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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.

The Bessssss approves.

It could still happen any day.

Having Rodon at the front of the rotation makes it incrementally easier for each starter down the line. Putting the extra pressure on Lopez to be the #1 already, or asking Kopech to do it from Day 1? Unless the return is Sale or Q like, pass.

He's already had plenty of injury problems before this year.