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Forbes was 4/6 with 2 2bs, he’s now .280/.780 ops. Interesting unsung dude.

BA draft profile: Drafted in the 18th round (528th overall) by the Chicago White Sox in 2018 (signed for $125,000) Gonzalez led Miami in runs (35), RBIs (30) and stolen bases (22) this spring, spending time in right field, at third base and at DH. Last summer in the Cape Cod League, Gonzalez played all four infield positions for the Orleans Firebirds, and hit .318/.342/.509 with 10 stolen bases. Gonzalez projects as a utility type player, though he probably profiles best at second base. He's aggressive in the batter's box and has poor strike zone awareness, with a career strikeout rate with Miami of 24 percent. The strikeout issues were even more apparent in the Cape, where Gonzalez whiffed 36 times and walked five times in 110 at-bats. There is some power in the tank as well--Gonzalez hit 11 home runs during his sophomore season in 2017 and four in the Cape, but managed just four this spring. Gonzalez does a number of things well and is an efficient base runner, but the bat might not be good enough to profile as an everyday player just yet. +++ Looks like he's learning how to make his aggressiveness work or him.

Good post by me

That was beautiful beautiful pitching and sequencing.

Jose Rodriguez homer too, he’s getting hot once more. Holy smokes Joe Gray Jr is lighting up low A.

And then you look at their lineup

Sosa another homer. Honestly a pretty good night

This team is crazy. Absolutely love em.

Ah, to the Cubs. Would be a beautiful board moment.

Seems good that he homered.

Maybe he isn’t getting paid a wage yet and if Sox sent him to Birmingham he’d have to have a work visa? (This is a stretch, I know

Just remember when we were paying millions for the likes of Emilio bonifacio because we couldn’t produce a mendick.

No idea what this means

Damn didn’t realize he hit two. This is what I mean with it being a weird season. We have these older prospects playing insane, and we don’t know what to make of it. Really is amazing that Every team that Jirschele manages ends up the best in the org. He was the last to have a good Kanny team too. We all laughed at how bad that Bham roster was, they are 10 games over or something. Crazy

Fun thing about mendick was he joined a lot of our radars when he made Fangraphs Carson Cistullis “fringe 5”, which basically looked for low rated prospects whose production indicated a big league future. Mendick was always impressive for his resiliency in the minors to me, felt like whenever he fell back offensively he’d fight like hell for a few weeks and get back to respectable quickly. Cheers to an incredible accomplishment

Please include Soxtalk.com in the proposal

who is Tigers pitcher today? I have internet but too lazy to google but consider typing the question here less work.

Not a very flattering hahn pic.

Is it just me or are there a lotta big boys this draft? I feel like in 2030 there will be some 6'2 second baseman we are all calling a nick madrigal type because the rest of the players will be 6'6 or taller.

Really hope Bears sign Morgan Moses.

bringing back hellthread to say illinois has reopened, chicago has reopened, we have declined to the point that we are seeing only a 1% positive rate and sub 500 cases a day, and vaccinations 7-day average has actually been increasing. And if that's not good enough, it's been awesome that now when I go to unload the dishwasher I just need to put my hand near the silverware tray and all the utensils fly to my hand.

Ha, I know, and it's been years of that. They are this terrible offense that can't scrape three runs together vs. baltimore than faces us and puts up 8 spots.

In defense of bruce, this article is actually just a summary of Hahn's press conference and who knows who wrote the headline.

Same, followed on phone notifications. Glad to hear Keuchel came back. For a team that didn't K much, blue jays really struggled against our staff. We have a damn good pitching staff, and while I'm a little worried about fades from Cease/Rodon, having guys like Giolito, Keuchel, Lynn makes me feel a lot more confident than other teams would be with their staffs that have been on training wheels for most of their careers.

Yes, though it would be nice if the answer was just UI phaseout. It should be boomtimes for teen employment though, we'll see if it can get back to previous levels. I would imagine chains are going to have an easier time here, with more established and consistent training, than the type of employee available that led fine dining to thrive in 2010s. The pandemic created a massive distortion with some industries going into hibernation while others were doing better than expected. The millions that lost jobs in those industries moved to different industries, moved to different locations. Hiring is hard, it's going to take those companies time to figure out how to reach the new recruits. There isn't going to be a magic wage or unemployment trick, there was a massive restructuring happening at a rapid pace. Which to me is still so much better than the alternative, but there is going to be some growing pains here. This is uncharted territory, really.