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Kanny is always pretty bad. NC mountain weather is pretty unpredictable.

Good play is contagious with young teams. Some big plays from engel, great pitching, the whole team seems energized. Nice to see, and see them having fun.

Man, so glad with two men and nobody out we always have to decide between providing the pitcher with an out right away and moving runners over or screwing the batter putting them in worst position possible to have a good at bat.

DAYYYUUMMMMMMMM ENGEL

My argument had nothing to do with the draft. My argument is that body type and power are not even close to the two top predictors I would choose for success in a position player. Madrigal has a number of plus skills, including defense, baserunning and a plus plus skill in bat-to-ball skills. I will take players that have multiple plus skills and high baseball IQ even if they have a below average skill and non-ideal body type.

It's so bizarre to me that in this MLB with all of the different makeups the star players have, people can still feel convinced that they know the ceilings of players. We really still doing little infielder = eckstein? Last year all I heard was Albies was basically Yolmer Sanchez. We have a super star that's a 6'8" (judge) monster bookended by a 5'9 centerfielder (betts). Smooth athletic powerhitting MI (baez) next to pudgy short corner infielders (Ramirez, and guess whose having the best season?. A 5'7 batting champion (altuve) And a prototypical golden child (Trout). Don't tell me you know what these guys are capable of. Madrigal wants every ounce from a baseball career. I'll bet on that guy.

If Madrigal hits a 780 OPS he'd rank 8th as a 2b. Now let's do all of the other baseball stuff he looks to be excellent at.

Knock on wood, but I'm just hoping all of our HS guys can get out of this year healthy. Year ending injuries in those years 18/19 recently have set back some promising players.

I do think I'm leaning toward Hamilton and Burdi as the only bullpen arms I think I'd rank. I'm not sure how much I am to trust players like Johnson/Burr. But I hope I'm wrong because sox will be getting huge huge value out of their bullpen that they can spend elsewhere.

Nicky Madronico

sixth rounder cabrera weaver - not on the list. 4th rounder lency delgado - not on the list. Bush has been awesome, but it was not so obvious he was better than either of those two during draft, and knowing based on his first few weeks that he was a top 30 guy is hard to do. I think there is too strong a tendency to only want prospect rankings to confirm how you see things and not learn from the surprises when there are differences.

My keyboard was about to burst into flames before I actually read your first sentence and realized you were talking about the 15-30 list. I think sox fans are overrating these bullpen arms, or at least counting the chickens before they hatch. I sincerely hope they work out and am interested in watching it. I'm on this Sosa/Mieses/Comas train. I like that they aren't striking out, and are staying healthy at a young age. I feel like one is gonna be a top ten player pretty soon.

I just remember an article from last year about how Kopech and Adams were watching another minor league game on their offday just to analyze the pitching. While stone has been critical, that "he's a thrower not a pitcher stuff" is still relevant and I would just identify the fact that he threw very, very little innings prior to being on the white sox. I think that he wants to be the best, that he has introduced different pitches, all signs that he works at his craft.

Sox have had this knack every august of putting together a solid string of games and then facing a "struggling" yankees team at home, and then putting on just incredibly listless games like this. No matter the players, no matter the manager, same show this decade.

9 up 9 down

Quality title

Also has nothing to do with the post you are quoting.

Nice.

Covey is just going to destroy this lineup. Will be surprised if Yankees can get a hit imo

Especially risky with an ailing Tim Anderson

https://www.mlb.com/whitesox/prospects/stats/affiliates DSL on a bit of a tear, win 4-2

I'd probably rank fulmer in 20-30. I don't think he'll be good, but he does have some wicked stuff and sometimes those guys click on a time frame all their own.

They traded away first round pick corey coleman last night for a 7th round pick. https://twitter.com/MySportsUpdate/status/1026279121498906624

Very positive practice tweets today from the media. Sounds like the offense is starting to build on itself. Re: the bears