Billy Carlson

And You're going to find a mix of rookies and some prospects.

Billy Carlson, Carter Jensen, Charlie Condon, Chase Burns, Deloder, Ethan Holiday, Jack Keggs, Mizorowski, Luis Pena, LDV, Sal Stewart, Pazana.

Yeah, and so this, if you're not watching, this card kind of, the style behind it is, it looks like a pack, and then the players behind it, and the Pazana one, he's holding a couple boxes, and the James Tibbs, He's just standing there and they both have very generic hats.

Bazzata just has like a white hat.

Um, but, uh, you know, there's some positive stuff.

Uh, their offense was frustrating at times, but also, you know, um, a lot of very young guys, you know, coming from, uh, the DSL ACL and then, uh, Jaden Fowski coming up and, you know, like you got him bout and a button and, uh, Billy Carlson, all high school prep guys coming to play for the ballers.

And there were some good things and there were some bad things.

And I think that it's a good thing for them to all build on.

Nor would they want to, right? So...

Now, the hard part is, like, if they wanted somebody like Clay Holmes, you're talking about probably Caleb Bonhamer or Billy Carlson, who had to be in the deal if the White Sox were going to, you know, trump the Cubs offer.

And honestly...

I like Clay Holmes.

So part of the reason I think Clay Holmes has had a lot of success is because up the middle, the Cubs with Pete Crowe-Armstrong, Nico Horner, Dansby Swanson, when he's healthy, have one of the most elite, you know, up the middle defenses in all of baseball.

And so I do think Clay Holmes in some ways is benefiting from that.

I don't know if it would have been necessarily the exact same situation had the White Sox acquired him, nor would I wanted them to have traded away Caleb Bonham or Billy Carlson to make that happen.

So, you know, I get it.

You're not trading Rock Cholowski.

You're not trading Caleb Bonham, or you're probably not trading the shortstop Billy Carlson.

But you'd have to give up, like, and I don't know this to be true, right? I'm not a GM, but I would think for a guy like Reed Demers, who's lights out, who also has two years of cheap control, you're giving up Noah Schultz.

You're giving him another arm.

So initially they said four weeks.

I think it's been two or three, something like that.

So I think he's on track right now to come back when they thought he would, which is going to be a big deal, obviously, because while Nico Horner is out there making some spectacular plays at shortstop, Dansby Swanson is just elite, elite, elite defensively.

And I remember back to the wild card series last year when Mike Schilt, who was the Padres manager at the time, said that Dansby almost single-handedly beat them On defense.

Rock Cholowski's calling.

Caleb Bonner or Billy Carlson, whatever.

But this year, he is by far your guy.

The best player you have for shortstop.