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https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/prospects/stats/affiliates?date=06/27/2019

ptatc love your input here. I am also medical. Agree something is weird here seeing olden day pitchers go 300 innings and in the last ten years we are to the point 200 is becoming rare. Is it the off season rest as kids the elders got while working second jobs? Ala Andrews thinking year round throwing when young is a big factor. In Japan, I think they throw a lot more between starts, any studies on their rates of UCL that you are aware of?

Perhaps every pitching signee gets a elbow MRI. With modern therapies like PRP etc we may soon establish to what degree a partially torn UCL can be rehabilitated. At some point you may get where preemptive of a partially torn UCL makes sense. But I can't think of any reason seeing a perfectly fine UCL to repair what isn't torn.

I hope you are right. Agree it wouldn't hurt to give Collins the at bats. Hard to develop on the bench.

No doubt there has been some who underperformed and our injury luck has seemed to be really bad. I looked at some of the higher thought of systems (Braves, Pads etc) awhile back and found better injury luck but also a number of guys struggling. It is also hard sometimes to just look at the year long numbers. Some times it takes guys awhile to adjust. Here is a prospects monthly OPS line.......April .578 May .679 June .790 Roughly equal plate appearances by month so does he suck or is he adjusting? Obviously, this is just one stat and there is a lot more to it than one stat but it illustrates my point. If this player gets a July-Aug OPS in the .800s, I would say it was a really solid year and look to move them up a level and might expect/hope for a similar season next year. Any guesses who it is?

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/prospects/stats/affiliates?date=06/23/2019 https://www.milb.com/scores/whitesox/2019-06-23

Last year he had 12 saves ERA around 3, WHIP about 1 and he got a raise from 5.3 to 7.3 million. This year already 16 saves, 2.15 ERA, WHIP .7 If he maintains those numbers he is going to get a big raise. By WAR he has reached last year at like 1.3. So if he maintains this pace he should be maybe 2 plus WAR........What does analytics value one WAR, by WAR he gets well beyond what I mentioned

Something you don't see very often or ever. In the first Charlotte game, every player had at least one hit and scored at least one run, probably faced Despaigne not good pitching.

Colome has been very good for us. He will get a hefty raise for that next year, I will guess at least to 10-12 million. We can afford it. His numbers indicate he "is what he has been" which is a consistently good reliever (consistent is not necessarily common). You absolutely trade him if the right package is offered which should be higher than what we would have taken 3 years ago where you trade everyone for something and hope it sticks. If you don't get what you want would/should he be a guy you offer to extend? Arbitration heavily rewards saves and "counting" stats. 3/24-27? If you are thinking that is to high, you shouldn't be arguing he shouldn't be traded.

Completely agree. You don't bring up a guy while he is struggling in a year it doesn't ultimately matter. Despaigne will probably let go soon. Detwiller probably comes up for a few starts and if/when he sucks it might very well be Santiago. At that point Cease may have turned it around and be deserving of being brought up. The outside chance of contending this year disappeared when Kopech ,Rodon and Dunning were no longer in the picture. Those three were actually expected to reach before Cease. Those three with Gio and Lopez and we might be looking to add a competent right field bat.

Jay playing in second game.

Jay didn't play in the first game for AAA. Rest or could he be on the way?????????????

Red is underslot. Green should be over slot though some aren't. If post tenth round you sign for more than 125k, the overage has to come out of your overall pool. There is no savings for under 125k in rounds 11 onward. You are not obligated to offer any amount re the 2,500. I do not know of the 2,500 "rule" but a lot of college seniors will get less than the 125 in rounds 11 onward. To further make it complicated, you may spend 5% over your pool prior to incurring bigger penalties. If you go over 5%, not only do you pay a 75% tax on the overage, you lose next years first round pick(more picks lost if over 10%). Thus 5% represents a pretty hard cap.

I am not ready to take my annual dive into it but yes I count about ten that can be removed with minimal pain. But there are more you have to add usually than this.

Madrigal and Robert are not on the 40 man so that matters also unless they are really ready. You would possibly lose someone in the Dec draft you might want to keep.

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/prospects/stats/affiliates

He may come if Despaigne DFA'd while Santiago works in AAA to possibly replace him.

Could we attach the shock wires to the testicles? Might see rapid dramatic improvement!

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/prospects/stats/affiliates https://www.milb.com/scores/whitesox/2019-06-21 Lopez, Cease AAA, Pilkington A+, Varnell A

A memory in the AZL game. RF Jonathan Allen a 32 round pic actually had 5AB, then pitched the final two innings. No idea if he is actually a two way player or they just needed a body.

Happy for all of them. Progress! Not everyone sucks or is hurt. Agree on Dawkins though he has cooled a bit.

Bring up Jay. Hope he gets hot. Trade him for a lottery like a DSL kid. Bring up whoever looks it of who you sent down, Palka, etc. Rinse, repeat

Pretty cool. Nice find.

A little late. https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/prospects/stats/affiliates https://www.milb.com/scores/whitesox/2019-06-20

Funny, I was just looking at this and constantly ponder future 40 man roster issues. There is a reliever who has slowly and steadily progressed up the levels. Incredible numbers lower and leveling off now. Doesn't throw 100 but k's over one per inning yet doesn't walk many which is very different from most of our relief prospects. Has a WHIP of about 1.0 for career and now at AAA. Giving up a few to many HR but first time at AAA. 24 yoRHP. Often pitches over an inning per appearance. Think he will be rule 5 eligible after this year. I wonder if he could be a solid middle reliever, not a all star mind you but solid which does have value. So far he has been very steady as he moves up which again is different than many relievers. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Matt Foster. Courtesy MILB.com Matt Foster Stats Summary LG LEVEL W L ERA G GS CG SHO SV SVO IP H R ER HR HB BB IBB SO AVG WHIP GO/AO Minors 2019 [-] - Minors 1 1 2.52 22 0 0 0 3 6 35.2 23 10 10 5 1 9 0 39 .185 0.90 0.67 Birmingham SOU AA 0 0 0.00 6 0 0 0 1 1 9.2 3 0 0 0 0 2 0 12 .097 0.52 0.45 Charlotte INT AAA 1 1 3.46 16 0 0 0 2 5 26.0 20 10 10 5 1 7 0 27 .215 1.04 0.75 Minors Career - Minors 3 8 2.24 111 0 0 0 29 34 153.0 109 50 38 10 2 41 1 183 .201 0.98 0.98