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if only gambling was more prominent for minor league games, we might actually get information on injuries at these levels

Who is Skenes agent? Maybe if he takes a lower slot, but feels like an LSU baseball player has no need to take a discount

I cant' buy Cherington going pitcher 1-1.

Obviously most will judge a scouting director by the Major League value brought in by the classes. But I also think there is a big value in bringing in players with your top picks that retain or improve prospect value after drafting. Basically - one thing I really like about Shirley's classes, with a caveat, is with not great draft positions he's taken two super tooled up profiles that have entered the system and immediately entered top 100 prospect lists or conversations. This mainly by these guys entering the system and showing that their big tools played already while the rest develops. Maybe Colson and Schulz never make it as big leaguers, but if we weren't a trash team, it would be a huge boost to have big trade pieces like this as well. I think Crochet could have been an example of this, except the sox raced him up and 2020 was so weird. He showed that top level stuff immediately. Now I don't want to give too much credit for picks not made, but we were rumored to be watching Patrick Bailey in 2020, and ultimately chose Crochet. But it's still an example I hold in my head. I did not want Bailey, everything read kind of average. Now just 3 years later he's blowing up the league. It's what I keep in mind with Yohandy. The guy has the looks for this, and Shirley has prioritized "last-look". He obviously finished incredibly hot, and I was reading he really adjusted to different pitching looks in the playoffs. Maybe something clicked. We do just have a incredible dearth of power in this org. Liike Luis MIeses is now our best power hitter. His K-rate is really above the top of what I'd consider, but who knows. He's not Jeren Kendall thou.

also we get torched in offensive rebounding. Not all him, but it's also not not him.

We looked into tickets and we’re shocked at the first round being $200+. But glad since weather was awful anyway.

I get that the white Sox seem unlikely to make bradfield playable…but he’s also got the most translatable skill. I’d be ok with it. I’m not sure there is a player I despise in this class if selected. Even if they selected Schanuel I’d be like “well at least he’s lefty”.

Amazing that madrigal was so hyped for his baseball acumen and he is so dumb

I just still don’t get why you don’t stretch and waive lonzo if you are trying to compete with this crew

So what is the benefit to getting the player before UFA? Is exclusive negotiations that powerful? Does it make a difference in like dealing with this year vs 'next' years cap?

Congrats to people who cover hawks who probably had the easiest draft night in their history. I swear like 15 bedard profiles dropped at 630 last night

Love how we are back to the situation where bulls back themselves into a corner and people are like "well yeah couldn't have asked for much more than that"

I believe he's asking about Foligno, and yeah basically they get an exclusive signing window from what I read. I thought today was wednesday and was going to say looking forward to tonight but alas one more day.

Wanting to be traded to the bulls is a red flag

I agree. I'd rather the do that 2015 thing where they have a nice second half of july and make hahn think they are good and don't do anything at deadline and he just washes away eventually.

No idea. Repeating DSL never a strong sign though. But only 18.

Damn Jeremy Gonzalez just destroying DSL in his second stint

my highest percentage likelihood of player to team (after the first gimmes of top ten) is George Wolkow to the yankees. Just own the tall ass slugger market. I meant to see him this year and ended up with practice at same times every time he was in town. Would like to see how a Jonny Farmelo or Roch Cholowsky do in our system but at this point would rather we go after someone like a Joe Whitman in the second.

you need a sub line (a.) to every line that says "do not go into the tax"

It feels like the high schoolers are upsetting people on twitter as well as the Miami guy.

Why don't people like houck? Worried about his frame not being able to fill out much to bring the power?

the article is just a writer re-hashing a bunch of stuff that's been written about ad nauseum likely because they are based in NY and TA visited a few weeks ago.

so weird how when other teams get fast players they suddenly are a team with fast players that gets to take advantage of their fastness and ours just explode and then are told to walk everywhere.

My Take: - Hahn hired Steverson and in typical white sox thought, they figured bringing in 1 guy from oakland and just giving him plenty of room to operate but no resources he'd turn the org into a walk machine Hahn wanted. - Steverson tried to build an organizational approach to hitting and building out more selectivity, but most of our farm systems were run as independent fiefdoms where playing time was all they offered. This took a while to set up. - Virtually our entire minors was wiped clean and restocked in 2017 onward. - During that time of 2017-2019, I feel like you did hear more pressure for players like Jimenez and Robert to up their walk rates while in minors. - The sox version now of trying to have a scouting and pd team in sync is hostetler drafting lots of unathletic college seniors with great K:BB ratios. - The players start to make majors, and Steverson has great success turning a walk-minded player like Moncada to find his groove. Anderson wins batting crown. - But the crown jewel coming up is Robert, and he had many periods where it looked like he had never seen a baseball at bat per at bat. Meanwhile in AAA their hitting coach made great strides in improving his contact rate. I'm sure around the same time Hahn's crack team of analysts were like "oh it's K-rate that matters, not walk rate! Check out this model that just shows the 2017 houston astros getting lower k rate guys!" and they fired steverson and went with Menechino. - I swear from 2020 onward in the minors it was like power + contact was all that mattered, There was zero progress being made in walk rates. That's why Montgomery sticks out like a sore thumb, it was just seemingly a case of a player willing himself through this trash org. I wrote this mainly because I think this is a nice case of showing how hahn thinks he is doing baseball but does it really poorly. Even as he does an outside hire, he basically expects them to be a "Great Man" who fixes org. Then when he tries to do "synergy org" with scouting and player dev, they do it in the most obvious and embarrassing way possible. Then they abandon it, then again. Not even sure there is one now. But it is crazy. Look at the stats for our AA affiliate vs Tampas. For players with at least 100 PAs, the Montgomery Biscuits have 7 players over .340 obp. The Birmingham barons have 3. And our max is .350 and theirs has like .430.

Also ridiculous that they didn't make their Vuc decision prior to the trade deadline then. He should have either been shipped out or extended at that point.