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Well that throws a wrench into things if his heart is no longer into baseball....

With summer camp officially started I figured it would be nice to have a catch all thread versus jumping in between 2-3 posts.

Last I remembered them saying right before spring training ended was he was throwing soft toss and was almost good to go/ it wasn’t a huge concern so with it being a few months ago hopefully nothing has flared up and he’s duly healthy

It’d be awesome if the Sox took another look at Puig for a shortened /crapshoot of a 60 game season, at this point it can’t hurt right?

I agree he most likely wouldn’t be used when u have first base options of EE Abreu Collins and then Sheets to go through first but having those guys on a taxi squad would be huge just for the learning curve is what I was getting at

With this season being what it is id like to see the young promising recent draft picks all on the taxi squad to continue their development in whatever way possible and if they have to eventually be used so be it. It would be awesome to see Stiever, Crochet, Dalquist, Thompson, Kelley, Madrigal, Vaughn, Sanchez, Sheets, and Gonzalez all on the taxi squad. I don’t want to see your Palka’s and Detwiler’s taking up these potential learning scenarios who won’t be with the organization past this season

I believe the Sox signed all 5 already

Luis Robert Winning baseball The Parrot Trot

Yeah I live in right on the border of IL/IA and it’s a night and day difference just crossing the bridge.

I don’t understand some of the issue here. If you hit on both picks thats 40 percent of your eligible draft selections. I would say that’s a pretty damn good job if it works out...

Not if those 2 end up being studs who cares about the remaining 3 picks....

Hmm....Hahn should be ahead of the field then since he is all about the friends and family deals ?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/columnist/bob-nightengale/2020/04/28/mlb-optimistic-about-starting-season-late-june/3039275001/ interesting division allignments with this potential plan....kinda like it

Yermin and Collins have been pretty impressive this spring training. Either way having an argument on who should fill a back up position on the roster is a good thing.

Lol.....Here are his spring training stats, not worried in the slightest.... https://www.mlb.com/player/edwin-encarnacion-429665?stats=career-s-hitting-mlb&year=2019 he had 4 hits all of spring training last year.

No chance that Grandal isn’t in the opening day line up

You really think 16 mil spread out over 5 years is going to dent what exactly? Even if he falls off a cliff this year and isn’t good the entire contract his $ is just a drop in the bucket for a team that if in contention should be spending and is only league avg in spending

Same. I hope this goes down, we need some insurance in the OF incase someone goes down. Dude can play all spots in the OF would be a good compliment to this team

Gomez in that same tweet said the Sox are interested didn’t say whether there is an offer on the table from the Sox tho

Gomez reporting Puig close to signing w a team. Says Whitesox are one of the teams interested

Lol that MLB intel twitter handle has turned into realMAGABABES page now ???

I’m saying you acquire Joc and let Mazara and him battle it out. Nothing wrong with having too many good players. Let the rest play itself out. If Mazara beats him out then so be it and Joc is a 4th outfielder. Would much rather have that then automatically assuming Mazara is going to be something drastically different than what he has been just because of a change of scenery

I don’t understand why the Sox would just be content with him. Yes he’s better than what we’ve had but when there is a player out there like Joc I think you figure a way to make it work and you probably get him cheap at this point...and if you can’t get over the “love” you’ve given them you shouldn’t be in the business because all it takes is one injury having the Whitesox trot out Adam engel every day. Joc can play all 3 OF spots he’s the perfect player who can fill in any OF spot and get plenty of ABs even with the Mazara trial being given. It won’t happen though just wishful thinking.

I would like him on the team because he can play multiple OF positions and has some pop to replace whoever he is filling in for. I think signing him would be a huge get this late in the offseason. The positives outweigh the negatives in my opinion