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He’s not unathletic, he’s just not fast.

That’s because every player on mlb pipeline is a 55 overall and not too hot or cold. It’s the great hedge site.

Haha true! This board should trust the white Sox blindly!!!!

That said I got extremely excited for Teel

The rest of the writers don’t hate Gonzalez as much as us, but the write up is tough for the weaknesses. But it’s not like law had this guy in the fifties. He said he’d be top ten most years.

No updates from Laws last, but Houck keeps sliding in his.

I love that hostetler has now coded college hitter as a negative the way KW did “athlete” for this board. ?

Seriously it’s a bummer. Consider their rumors around power and college bats I don’t get it.

This has nothing to do with this draft, and there is nothing about the pirates drafting someone that is more noteworthy than any other team.

They are saying college bat because it’s the strength of the class not because of improving system depth for the ML club. There is nothing wrong with drafting college players, the problem was writing off other profiles entirely.

Holy s%*# mason adams with a 5 scoreless inning 10 k day behind Schulz

Colson 3-3 now

Luis Reyes absolutely torched today.

I would like to see detmers but I’d also feel bad entering him into this org

oh god that should read 238" not 138" oh no

Flipside, best short draft (first 3 rounds) 1 - Tommy Troy (5'11) SS 2 - Adrian Santana (5'11") SS 3 - Luke Shliger (5'9) C tough for the short kings but I kinda like both drafts not sure if teams have drafted strictly on height yet but I may have something here.

hmm I think the tallest cumulative first three rounds the white sox could feasibly get would be 1 - Bryce Eldridge (6'7) 2 - Alonzo Tredwell (6'8) 3 - George Wolkow (6'7) This would add I believe like 138" to the org.

*Rick hahn in the bathroom practicing his resignation speech when wife tries to get in locked door* "What are you doing?!" "Umm Drugs" - Rick Hahn

carlos come on man give us a dart 15. White Sox — Tommy Troy, 3B, Stanford Slot Value: $4,488,600 Total Bonus Pool: $9,072,800 It’s been college and hitter heavy for the White Sox for a while now in my conversations, and they should be right in the middle of a solid wave of college hitters. In this scenario Troy, Enrique Bradfield, Nolan Schanuel and Chase Davis seem to be the best of the bunch. Chicago gets linked more to the college third base duo of Yohandy Morales and Brock Wilken than others around it as well, and I think they are real options here as well. It’s very hard to see players like Brayden Taylor and Jacob Gonzalez getting much further down the board than this if they are somehow still available with all of the potential landing spots in front. Dart Throw Later Picks: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2023-mlb-mock-draft-version-4-0/

I thought this would be a Seattle 29 guy but with them getting mocked preps that fall at 22 who knows.

I think Jerry really bailed caring about stuff when 2011 fizzled plus the 2012(?) CBA largely creating a framework that fit his tendencies. There was nothing left to fight for anymore.

Guy walked 16 times in 100 PAs despite zero threat of power at that point. He could certainly pick a walk man.

Funny how memory works. I remember Roberto Alomar as somewhat effective ( he was miserable) and Manny Ramirez as miserable (he was somewhat effective).

Danks was a good trade, that kind of self-scouting of org talent is inconceivable under Hahn. But KW was definitely a believer in the "great man" era of baseball orgs where he thought himself like single handedly finding players and trading for friends and treating it like a fantasy team. Remarkable compared to Hahn who fancied himself smart because he grew up in winnetka around rich parents coddling him and tried to make an org approach to please papa but is miserable at it because he's a talentless hack.

I think this is still giving sox the broad organizational preference of college pitchers that was true for 20 years but not really shown under Shirley + where they are in the draft where they are using them to sop up players that are falling. But yes if I was a mock writer who wrote multiple mocks I think I'd occasionally put a prep player on them...