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To be fair I followed it up saying I was full of hope and it wouldn’t take long for it to be sucked out of me. 2 games in and i am fairly hopeless.

I still think Collins could be a Mike Napoli / Evan Gattis / Carlos Santana early career type player that is a part time catcher. Maybe catches twice a week, DHs twice a week and plays first twice a week. Plenty of value there. I fully support the Sox continuing to allow him to catch. There is no reason not to, even if he is ends up being a part time catcher. You can always pull the plug on catching at a later dates - makes no sense to completely remove that possibility at this point.

Is Hansen healthy enough to pitch when the minor leagues open next week?

Time to move on fellas.

Pretty much an org guy. Raked in AAA last couple seasons. Royals decided to give him a shot.

Over/under 2 days until you call half the pitching staff stiffs?

Just a guess, or has this been mentioned?

Right. Which is a primary reason why I hate Yoan batting 2nd. I don't see Renteria changing, but hope I am wrong.

That's fair and I get that. I just pray hope Ricky doesn't have Moncada bunting Leury over everytime he reaches base in the 1st inning.

Lol. Whatever man. Tune into a few games this year instead of spending all your time on here telling all of us how awful this organization is.

I personally would really prefer to see Moncada bat further down in the lineup. Just a spot where he doesn't have to worry about other things that come with leading off or batting 2nd. Something like: Leury, Sanchez, Abreu, Alonso, Eloy, Moncada, Palka, Anderson, Catcher Sanchez batting 2nd isn't ideal either, but I am also not worried about Sanchez's development at this point. But I may be alone is this line of thinking, and that's ok.

Please provide me quotes where Rick Hahn complained about not having money to keep the core together, and better yet, how that relates to $1.75M additional dollars spent in 2019 on James McCann as opposed to Kevan Smith. I will wait.

We get it dude. No one likes the move. It happened. Kevan Smith still sucks. James McCann also sucks. One costs like $1.75M more than the other. Not a huge deal. No is complaining about not having money to keep the core together. Some comments from the FO (mainly KW) have been taken out of context. At the end of the day, the White Sox decided that they didn't want to guarantee a declining and aging 35 and 36 year old Manny Machado over $25M per. 95% of us don't agree with it, but it is what it is now.

Per DVS on twitter, this will be the lineup: *edit* - he clarified that this is his "projected" OD lineup. Garcia CF, Moncada 3B, Abreu 1B, Alonso DH, Eloy LF, Palka RF, Anderson SS, McCann C, Sanchez 2B Mostly dig it. I like Garcia getting the nod over Engel. Still not a huge fan of Moncada in the 2 hole, but I guess that just going to be the way it is. A little surprised to see McCann in over Wellington, but I get the feeling that Ricky prefers McCann.

I see the mushrooms haven't worn off yet.

Other than drafting him in 2 fantasy leagues in the past 36 hours, I've never wanted someone to fail more. Mainly so I can stop seeing his fucking name mentioned 976 times per day on here.

Kevan Smith is a great guy. He'll likely also be out of major league baseball before this season is over, and he's at best a coin's flip to return. He isn't very good. The hand wringing over this move is silly. And that is coming from someone that pretty much hates everything about the McCann signing, though as Y2J mentioned, the two are mutually exclusive.

I hate seeing this dudes name every damn time I log into Soxtalk. Its time to move on.

Oh I agree, but I think this team is much better than the Orioles, Royals and Tigers who the sox play 19 of our first 30 games. I don't think 12-7 or better in those 19 games is that big of a reach.

Nice.

They play the Indians twice.

Jay did not play much CF this spring. 15 innings in CF, 41 in RF, and 0 in LF. I don't think Jay is going to the the primary CF at any point this season like many of us expected. Bad news for the Adam Engel haters, though I expect Leury to get 75% or so of the starts in CF to start the season.

A lot of rain in the forecast for Thursday and Friday. May be tough to get this one in. 90% chance of thunderstorms both days.

We're in for a super long season if the team ends this stretch less like .425 ball. The schedule is so easy to start and the Royals (6 games), Tigers (7 games) Orioles (6 games) should all be markedly worse than the Sox this season. Those teams are dreadful.

Not as bad as those teams though. Take a look for yourself. The AL Central is so comically bad.