Dizzy Sox

Tejada to the Pirates, that's too bad.

Whew, hopefully a bullet dodged for someone who is not just a great prospect but from all I've read a good kid. Hope the Sox are overcautious with his recovery and he is able to start 2019 atop the rotation in Charlotte.

I'm worried Giolito has Scott Ruffcorn disease. Tears up the minors, can't do a thing in the bigs.

Would love to have Bohm but Madrigal will be a very nice consolation prize.

For Charlotte tonight, Roach Clip(s) the Clippers

QUOTE (cjgalloway @ Jan 18, 2018 -> 03:32 PM) I agree but top 100 is a big deal. Hard to make it following a very down year I sure hope I'm wrong but Rutherford just screams to me of being an overhyped Yankee prospect who loses his shine once he's out of pinstripes. I know he was well regarded coming out of the draft but...just not feeling this one.

One of the most encouraging developments over the last two years has been the Sox finally putting a premium on players who can take a walk (or at least have some track record of controlling the strike zone). Just off the top of my head...Collins, Call, Fischer, Burger, Sheets, Gonzalez, Yurchak, plus as a previous poster wrote maybe you can include Robert...that's a dramatic shift from the Jared Mitchell/Trayce Thompson/Tim Anderson athlete-first, ballplayer second model that reigned since the mid-to-late 2000s. Obviously not all of these players will find it as easy to control the zone as they did in amateur ball, but the simple fact that the ability to take a walk is now apparently valued by the club...eventually you have to think that will pay off. I have to think this is linked to Hahn establishing himself over Kenny '5:1 K/BB ratio' Williams (in an era of reduced strikeouts no less!) Regardless, it's a very welcome development and I'm hoping we'll see the fruits of that at the big league level as these players mature and, presumably, controlling the zone is stressed for everyone in the Sox minor league chain.

Lining up for the Justin Yurchak hype train....1 K in 2 freaking weeks. Hot damn

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 18, 2017 -> 05:18 PM) Great takes Caulfield. Yes, Presidents Day should be canceled now cause of the fact some had slaves. Kill it. Yes we should look at all the statues and take them down if said President did something racist or particularly ominous/offensive. We have to at least consider each statue on its own merit now. It's crazy, but it's America now. Any president that had a slave cannot have a statue. Any person affiliated with the South in the Civil War cannot have a statue. Case closed. Confederate statues honor those who actively committed treason against this country in the hope of perpetuating slavery. Tying their removal with a slippery-slope argument that ends with no more statues of Washington or Jefferson or FDR or whomever is disingenuous at best. I just can't believe it's a controversial opinion to say we shouldn't honor or recognize individuals whose defining characteristic was their willingness to kill hundreds of thousands of American citizens so they could continue to enslave millions of men, women, and children based on their skin color. They deserve to be remembered-if at all-as murderous, traitorous terrorists who were willing to kill and die en masses so the south could continue to reap the rewards of human slavery. The lowliest Union private deserves more acclaim and honor than even the most skilled Confederate general.

I hope Tilson or a similar fringy prospect can step up and at least be a platoon option for CF because Engel is not the answer. I wouldn't be surprised if we signed a low-cost reclamation project vet or two, with the idea of flipping them during the season.

QUOTE (Sox Fan In Husker Land @ Jul 31, 2017 -> 08:59 PM) Michael Kopech's last 4 starts including tonight: 27 IP 33 K (11.00 K/9) 15 H 4 BB (1.33 BB/9) 0.70 WHIP 1.33 ERA That'll do. He's also at 105 1/3 IP. Previous season high was 65 IP. Kopech could shortly find himself the top prospect in all of baseball Dunning is killing it Lopez is a beast, and ML ready Giolito has shown flashes Cease hits triple digits and his curve has been compared to Doc Gooden's Guerrero and Stephens (among others) have been solid And Hansen's stats have arguably been better than anyone else's I'm thinking our pitching is going to be tough to beat before too long

Yoan! An 0-2 pitch no less...

QUOTE (Scoots @ Jul 26, 2017 -> 08:59 PM) Hopefully, this is the worst of it. I know next year is supposed to not be very good, but not necessarily a tank year. I think it would be good to get the young guys acclimated to a winning culture. I would aim high next year for a .500 record (I might get murdered for saying that), maybe the young'ns suprise. The Kids Can Play, the Sequel

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Jul 26, 2017 -> 08:23 PM) 107 pitches. 70 for strikes. That's even better than the K's...he maintains any kind of control and sky's the limit.

Evan Skoug with a .909 babip through his first 2 ab's in Kanny...not a bad way to start his pro career.

QUOTE (oldsox @ Jul 9, 2017 -> 08:25 PM) The underlying fact of the matter is that if he is successful in baseball, he will make a lot of money over here, and pay a lot of taxes over here. And if he's not successful, which is a very definite possibility for any prospect at any age no matter how talented, he's forgone millions that he will almost certainly never see again, in a profession that offers most a 20-25 yr max life expectancy.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 9, 2017 -> 09:31 PM) There is a gigantic disconnect here. By letting him play in the DR for a period of time, the White Sox offer to him is effectively $7 million higher than it would have been if he had played in the United States. This isn't about another million, this is about millions... plural. Seven of them. That is what it would have taken to get him the extra $4 million after taxes that he is getting by staying in the DR. Stop and think about that. They are effectively increasing their offer to him by almost 1/3. Would you like 1/3 more income? Would you be willing to utilize an advantage to gain 1/3 more income? I think your perspective is 180 degrees the wrong way. You are looking at this as the White Sox, instead of as Luis Robert. The White Sox went out and did everything they could to sell their contract and their organization to this kid. If they had tried to fit him into their box, and their rules, there is a pretty high chance he would have went somewhere else. If it takes this kid playing two and a half months of baseball in the Dominican Republic for him to sign with the White Sox it was 100% worth it. Period. THAT alone is the only fact that matters. We have Luis Robert in our system because we were willing to give him this set up. Besides that the idea that somehow because he is in the DR that he isn't getting first class care is so xenophobic and outdated it isn't funny. The White Sox are still staffing and equipping this team with their own personnel who are more than capable of handling all of the points that you tried to make about his care. I was hoping we were past manifest destiny at least though. Amen and bravo. Excellent post...very well said.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Jun 28, 2017 -> 04:20 PM) Up to .293 AVG with .954 OPS and OBP near .500. I'd say he's recovered from the slump fairly well. I thought I read the sox will keep him in the dsl the rest of their season but...would sure like to see Robert take a crack at Kanny or WS, if only for a few weeks at the end if the year.

Cody Asche is the quintessential AAAA player

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 16, 2017 -> 12:05 PM) Also why is Bummer so high and Guerrero so low? My thinking was that Bummer has great stuff (lefty who can hit 97) and Guerrero is repeating AA with a mixed record of success over the last 2 year. But you could certainly make the case the two should be flip flopped.

Now that the draft has been completed here's my stab at a revised top 30 prospect list. What a change from years past when our #1 picks automatically entered the system at or near the top (Hawkins, Anderson, Fulmer, etc.) There's too much top-end talent for that to occur now, even knowing Burger and perhaps Sheets would have ranked in the top-5 were this, say, 2015. I'm a hair cooler than most on Kopech until his control improves--at least enough to ensure he remains a starter. I also think our AAA pitchers are for the most part doing better than their stats indicate given Charlotte is such a strong hitter's park. With that... 1. Moncada 2b 2. Giolito RHP 3. Robert CF 4. Kopech RHP 5. Lopez RHP 6. Burdi RHP 7. Collins C 8. Hansen RHP 9. Fulmer RHP 10. Dunning RHP 11. Burger 3b 12. Basabe CF 13. Adams RHP 14. Sheets 1b 15. Adolfo RF 16. Fisher LF 17. Call CF 18. Diaz RHP 19. Tilson CF 20. Stephens RHP 21. Curbelo SS 22. Bummer LHP 23. Flores LHP 24. Gonzalez CF 25. Nunez SS 26. T. Johnson RHP 27. Guerrero LHP 28. Henzman RHP 29. L. Martinez RHP 30. McClure RHP Thoughts....?

Justin Yurchak, who the Sox took in round 12, walked 41 times to only 12 k's in 192 PA's at SUNY Binghamton. And yes, he does hit lefty.

5 lefty bats out of the first 9 picks. Love it

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 13, 2017 -> 04:09 PM) The kid has committed to Long Beach State for Water Polo. Crazy. Water polo. Such a cruel sport for the horses.

QUOTE (chitownsportsfan @ Jun 13, 2017 -> 03:31 PM) I think the Sox have realized that you can teach defense more than you can teach command of the strike zone. Amen to that