More Moves

So many ex-White Sox players, so many moves to either coast. I forgot to mention Nick Madrigal signing a minor-league deal with the Mets and Eloy Jimenez with the Rays. Well, the trainers will have a busy spring. The two names that really caught me by surprise, though, were Yolmer Sanchez and Trayce Thompson. Yolmer is hoping to land a spot with the Angels (for an Anderson/Moncada/Sanchez reunion, no less) while Thompson is trying his luck with the Red Sox. Like, wow. If Thompson, 34 on the Ides of March, were to make the Red Sox, that would be his sixth major-league team. The right-hand hitting outfielder and brother of NBA star Klay Thompson has had three separate go-arounds with the Sox and two with the Dodgers. Thompson has also played fourteen seasons in the minors. I can’t even begin to count the different teams. As for Yolmer, he’s a tad younger at 32 with a birthday in June. He’s played for three major-league teams and has spent twelve seasons in the minors plus six seasons of winter ball in Venezuela. Again, I can’t begin to count the seasons. At the end of Ball Four, Jim Bouton wrote, “You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” What holds for pitchers holds for position players. Good luck, guys.