Sean Fennessey

I mean, Marcus Simeon, Francisco Lindor, Luis Robert Jr., and Francisco Alvarez is as good an up-the-middle defense as there is in baseball right now.

And their lineups,

is really interesting.

Because if they get a couple of bounce backs from some key candidates and they get basically average production from the rest of the lineup, they're going to be tough.

They have hitters who hit with runners in scoring position.

They have guys who see a lot of pitches.

They're going to be annoying to pitch to.

And on top of that, it gives you a little bit of breathing room for Carson Bench to develop now.

You don't feel like he has to be good.

And if he's your left fielder of the future, all of a sudden,

I don't know, the Stearns masterclass phrase is back on my mind after feeling as low as I have about him since he came here.

I read a stat that 24 of his 41 hits in major league baseball last year were infield hits.

That's the kind of player he is.

We don't know.

Uh,

One, he's been playing in kind of the wasteland of the Chicago White Sox for the last few years.

And so because of that, he has not been as visible a figure.

In 2023, he was straight up one of the best players in baseball.

He had 38 home runs, gold glove defense.

He looked like a building block, not just for the White Sox, but for baseball.