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Hard to believe they had to go over slot on the two HS picks. Seems those guys went about where they expected or even a bit early. Doesn't seems like blowing potential savings on those two kids makes sense given that a lot of other prep or even collage options would take slot or less.

Love the upside on a kid like Dakota.

At #5 I honestly don't know why anyone would be upset with drafting an elite arm with front end potential. If you just hit on Smith and the odds are high we did, that's $25M you can spend on a position player. The Sox problem is they never seem to have a strategy to truly be competitive. You hit on a bunch of arms, build a great young staff, but you're still signing dudes to minor league deals to fill out the starting lineup. It's like they strive to be slightly less than mediocre and then just rinse and repeat.

Honestly, I wouldn't be shocked if Smith starts in AA next year and is really for the bigs mid season.

I feel like Smith's floor in starting in the bigs. Which I think I'd prefer over Cags floor which is hitting .150 with a 40% k-rate in AAA

If the Sox will never truly spend on SP I love picking Smith.

Offensivly absolutely, but I don't think there's a high probablity of him sticking at short. I do think Gonzales sticks as a leauge average defensive shortstop. Colson will probably eventually end up at thrid, he's just too big and a few more years in the weight room will end any chance of him sitcking at short.

His approach makes you think he's going to be a legit pro. Watching Colson this year has been very frustrating at times as he'll literally take 3 pitches straight down the plate without flinching. I'm not souring on Colson, but man do guys like Baldwin do everything and then some and they just don't get the respect they deserve.

If Schultz could throw a 100 pitches in an outing he'd be ready for the bigs right now. Ky Bush looks like he's ready for the bigs too

If the White Sox are truly going to be competitive anytime soon again they will need to draft some impact position players in the next two drafts. What's currently in the system does not put them on a path to legitimate contention.

This was my first time watching Cousin pitch but I was really surprised by the quality of his stuff. Fastball up to 96, and the slider was nasty (almost curveball like vertical drop). He looks like he can pitch in a MLB bullpen right now.

Burke with 6k in 2IP, fastball is averaging 96 (Max 98.5). ?

If you watch Thorpe pitch he's clearly pitching to contact. He's putting a lot of pitches right over the plate. In the second inning he got in a bit of a jam and very clearly switched to a strike out strategy and whiffed the next two guys. The irony is his execution overall wasn't that great last night. But he still didn't get hit.

Thorpe command hasn't been particularly good today, but his stuff is deceivingly good. You watch some of the swings and he totally fools hitters. If his command continues to progress he's going to have a very successful big league career. I almost feel you have to move him up to challenge him a bit because even with his command being a bit wild today it doesn't look like he's truly being challenged.

Sean Burke sighting with 11 punch outs in 4 IP in AZ.

I haven't seen any statcast data on Ky Bush but once it's available I'm willing to bet the dude has elite extension. Elite extension correlates with high strike out rates almost as well as elite velocity.

Seems like half our starters need (deserve) a promotion.

My main concern with Colson has been the K rate. You won't have a lot of success at the major league level with a 30% k rate. His approach and his willingness to take pitches with 2 strikes may not be advisable when you come across pitchers with solid command in the bigs.

Any credibility I may have reserved for Getz is now gone. I don't think there's a single justifiable reason why you call a guy like Ramos up right now

Go pitching in round 1, then draft 9 position players.

90-93 on the fastball.

Thorpe looked lazy out there in a good way. Just kept throwing strikes, even on the walks he he was right around the plate. There's just something uniquely special about the way he throws.

I was really impressed with how well Adams can get breaking balls over for strikes. Dude just looks totally in control when's he's pitching. He throws a bunch of high curve balls for weak fly balls. Not sure how well that plays in Charlotte or the South side, but I'm willing to bet he finds a way to make it work.

Ky looks like a big league pitcher. If he can't cut it in the rotation and finds a way to stay 95+ I can see him having some success out of the pen.

Cannon was at 93.6 MPH Avg on the sinker (max 96.1) and 95.3 MPH on the fastball (max 96.9). 9 Whiffs (21% whiff rate, but only 10% swinging strike rate). But what's really impressive is he had 11 called strikes on the sinker with only a 50% zone swing rate. That's actually really unusual to have such a low zone swing rate and have so many called strikes on a sinker. It obviously was working well for him today. Yesterday Nastrini was at 93.2 MPH Avg on his fastball with a max of 94.7. 19 Whiffs (42% whiff rate, with a 24.3% swinging strike rate).