scroll through Twitter and put together a list of who has been accounted for so far. 24 members of our 44 man summer camp roster still haven’t been seen yet at practices from what I can tell and two others have already been reported as not being at camp in Kopech & Cuthbert. My guess is most of those unaccounted for are participating in afternoon practices. The good news is there should be some intrasquad games starting next week, so we should be able to figure this out fairly soon. Catchers (2/4): Grandal, Collins Infielders (4/10): Anderson, Garcia, Abreu, Encarnacion Outfielders (3/6): Jimenez, Robert, Mazara Starters (6/7): Giolito, Keuchel, Cease, Lopez, Rodon, Gonzalez Relievers (3/17): Bummer, Cishek, Cordero

An important point of context from Duber which might explain Moncada’s absence.

Illinois is the 5th most populated state in the U.S. with a major international airport that I’m sure isn’t helping matters. Also, in terms of total cases Illinois is actually the 7th highest and only the 12th highest over the last 7th days. Relative to their population size, the data says Illinois is doing a pretty good job. And I just spent a week in the Chicago suburbs and it’s night & day how how much more seriously this is being taken than in Nashville and other southern areas I’ve been to recently.

Didn’t he just say or simply imply his arm his heathy?

If he’s asymptomatic, I would hope he’s ready to go after his 14 day quarantine period or whatever that is.