James Fegan of The Athletic notes his disappointment of an NBC Sports Chicago poll result in which White Sox fans expressed a majority desire to hold off calling up top prospects Eloy Jimenez and Michael Kopech to maximize their major league service time and team control.
I very enjoy my subscription to The Athletic and Fegan’s contributions. His style of writing is clean and point of view astute. All except for this last one, that is: “Memo to White Sox fans: Root for the prospects, not their service time” (subscription required).
Fegan found the poll result “fairly dispiriting” that fans preferred holding off on call-ups for the top minor league performers in favor of keeping them in Sox uniforms for as long as possible, a sin he described as “blatant service time manipulation”.