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I have more tolerance for swing and miss in high school, particularly with a 2nd round pick. For example, this was the write-up on Jo Addell: Adell has the best all-around tools in the 2017 Draft, and his physical gifts have drawn comparisons to Byron Buxton and Melvin Upton Jr. Both of those players were drafted No. 2 overall, but Adell won't go nearly that high because of persistent concerns about his bat. Though he won the home run derby at the Area Code Games, he struggled at the plate for much of the summer showcase circuit, and he hasn't eased many worries this spring despite leading the nation's high school players with 25 homers and winning Gatorade's Kentucky player of the year award. Adell's electric bat speed gives him huge raw power from the right side of the plate, but his propensity to swing and miss leads to questions about how much he'll be able to translate that pop into production. He has trouble catching up to average fastballs at times and must learn to recognize breaking pitches. A tremendous athlete who already has a big league body, he has well above-average speed and is a quality center fielder who usually has a plus arm (though it has been sore at times this spring). Though he'll almost certainly get drafted as a position player, Adell is intriguing on the mound as well. He has reached as high as 97 mph with his fastball and can also spin a hammer curveball. He has committed to stay at home with Louisville if he attends college. You just never know. If it's swing and miss with electric bat speed it's more tolerable than someone who they don't believe can catch up to fastballs.

There are few things as beautiful to me as Tim Anderson going from 1st to Home, especially when he rounds 3rd. And soon I can add to that Luis Robert going from Home to Third. Although Tim runs so much more violently than robert so it's still kinda more fun to me.

Let's raid LSUs recruiting class. Burn it to the ground.

you should try to convince the college junior to give up millions to go to college because the white sox disappointed us.

Man I'm here for this new "pro tools" draft philosophy.

I don't think there's that much disagreement here. I think he should be called up this year, I just think he should get a stop at AAA.

They haven't fucking drafted any. Literally the most raw, athletic player they drafted recently is on a potential all star season at short stop. The most polished, sure thing they drafted last year is already struggling. If you are worried that high schoolers cannot overcome our player development, then you should be so thrilled with their draft philosophy the last 5 years. Why aren't you thrilled?

Right and I think Eloy should have gone to AAA. But if he recreated his A+ show then there didn't seem to be a need for AAA. He's really good! But yeah AAA will be good to get some pitchers that will throw only breaking/offspeed stuff at him to see how he handles it. I'm guessing few AA pitchers can command offspeed enough to pound zone with it.

Maurice Hampton is probably a terrible fit for the white sox org's talents...but I'd draft that guy so much.

Thanks.

Zevala has played like 2 games and was a 13th round pick. That's actually a great success for the scouting staff.

Abrams isn't even a particularly young senior.

So I was always cool with Robert skipping AAA if he demolishes AA but seeing his production to date, which is great but not "demolishing", I think moving him up to AAA in July and seeing what he does before making an August decision on bringing him up makes sense. Do the slimmer Sept rosters start this year?

He always had a more acceptable form of failure in birmingham as his krate didn't explode. Now he can begin that climb as he gets used to the stuff/timing.

Maurice Hampton Home Run and Strikeout video

Yes.

Joe Borchard, Josh Fields, Jared Mitchell that I can remember.

Among other things, really respect the effort he likely put into getting his body ready for the season. The main concern Fegan pointed to in the article posted in the OP was that endurance would be an issue. Granted, it's late may, but he was throwing 97 mph in the 8th last night. At least within starts he has been able to maintain without fatigue. I'm sure end of year he may hit a wall, but that's a good thing. It means he has been pitching through another year. Major props to Giolito. Please sign his pitching coach.

He's talking about Maurice Hampton, but, regardless there aren't that many elite two sport athletes each year. This year there are JErrion Ealy and Hampton, and maybe some that played football that aren't mentioned. Last year it was Murray and Adams. Both were selected in first two rounds, we know what happened with Murray. So yeah, more than the freakin sox like super athletic people that are so good they can play D1 ball IN TWO SPORTS

Or he could just, like, play the position we need. Kelenic is already gonna meet Madrigal in A+. Making decisions on the assumption that the college player will make it faster than the high schooler is insane. Carter Kieboom made it to the big leagues before both Collins and Burdi. I have to believe at this point the sox scouting dept doesn't see them similarly, they rank abrams as potentially better. Now, they probably are working with a player dev group that won't know how to tap into power, but that's hard to factor into scouting.

I have a feeling that when both are in A+, we will have severe FOMO over Riley Greene, by time they are in AAA we will be thrilled having Abrams.

It's a matter of degrees. If Abrams hits 90 wrc+, he's still a major leaguer, possibly still even a plus regular. If Vaughn hits 90 wrc+, he maybe makes the show but is basically useless. If Abrams hits 110 wrc+, he could be an all star. if Vaugh hits 110 wrc+, he's a replaceable starter. Now, it's true that Vaughn is more likely to have a 110 wrc+ than Vaughn, but to little value. And he's certainly more likely to have a 130 or more, but the degree matters a lot because he basically has to be a star with the bat, but he's also the most likely to be a star with the bat.

Just for fun, I crossed out all of the guys who wold not be available at 45 according to FG latest mock (again, just for fun). Not listed: Maurice Hampton - now my fav player ever. Probably thought he'd be gone, only realized Jerrion Ealy as a two sport guy.

This sounds like fun, thanks for the tip!

Good, he's starting to fill out. He's fought back so hard this year. I really hope he keeps it up. If he can finish year above .700 ops that's a huge win.