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Yah, I find the takes to tear it down but not trade Cease comical. He’s controlled 2 years after this. If you trade off everyone controlled thru 24, WTF you keeping Cease for? He’s the most valuable of the bunch sans Robert. That said, things will need to go very off the rails IMO for a mid season tear down to occur.

That’s debatable. It’s a tiny sample size in the bigs. He’s 23. Can play good defense and multiple positions. He’s raked in the minors.

Lol WTF Lenyn. Swing the bat

Any word on severity of Chappy’s hands injury?

The Twins have not win a single playoff game in over 20 years. Not a series, a single game. It’s not exactly an organization to fawn over.

Of course. Language barrier for one, Colas may have no idea. But who really cares - 24 YO dude liking public bikini photos…big deal. I certainly wouldn’t advise the activity, but this is a big nothing burger

Pedro has him as a high leverage reliever! That’s why!

Exactly. I think my list had Conforto #2 as well - mainly due to the power -Certainly have been no stranger to banging the Nimmo and Conforto drum here the past half decade. For 2023, I liked the fact that Beni was the better defender and obviously Conforto was a sizable question mark coming off not playing in 22. I’ve been underwhelmed with Benis defense so far, but it’s still so so so so much better than the alternatives. Sox fans love to have it both ways - absolutely b**** and moan that Sox don’t sign enough FAs, but whenever they do make “larger” splashes like Yaz or Beni, the fan base turns on them quickly. Good stuff. Finding any FAs that turn out to have surplus value is extremely difficult.

Really need to finish this home stand strong

Who else was there tho? They absolutely had to have a LHH OF. Nimmo signed for $162 million. Benintendi was the next best option. Sure they could have signed Joey Gallo to a one year deal for a bit more power, but honestly the Benintendi deal was fine. He certainly hasn’t looked good in SSS tho.

Diekman leads the league in appearances. Not sure how you allow your worst pitcher to do that.

Just give me Colome and send Diekman to the moon, please.

Nooooooo

Another hit for Chapelli. This guy has me very intrigued.

Over under on how many times Jason mentions Solak is a "local product" tonight?

Easy on the facts, Sir.

While I agree playing a man down is stupid and a gimpy Yoan is worthless at the plate (but still FAR and away our best defender at 3B), there really isn't anyone to call up. All position players on 40 man are on active roster but Ramos (hurt and not ready), JRod (not ready), and Perez (Catcher/DH type). So you're DFAing pitching depth to get a pinch runner in Billy or a guy you're never going to play in Haseley. Just not really that useful. A bit of moot point now that Eloy is coming off IL, so you can probably just swap them. But making that move for Billy or Hasley on Monday/Tue for a couple games doesn't really move the needle. You're just going to have to DFA those guys again when Yoan comes back a few days later.

Yeah, the Twins do look good. I live in MN (have most my life) - all my good friends are Twins fans, and I actually know some folks in the org. I watch the Twins a lot; pretty much whenever the Sox aren't playing and they are. They do look good in the early going, but until last night, the offense hasn't been great. They've been living on winning on good pitching against either bad teams (KC and Miami) and teams not playing good baseball (White Sox and Astros). Truth be told, definitely expected them to go into the Bronx and get trounced, but anything but that happened last night. We'll see how the next three go. But the Twins are every bit as injury prone - if not more - than the Sox. Buxton will get hurt. Just a matter of when. Correa's ankle obviously isn't well, and that's not even what has been bugging him. Without those 2, the offense is pretty meh. I mean, look at those lineups they were sporting against the Sox, and now Farmer is down at least a month. But the FO did a great job in adding depth players that have already been needed quite a bit - much better than the Sox. But the Twins are still mostly the same team last year that was even worse than the Sox. Lopez looks legit, but let's not act like they didn't give up a big piece from their MLB club to get him. I am a Joe Ryan fan to the extent I can be for a Twin - still cannot believe the beloved Rays FO gave him up for 2 months of 40 YO Nelson Cruz. But their rotation has lots of injury question marks - like most do. Maeda is already hurting, he is getting his start this weekend skipped. BUt Twins do have some arms they can rely on - Winder, SWR, Ober, Varland. Definitely more upper minors SP than the Sox. I think it is totally fair to call teh Twins the favorite in ALC at this point. An early 4 game lead is impressive. But this isn't a team that is going to run away with the division, IMO.

Damn it, Yoan. Figure it out dude.

Where did the Sox say they were expecting a ton from Crochet in 2023? Writers talk about it, because well, Crochet has been mostly nasty when healthy. If he is healthy enough to pitch, he'll pitch. He might not be 100% back in terms of stuff, but even 80% of Crochet is better than most left handed relievers. They also have Bummer who is also a pretty good lefty himself. I don't really think the Sox need to come out with definitive statements like "we expect nothing from Garrett this season" or "we need Crochet to be our 8th inning guy or were doomed". What does that accomplish?

Yeah, I don't agree that an April deficit in the standings requires unachievable baseball to get back into the race. Especially when the Sox have already played several of their toughest series in April. The Sox toughest scheduling month is April. And the Twins and Guardians still aren't very good. I do definitely agree that the Sox have played some terrible baseball 13 games in, and the injuries so far are super discouraging. That said, Eloy and Moncada should both be back this weekend. TA should be back in 2 weeks. Not exactly crippling injuries, yet. But yes, I definitely agree that this season will be very tough for the Sox to compete if those 3 + Robert miss ~half the season like they did in 2022. Imagine everyone agrees on that.

But it IS only 13 games. 92% of the season is left. Of course if the Sox keep losing series for another month straight, they're going find themselves in a really tough spot. April is going to be rough; we knew that. I wouldn't exactly expect the Sox to do any better than .500ish in the 19 games between between now and 5/4 when they have 3 vs BAL, 3 vs. PHIL, 3 @ TB, 3 @ TOR, 4 vs. TB, and 3 vs. MN. They need to come out that stretch not worse than 13-19. Even at that point, they still have over 80% of the season left and the May and June schedules are quite favorable for the Sox. The season certainly will not be over, though I am sure most of the fanbase will think so. Obviously Pedro's point is valid - each game counts the same. The Sox certainly should look at that way, but as fans it definitely is early. Of course, none of it matters if the best players on the team cannot stay healthy.

He threw three innings of one run ball a few days previous @ PIT.

Oh, I think they were serious. Machado and his family posted a custom made White Sox glove he had made and his kid dressed in white Sox gear on socials. The Padres swooped in last minute and tacked on $50M, and the Sox didn't budge (or didn't believe them). I truly believe the Sox (and Machado) thought it was a done deal until the very final stages. Sox thought it was a bluff, and they were wrong.

I cannot imagine there are many Sox fans that would sit here in April 2023 and say that the Sox made the right decision in coming out of that offseason withOUT one of Harper/Machado. It was a massive failure, and in hindsight, the deals were pretty fair compared to what is getting signed now a days. It was a huge miss, I think everyone would agree on that. Doesn't mean that signing Grandal wasn't the best signing for the club that offseason (it was), or that signing Benintendi wasn't the 2nd best option for the Sox team needs after Nimmo who got a disgusting overpay. The Sox need to sign more guys in the Grandal / Benintendi range, not less. Of course sprinkling in a true superstar would help, but until JR moves on and new ownership is in place, that's not gonna happen.