WestEddy

https://www.royalsreview.com/f/2011/2/14/1992424/success-and-failure-rates-of-top-mlb-prospects#:~:text=About 70% of Baseball America,20 succeed in the majors. And a review of that article 7 years later: https://www.royalsreview.com/2018/3/22/16749948/updating-the-success-and-failure-rates-of-top-mlb-prospects

I mostly agree with your last sentence. I'm not sure if they'd do it sooner to get him more time in AAA, or at the TDL to sneak him through the flurry of roster moves. If Vargas got to the TDL, that would be a full season's worth of playing time on the Sox. More than enough time to work through a temporary slump, or catch fire for a week.

That's kind of how trades are consummated. When you go to the store, does the cashier regularly wind up with your cell phone and wallet?

Probably for similar reasons why he was failing in Los Angeles. It's not exactly like they brought in a perennial ML All-Star who forgot how to hit.

Where does this canard come from? They DFAed Fletcher, DeLoach and Steven Wilson, so they didn't stubbornly try to pretend they were another week from turning it around. Players are going on the IL faster than they were under Hahn. Vargas was a top 40 prospect in the game. He was the centerpiece of a big trade. Don't you agree that it would be silly to cut bait on Vargas 22 games into the season? Especially in a "rebuild" season? And don't you also agree that it would have nothing to do with "being afraid to admit to a mistake" but more about giving the guy they sought out a thorough chance to realize the talent the industry pretty much resoundingly agreed he had?

Yeah, he is pretty bad at his "stalk and troll". LOL. I guess we're all in agreement that a sprained thumb isn't life threatening, or even career threatening.

It's a rebuild. Teams generally don't "win" during a rebuild. And if JR decides to move on from Getz, then so be it.

Why do the people who keep screaming about the White Sox playing 30 year old players argue that the solution is signing a 40-year-old player? When's your HBO Comedy special?

No it isn't. Having 5 starting pitchers out with TJS is a huge factor. 4 key offensive players being on the IL for an extended period of time will contribute to their losing. Sliding one of the guys actually hitting over to 1B for part of a season won't affect the team long term. Generally, when somebody mentions "moving deck chairs on the Titanic", that's a signal to me that the person has given up, and has no more arguments left to pursue. The White Sox are obligated to play the games on their schedule. They are a rebuilding team. I don't understand why you believe that a team that starts rebuilding must have every single position covered with budding stars sitting in AAA. The White Sox have 7 infield prospects in the upper levels. 5 outfield prospects in A-ball.

It's a good thing he's on that team. He's on the 40-man without any options left. He hits, just not with a lot of power. He's an infielder who fields all 3 positions worse than the other infielders on the roster. If they want to keep his bat in the lineup, he can rotate at 1B/DH with Drury/Elko, and play 2B once or twice a week.

I thought they should have non-tendered Vaughn and gone with an Elko/Colas rotation at 1B, so you're not correcting me on anything. But I can certainly understand hanging onto Vaughn for a relatively low price, as stepping up 0.1 fWAR probably wasn't seen as worth it. It's a rebuild, 1B is filled while Vaughn gets another couple months to look like a first-rounder before they move onto Elko or Sosa at 1B for the rest of 2025.

Yes, it is exactly like that. Are you actually trying to argue that after 21 games a -0.4 fWAR 1B is worlds worse than a -0.3 fWAR, or a -0.2 fWAR 1B? That's silly. Tristan Casas, Ty France, Rowdy Tellez, Enmanuel Valdez, Michael Toglia, LaMont Wade - they're all in the same group with Andrew Vaughn. It's not like there's a 29 way tie for best 1B in the game, then Vaughn's the oddball.

Well, it's a good thing that Meidroth hasn't had a broken hamate bone. LOL. I'm dealing with tendonitis in my left thumb right now. Again, he's on the 10-day IL. He's already dealt with this at Charlotte, and came back quickly to hit 3 HRs. Dry your tears, old man. You may still ruin somebody's day with your whiney BS, but it won't be mine.

They're rebuilding because they don't have prospects at each position ready to step up at AAA. The Orioles are an example of a successful team who doesn't have prospects ready at every single position to step in. Conversation does get to expand to using other teams as examples.

Unless you know of sprained thumbs turning out to be fatal, Meidroth will return, and will probably produce at the rate he was producing.

This is their 2nd year of "tanking" under Getz. Meidroth and Quero are bright spots, so far.

It's exactly like that. Have you seen some of the 1B teams are trotting out there?

The Sox have made changes to start pumping position player talent into the system, through drafting, international signing, and trades. If a person is complaining that a rebuilding team doesn't have talent for every single position waiting to be called up from AAA, then that applies to all teams. It makes total sense.

Then Baltimore should be brimming with pitching talent at their AAA level, right? If you are to be believed, the Orioles completely failed by not having every single position covered in their minor league system.

None of this makes sense. Teams rebuild because they don't have the established pipeline of talent. If the system was brimming over with future stars, they wouldn't have to trade the few remaining good players they have to actually acquire some future stars. They could just fill the holes with top prospects, and continue winning. The director of player development doesn't conduct the draft, and international signings. If they draft and sign bad players, there's nothing to develop. You don't get to complain that Nick Madrigal was a bum who should never have been drafted because he had no talent, but Getz failed by not somehow imbuing him with talent.

Bobby Malbec is the hittingest dude on the Knights, so, maybe HRs?

Amaya plays better defense than Trevor Story. A wave of injuries put Palacios and Maton on the pro roster. Vargas does belong on the roster. I'm not sure what your point is. That a rebuilding team should have Shohei Ohtani at AAA to replace Mike Tauchman when he gets injured? LOL.

Fletcher could give you the same .431 OPS that Palacios is. He's actually looking baseball-player-ish in Charlotte now.

Get used to it.