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QUOTE (flavum @ Oct 27, 2017 -> 10:36 PM) Jimenez hr tonight (3) https://mobile.twitter.com/Gigantes_Cibao/s...084878773276673 Ya got me! Was just about to come and post that. What more can he do... I think this kid will be the best Sox hitter since Konerko. Perhaps since...Big Frank himself. I can see 310/380/600 lines in his prime. At worst he's 270/350/550. At worst.

Article from the Trib: a lazy, s*** piece that just summarizes what the Dominican paper said, but it's Eloy content: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseb...1026-story.html

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Oct 25, 2017 -> 09:05 PM) Eloy getting the night off for White Sox dugout clown legend, Moises Sierra. Good article on Eloy from the Dominican. My spanish is bad but the summary is that the competition level is high, he enjoys playing in front of his countryman, family, and friends, and that he probably won't ever be back, cause, uh, he's the besss and he'll be in MLB late next summer. www.quisqueyanosports.com/2017/10/lidom-eloy-jimenez-no-esta-seguro-de.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 23, 2017 -> 05:22 PM) No kidding. I don't think anyone else knew that, just as no one else realized that Tatis was good yet. Can we get back to Eloy yet? Was named player of the week for the 1st week. Nuestro jugador Eloy Jiménez, fue escogido como el Pelotero Estrella de la Semana.

QUOTE (flavum @ Oct 22, 2017 -> 06:32 PM) Homer tonight doubled in his 2nd AB. Dude is hot fire.

QUOTE (Tony @ Oct 20, 2017 -> 04:40 PM) Given the Sox track record with developing hitters, it should make us cautious, but bizarrely I feel like Eloy legit can’t miss, like I’ll be SHOCKED if he isn’t at least a 3.0 WAR hitter at some point in his career. Not even the Sox can screw this one up.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Oct 20, 2017 -> 03:17 PM) What's Eloy's defense like in the outfield? Will he go to LF or will Avi move to LF when Eloy is called up? Great to hear Eloy is mashing at such a high level of competition. I'm starting to wonder if he has a strong ST the Sox put him in Charlotte to start the '18 season. Adequate tools, but nothing special. Probably something like 30/45 on the scouting scale for his glove and 45/55 for his arm. That said, if he's hitting 300/380/580 nobody is really going to give a f*** about being -5 runs in RF/LF over 162 games.

QUOTE (Nokona @ Oct 20, 2017 -> 01:21 PM) He's on the team for the next year (in august) I think so. He's going to tear up AA, get promoted to Charlotte around June, then spend about 1.5 months there before coming to the big club.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 20, 2017 -> 01:13 PM) That's interesting I guess I didn't think about what level winter league competition was at. He's currently the most searched minor league player on Fangraphs FWIW.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 19, 2017 -> 02:09 PM) I enjoy hashing over Tatis as much as the next guy but I like to keep my Eloy threads on Eloy, the most exciting sox prospect I can remember. Something is seriously wrong in your head if you see that blurb and stopped reading after Tatis. FFS Eloy Jimenez is maybe the most exciting hitting prospect (no, he is, without a doubt) the Sox have had since Big Frank. GET EXCITED. He's crushing AAAA level pitching in the DWL when he could just be sitting at home resting on his incredible MiLB season.

Cubs Twitter is pretty pissed. What a grade trade by Hahn. Wish Q the best but man he has not had the impact they hoped.

Eloy is cooling off, he's down to .529 average. http://www.baseballamerica.com/minors/base...0ILO1fKOhmuG.97

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Oct 19, 2017 -> 01:26 AM) Good grief! Has that ball landed yet? He might have taken out a satellite with that shot. on pure results + physical talent this kid is the most exciting prospect I've followed. He's electric and the results match the hype. I sorta remember Frank and Robin and Fernandez, but not really.

It's time for some Eloy Jimenez porn: https://twitter.com/SoxOn35th/status/919593705056718850 He's like 6-12 in his first 3 games with a HR and 3 walks. The league is usually considered AAAA quality.

QUOTE (2005thxfrthmmrs @ Oct 18, 2017 -> 02:20 PM) This is a fun argument, which one of the our pitchers should be crowned the minor league pitcher of the year, in all of baseball.. winner.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Oct 15, 2017 -> 07:49 PM) ATVs and snowmobiles can be such bad news. Best wishes to his family. Especially with young men. Kid I knew growing up left himself paralyzed going too fast on a ATV and flipping with it landing on him. RIP Daniel, just awful to die so young and leaving a family behind.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Oct 10, 2017 -> 03:41 PM) Was thinking about next years lineup and looking at some defensive numbers for Sox players. Carlos Sanchez is an elite defensive 3B. Of 3B with 350 innings played (Carlos only played 393 innings there this year), Carlos ranks as follows: UZR - 13th UZR/150 - 1st RZR - 1st DRS - 6th He still needs to increase improve his offensive profile to jump up into the next tier, but if he can play that type of defensive at 3B over the course of a 162 game season and stay around 95 wRC+, that should equate to a 3-4 win player. It should definitely be his job to lose next season and probably until Burger is ready or a FA stud is signed. Really good development for the rebuild though. The IF looks good next year. Around the horn you have Sanchez, Anderson, Moncada, Abreu. That's a pretty solid IF. I think TA will play a run neutral SS next year, which is basically what he did the last 50 odd games this year once he started to pick up the pieces from his friend's death.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Oct 10, 2017 -> 12:01 PM) Agree about Albuquerque gone and Putnam re-signed to a minor league deal. The numbers look pretty close although I think Avi's projection is a tad lite. I think Avi gets 8M and deserves it. Yea I know the arb process is moving away from traditional stats (where avi stands out) but there is no way the Sox low ball him like and go to arb. I'd bet they offer him 7.5 million, he counters 9 million, and they agree around 8 and avoid arb. The sox rarely if ever go to arb, right?

Sale blowing it, lol.

QUOTE (Leonard Zelig @ Oct 9, 2017 -> 01:50 PM) Berman sounded disappointed when Damon struck out. It's disgusting how hard Berman is rooting for the Sawx.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 6, 2017 -> 11:04 AM) I don't think it really matters if a teammate had a problem with him, he was annoying to fans for good reason. Like him breaking his foot "jumping off a truck". When Kopech actually is, you know, at the show and he misses games for doing that, I'm sure people will be annoyed then too. I think this thread is dumb, but so is the "you can't hate sale unless you also hated everyone ever that also did things!" Yea with Sale it was a cumulative thing. Breaking his foot in spring training stupidly horsing around. Helping to escalate the La Roche situation by taking the side of La Roche and publicly spatting with the GM. Cutting up the jerseys. And all that is separate from the very real phenomenon, which we all saw, of him getting too amped up on the mound when he doesn't have his best stuff, over throwing, and making his stuff even worse because he's missing his spots by a good foot or more. He's a red ass. I played the same way and although Sale has more talent in his left toe than I do in my whole body I can tell you I rarely played well angry.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Oct 5, 2017 -> 10:10 PM) He's a spaz that over-throws when the adrenaline flows, he misses his spots and gets hit hard, with experience and late season throttling, this may be avoidable. It's hard to tell how much is mental or physical, the total package just comes with this kind of pitcher. yea you nailed it. said it perfectly really. if he has a flaw, it's that mentally, in tough spots, he over throws. It's obvious to long time observers. We saw it when he was here.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Oct 5, 2017 -> 01:03 PM) Yeah, I forgot about that. Or, I did a good job of erasing the image from my mind. Might be a good off season topic, most reviled former Sox. I'd have to put La Roche up there near the top.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 5, 2017 -> 01:54 PM) If the White Sox didn't see Tyler Saladino as a part of the team this year (as in 18), he would already have been gone. They didn't hesitate to dump other guys in September and in October, why would Saladino be different? I'm not sure why he hasn't already been cut loose. They aren't doing Tyler any favors keeping him around when he's buried behind 2-3 guys for playing time. Maybe they think he has a modicum of trade value if he can prove his back issues are behind him and they can flip him as part of a package next July.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Oct 4, 2017 -> 08:10 PM) Catcher is such a critical position without offense even considered. Dude can take all the time he needs IMO. Glad it seems he works his ass off like Flo yea no rush. this year he needs to show something with the bat, but defensively he's making good progress. And yea, better to be a mediocre hitting catcher than corner player, big time.