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Moncada puts up an .850 OPS and makes the all star team. He out OPS's Jimenez this year. At some point, Hamilton is the closer. Cease is up in mid August. Covey is sent down by mid May. Lenyn Sosa is in the FS top 15 by mid-season. Luis Gonzalez is a September call up. Jay, Alonzo, Colome, and Herrera are all gone by the deadline. Guillen gets fired before the end of the season. Sox finish 2nd with 76 wins in the ALC.

I don't know if you want to hear it or not, but at that point you aren't too much further to Indiana. There are a ton of great towns just over the state line connecting in via the south shore and the Metra electric line. Your property taxes alone will be insanely cheaper. On a primary home tax caps are at 1%. So on a 150k house, you'll never pay more than $1500 a year for your property taxes.

32 - INSP, probably.

I am going to go on record as saying 76-86.

Let's hear your official predictions... how many games will the White Sox win in 2019?

Considering Buehler was picked 24th, color me unimpressed.

Seems low, but I will accept that.

He would have gotten a shot to play if could stay healthy.

Even with the 10 day DL there is something going on. No one is making up an injury and sitting out for 10 days to get Eloy on this roster.

Why would John Jay voluntarily give up his spot on the roster?

Yolmer Sanchez was putting up better numbers in the majors than this kid was in Cuba at a similar age. Somehow I don't find that a good thing.

Also bits on Santana and Jay.

Good. So now you agree that we seem to be willing to spend half our money on a guy who can't hit.

I am going off of scouting reports. You are going off of what? Contrarianism? Arguementativeness? Great work.

The 1st line here is everything. Instead we are looking at a D first SS to headline the class.

I have yet to talk about his ranking. I am more interested in his skill set.

Tatis had a ceiling!

Absurd is this being the centerpiece of 2 years of work.

If they gave up half their dollars in this session for an Ozzie Guillen ceiling, I don't see how you can be anything but disappointed, especially if they planned ahead to do it.

Your assumption is that the White Sox knew he was going to defect and clear exactly when he did so they punted on their 1st full class in two years for this? This would be worse, not better.

With two years to prepare, I expected better than a no hit defensive specialist to headline things. This is pretty much a worst case scenario.

Very cool to see them earn this. If you start getting big returns out of these kids, that is great news for the system as a whole.