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Love how people are chastising posters for reacting to a 2 month sample because they had a single good game.

I wonder if it’s Visa related

https://www.milb.com/gameday/dsl-white-sox-vs-dsl-padres/2019/06/06/597762#game_state=final,lock_state=final,game_tab=box,game=597762 LOL Espinosa 1-4 with a BB and ... 4 runs somehow! Sanchez 4-7 Benyamin Bailey 3-5 with a walk (17 y.o., on fire to start season) I forgot Lazaro Leal (1b) was a guy because he's 22 but he came from Cuba in December. He was 2-3 with 3 walks and is hitting .471 so far with a 1.415 OPS I bet you thought there were homers in this game (nope) Wilber Sanchez had a triple though.

BA is really high on Anderson and really low on Pache, usually reversed by the others. BA is still very preferential to pitching while others have started to downgrade it.

I am...uh, VERY excited to get the DSL box score today, which is currently in the bottom of the 9th with an 18-13 score, has to have gone on for like 4.5 hours. And in DSL fashion, the DSL sox have less hits than runs.

Pache is one of the best defensive centerfield prospects in baseball. Rutherford is a likely left fielder. That's a huge difference.

That is very annoying. I would not trade for him. Money? Woulda risked it.

At the very least, doesn't sound like it's too money-related.

First off, obviously I wrote that on a phone, my goodness. It may depend on how depressed his signing would have been pre-draft (not sure it would have been), but between him being paid market and the decline he showed in september, we just aren't talking about the same Kimbrel we were 3-4 years ago.

Also it's clearly not helping teams keep their talent, it's only benefit would be player salary suppression.

The same market that puts Bruce at a random A+ guy is what puts Santana at a not very good prospect.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2018/08/2019-20-mlb-free-agents.html this had him as a free agent this upcoming offseason.

Oh, dude, I wouldn't give anything like that for santana. If you don't get him at the right price you move on.

The interesting thing to see when he arrives is how much he has progressed. Kiley mentioned he didn't even make area codes last summer in a not particularly competitive area. But the BA writeup and hostetler mentioned significant improvement in bat this senior year, but against crap competition. He's raw regardless, but will be interesting to see how his progression translates.

He's going to be 30 with one good year. If he's bad you move on. If he's good you get production.

That's why he's a stop gap.

Well, no, that would be a 2nd rounder.

Right, the velo is fine, but the problem is he ditched his 4 seamer and is just throwing a not very good two seamer (it doesn't drop enough to be effective). He is really not very good right now and needs to find a different way to get hitters out.

Saying Basabe will never hit 20 homers is crazy. He may never make big leagues, but there is definitely a big league version of him that hits 20 home runs.

I'm not sure I want to buy a long term OFer unless they are elite. I may just want to see if juiced ball domingo santana gets a year of stuff and see what becomes available.

I think Bumgarner could have a late career resurgence. Though, Farhan Zaidi is there so I'd expect better info to get to Bumgarner, and maybe he's just stubborn. But I hate the sinker/cutter mix he has moved to, and maybe there is a lack of control to it, but he just pounds the middle of the zone with them. Everything is down, and it diminishes his curveball. He still has great spin, it just seems like he overreacted to the loss of velo on his fastball.

They are never particularly good, but last year was a special kind of bad where they graduated nearly all of their 2016 class and had basically no 2017 class. The 2018 class had some more volume to it so this may be more interesting. Whether it ends up in wins, who knows.

BA put out their 2020 mock and the white sox aren't even on it so that's a kinda nice thing: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2020-mlb-mock-draft-way-too-early-edition/

it's kind of his thing, that and petrified fear of a player acquired being athletic as that may mean KW chose him. OTOH, lists are fun.

derek dietrich