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As a big Madrigal fan, I feel the need to drum this beat over and over but the Madrigal of today will not be that exciting to me. You have to believe in this kids makeup and contact skills to translate into something greater. That doesn't mean 20 home run power, but it does mean getting the most out of that contact. I keep bringing him up, but look at how willians astudillo translated incredible contact into increasing power. Hopefully it doesn't take him to age 27, but he has a lot more skills than la tortuga.

Don’t stop get it get it

Doesn't seem that different than sonny gray's deal to me.

He's still getting there. Big thing was that his entire career was not going to be what the first two months of april is. He'll need to tap into more power, but he's walking a bit more. I'm not sure he'll tap into the full power until a few years in as he better at identifying what he can drive. But I will still bank on that when we've heard reports on players with uber baseball IQ like this they tend to do and find what it takes to evolve to the most effective versions of themselves.

I'd trade for Aaron Sanchez.

Madrigal Triple off the wall.

Man I don't know. Bare minimum I'd say Adolfo, Dunning, Bush could get it close.

Cease is such a boss

June was the timeline

Right, he's a "who knows?" fun follow after his Robert-like run in great falls.

A guy like Tiquan Forbes is a good example. His power will be sapped in Birmingham (he already isn't a power guy), but since arriving he has greatly improved his walk rate while only moderately increasing his k-rate. That's success in birmingham, and if he keeps that up you promote him and see if power arrives with an easier park and MLB ball in AAA. There's no reason a tougher park for power means you need to start striking out at a 40% clip. That's just better pitching and players. Then you have someone like Mendick. His numbers weren't great but he survived, still hit double-digit homers, and showed that he has moderate but real power that may make him a useful utility guy in the bigs.

Bad hitters yes. Tim Anderson hit .312 in Birmingham. Eloy hit .326 with over .900 OPS. It's a big challenge but it doesn't ruin hitters.

https://www.milb.com/scores/whitesox/2019-04-30 Cease / Zack Lewis / Davis Martin Martin had a great game last time, let's see if he builds on it.

But Jones was really good!

Also a lot of these movies are targeted to american audiences, giving english accents creates an aura of foreignness without needing to actually create a foreign tongue/accent.

Also...man Paulie's 2010-2012 seasons were good. That 2010 team was so fun despite not making the playoffs and Manny Ramirez being on them.

The aging curve was much more forgiving the decade before, so it didn't seem that scary. When you had a bunch of guys in their mid thirties at the top of their game, it's not that big a stretch to see Konerko still there.

AA is the league man. It's legit hard, and if they survive there you can pretty much count on seeing them in bigs in some capacity.

I pretty much agree with this. If he succeeds in AA, and I mean really succeeds, not his w-s numbers but .500 slugging, > .330 obp, then it's time. With the major league balls in AAA it's just a bandbox. He'll learn more in bigs.

The hard part about making big moves mid-season is they'll have risers but they don't drop people too much. If he's back up to his old 15-30 range where he was based on potential that feels right to me

Can someone point to me where the safe spot of the castle was?

Maybe. I think he's just going to rake.

Bravo. So we have Robert / Rutherford / Gonzalez / Basabe to cycle through while Adolfo is on IL. When Adolfo returns, I'm guessing Basabe is promoted.

I dont' know, it would have removed some bad Yolmer errors. And even though Moncada looks promising at 3rd, Machado >>>> Moncada there. But yeah it's not a playoff team, though, man, what a trash division.

The nice thing about getting athletic shortstops is you can plug them in where you need them if you are competitive. Think of Trea Turner being a LF starting out with Nats. The reason I brought up the Dodgers is for a while people kept saying they should trade from surplus, instead they just...played all of them. And that depth really has improved their odds to win the division each year - through injuries and sub par performances from certain players. You can't do the same thing with a corner only outfielder or 1b. And really, Madrigal - if he was a starter - would be the guy I'd move all over as he has the mindset for it.