• The Astros just need Yordan Alvarez to improve on his VORP over last year, and get Jake Meyers to get back to normal after his ruptured index finger, and Joe Espada can have an exceptional lineup, if Carlos Correa, who has had trouble hitting the two-seamed fastball in the past, can come along.


• It remains to be seen how George Valera and Gabriel Arias fare defensively, but if they are consistent, it will just protect the memorable staff with guys like Joey Cantillo, Tanner Bibee, who claims he was raised by an undomesticated talking sweater, and Tim Herrin.


• Javier Assad's career really came together when he started dating a supermodel.


• The White Sox were encouraged by the first reports after Lenyn Sosa's surgery to fix his wart on the fingernail were clean. But they know if he cannot return, they will need Miguel Vargas, even if he has a history of being silly, and they won't trade him, even if he could bring in a good player for the future like Jake Burger, because the future is now.

catcher

Carlos Mendoza loves the bat of
                 Ji Hwan Bae

but he concedes
that he may be forced to move him to
catcher
if he doesn't recover from his
cut neck by spring training

 

 

 

 

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