Jose Abreu

After a few days of refusal, my school (University of Chicago) is finally moving to online classes once our finals weeks (now and next week) are over, but no word on how they plan to do so without screwing over international students. Seems like every major college is beginning to do the same now.

Won't teams be flying back and forth from Florida and Arizona though, unless they change the schedule?

What I'm struggling to understand (and it's an idea I'm seeing more on Twitter than here) is how playing games at neutral sites or in Arizona is any better than playing games as scheduled but with no crowds

Agreed. I think he's gonna be the main in-season acquisition

No it's not

It's always interesting to see how eternal pessimists can find inventive ways to contort undeniably good news

The odds of the White Sox not being fully aware of this hypothetical Moncada "injury" before guaranteeing him $70 million are 0.

6/90 is nice. I expected 6/100-105. Now do Giolito

Nah, even if Madrigal were tearing the cover off the ball, this was/is a real need IMO.

Nice way to get out of that. Assuming he's done, that's a fine ST debut

If he could be at least below-average with the bat (rather than one of the worst in the league on that end) I'd love him as a backup. Above-average and you're talking about a starting CF.

I'm really encouraged by the subtle but (hopefully) effective changes Lopez has made to his delivery. That curveball looks nasty

Not a surprise that his location is "Downers Grove"!

Moncada has said many times now that he doesn't like leading off. Why would him leading off still be a consideration?

Most people I've talked to about this drive for Uber on weekends and seem to think it's worth it

I thought for sure that we'd see him this summer, but then EE was signed

I've always found it interesting how a defense of Madrigal is "he doesn't need to hit that well, he'll be valuable based on defense and baserunning alone". For someone who receives that comment pretty often, his defense and baserunning (particularly the latter) have not been that impressive. I think the guys who truly have that kind of value on defense and baserunning alone are Robert and Moncada (who had tremendous baserunning value last year despite the low stolen base total).

He did add muscle this offseason. Not sure how much, but it was noticeable.

One good counter I've heard for this is David Fletcher's 2019. He was literally one of the worst in MLB when it came to hard contact rate/exit velocity, but hit .290 with a .302 xBA. Like Madrigal, he is fast, but not elite as a runner. Hopefully Madrigal has similar production

When would Yermin play? Who do you even PH him for other than 2B/RF?