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The Mouseketeers beat the A’s 6-2 last night for the first time in three tries, and here’s what the team website has to say about it: White Sox inch closer to Grifol’s vision of the future. In case you were wondering, anything approaching Mickey Mouse’s vision of the future qualifies as dystopian. Ooh, winning pitcher Touki Toussaint looking at video of his performance, reliever Bryan Shaw and catcher Korey Lee doing some postgame analysis, and it’s the second coming of 2005. Also of stop-the-presses importance: Lenyn Sosa’s third homerun in a week. But over at the Sun-Times James Fegan said Yoan Moncada, three-run homer notwithstanding, has a “clouded” future given his back issues. That’s the thing about backs in baseball. Once they become a problem, they don’t really get better. So, answer me this: Given that they had to know about Moncada’s iffy health, why did the Sox trade Jake Burger, who’s still batting .349 with his new team in Miami? Is there somebody in the minors ready to play third in case Moncada goes on the shelf again? I sure hope so.