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I really miss Harold. Was really helpful for me and informative. I think fucking losers on this site finally chased him away. It’s a real shame if so.

Yea same. Imagine chasing off an insider who routinely would feed the board tidbits on draft intel, trade info, and knowledge on the inner workings of the org. Shows how shitty and petty some of the posters here are.

I feel like he had differing opinions from a lot of folks here largely skewed towards traditional scouting sensibilities, and he certainly dug his heels in on certain things, but he wasn't an aggressively toxic asshole or anything. He provided so much more value and insight than the bulk of the posters here who can do nothing but spout/parrot how terrible Getz is each and every day.

The Carlson pick is a huge risk for a team that has had issues developing hitters but absolutely something that needs to be part of the new look Sox. Getting hitters with a low defensive ceiling and “near-MLB ready” bats just hasn’t worked. The superstar ceiling is easy to see. Absolute stud on defense. Elite arm, great movement and fluidity. I’ll be curious to see what they do to his swing. This guy has a good breakdown. The leg kick and bat wrap are going to be on the chopping block if he starts out struggling, but I don’t think I would touch it. Everything gets to the right place. His hands are so quick and smooth to the ball. Once he adds a little more to his legs and butt the power is going to be there. The adjustments he made to his swing already are night and day. He’s more efficient and the launch angle is there. Whether he can maintain that contact balance when guys are throwing high 90s with elite breaking stuff is TBD, but he has already shown his coachability and I think elite athleticism is a great indicator he’ll be okay. When I watch him vs Ethan Holliday I might like Carlson more. If he wasn’t 19 i think he could’ve went 1-1. For the Sox to be screwed by the new draft rules and still manage to get the guy that might be the best prep SS in the country is a huge break.

For a guy that was preaching about small sample size for Vargas, are you already saying Vaughn is fixed?

The curveball is disappearing amid MLB's velocity surge | AP News Good read, I think you will find it interesting.

Mostly because he was a fan of Gtez. People really got on him when he said positive things about him. He did get defensive about it. Not that I blame him.

The rumor is that Haber’s laptop was basically our Analytics department and he was overruling the scouting department at times. If you have a legit Analytics department, then their info should be part of the broader drafting process in unison with traditional scouting info.

What does Shane have to do to join the ranks of the all caps?

You might as well trade Lee, who might have a little value, rather than sit him and never play him though. A guy like Blake Sabol (or any bad waiver claim) can come up and sit on bench. Edit: plus, Sabol has experience at 1B and in the OF so he wouldn't just strictly have to be a 3rd catcher rotting on the bench. He can be depth at multiple spots.

It's time for the 2026 cycle! BA's first way too early mock draft. Obviously will depend on the lottery, but the current order is based off record. Will post the top 5 snippets so people can get familiar with names. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2026-mlb-mock-draft-way-too-early-top-10-picks-for-next-year/

Big Dumper wins it with his dad pitching and his 15 year old brother watching front row. Doesn’t get better than that in baseball

Good points but there was a huge turning point when after the Sox owned the city in 1983, the Cubs in 1984 a year after the Elia Rant came out of nowhere and won the division while the Sox floundered in 1984, I truly believe that’s when the area started to become Cub town, the Tribune promoting Wrigley along with Harry Caray and his Cub Fan Bud Man ads helped the cause. I’m not sure what the true numbers are but Cub fans vs. Sox fans in the Metro area has to be at least 66% for Cubs to 33% for the Sox. Wrigley Field being basically a National landmark also is a huge deal as anyone who visits Chicago has to take in game at Wrigley. We have lived in Florida for 32 years and I have made a lot of friends especially on the golf course, I have only met 1 guy who has made it to a Sox game and it was to Comiskey back in 1963. Not one friend while visiting Chicago has been to the new Sox Park. I must disagree with you on one point, the lopping off of those 8 (not 6) rows in the upper deck was a great move along with all the other improvements to Sox Park. My last game before we moved to Florida was the night they clinched the division against Seattle in 1993, last minute we decided to go to the game and being a sellout we managed to get 2 seats in last row 29 of the upper deck, as you mentioned it was like watching a game from the moon, we were afraid to stand up and stayed in our seats the whole game not wanting to walk down and back up those steep 29 rows. We have been back to Chicago around 7 times (not since 2015) and have seen 4 games at the remodeled version and it is quite a transformation from the original monstrosity and a fine place to see a game. We have made quite a few trips to St. Pete to see the Sox play the Rays.

The LSU/Florida game I went to last year where I saw Cags hit a HR, I also saw Colby Shelton hit 2 HR, including one off of Kade Anderson. Funny, you go to one LSU/Florida game and you end up seeing several future MLB prospects, whether you realize it or not.

Updated Post Draft List Noah Scultz Braden Montgomery Hagen Smith Billy Carlson Caleb Bonemer Tanner McDougal Jaden Fauske Christian Oppor Jeral Perez George Wolkow Luis Reyes Jacob Gonzalez Sam Antonacci Kyle Lodise William Bergola Mathias Lacombe Blake Larson Landon Hodge Gabe Davis Yobal Rodriguez I took a rough go at it.

Garrett Guest is high up at a Jeep Dealership and he’s Sox assistant director. People implied that Harold was Guest or at least knew him. It’s just fucking uncalled for regardless.

Also very easy for the ump to miss the strike call.

I'm sure a lot of it is simply the losing. That makes it hard to stay sharp. I had a really good paying job that I quit once because I hated it there. Losing 80% of the time probably makes many guys hate coming to the park every day. Say what you want about personal pride and professionalism. Losing affects evey one differently.

Yes. We’ll see. He has hit enough to where they may want to see that through.

Right? It's 15 at bats. I wouldn't rule out AV being an average hitter again, but the guy isn't suddenly Hank Aaron because he switched jerseys. He was pretty brutal at AAA Nashville too.

I was also under this impression. Harold pretty much said Haber was the reason for the Jacob Gonzalez pick as well.

7. The worst outcome would be 6 because we would be locked into the 10th pick the following year as well for being in the lottery. Top 6 are selected via lottery.

That's fine. I just want the nonsense of one of them sitting half the week to stop.

I like to see they have an R&D group, and that they have input on later round picks.

2029 is the first year JR has the option to sell to Ishbia. Basically he has said that unless something happens he intends to ruin this franchise for another four years.

It's pretty rare for true college shortstops to end up going because those guys generally get chosen out of high school. Phil Fox has always been a bullpen arm.

Yes, let's all become annoyed because players drafted are supposedly decent human beings who like baseball and work hard just to show your blase attitude towards the Sox any chance you get . SMH , as if the Sox aren't supposed to pump these guys up. Might as well be a 10 yr.old saying "Whatever ! "

And to be clear, there almost certainly is going to be some change to the "stadium situation" as team ownership gets handed over in a few years since the current lease is up in 2029 and I doubt there's simply going to be a new long-term "sweetheart" lease that incentivizes mediocre performance. This doesn't mean the team is certainly moving to the 78. My guess is that there's a good chance that the new owners keep the Sox at 35th and Shields long-term. But if anyone thinks this won't come with major changes to the current park and the acres of parking surrounding it, you aren't paying attention to the current economics of stadiums and their surroundings. Heck, that could even mean a new retro-style stadium on the site of Old Comiskey. Maybe that alternative isn't likely, but it's more plausible than just keeping the same status quo for the next 30 years.

Or he can join Zack Collins: https://www.compass.com/agents/zachary-collins/

Get out of here nick hostetler

You need to ignore the rounds essentially and look at the draft by bonuses. The Rhode Island hitter in the 7th plus the 9th and 10th rounders are seniors. Those guys are priority senior signs with some value but once bonus pools come out, I’m guessing those are really their 18th,19th and 20th picks.

https://www.mlb.com/prospects/stats/affiliates?teamId=145&date=07/15/2025 https://www.milb.com/scores/all/all/whitesox?affiliateId=mlbcom-milb DSL only game yesterday. Mieses keeps hitting. Two games today for rookie ball. Figure as guys sign other guys dreams are about to end.

The s%*# is horrible. The new format sucks. Why rush it?

"Look, Luis is extremely depressed being here. We think he'll do better in a more nurturing environment. Thus, I need your most extroverted prospect."

In case you haven't heard, there's are super-rich billionaire brothers lined up to be the next Sox owners. I think it's very clear to everyone at this point that the notion of Jerry getting the state to build him a new stadium with $1B in public money is dead, including to Reinsdorf himself. Going forward, it'll all depend on what the Ishbias want to do with the stadium situation in preparation of them assuming control of the franchise between 2029 and 2034. I don't think it's a coincidence that the window for Ishbia taking control starts the same year that the current lease is up.

Bill Veeck was inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 22, 1991.

What was the atmosphere in Comiskey back then? Did many male fans wear suit and tie? And did the women get all dressed up? Did the men wear hats like in the old footage? Did fans complain as much as today? I'll say this. Aside from postseason 05 the atmosphere in Comiskey was most magical (in the history of the old yard) in 77 with the South Side Hit Men. Amazingly it was the true Summer of Love. Fans would hi five each other, hug as the Sox battered the baseball all over the park and over the fence. Even Gamble, Spencer, Soderholm, Bannister probably all had career highs in homers that year or bullets banging off the wall. ... Amazingly that team, which had no defense of course, completely got bulldozed by Hal McRae and the Royals down the stretch and finished a zillion games out after leading the division all June and July into early August when the kids went back to school. If life could be as joyous as the summer of 77 everybody would be on Cloud Nine in Chicago. And who better than Harry Caray to call the games in 77? Bill Veeck forever. He better be in the Hall of Fame. He should be.

slow-witted. somebody explain the logic to me: you hate watching this team but post about them on the forum every day. stockholm syndrome? I prefer forum-posting to TV-watching personally. Like, bud, watch something else. there's 1000 channels.

He looked pretty damn smooth in those highlights they showed, and had an absolute cannon for an arm.

That's a family that can't wait to see him play for Ishbia at the 78!

With Reinsdorf to fork over the $$$$

Would like to see what the kids do after the break and maybe they can get past the rookie slump

This is objectively false

I’m old and 1959 is also a cherished year and in some respects more cherished because they were my boyhood heroes and I idolized guys like Fox, Pierce and Aparicio. I was 59 in 2005 and and it was a great year and was so thankful I saw my team finally go all the way but It was just not the same as when you were a 13 year old, yes that 59 team is still my favorite Sox team of all time.

Colorado and Washington are very likely to pick 10 and 11 next year.

While it would be nice in the first 6 weeks of the season (and on rainy days throughout the season), it's probably not worth the extra cost. There are only 2 retractable roof ballparks in cold weather climates: Toronto and Milwaukee. I suppose you could say 3 if you include Seattle, but that roof is only for rain and that park is not climate controlled. On the other hand, all sun belt teams except the California teams and Atlanta have a retractable or fixed roof. It is clear that most northern cities have decided they're better off with a totally open air stadium - either for costs or aesthetics....or both. I don't know how other retractable roof ballparks are, but I've been to the one in Arizona, and it feels like your seeing a ballgame inside a "building" than a ballpark. IMO, it lacks the charm of may open air ballparks.

Jeff Torborg was a classy guy.

To add to the excitement lol...since everytime one looks up at 2025 it's simply maddening to draft tenth.