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Thank you for mentioning this, it is different. That said I think think talent-wise soto does exceed sale a bit and I would assume position players get a bit more of a premium than pitching...but I am not sure about it. I can't remember the last pre-first contract position player that moved where it wasn't the last .5 year before FA.

The law review of the draft is very good. I think vs. other drafts we really did get 6 solid guys rather than the no doubt 2-3 of the last two drafts. And maybe we continue to find solid player depth in the 11-20 rounds (sox really have done well there. Kudos for the list yesterday I believe @southsider2k5 pulled - Zevala, Mendick, Engel, Bummer, Martin, foster & a few more all from day 3. Not super stars, but for years we couldn't get a call up to be productive) Jonathan Cannon is definitely going to be traded to the Guardians in 2 years for a plug in player lol.

And on top of that I refuse to just pre-filter my brain on what the white sox should be doing to what JR will allow. Like why get prospects? JR won't actually invest in a premium player development and analytics dept. There's no point.

whoa whoa whoa whoa...Chappelli is only 20 dude!

It is pre-allocating payroll that is certain to be paid to a specific resource yes.

Yes yes the sox aren't trading for soto but if you sculpted the perfect player that turns all of our weaknesses into a strength you'd make Juan Soto available.

That makes sense. I'm obviously on record that sox need to get a price here at least and be aggressive, but I also agree that there really isn't a point to emptying out our farm if we are also sending out Vaughn. I still would explore trading Giolito, using that for Soto, and trying to get a Martin Perez type for the year. I actually love the 2023 pitching FA crop.

I thought this too but I was listening to maybe soxmachine and the thought would be to start spacing him out where possible to remove a scheduled start or two for inning reduction.

I still wish they would IL kopech and use Martin this month. Last year they seemed to completely forget about restrictions on Rodon, Kopech. I don't really see them having learned a whole lot yet.

I love clayton kershaw.

You wouldn't trade Montgomery for Juan Soto?

Basically there's no reason not to be excited by what Chapelli is doing. But there's also no reason to care whether he's ranked highly enough either. Game power is always cool, I don't care if he's 2 years older, Grandal didn't go to AA and hit 15 home runs in 4 games. He hit 7 home runs in 3x the games last time he played at 18. Now he's at 8 in 26 or something. If his bat can make contact in higher levels and he is a 10-15 hr guy, that's a very nice 2b prospect.

Robert was also a sculpted adonis with 70 grade speed at the time, and Chapelli is 5'8. I'm also unclear if DSL has better competition now with the consolidation of the minor league affiliates or if it's worse. But I doubt he has seen real velocity yet. That said, he had a year off and this looks good. Look forward to his next move.

Bennetti “And that ball is Claunched”

This is true but If you compare that trade to what’s being bandied about in, for example, that athletic article it is helpful. Teams aren’t going to send out an entire team. The Sox in their trades made a standard of top hitter and top pitcher prospect. But they sacrificed backend talent to get there. Rizzo has very good scouts, and I also wouldn’t be surprised if their evals are much different.

I don’t understand how you write up the white Sox draft and forget their best pick

Good amount of mizzou guys drafted today

looks like he had a big jump senior year. Definitely a bummer reading some of these guys stats. There is a big fat noticeable 2020 missing. Who knows if he makes this jump his junior year had he not missed 2020 and finds himself in the top ten rounds. But also a lot of the guys today have big K numbers, so not expecting too much. Kanny kinda weeds that out.

And this is on! https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2022/07/19/chicago-to-host-first-ever-nascar-cup-series-street-race-in-2023/ You nailed the course.

oh nvm. I missed this. Altermatt was the SS for his team and switched to pitcher. He's drafted as a pitcher: https://www.mankatofreepress.com/sports/local_sports/msus-altermatt-kline-thriving-as-two-way-players/article_80abec68-b08a-11ec-906f-cba159b77b5a.html

nvm camilletti played last year, Altermatt played this year

Got another northwoods league star https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=alterm000nic Wonder if he played camilletti and lived to tell about it

wow this is what Nagy is up to eh

I feel like every time I see him I have different impressions of his height. Sometimes I'm like "oh he's taller than I thought" then today it's "wow he's short"

I know all of them