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I musta got asked for a loosie 20 times walking around inner harbor.

Yea Camden is a top one for me as well. Baltimore isn't bad as long as you stick pretty close to Inner Harbor/Federal Hill/Fells Point. I probably woulda made the trip up if it was a weekend series.

What’s number 1 and 2 on your list?

Exactly my thoughts.

I'd have to be privy to Ishbia's instructions to have a better opinion but if they are going to have to add payroll, either through a new CBA or a new energy from ownership, then there's a 3rd starter and two good bullpen pieces right there, or two good starters even. If we have 60 million to play with in the offseason I'd rather spend that than deplete the lower minors of position players. Quantity has a quality of its own imo and we have some decent quantity.

this sure makes Emerson the most logical choice IMO. Allows Sox to get the best years of Colson at short and then decide if he moves to 3rd when Grady would be ready. One of Vargas/Colson/Mune potentially wouldn't be with the team in 2-3 years in this scenario (unless Mune becomes a full Time DH and either Vargas/Colson move to first. If they select Roch...I have no idea what they do with the current roster, as I would expect him up next year.

Been to 16 of the ballparks so far and I have Camden ranked #3 mostly because of the vibes. Also, it was hot as f*** when I went and they had free water everywhere and I even saw some ushers bringing free water to people in the stands. Our usher was giving out free baseball cards. Cool place

Idk, everyone is talking about windows... but who knows how long those are open for. This team has so little pitching I'm seeing a Orioles type situation where they need to figure out which position players are expendable and maximize them.

Lorenzen and Houser wouldnt make any sense to me. Those guys stink.

We'd be fools to give up anything for rentals. I guess after the draft if you think you've got some depth in the lower minors at certain spots it might make sense to target some guys with cheap control but even than what you said. Sox gotta make sure they aren't in a situation like last rebuild where you go from a top 5 system to a bottom 5 system basically over night with graduations into MLB.

I was at Camden back in like 2011 when I was still pretty young and had a lot more hair up front. Was an absolute blast. That was Viciedo's debut at 3B. 22s of PBR were $4 bucks from the outfield stand and Camden def lived up to the hype, a great "open air" stadium is how I'd describe it, it feels like an organic part of the neighborhood rather than how Rate feels sorta just plopped down with some parking lots.

And looking at some of these fledgling "dynasties" (Baltimore, Detroit, Minnesota, Boston) and how quickly the wheels can fall off and the window slam shut, Getz should be planning on that happening to us. Vargas, C & B Monty, Meidroth, Ant-man, Peters, Teel, Schultz, and Martin, everybody looks great, but some of these guys are going to prove to be smoke and mirrors. Some are going to sustain that career-altering injury. Offensively, everybody noteworthy graduated. Now, all you have at the upper levels is Quero, Bonemer, then it starts to thin out with Shelton and DiPino. All of the pitching that was close ran into injuries or setbacks, and we're talking about trading the only promising arm in AA (Gabe Davis). As somebody higher up in this thread said, they're a year early. Ride it out, supplement with fixer-uppers, let the next wave percolate to the upper levels.

Wrong thread.

Not there for me in Futures. Always errors out when I search "MLB Draft" or any of the top picks names. RIP.

Have there been any updates on William Bergolla recently? He is still on the "7 day disabled list", after over a month and a half. I would think it has to be more than a "shin contusion".

That's the first thing I did haha. It's there. It's under Futures. He's +400 now though.

A rarity for today, just one factoid: June 29, 1995 – With a 22-hit barrage, the White Sox ran their winning streak to seven games in a 17-13 slugfest at County Stadium over the Brewers. Robin Ventura led the way, going 5 for 6 by starting with four singles, then adding a solo shot in the top of the ninth for Chicago’s 17th run. The third baseman scored four times and drove in three. Things got heated in the middle of the game; remember, the Phil Garner Brewers and Terry Bevington White Sox detested one another. After Ray Durham hit a three-run homer in the top of the sixth to put the White Sox up, 13-6, Bill Wegman drilled Ron Karkovice in the ribs with a 3-0 pitch. Wegman was ejected immediately, and Garner got the boot for whining about it, as the benches emptied. But it only got weirder from there. In the bottom of the ninth, up 17-10, Bevington inserted absolutely wild (two walks per inning) Rob Dibble into the game in garbage time. Dibble whistled his first pitch right under pinch-hitter Pat Listach’s chin, igniting an all-out brawl and the ejections of both Dibble and Listach.

It seems like since the Yankee series the Sox have been getting hurt by a lot of bloop hits. Pitchers making good pitches but the hitters are just getting enough of a piece to put the ball in play and they are falling in.

Fair enough. For me Fauske > Carlson. I like the profile better. His hit tool looks better, plus, if they draft Roch, Carlson already redundant somewhat. Different strokes. But I likely wouldn’t trade either of them or Bonemer. Especially for a rental in a year that the Sox are very unlikely to make the WS.

FWIW, yesterday Braden dove for a bloop off the bat of Isaac Collins and came up just short. Some folks thought he might have misplayed it since the ball hung up in the air for a long time. Statcast data is in: 5% catch probability, the first time Statcast has classified a ball hit to him as potentially catchable without him catching it. That's basically at the "only PCA can catch it" tier. So ultimately I'm fairly impressed that he was only a step from catching it and his ability to run down fly balls continues to impress, especially when you consider the scouting reports usually suggested that he didn't know what he was doing out there and would have to develop in order to be a good overall outfield defender. Interestingly, this is his highest difficulty catch so far: https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/sporty-videos?playId=2131e45a-c7a0-33f5-bc02-8a31eccd7a58 Such a good jump and speed that it looks like a routine out.

I think going "all in" this year would be ill advised. Stay the course and let some of these guys grow. Try to get as many bites at the apple as possible. They finally have depth throughout the system with positional players, don't go back to nothing. Then we'd have no pitching or hitting in the pipeline and we are right back to where we were.

They can have Tony back.

Michael Lorenzen is a very good name to keep an eye on. Had a good start for the Rockies against the Twins. However, I don't know how much upside you'll get.

Sorry individually I'd trade them. I don't think in a package together I would do that. As much as I'm skeptical of Billy Carlson's future for the White Sox I wouldn't trade him absolutely. Not for two rentals where you have to eat money. I mean that's the crux of it. All depends on the type of deal. For rentals it shouldn't cost too much. But that doesn't mean that the trade team will recieve something with no upside.

Somebody seems to keep leaking that the Sox won't be trading important prospects this season, so my guess is they'll take on big money, or pick off a guy like Adrian Houser who just got moved to the bullpen. Taking on money for Gray or Robbie Ray is probably attractive, and maybe only the Cards and Guards are in the similar position to take on that money. They've kicked the tires a couple of times on Michael Lorenzen. I don't think they go big.