GermanSoxFan

They have had the line tech in tennis for like two decades now, but baseball relies on the eyes of Angel Hernandez.

Jace fighting his command all spring.

What a fun game to watch. Clevinger was just electric. Nova held his own and we have Cordell as the unlikely hero. Let's close this out boys.

Clevinger is having an awesome game. He is a very good pitcher having great stuff. I don't understand the anger and panic in this thread.

I will always defend the Alex Rios claim. Dude averaged 5.5 war the three seasons before and was having a down year on a perfectly reasonable contract.

Of course he isn't good. Good players don't sign minor league deals without an invite to big league camp. However, there is some value to have a veteran as an emergency option. More so for a contending team, but whatever.

Sandoval had 6 seasons with an OPS+ above 110. We should be thrilled if Burger can do that.

Makes sense, Rondon will be with the big league club. They need a warm body in Charlotte. Could do much worse than Alcides. ?‍♂️

Sale close to extension with Boston. Cross another name off the list.

I am surprised Trout was so willing to re-sign with the Angels. They have been absolutely terrible at surrounding him with any talent.

Dude. 5/150? it's a player option, that money is guaranteed if Manny wants it. The Sox offer was a vesting option which meant the Sox would have been able to control whether the option vests. Just like they will with Yonder Alonso this year. Manny would have said the same things about the White Sox, the Reds or the Toledo Mudhens.

Everything that was reported about the Sox contract offer was a controlled leak by.....the Sox FO. They wouldn't leak stuff that doesn't fit their narrative-

Anderson, even if we assume the team options get picked up, signed for 8/50. 100 million for a pre arb player is ridiculous.

So Corey Ray is the reason the Brewers became a good team? You just present a correlation that does not exist. If moving the goalposts was an Olympic sport, you‘d be the favorite for the gold medal.

They should remove the juiced ball first and foremost.

Corey Ray was picked 5 picks before the White sox were able to pick him. ? And he put up decent numbers last year for the first time in his professional career, Overreacting to ST games is ridiculous enough, but to invent a narrative that Corey Ray is a Sox scouting failure is just hilarious. Never change.

Concerns where to play someone if the Sox reach the WS are not in my top 100 concerns for the Sox future. However, Castellanos came up as a 3B and is athletic enough to play a decent 1B IMO. I don‘t think he‘d kill our chances in LF in that small a sample of games. Same for Martinez, minus the infield part. I think if Castellanos dedicated himself to work on playing 1B he‘d be better than Abreu, easily.

I would not hate Keuchel for like 3/40MM with an option.

Unless Moncada shows no improvement at all, I doubt they will be moving him back to 2B. If the Sox sign Rendon, something has gone terribly wrong. Castellanos would be a great fit as I said before, but I'm afraid that the White Sox will extend Abreu to be an average bat at a premium price.

Castellanos would be a good fit. Would like him as the 1B/DH, dude can flat out hit.

If Tim Anderson develops into the second coming of Alexei Ramirez, we got a hell of a plaxer. ?‍♂️

That doesn't guarantee that they will do it though. Why hop off this TV/MLBAM revenue gravy train?

"Don’t feel sorry for Williams. He won’t be faulted by Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf for failing to sign Machado. In fact he’ll probably be lauded by Reinsdorf for coming to his defense."

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/ct-spt-cubs-white-sox-spending-20190222-story.html vs. https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/ct-spt-white-sox-manny-machado-bryce-harper-fans-20190301-story.html ??

If you look at the past drafts any closer, it's not like there were superstarts drafted after the Bulls picked in some of these drafts. I don't think you can call Bobby Portis a bad pick if you see who was picked behind him. And as I said before, they deserve credit for Rose. Beasley would have been the better "fit" and they could have easily drafed him.