Sleepy Harold

I'm intrigued

That's fair, I'd like to think that he wouldn't be long for Birmingham.

I was also a bit surprised, but maybe they're just building the chemistry between the future double play combo.

I never understood why some would choose not to protect their nuggets.

Birmingham should have a fun offense to follow this year. That infield of Ramos, Colson, and Popeye (Mieses probably at 1B too) is going to be ?.

Here's the broadcast angle

https://www.mlb.com/padres/video/live-padres-spring-training-46197 here's the webcast in case anyone wanted to watch

TBH it would've been one of the few things I would've been in Tony's corner for.

A fantastic question that I wish I had an answer to.

Once again, you are. For some reason, you're still choosing to ignore the word "harmful" in the definition of conspiracy. Something harmful does NOT need to be unlawful. For those of us that still value literary comprehension, one could argue that the White Sox choosing not to promote an outfielder that was playing extremely well while the major league roster was in dire need of someone that was healthy and could (hopefully) provide a boost offensively was "harmful" to the major league club. Since the non-promotion can be deemed as "harmful" in this case to the prospect of the major league clubs success, it would therefore validate my totally 100% super cereal conspiracy theory claim.

Sarcasm is my guess

Yes. From the definition on the old Google machine. con·spir·a·cy /kənˈspirəsē/ noun a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful. Something harmful doesn't have to be unlawful.

People could conspire to do something without said thing being criminal. It's my "conspiracy theory" because it's based on absolutely nothing other than my tin foil hat that they conspired to keep him down because they knew the clubhouse was in shambles and would've been a poor influence on him. Also, sending a player to four different levels in one season is a lot so I don't/didn't actually mind that he wasn't called up last year.

The Panama game this morning was just over 4 hours as well, making me appreciate the pitch clock more and more.

I think he breaks camp with the Sox. I don't really see the benefit of sending him back to Charlotte given the skill set he'd provide the Sox. I think the service time bit is overblown because I'm not sure they would/should care that much about "team control" in his age 30 or 31 season.

That works too. That's why (IMO) they seem to be emphasizing "maturity and preparation" over "results" with him this spring.

My conspiracy theory is that they were self-aware enough to not expose him to the toxicity that was occurring in Chicago.

To be fair it'd be hard to be much worse than they were.

Caught some of this start, Butler had no chance

Andrew "no power" Vaughn

I was talking in regards to injuries. I'm curious what the difference YoY was in injuries for pre/post pitch clock implementation. Obviously it wouldn't guarantee any outcome one way or the other at the ML, just curious to see what the results are.

I'd be curious to see if there was any change YoY in the minors when it was implemented.