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QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 03:59 PM) Who is Coleman? All I'm seeing is he's Vandy and from the ACE program That's it , really. He is a 5'5 2b that is just kinda memorable on the Vandy team. I think he went to Simeon. I figured we'd take him because of ACE ties, but we missed out. NOOOOOOOOOO

Please get Coleman and Vinicio in a game together at some point.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 02:24 PM) The MLB draft tracker is god awful. You go back to another round and after a few seconds it will switch back to the current round. Everytime they add a new pick they shoot you back to the main screen. It's so stupid.

Scalise has regressed and is in critical condition. Some reports that he was stable earlier.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 12:50 PM) 100% this. Yes you want stars, but getting a contributing major leaguer at #11 is a franchise win. Hell I'm even happy if they were used to trade for major leaguers and never made it themselves.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 12:50 PM) I'm currently listening. Says on Sheets that he was surprised that he was there for us at pick 47. Says that we may have the best value pick out of round 7 for a guy that he had as a round 2 pick. Thinks our second day over all was the second best draft, first being the Twins. Not directly related to the draft but he also says Robert would have been considered for 1-1 and is comparable to Lewis. The mlb pipeline crew has been way out ahead of everyone else I've seen in regard to Robert, so I'm not surprised.

QUOTE (Butter Parque @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 12:48 PM) I'd have liked to see some LHP taken but it is what it is. If a couple of the RHP make it to the show, you can't really complain. In terms of where to put these guys: they'll go to rookie ball like every other year. The advanced ones will move up to Kanny and as a result, some players are going to get promotions and some players are going to get real jobs. Yeah, I'm incredibly surprised by the lack of prep players. This has been something Hostetler has mentioned in interviews for months, and seemingly going out of his way to. Can't control what 29 other teams do, but he specifically mentioned last years draft as having a weakness of too many college players, but we essentially had the same draft if not lesser just due to curbelo being a better prospect. I like all the players, and I'm sure that's why we have them over prep/juco guys, but very strange.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 12:41 PM) In the back of my mind I wonder if the Robert signing is forcing the team to try to save a few bucks in the draft by not picking the high dollar HS players, in general. That would be pretty disappointing. Talking like a million dollars or less in savings.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 12:28 PM) Where are all these guys going to play though? Kannapolis is already stocked with these types (Booker, Roman, Remillard, Zavala, etc.) plus you have some legitimate prospects in Fisher & Adolfo. Even if all those guys move up (which they should), there should be an influx of young talent already in the system hitting full season ball next year with guys like Robert, Nunez, Curbelo, Hickman/Perez, Zangari, & perhaps other Latin guys. So long-story short, both high A & low A are going to be stocked with bodies as is. A chunk of these draftees are going to get stuck in short season ball and not get the development they need. Would have been great to add at least a couple high schoolers to spread out our talent throughout the system. I do wish we had more prep bats, but great falls isn't that bad for this year to integrate them. A great many of these 11-40 guys will not make it past that. W-S and Birmingham have few position players that are holding spots, and of the players you mentioned, I don't think sox would be too concerned pushing college draftee fringe players like Booker, Roman, Remillard, etc a little more aggressively to make sure the higher tracked players are getting the pace they need.

QUOTE (ptatc @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 12:15 PM) This can't be right. You're saying they are purposely not drafting the best players available, that could be ranked high, just to have depth? I don't think rounds 3-10 feature a BPA that is so obvious. Likely have similar tiers and this draft have veered toward the college profile in those tiers due to either feeling more confident in projecting them or signability.

QUOTE (Sleepy Harold @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 12:08 PM) MLB Draft Tracker @MLBDraftTracker now 16 (477): @whitesox select Louisville CF Logan Taylor. mlb.com/draft/tracker/… #MLBDraft Surprise surprise, another Louisville player lol This dude is pretty old.

QUOTE (BamaDoc @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 11:40 AM) Surprised by the lack of high schoolers overall. Thought they had stated a desire to take many. Smokescreen? I thought what may have happened was their draft slot made it difficult to afford late round prep bats. Missing out on the top prep bats, then not being able to afford them alter, seems like they couldn't pass up talent they liked in college. Thats what I thought for rounds 1-10, I am pretty surprised there are 0 prep picks so far.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 11:14 AM) Just simpler...obviously over more at bats, it will matter more. SF, SH, HBP, etc. Basically, no matter how you slice it, Adolfo's still striking out 30% of the time. It doesn't make any sense though. He could have struck out in those walks, but he didn't, he walked. No different than a hit. He is striking out 28.6% of the time, which is high, but is not 30% of the time.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 10:25 AM) I posted this on the FS Twitter Feed, thought I'd put it here too. Some current White Sox prospects who were taken on Day 3... Adam Engel (19th round) Jordan Guerrero (15th) Matt Cooper (16th) Seby Zavala (12th) Joel Booker (22nd) Ian Hamilton (11th) Mitch Roman (12th) Mike Morrison (27th) Danny Mendick, who is getting pub on Cistulli's fringe 5, was in rounds 20-22, forget which one.

I'm excited to follow Abbott but we are talking about a big long shot. More polished HS 1b with big power like Zangari are long shots. If he makes it to the majors in any capacity that is incredible scouting.

Too good.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 10:11 AM) I'm working. And the 'let's just wait and see' I am seeing here so far is just sickening, because you know if it were the Dem team that got shot the speculation would be 20 pages already. And that behavior would apparently be correct, according to you, right? The correct thing to do is speculate and blame the leaders of the other side?

I think we're close to convincing Alpha

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 10:03 AM) It's also like Caulfield said - not often you see someone launch a ball foul then follow it up with something more monstrous I actually missed the at bat, just saw the highlight dinger. That's cool to know.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 09:50 AM) Obligatory Quin wants the Mizzou guy post http://www.columbiamissourian.com/sports/m...9f759c7461.html We could go after a few.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 09:36 AM) That grand slam was gorgeous His home runs are always no doubters. You see him connect and you know he's so strong it's gone.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/236343488/ml...-well-on-day-2/ You can see Twins cleaned up on Prep players. Much more possible at #1 and with a comp pick. We'll see a different draft I'm guessing with a top 3 pick (fingers crossed)

Out of curiosity why would you calculate strikeout rate by ABs and not PAs?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 14, 2017 -> 09:19 AM) MLB with zero salary cap has more parity than the NFL. NHL has the most. http://harvardsportsanalysis.org/2016/12/w...he-most-parity/ This is true, but NBA becomes more dramatic just due to 5 players. NBA just needs to get rid of the max contract, it solves all of this. But when you have weaknesses spread out among 9/10/11 guys on field it introduces more parity. I know hockey has 5 at one time but the ice time isn't remotely similar to how many minutes top basketball players can play in a game.

Rep Barton's 10 year old son was there. Very sad.