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CHICAGO (AP) — e major league debut of Chicago White Sox pitching prospect Dylan CeaseTuesday’s game between the White Sox and the Detroit Tigers was postponed by rain nearly an hour after the scheduled first pitch. It will be made up on Sept. 27 as part of a straight doubleheader.But the 23-year-old Cease is still scheduled to start the first game of a split doubleheader on Wednesday against Detroit Rickey Henderson Jersey , facing lefty Daniel Norris. Chicago left-hander Ross Detwiler will take the mound in the nightcap against Tigers lefty Tyler Alexander, who was recalled from Triple-A Toledo to make his major league debut.Article continues below ...Cease hadn’t yet been recalled from Triple-A Charlotte following Tuesday’s rainout, but the prized White Sox right-hander, weather permitting, is ready to go. Ranked as the No. 18 overall prospect by MLB Pipeline, Cease was part of the five-playertrade in July 2017 that sent left-hander Jose Quintana to the crosstown Cubs and brought outfielder Eloy Jiménez to the South Side.“I think he’s a young man who has been talked about a lot,” manager Rick Renteria said. “Obviously an impressive arm and we’re just pretty excited to get our eyes on him at the major league level and allow him to do what he does.“It’s going to me memorable no matter what, but we hope he has a nice afternoon tomorrow and continue from there.”Cease’s debut isn’t intended as a spot start. The White Sox desperately need another arm for their depleted rotation, especially with top prospect Michael Kopech and lefty Carlos Rodon out until next season following Tommy John surgery.Cease is 5-2 with 4.48 ERA in 15 starts at Charlotte. Before pitching a scoreless inning in his last outing on Thursday, he had allowed 13 earned runs over 11 1/3 innings in three previous starts.“His last few outings weren’t as impressive as everybody wanted them to be,” Renteria said. “I think there was a thought that maybe it was time for the challenge and see if he can raise his game up a little bit.”Renteria said All-Star catcher James McCann will be behind the plate “to work his magic” with Cease and “allow him to get comfortable.”Light rain started falling Tuesday night as scheduled starter Reynaldo López walked in from the bullpen minutes before his scheduled first pitch.Just as he reached the dugout, it became a lightning-punctuated deluge that lasted for 90 minutes and soaked Guaranteed Rate Field.After the game was called, Renteria said he wasn’t sure when Lopez’s next turn will be slotted into the rotation. The right-hander, 4-7 with a 6.12 ERA, was scheduled to face Detroit left-hander Matthew Boyd, 5-6 with a 3.72 ERA.Boyd’s start was moved to Thursday afternoon in Chicago.Although Lopez allowed three runs in no-decisions each of his previous two starts, he entered with a 1-3 record and 7.61 ERA in his last seven outings.The Tigers have lost nine of their last 10 and 13 of 15.Tuesday night’s game is the third postponement between the two teams, including April 20 at Comerica Park and April 27 at Guaranteed Rate Field. The clubs are scheduled to play split doubleheaders on Wednesday and Aug. 6 in Detroit.HERE’S HAROLDFormer White Sox DH and outfielder Harold Baines http://www.padresfanproshop.com/authentic-brad-hand-jersey , who will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 21, told media before the game that his speech a Cooperstown won’t be the shortest ever.“No, I think one guy said ‘thank you’ and sat down,” the notoriously laconic Baines said. “I’ll definitely beat that.”A six-time All-Star, Baines started his 22-year career with the White Sox and played in 14 seasons with them. Baines was selected by the Today’s Game Era Committee after being passed over the Baseball Writers’ Association of America during his time on the ballot.TRAINER’S ROOMDetroit:INF Jordy Mercer, reinstated from the 10-day IL on Monday, was scheduled to start at shortstop and bat eighth on Tuesday.Mercer has been out since May 8 with a right quad strain.UP NEXT:RHP Cease faces LHP Norris (2-7, 4.62) in the opener on Wednesday.LHP Alexander takes the mound against Detwiler (1-0, 3.60)The 33-year-old Detwiler earned his first major league win in nearly three years last Friday when he tossed five effective innings against Minnesota.Alexander, a Chicago native, was 2-9, with a 6.23 ERA in 15 outings at Toledo. The Red Sox have a bunch of stars set to hit the open market soon. Can this extension be a guide towards future contracts for any of them?"This is, obviously, a major deal in the scope of the league as a whole, and trust me when I say I could talk about Arenado for hours. He is my favorite player in baseball, non-Red Sox/non-Mauricio Dubon edition. We are not an MLB page, though, and concern ourselves with the Red Sox here. In that vein Cory Spangenberg Jersey , this deal could provide some hints towards what Boston would be looking at with potential extensions for a couple of their stars.Now, of the four Capital-S stars mentioned above, I’m only going to talk about two. Chris Sale is the same caliber of a player as Arenado, but comparisons between pitchers and position players can get iffy, particularly given the recent injury concerns for the Red Sox ace. J.D. Martinez, meanwhile, is a better hitter than Arenado but he’s older, isn’t a pre-free agency player and doesn’t provide the defensive value Colorado gets from their third baseman. Jackie Bradley Jr. would be the closest from the other group of impending free agents to being included in this comparison but, well, ya know. Bradley ain’t Arenado or really even close.That leaves Betts and Bogaerts as the guys about whom we could learn a little bit regarding potential future contract extensions. Now, these are not perfect comparisons for reasons we’ll get to in a bit. There really isn’t such thing as a perfect comparison between any two baseball players. That said, it is close enough. Bogaerts, like Arenado before he signed the contract, is set to hit free agency at the end of the year. He doesn’t have the same long-term track record as the Rockies star, but he was actually better offensively last year (by wRC+) and is two years younger. That’s important. Betts, meanwhile, is the better player and is also two years younger, but he’s also an extra year away from free agency.Don’t let the bullpen overshadow how great this rotation could bePhoto by Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesStill Eric Hosmer Jersey , while these guys are in the same general vicinity as each other in terms of caliber of player, there is a clear pecking order based purely on talent. I don’t think anyone would really debate a ranking of Betts, Arenado and Bogaerts unless they really weight Bogaerts’ 2018 heavily and take significant points away from Arenado for calling Coors Field home. For a slightly more objective view at things, I thought it would be useful to look at a straight WAR comparison between the three. I used a three-year total for all three players — three-year samples are generally how projection systems look at players — and looked at Baseball-Reference WAR, Fangraphs WAR and Baseball Prospectus WARP as well as the average of the three measures. Here are the resultsWAR ComparisonPlayerbWARfWARWARPAveragePlayerbWARfWARWARPAverageNow, I should mention that I am not the biggest fan of WAR metrics and don’t really use them all that much. I think they rely a little heavily on defensive metrics that most agree are wonky in smaller samples, and I’m not sure positional adjustments are always applied fairly. That being said, as a shorthand start for a comparison like these, it works. Sure enough, the ranking is how most of us would have it, with Arenado slightly closer to Betts but the three separated by almost equal lengths. So, where do we go from here? Let’s start with Bogaerts, who again is not the same caliber player as Arenado. He is younger, but even so I don’t think he could command the same length of a deal and certainly couldn’t command the $32.5 million average annual value. They’d likely try, but it would be hard to argue Bogaerts should get more money per year than Arenado. That said, something approaching this neighborhood could be in order. Remember, while the three-year WAR totals skew things and teams can’t make long-term decisions based on one year, Bogaerts broke out in a big way in 2018. With that in mind Jose Pirela Jersey , he could probably ask for a six-year deal with something around $27-$30 million for an AAV without getting laughed out of the room. Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesThe more interesting one is, of course, Betts. The one knock against him, as mentioned above, is that he is an extra year away from free agency. I’m not sure that difference has a ton of impact in a discussion like this regarding one of the two or three best position players in the game. Betts would certainly command a larger deal than Arenado. The hope is that this kind of framework being in place would make Betts more comfortable even discussing an extension at this point. I’m not getting my hopes up that he would, but it’s possible. If he does, the talks are starting at nine or ten years, and anything less than $35 million per year is a non-starter. It’s a huge sum of money and a massive guarantee, but that is the price to pay for someone of Betts’ caliber. The Red Sox might be wary of offering that much two years before free agency — they shouldn’t be, but they might be — but if they want serious talks with the reigning MVP this is where they need to be.Ultimately, I don’t see extensions with either of these guys before the start of the season. For Bogaerts, the question of how much to weigh 2018 is one on which I can see significant disagreement between him and the team. For Betts, he’s shown every indication he wants to go through arbitration year-by-year and then see what happens on the open market. Still, up to this point they haven’t had a recent extension to a super-duper star to use as a benchmark. Now they have one, and it confirms that Boston is going to need to pay huge money to keep their stars. Just remember, they have the money and then some.