Eloy and Sugar Plums

This must be what visions of sugar plums dancing in your head are like. The White Sox announced yesterday that Eloy Jimenez will begin a rehab assignment tonight with high-A Winston-Salem. The Sox say Jimenez could be back on the South Side by the end of the month. I’m betting by July 23rd. I keep reading how the signing of Adam Eaton was a mistake. As opposed to who, George Springer and his six-year, $150 million contract? Springer has ten RBIs the last time I checked, compared to 28 for the DFA’d Eaton. Springer has been so injured this season he has all of 61 at-bats. But the Blue Jays have themselves one big contract. Right now, the Sox have themselves a nice roster tending to the young side; Jimenez and Luis Robert returning will make it younger yet depending on the fates of Jake Burger and Gavin Sheets. They hit, they stay while some combination of Brian Goodwin, Billy Hamilton and Jake Lamb joins Eaton out the door. As I’ve been saying for the past week or so, baseball’s a business, one where youth will be served. And, if you think this is fun or interesting, just wait for the offseason. Burger, Sheets, Andrew Vaughn. Who goes, who stays, who gets packaged in a deal? Throw in the likes of Eloy and Dylan Cease, and my head spins. It must be the sugar plums.