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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 9, 2014 -> 10:17 PM) Wait, what? He's talking D. KC Johnson's article was predictably hilarious. Bulls are scared off by Love's contract and are secretly hoping to sign Carmelo to a $4 million dollar deal, that's probably if they have money after signing Kirk to an $8 mill deal.

I have to say, I'm very impressed by Sox execution this draft. We'll obviously have to wait and see, we may not get the production we hoped. However, we heard a lot about how much emphasis and, more importantly, resources Hahn had put into this draft. And it really seems to have showed. We took players others deemed "unsignable" and have had great success so far signing at slot or lower. I think many would have been happy after rounds 1 & 2 if we punted to make sure we had plenty of room for both. Well, we also added some very interesting names and talent those rounds. We will not know whether this really will be a group that leads this team to another level, but if we continue to perform in drafts like these, the odds will move in our favor.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 9, 2014 -> 07:20 PM) Maybe I don't understand the term ace, correctly. Is he an All-Star and maybe even the All-Star game starter this year? Sure. So, the top pitcher of one half of the league's talent doesn't scream "ace" to you?

More I read on him, the more I want him. Every pitcher is different, but that we were able to turn around Montas' wildness really excites me to get raw, huge arms like this kid. Even if he ends up with nothing but a big fastball, a big 6'8 kid pounding the zone is at least a reliever.

Rodon is gonna sign at slot or above. No way he is signing for 750k under slot.

Signing Adams at slot (just announced) seems to be great news to me that we may have some extra chips to play with.

But you are basically replacing every defender on the bulls. That's a lot of work to get them to play D together in Thibs system.

Great sign (grabbed from Draft Picks threaD) Dan Hayes ‏@DanHayesCSN 2m Source said #WhiteSox have agreed in principle to sign 2nd-rd pick, RHP Spencer Adams, at slot. Suggested slot is $1.282 mill. edit: "Great sign" meaning this is a good sign that we need not worry about getting Rodon in the fold, obviously it is a nice "signing" as well.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jun 9, 2014 -> 07:45 PM) bmags, danman and I win regardless of what Bryce does...but come on man, you've had TJ surgery and Mizzou's baseball team was so bad last year that we got an apology from a staff member for having to cover such a bad team. I'm with SS, if Sox can pull together a number like 590k plus a full ride scholarship, you're crazy to turn that down coming off TJ. Don't get me wrong, I don't understand how the #33 overall draft prospect chose Mizzou, but Mizzou has done a very good job getting pitchers to the bigs. But, the difference between 500k and 2,000,000 isn't trivial. That is the amount where the gamble becomes harder. I'm surprised someone with TJ isn't gonna give it a go, but the fact that he went 13 and not 11 seems like he is confident in this risk.

So, if sox can scrape below slot for 10 rounds and offer him 575k plus a full ride, what does that mean for a prospect? Is he going to college during his minor league career? is it like military where he can utilize 4 years of a state school education at any point?

University of Missouri is also an incredible school. Once in a lifetime shot there. Nobody could turn that down.

Are we all guessing that Montes De Oca will be something we won't know until we see Adams and Rodon in the fold? From what I've seen people think it will take 7 figures. I can't imagine we can generate that much with Rodon and Adams going over slot.

Agreed, people need to remember how raw Anderson was. He is seeing a huge jump in talent from his JuCo where he came from. Balls are being hit harder and base runners are faster. He is learning more advanced technique and timing. This will all take time and he has time.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 9, 2014 -> 04:31 PM) Melo, Love and DRose on the floor at the same time would make for some Paul Westhead type scores. The Bulls would put up 125 with regularity. They probably would give up 125 with regularity as well. Right, I feel like that's the Houston Rockets. To be honest, I think a lineup of Rose-Butler-Dunleavy-Love-Noah would probably be a better team than that rose - melo - love lineup.

Oh, missed Melo. Yeah that's somethin.

I don't think significantly downgrading our C position to significantly upgrade our PF is what anyone on bulls would be looking for. We'd also be the first team to ever give up that much for a superstar.

No Adolfo in top 30?

I think Adams has higher potential than Danish without a doubt. We have no idea how these groundouts numbers will translate for Danish. Adams stuff is much more traditional and has a great frame to fill out.

Has someone shared this info with the sox brass? Rock?

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jun 7, 2014 -> 08:43 PM) Ok so if your name is Kiley why don't you just call yourself kYylE? Seriously that's a major issue for me. I wanted to pull this out. Lol.

Probably the next Mike Trout.

I'd like Adam back.

I'm trying to think if I was Spencer Adams if I would take the payday, spend 3 great years of my life in buses across the minor leagues, or if I would go to college with the potential of getting a 5 million payday by waiting. Tough call.

Dang, we are getting to the players with no write-ups.

QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Jun 6, 2014 -> 07:17 PM) Lets hope some of these guys fall to the Sox: Keith Weisenberg - RHP Micheal Cantu - 1B/C/3B JJ Schwarz - C Bryce Montes de Oca - RHP David Peterson - LHP Kel Johnson - OF I feel like 'JJ's have high MLB success.