Game Threads: Spring Breakout White Sox at Dodgers/White Sox (15-13-1) at Reds (13-14)
Opening Day is almost here!
It’s a Spring Breakout solo game for the final time — by next year, it will be a prospects tournament during Spring Training. | (Photo by Nathan Ray Seebeck/MLB Photos via Getty Images) Among two games that won’t count, the more interesting contest pits top White Sox prospects at the top Dodgers prospects, held conveniently enough at Camelback Ranch. Ostensibly this roster represents the top players in every organization, and thus it stands to reason that the best at each position are starting in this game.
See if you agree: I mean, see if you agree with the White Sox; as of 100 minutes before game time, the Dodgers had not produced a lineup. Pro tip: It will be a really, really, really, really good one. Bonus pro tip: Some of these guys will be White Sox one day, given the habit the front office has had in trading with L.
A. over the past decade or so. No argument with anyone here, really.
Interesting to see that Caleb Bonemer is already being pushed to third base, with Billy Carlson earning the start at short. Grant Magill gets the start at backstop somewhat by default; with the talent on the major league roster, the White Sox are top-heavy at catcher for sure. Hagen Smith earning the start over, say, Tanner McDougal or Noah Schultz, is instructive — possibly.