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I get the feeling the Indians are toying with the Sox.

Shields limits the damage gets the DP

Yikes Alonso might tie this game up with Shields throwing junk right down the middle.

HR Derby now with Shields. Lindor and Brantley go back tp back

Omar 3 Hr's in the last week or so.

Hope springs eternal

When you're not on your high horse you're a good poster.

oh well it's not like we didn't expect this to happen with all that talent in the pen.

Great basees loaded 1 out

LOL good try by Frare but once he touched ump says no no no

Thought we might see Frare for Alonso and to turn around Melky.

Still Minaya

ANd you could say that 3-2 pitch that he fouled off right down the middle is the opposite and the one he looked at for strike 3 also down the middle upper part of the zone.

Let's go YoYo keep that OPS above .700

Do we get Jones in the 9th ?

OK OK damn u love to argue about minutia,

Everybody playing pro ball has talent thats like telling me the sky is blue . If it's a success at this level then its very good talent. Stating the obvious didn't answer my question about 1 run being enough . Frankly I doubt it will but as usual I hope i'm wrong or they get more runs

TBD

ANyone think the Sox can win with just 1 run ?

But upside is useless if they don't start showing that upside with performance.

lol just a play on words from the plumbing quote , pvc is cheaper than copper pipe

This is from MLB Trade Rumors who use Roster Resource. https://www.rosterresource.com/milb-power-rankings/ This is based on performance only in several weighted categories . no upside involved. The explanation at the top of the chart explains it all. Sox players are #13 Eloy Jimenez, #17 Michael Kopech, #25 Dylan Cease, #96 Luis Gonzalez, #139 Blake Rutherford Tampa Bay had 10, Oakland 8, SD 10, Toronto 14, I didn't count every team and I don't know if there's a place to find it broken down by team. I didn't intend this when I found this but are we over ranking our prospects based on upside ? I know a lot of injuries and made guys like Dunning and Hansen who were high on this list last year disappear from this years . Of course there are also others who might've been ranked somewhere if not for injuries also. Last year had 11. Kopech, 14 Hansen, 64. Dunning, 158. Eloy At some point don't we need to see numbers to feel better about prospects ability to be major leaguers ? The only other Sox i could find in the top 200-300 were Mendick, Rivera and Sheets based on weighted performance again. Here's the list of all the rosters with all players . You can find if they were ranked just by looking at each roster . I don't know how high the ranking went but you can see some guys in the 700 range. https://www.rosterresource.com/mlb-chicago-white-sox Pretty useful tool though.

"If the Sox are truly looking to build the most powerful prospect plumbing possible, then it's time to widen the pipes " Or they need to upgrade from PVC pipe to copper.

No it wasn't. 50 walks in 124 innings across 2 levels this year. If my math is right it's just a a little over 3.6 walks per 9. You generally didn't hear about his walks because he didn't give up many hits per 9 which is why he had an outstanding WHIP of .99 in AA .

You could certainly make a very strong argument for Barry Bonds as your LHH for the 1990's or 2000's . Not every players career lines up perfectly within a decade but Bonds won 3 MVP's in the 1990's and got MVP votes every year for all 10 years. You could also make the argument that in the 90's Bonds was drug free. Then in the 2000's when his appearance from whatever he was on made him a joke he won 4 MVPs in a row and broke the single season HR record and put up some of the most obscene OPS numbers and SLG % ever and that was only in half a decade . 2005-2007 (his age 40-42 seasons he never had over 500 PA's but still had incredible OBP 's of .454 and .480 . 2008 he was a free agent at age 43. No one signed him despite his great numbers the last 2 years because he was making a mockery of the game with his roid or HGH usage and no one wanted that headache. Not wanting roiders is all very noble but leaves open the debate of who exactly was roiding. Bond's was never convicted of anything despite 10 yrs of intense pressure.