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This is kind of meaningless, really, but I was looking into it and once Eloy reaches the bigs we should have 4 players with first names that have never been shared by another big leaguer: Eloy, Yoan, Avisail, Yolmer. This pleases me.

WBWSF wants Eloy to bomb so his favorite team, the Cubs, can acquire him for scraps.

WBWSF refuses to understand or accept a rebuild. The end.

a little late but YOLMER! MATTY D! PALKA! and of course TRAYCE! Lopez didn't have it tonight but he battled. We don't win enough to skip these threads!

Boy, this farm is on fire... This first month has been by far the best I've seen from this farm in years. I think we will safely take back the #1 farm ranking after the draft. Here's my scorecard for the top risers so far. Basabe (++) Adolfo (++) Booker (++) Cease (++) Luis Gonzo (++) Dunning (+) Rutherford (+) Zavala (+) Collins (+) The young pitchers: McClure, Henzman, Tyler Johnson, Lambert, Hamilton, Fry, and Hickman all get an (+) Honorable Mentions: Rose, Trey M., Mendick, Roman, Blackman, Parke, Palka, Covey and Jose Rondon. (BTW, not a lot of scouting could be found on John Parke, but here's a interesting tibit https://www.garnetandblackattack.com/2017/6/14/15803470/gamecock-mlb-draft-profile-lhp-john-parke-2017) The only significant fallers I see are: The AA pitchers Clarkin, Adams, and Guerrero all get a (- -) Cordell (- - ) Gillaspie (-) Fisher (-)

I love Yolmer.

You should sit in the upper deck. That way you can eye test the whole field through the whole game.

can we keep Wimpy forever?!?!?....

Lmao Yolmer

LOL @ Yolmer hahaaaa

Yolmer dumped the gatorade on himself lol

haha suck it twins, never gets old.

Tomorrow's golden sombrero is your fault.

A is Davidson, B is Judge although I may have had a few too many drinks and pulled Stanton’s Statcast data by accident.

It almost seems like you hope he’s injured ?

Second straight game with 0 K's. If he does it again tomorrow, it'll be the first time he's done it in 3 straight since he turned pro.

To 10th?

And wouldn’ Everyone but Greg agrees!

I‘m watching on a bit of delay, but I think that home run ball guy needs to get laid.

The difference being Kopech and Moncada could be stars..but yeah that is pretty incredible that the Eaton trade already has 2 guys that should play key roles in the rotation (Top 4 at least) and 1 that is knocking on the door. Even Rutherford has been doing well. Some of these guys are going to fail, but so far this year MiLB has been fun to follow. For those of you with MiLB subs...what is the damage and are replays available to watch if you can't watch live?

Sanchez would be an awesome 9 hole hitter on a competitive team.

That matches his total from last year already.

Because the White Sox were unbelievably, ridiculously healthy the few years before this and now they're having a normal amount of injuries, but it seems huge by comparison.

Just let his development dictate the timeline. There's no reason to call him up now because he hasn't proven enough yet. If he gets very hot for a sustained amount of time, either quickly promote to AAA or decide that if he keeps it up for a couple months you might just have to call him up. It's worth remembering that team control isn't everything here. If a guy is at the point where he won't be getting better until he gets to the majors, then you have to bring him up. If you wait too long, you don't have guys peaking at the right time and you end up extending the rebuild longer than it should have been. I think we are very close to this point with Michael Kopech, where it's going to be negative for his development timeline to stay in AAA.

I'm ok with giving an opt out, I think the player will expect it, that's just the league we're in and that's what you have to do to write a competitive contract these days. I draw the line at the opt-out being less than 3 years, and I make sure that I can afford the full contract when I sign it.

Balta is right here -- the opt-out is NEVER a good thing for team at the time it is signed. There are situations where it could end up being a blessing, in retrospect, if a player declines sharply and unexpectedly, but make no mistake -- it is a leverage point in favor of the player. The simple way to look at it is this: the player will only opt out if his contract contains significant surplus value at the time of the opt-out. If that occurs, even if the team wants to employ a strategy where they use the best years of the contract and get rid of the player for the decline, the team would be better off trading the contract than having the player depart for nothing. The player only opts IN if the contract is underwater or a wash. If the player opts OUT, the team loses a valuable asset.

If true, what it tells me is they think Madrigal fits best as a 2B. They aren't going to move the likely face of their franchise in 2.5 seasons to another position to accommodate Nick Madrigal.

I would have expected him in July...before he got hurt. A setback of a month would push him back a month.

I actually do think we’ll see him in August or September but it would be wise to wait until next May.

As one certain poster in this thread will tell you....how dare you bring race into things! They just arbitrarily don't like certain counties and prefer other ones.

i believe caulfield just created filibuster Inception

Only an idiot would waste his service time in a wasted year when he isn't ready. It's quite simple.

A. If he isn't ready, it could really stunt his growth. B. Service time. Why burn control now in meaningless games they are going to lose anyways, when you can trade that for when the team should be good ? I agree, the team sucks, and outside of watching Moncada, and Abreu bat, and Lopez pitch, it's already becoming very hard to watch. But patience now is key. They picked a lane. Changing now and calling guys up prematurely would almost certainly blow up in their face. We all just have to take it now, and hope it pays off next season or the season after.

Moncada has now played 81 games with the White Sox. Half a season. These are his numbers... .246 AVG, 14 HR, 16 2B, 3 3B, 37 RBI, 7 SB, 43 BB, 121 K, .344 OBP, .797 OPS, 116 OPS+, 2.4 WAR Extrapolate those out to a full year, you're talking almost 30 HR, 86 walks, 32 doubles, 14 SB, and a 4.8 WAR. And mind you, all those numbers are trending UP. 2/3's of those rates are from 2017. He's been much better in 2018 in all regards, except strikeouts. He has a decent chance to beat those extrapolated numbers for his 2018 season, and that won't be 162 games either, probably around 145-150.

I just stumbled on this and it's pretty amazing, some random Fangraphs, roto oriented profile of Yoan from last year: We can see that the profile of below average contact isn’t quite the negative it appears to be for Amed Rosario, when above average exit velocity also part of the profile. Does that mean that Moncada is turns things around immediately, absolutely not. Oddly enough, the name that comes up most frequently on similar seasons to Moncada is Ryan Howard. I say oddly only because my perception is that if you are visiting Fangraphs, comparisons to Howard likely don’t invoke much confidence. However, given that athleticism is not an issue for Moncada, and this comparison is only based on offensive value, this would be an extremely favorable outcome. 9 Ryan Howard seasons meet the criteria we have outlined above. The next closest players are Giancarlo Stanton and Carlos Pena, both with 6 seasons. Chris Davis and Mark Reynolds each have 5 similar seasons. Perhaps this is a further indication of the oddities of Yoan Moncada, these players are all power first corner players (mostly 1B with the exception of Stanton). However, Moncada possess athletic ability that surpasses nearly all of his offensive comparables. Dude pretty much nailed it before Yoan played more than a few dozen games in the bigs. He's an incredibly unique talent and profile in the new three true outcome era.

Oh. My. That Donovan Mitchell dunk just now was in. Sane. Maybe one that is better live since it was so unexpected, but gnarly

How did this not get posted yet?

It is such a dumb argument. Of course they are going to cover the Cubs more. It is a much bigger audience to sell to. Being bitter about basic business principles is such a bad look.

Probably a lot more than what they devote to us,

That nickname should have died when it was sold. I wonder how much coverage they would be devoting if the cubs were still in full suck mode