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Weird they spelled Mitch Moreland so badly.

I shoulda went harder than pretty good chance. What weak sauce on my part.

For those who work at companies that sell things online, you know how much even the tiniest bit of friction in the purchase process can affect sales. An extra click, a poorly placed button, etc. The buyers aren't lazy or stupid, but it's easy to get distracted or something come up that prevents a percentage each time. But you work to remove that friction because you want people to buy the stuff. But with voting apparently there's no amount of scorn that can't be applied to certain Americans that consistently get more and more friction thrown in their way. Many will overcome it, some will have something come up that causes them to miss a step along the way. There needs to be a right to vote. This is nonsense. You can protect voting integrity in the front or the back of the process, you throw it in the front specifically to make it difficult. Why on earth would that be the preferred solution for the Government, except gamesmanship.

Pretty good chance one of those players is the sox pick next year.

Well there's good and great. The US losing influence is good for China, but ultimately the mechanism that is accomplishing it may very well turn out bad for them.

I'm not so sure this is great for China. China was dumb to let it get to this point. NK is reluctantly dependent on China. What if NK does start implementing economic reforms and seeks out money to flow in. At best, they have an ally even more difficult than Pakistan as their neighbor, but one capable of becoming more powerful if they open up.

Man this start by Jose Rodriguez in DSL may be worth paying attention to. That's quite a few xbh. Today a two run single. If he keeps hitting for power that will be interesting.

I'm the opposite, I'm not worried about him being a 1b until the sox move him. Currently, both the white sox and online scouts would say Collins is currently not an MLB catcher. They disagree whether he will be. As long as the sox think he is, you just have to wait. The projection of positions is not an exact science, you just gotta hope he keeps improving.

Yeah actually would like to know how this ranks to previous years. Feels like typically 2-3 per league made it, this year felt like it was 6 per team with Charlotte the laggards.

Sucks to get shut out but that's what the indians have been doing when they don't let you get to much of their bullpen.

So he decided to start talking about baseball during a baseball game? What an absolute child.

This is nitpicky but it's less that we were restricted in signing good players and more that our limbo with Robert prevented us from establishing contracts at all. On J2 signing day, we signed 2 players total. I forgot which team (probably padres), but a team over the limit still signed dozens of players under 300k. Our uncertainty with Robert prevented them from being able to negotiate and basically resulted in a lost year. Most of those guys were signed in february/march.

Incredibly frustrated by his inconsistency. Not gonna be convinced by a start or two that he’s turned a corner. He’s gonna need a lot for me to believe he’s not just an inning away from forgetting it all and falling apart.

I’m sure Jirschele will take it.

Wow awesome news.

What a series of great news reports today.

Jimmy does still have like 3 properties in Chicago.

They listed him as a 1b, and there is only one other 1b ahead of him. That ranking is a pretty nice recommendation of his bat.

Yep. Kinda crazy the staying power those teams have held over the nba culture despite a bunch of super teams since. With all the fracturing of media and attention spans since then may be the last "legendary" team that everyone globally has as a benchmark.

The difference between 116 and a 130 or 180 prospect is probably much smaller as to be meaningless. But they are making a list, and clearly longenhagen saw and heard reports of Burdi that made him notable, and he's kept him here despite the injury.

He did start a throwing program. But has yet to be moved into affiliate ball. My typical mode for this is no news is bad news, but sox also don't seem that concerned about providing detailed information on minor league injuries.

Basabe's doing great. But for these lists he's competing against every prospect, not just white sox ones. The good news is if he does what he's doing now in Birmingham he's a top 50 prospect. Birmingham will decide all these guys fates. So I'm not that worried about rankings for guys still in Aball or lower.

Is there any specific signing people are looking at as difficult? Would Carranza be one?

Same for Basabe. It's basically his third year in Hi-A, he should be doing what he's doing (though I'm very happy with it!). Adolfo is obviously in hi-a, but the big news with him is he kept his improved walk rate he found after july and actually improved upon that at a higher level. I'm not sure why the TJ should be a concern, he's not a pitcher and it would be shocking to me if the TJ brought his arm all the way down to below average.

I'd be pretty scared to. Let's save our bullets for CoveY Young