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Interested in who you are most excited to follow this year? I think this may be the most watchable Charlotte has been since the first half of 2017 when Gio, Lopez and Moncada were on it. For me it's Kannapolis. I'm most interested in guys that we don't get to see much, so to see a group of our younger prospects like Sosa, Zangari, Curbelo, Bush, Nunez, that's fun.

He was 94-96mph at one point early on in college. Hopefully he can find that velocity again.

That’s probably it! Thanks guys.

It’s just a video of him being a goof but I was curious who the other player was in it because he looked super young and I didn’t recognize him.

Uhh don’t know where to put this. Anyone follow Robert on Instagram? What Sox player is Ruddy_jr06?

Since he reaggravated it I wouldn't be surprised if he gets 10 days.

I am being real pessimistic at 60-64. I think there will be some brightspots but I am not sure how this team will handle if it has poor health among its starting pitchers. I think it could have some decent .500 level ball like last year but one month where all of our pitching is aligned in a tailspin and just tanks the year.

My guess is if its two Minaya may be added, otherwise I'd guess Nicky.

Does Santana need to go on IL? Wasn't he a minor league deal?

Our catchers have been demoted to sixth spot. Change.

I guess they can use DH.

Indeed, college pitchers drafted in the top ten do have a high floor.

Weird.

Carlos Rodon is in the big leagues Carson Fulmer has been in the bullpen Burdi was on verge of big leagues before TJS Collins is in AAA three years later (and practicing at 1b, hmm!?) Our 2017 draft pick tore his achilles twice and that's quite a fast turnaround regardless.

Yes, the fangraphs article that Cameron wrote around their trade acquisitions. In discussing draft and international free agents, you can only claim they are targeting high ceiling players in the abstract. Indeed, I don't think we are dead last, I do think we are more aggressive than the Royals and Orioles. Huzzah.

Again, you can only claim they are higher ceiling when you view them in isolation and pretend other organizations and draftees do not exist. The white sox target high ceiling guys? Okay, in comparison to what organization? Where would you rank them in aggressively pursuing these incredibly high ceiling, low floor players.

That he had a high likelihood of still finding time in the majors based off his bat and approach is what high floor means.

They drafted zack burdi in 2016. They have overwhelmingly drafted out of college the last 5 years.

Collins had a mature plate approach that made him safe because people said he had an mlb bat that could play as a first baseman. Do me a favor, take the 34 players drafted in the 2016 mlb draft first and comp rounds and rank them from highest floor to lowest floor then tell me that the white sox drafted a high ceiling, low floor player.

They can sign 10 guys for "250" now, it's not the pool that we were hoping to get after two years on the sidelines.

I am talking about their organic collection of talent in the draft and international free agency over twenty years. It's great we acquired some high ceiling talent (they HAD to), but we had to give up established mlb stars to do so, because they failed to create that themselves at a level remotely keeping up with the other mlb teams in the league.

This is a big part of the story, absolutely (I would say even more so with Broadway, passing on Poreda), and you can see the shift get better starting with the CBA change. But it goes to the idea with them of if you are going to be limited, you have to get some production. Tons of mature players that could get you some backend depth with the core that was in majors. I think there was zero chance they could ask jerry to pay a tax to just sign twenty 16 year olds, but to go over for an 18 year old from cuba that has played professionally and shown stateside? Much easier to do.

I would have loved the sox to have signed 7-8 "tatis's", i.e. 700k+ guys this draft. That we have a 2.5 million hole makes me that instead of loading up on some top 30 guys after two years off, we are going all in on a mature, limited guy just because it's more likely production.

The white sox overarching philosophy has been college over high school, which is very much about higher floor certainty. In the KW and then hahn era, they have veered very safe players save for three drafts: Tim Anderson, Courtney Hawkins and Kris Honel. I think you could argue sale, but at the least people knew he would be a immediate bullpen contributor. Keenyn Walker/Jared Mitchell are examples of high floor to me. College athletes with plus run and fielding that if they can just learn to hit a little get you a backup outfielder. Kyle Mccullugh, Lance Broadway. Royce Ring. Rodon, Fulmer, Burdi. All pitchers that were expected to move up quickly and at least have big league futures in bullpen (more for Rodon). Hugely limited ceilings for mccullough and Broadway. Beckham, Burger, Madrigal, Collins, Fields, college producing bats with mature approaches and limited bodies. I'm glad they have moncada, but he was already near the bigs. That they had to trade elite, cost controlled major league talent to finally get the types of players that Moncada, Cease, Kopech are should have been a huge sign of the types of risks they should be taking in the draft. They have not taken them still. Burdi is the classic example. Finally they had 3 top 50 picks where they could bundle up some money for a high schooler in comp round 1, they pay slot for a college reliever missing on players like Trammel and Kieboom.

In what world is this true?