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Charlie Finley that owner of the great A's teams back then owned them for a couple years. That team was sold a lot.

I can't remember the years they all got their extensions but 2019 was regularly regarded as a bouncier ball that traveled farther with many players including Moncada having career year. It's always something odd that throws off Sox plans that looking back you say they should have taken the bouncy ball data a little more seriously. It was like everybody was playing on steroids or in Colorado. I bet the Colorado home stats were outrageously juicy in 2019.

Not rambling .What you said is well thought out and would actually take less than 3 minutes if you had a prepared speech or were on a podcast . You know there's a decent amount of women pocadters on barely watched Sox podcasts on YouTube run by Brett Balantini. Sox Populi I think one of them is called. I'm sure you'd be much more informative than many on the panel. I saw one guy who was either super nervous or just not used to public speaking who kept repeating " umm" . I felt bad for him. It took him a while to get his thoughts out and he clearly was uncomfortable or socially awkward .

That question is irrelevant because it's 2025 and there are new people doing the coaching now and new players. You can't go back in time and say let's now let Walt Hriniak teach them or let's use Ryan Fuller and modern R & D on them. JR put money he wanted to spend into the MLB roster payroll not into the youth. You can ask our resident journalist (Lip) about that.

Elko is in the minors now but Baldwin has decent upside like a young Benintendi but can play more positions with a little more repetition . Doesn't have the pedigree of Benintendi but they might have similar power.

Noda got about 1/2 the ABs Elko did. -3 bWar for both. Gets on base more because he walks more. K rate for Noda might be worse as are several other offensive categories for a guy who faces mostly RHP as a LHH compared to Elko who mostly faced RHP as a RHH. So the Sox actually got worse offensively except for a little better OBP trading in Elko for Noda offensively . It's was just Getz throwing spaghetti at a wall to see if it stuck. It didn't.

3 weeks ? That's insane.

It's earlier than I thought but in no way is it idiotic. Hitting in Colorado against Rockies pitching seems well thought out. It's just another safe reason for people who need to be right,more reasons to feel good about themselves based on other people's failures. If he does poorly, like most prospects, they get to feel vindicated . See it was stupid. No, it's what happens with most prospects. If he has a good series in Colorado the whiners can safely claim small sample size and lick their chops with his 1st 0 for 10 with 6 Ks. It's as if they want him to fail. Too much good press. It's like with Vargas since he's cooled down. The safe play is to say you don't believe in him because you don't really believe in anything Sox related. He's got to get his sea legs against MLB pitching to continue the progress that was made by the Fuller Fix. He's by no means a finished prospect but you were going to eat an option this year anyway. Might as well give Montgomery, Baldwin, Teel, Quero, Meidroth, Vargas ,Sosa and possibly Elko too all up here growing together.

Everyone went to sleep. Blown save Dodgers win.

Slater Cycle watch

You'll excuse me if I don't buy in to your crystal ball. I asked a simple question just a minute ago is Eisert was pitching 1 or more innings and no one ventured even a guess. Most here are afraid to be wrong even on a softball question. Eisert not known for multiple innings outings. Has been a 1 inning opener before. But they 'll tell you when someone is a bust secure with the knowledge that most prospects never reach the lofty expectations of fans and even if they end up succeeding they won't get called out on it. Maybe there's not enough people in the game thread . But I stand by my conclusions. Slater !!!

Is Eisert going 1 or as long as he can ?

Missed it by that much.

I thought of responding and would've said something similar. I suppose you could look at his body of MLB ABs and say May was the outlier but there's spot between his May and June that you can hope he'd settle into. You'll never know if you don't give these young guys a real chance to establish themselves. The Sox aren't trading Vargas unless that get a really good non pitching return. Sox fans rushing in to predict prospect doom but then scream play the kids just so they can scream more about how the prospects are busts as quick as they can.

17 yr old Yorbal Rodriquez pitched 4 no hit innings in a 1 -0 DSL White Sox loss. This season he's pitched 18.2 innings without an earned run 17 K and 0.38 WHIP. That's noteworthy on any level .

I do check out box score just to familiarize myself with some of the name since we hear about them signing them it's pretty quiet until they actually play. So even though I probably won't comment much on DSL and ACL games I do appreciate the quick and easy access to the box scores. 🙂

Oh it started off great and Vasil talks up a storm.Ive seen him talking to Garfein too on one of the CHSN podcasts. They dug into a bit of the behind the scenes with biomechanics or other related R & D stuff. WSD tried to get Teel or any of the others to admit the Sox were behind the times with that stuff in comparison to the other organizations they were briefly with but none of them said anything negative.

For those with the MLB app on your smart TV. Tonight's game is the free game of the day. Might be blacked out though in Chicago and here in L.A. Seems strange that in the markets most likely to watch it they black it out .

It isnt . Players know what goes on in baseball. You hang on as long as you can get a decent paycheck. It sure beats anything the real world will pay you after you retire or no one finally wants you.

Oh yeah that's definitely a thing ( he said sardonically).

Decent stuff for what it was . Way too much time spent on baseball fights . WSD is an idiot with a forum which is apparently a thing because idiots are entertaining ?

The Asstros had a little international guy they signed for 10K that no one else wanted . Hello Jose Altuve. They also got a power hitting LH LF from the Dodgers, Yordan Alvarez for relief pitcher Josh Fields. A Cuban who the Sox missed on somehow . So maybe Steven Wilson could get the Sox a stud . Astros also drafted Springer, Correa, Tucker Bregman and Jeremy Pena under completely different drafting rules for rebuilding teams. I think they took pitcher Brady Aiken 1st overall in 2014 but somehow ended up with Bregman as compensation the next year with the 2nd overall pick because Aiken was damaged goods. Mark Apple was another pitcher taken 1- 1 by the Astros who bombed but got traded for Ken Giles who was a key relief pitcher during the 2017 World Series win. So basically the Astros said screw drafting pitchers we'll trade for the one we already know is a stud. So they fleeced the Tigers for Verlander. But they did manage to get Keuchel and McCullers in the draft too .

Eh I don't know what kind of announcers you're expecting for a bad team and jaded fanbase. We're at the point that no matter what, we whine about everything. There is no pleasing , placating, nor soothing us. Is there such an announcer that exists for this fan base that would be universally accepted as decent ? ".Here's the pitch Vaughn hits a ground ball to short for the 50th time this season . The Shortstop could run the ball over to 1st base and still get Vaughn out. Good Lord he's slow. Sit your ass down. Why are you even in the lineup ? Why you even on the team. What is Venable thinking ? What was Getz thinking ? What in heavens name is Reinsdorf doing ? That brings up Louis Robert who is 0 for 4 with 3 K's. He used to be La Pantera. Now he's just a p****... cat. Why can't we have nice things ? Meowww. "

Don't play stupid with me unless it's not an act. You've been here long enough to know how things work around here. Future Sox has always been a sanctuary from the s%*# talking that goes on in Pale Hose Talk. I don't know when that was established or by who but it is a thing .Ask any long time resident here. There is precedent around here to keep overly negative comments away from the Future Sox section. Just because you feel you are in the majority and have the backing of mods who are just as down on the organization as you are, doesn't mean you can flaunt long standing rules of decorum. And yes kick a guy while he's down . A small sample size of poor performance of whoever posted that small sample size of 3 hits in last 29 ABs that prompted your he's a bum stuff . You don't think I can follow a thread ? Do you hate him or yourself that you didn't have the talent to make $3M sure signing his 1st contract , so that makes him fair game to be ridiculed ? That's so meatball using money as a barometer for attacking a young man who is just one step below the best in the world. You don't even sound like a fan unless it's of the Cubs. Hell some Cub fans are more gracious about the Sox than you are.

You said he was a bust I'm saying he won't be thats all. We might not know the final results for 5 years. Just saying if you're going to kick a guy while he's down after getting hit by pitches in hand and kneecap then I can praise him while he's hot. I already know that the majors is the true test of any minor leaguer Capt. Obvious. They try to keep guys like you out of Future Sox for a reason. It's supposed to be a place that supports the process that development isn't linear patient approach instead of being too negative about prospects.