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Its pretty darned exciting to see one of the kids we drafted doing so well to start his career. I am excited, but I really want to see him repeat to some level at AA.

Kopech has 126 IP today. He has probably 6 starts left in the season, assuming he goes every 5th turn, and not every 5th day. Even if he averages 5 IP in those starts, you are looking at 155 IP essentially. Another 26 IP next year is another half inning per start on average. As you can see with Kopech, as the season has gone on, the number of innings he has gone, has been going up. Post ASB he is averaging 6 1/3 per start, and 6 2/3 in his 3 August starts. I feel like 180 is a pretty comfortable number for next season.

33 starts at 5 innings is 165 IP. With his control coming around the way it has, I don't think 6 IP is that crazy.

I think Kopech will be in the neighborhood of 180 IP next year. He isn't going to be that far short of it this year

I don't think anyone really enjoys watching Jerry make money, in fact some are downright jealous and hateful about it. But at the end of the day, you also have to recognize that this is a business, and these things do have real world implications, so being aware of what is going on is also a key indicator as to what the team will and will not be able to do in the near term.

No chance. He would essentially be a DH/1B as a Rule 5 pick, and there is no way someone takes up a roster spot for a whole season for that.

You try to make him a catcher as long as you can. The bat will play anywhere. If they can get him even to a passable catcher, that is HUGE.

The White Sox have already turned a minor league Rule 5 pick into at least a back up caliber catcher. If he can work through the kinks of pitch calling, framing, and defense (which can be taught/learned) he could be a major league starting level catcher. Narvaez already has value with where he is at today on a major league roster with the absolute catching desert that exists in baseball today.

If you weren't ready for hard times and debates about the service time and 40 man roster, you clearly haven't been paying attention to what a rebuild looks like in this form.

It is almost like people who wanted a rebuild so bad, weren't ready for a rebuild.

This year for Cease is what Kopech did in the last half of 2016 and the first half of 2017. Cease is also at basically 120 IP on the season, which is already close to 30 IP over his previous season high. Kopech has already built up to 134 IP last year, meaning 150 to 160 is about where he should be this year. Cease is about to hit his limit this year. If I had to guess, he opens 2019 at AA, with a promotion to AAA around the beginning of July, putting him on pace for Chicago in early to mid 2020.

Amazing that we didn't play any bad teams for the first 100 games of the season.

This is what the organization wants to see. Progress.

It was. Sadly he was worse at 3rd than LF.

Didn't Lee stay at 3B until the majors?

I am not putting Rivera in a real tier until he hits like this in AA.

Why is that that literally only OBP seems to matter?

Robert might be the one guy in the system who has a ceiling close to as high as Eloy. Need to see him play 140 games to really get an idea of how well he will translate to American baseball though.

I don't see anyone in the Sox system that has a chance of challenging Tim Anderson as the starter at SS.