Sports Guy

https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/39989190/mlb-2024-chicago-white-sox-start-most-losses-season-record-mets

Yea, definitely a concern. Hes a great story but really good pitchers don’t normally sit around in obscurity until their mid 30s. It’s possible they found something in him but the realistic thing is that this is short lived but perhaps there is a role for him in the pen and he can have a late blooming career as a reliever. Nothing wrong with that.

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Let’s not go overboard here. We are seeing a lot of encouraging things. That’s great. Could he be better than Kremer or Irvin or Wells? Sure, it’s possible. But we have a long ways to go before we can get there. For now, you keep running him out there and see how good he can be.

Huh? I don’t think you are understanding what I’m saying. Sure, if you bring up a HS player to the majors before they play in the minors, that’s rushed..but that doesn’t really happen. So, in realistic world, talking about things that actually happen, rushed isn’t really a thing.

No such thing as rushed unless it’s some extreme case that you basically never see

We could really use Cease too. The WS had a lineup the other day and I believe everyone or at least 8 guys had a sub 200 BA.

Sure but that doesn’t have to happen immediately. You don’t say, well I’m keeping Kjerstad in the minors because I can only find 8-10 at bats a week for him. That’s enough for the moment. Rather that than 25 at bats in AAA right now. Especially a guy like Kjerstad, who is getting “old” for the minors. Norby is similar as well.

I think most people’s minds are conditioned that a player has to play everyday. We don’t see teams playing a lot of guys some. We see teams that normally put out the same lineups everyday and play the same players most of the time. But the reality is that shouldn’t be the case. We also don’t need young guys to come up and play every single day to justify them being here. They can play 2-4 times a week and get PH appearances. When the player is “old enough” and has nothing left to prove in the minors, you get them up here even if it’s just on a part time basis for a while until things get figured out.

Hays has a spot because of his defense (not great but it’s solid enough) but yea, this is why trades could happen. The Os have valuable guys and clear pitching needs in a year where you are trying to win it all. You have to address those needs and the Os have proven and yet to be established positional talent that they should use to address those pitching needs.