Timmy U

Or, if Machado sees that, he's going to change his mind, break his contract, and the Sox strategy will finally be vindicated!

What I was saying is that people without a plus fastball always have to prove it. With his track record, if Keuchel were throwing 93, he'd have a contract right now. Pilkington, similarly, is going to have to prove it and keep proving it. May not be fair, but that's the way it is.

So did Pilkington.

Well, that's what happens when a guy doesn't have that plus fastball. Gotta prove it all the time. Look at Dallas Keuchel.

Yeah, for a lefty who has got two breaking balls, I wonder what's the minimum velocity he needs to be decent? Maybe he goes full Corbin and throws his fastball only when he absolutely has too?

Pilkington with 5 K’s in 3 innings. Lefty coming out of the SEC who can get breaking stuff over, going to be hard to gauge what we have there until he gets to AA.

I don’t disagree, but I will point out that for Hansen the sample size is 5 innings, so rebuilding him into what he was in 2017 seems to be a very slow work in progress.

If Palka has magically become selective at the plate, it’s a different thing. I am sure that when the A’s released Max Muncy, they didn’t expect this. Look at Luke Voit. One of the areas good teams have over the Sox right now is getting production out of AAAA type players. Polka has some talent. Isn’t finding useful players off the scrap heap part of any successful rebuild? Currently, our outfield is Tilson, Cordell, Leury, Delmonico, Jimenez soon, and Alonso at DH. You’re not blocking Lou Gehrig by giving the guy another shot.

I didn’t vote this way, but if you really believe in Giolito’s start to the year with the changes he’s made, you could argue he’s headed to being a number 2 starter. That’s pretty valuable. Hell, Keith Law might pick option two. Bonus: right now those guys are our entire starting rotation. Giolito and ReyLo and pray for rainouts?

Complete game!

I invite you to a world where Reinsdorf is the one who pushed to acquire a pitcher and that is why neither Hahn nor KW has been fired.

I meant the latter.

Sadly, Giolito doesn’t credit Cooper. He says the changes were the result of work with his childhood pitching coach Ethan Katz, who now works for the Giants. https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/news/lucas-giolito-strikes-out-eight-in-win-over-blue-jays

Hawkins was a late-riser, those are always dangerous. Abrams has been in the top 5 of this draft for at least a year.

If he hits .260 the rest of the way and catches like he has been, he will be our best at this position since AJ. Really like how he calls a game etc.

Those last three are middle round type bonuses. Jr signed for $600,000. I think Nunez was like $800,000.

And Stivers. That Kanny rotation is too experienced for the level.

Wow. The Sox were sooooo much better last year with Castillo on his suspension. I feel like he doesn't call a good game, he doesn't frame well, and in ur uniform, he has never hit enough to make up for that.

I loved the McCann signing from the start. Always thought he had more offensive potential than what he showed in Detroit and I liked him behind the plate. My problem with Yonder wasn't the $9 mil, it was that you were helping a division rival take $9 mil of dead money off their books. Real head scratcher. Hopefully he sits plenty so the option doesn't kick in.

This is practically still spring training for him. They're maxing him out at 85 pitches, 80 tonight. He rarely goes 5 innings. What the heck are they thinking? They tried this stuff with Rodon, fat lotta good it did.

Ha ha. I remember Ralph Garr. Worst defensive outfielder I've ever seen. And remember, I'm a Sox fan. I've seen Dan Pasqua, Daniel Palka, Ivan Calderon, Carlos Lee, Eloy, and, briefly, Carlton Fisk in left field. For a fast guy, Garr was just miserable out there. I'd settle for Tilson being a young John Jay.

I will say this, though, it is better to dominate in the minors than be kinda good. The only Sox prospect I can remember who was kinda good in the minors and then was a star was Ventura. Even Maggs absolutely dominated AAA in his last year there.

No kidding that's a homer anywhere else. That ball was absolutely crushed.

Okay, Death. But first, Adam Engel!

Ha ha. Minaya has been getting lit at Charlotte. This is just one step up from Rondon. The injuries to Hamilton and Johnson along with Burdi’s very slow TJ progress have been killers.