southsider2k5

High school draft picks almost never play the years they are drafted anymore, with the loss of rookie ball post draft. If you aren't an early pick, you might not even break camp the next year, and instead play complex ball until a spot opens up. As a 17th round pick out of HS, I am not surprised he hasn't played yet, even if they see something in him.

Exactly. That's why it surprises me they never tried him in the OF to see if they could either actually use him, or build some surplus value. Mediocre bats who have no real defensive position don't really get much of a return. Honestly, it's the fact of the rest of the roster being so bad, that he looks decent in comparison.

That's fair. I mean he can throw out a crazy number and try to scare teams off, threaten not to sign with them etc, but yeah, they have to believe he will go back for his senior year.

I don't.

Rutherford's stock was already falling, and we tried to catch the falling knife.

Look, Sosa has no trade value. He's the exact type of guy that returns nothing on the open market, and that is pretty close to what we got back. Honestly, while I don't understand why we handled the guy the way we did, doing absolutely nothing to give him a chance to succeed, I am glad they finally got something for him.

And in 10 years as a member of the Chicago White Sox organization, almost every single year of that time falling under the purview of either Chris Getz as the head of player dev, Ast Gm, or GM, he never was able to fix any of those same flaws.

It is absolutely absurd that you can see what has happened in Phoenix with his families investment in the Suns, including a WILD spending spree, and already be attempting to speak in absolute certainty about something like this, especially since the whisper was that the Murakami signing was because of Ishbia's checkbook. This whole argument is patently absurd when you look at the current 45 year long owner of the White Sox and realize that he LITERALLY used OPM to purchase the White Sox, has never been a majority owner of the White Sox, and it's never been HIS cash that did anything for this team in anything but a minority sense of the word. Jerry's wealth was built by pooling other people's money into real estate investments, including the CHICAGO WHITE SOX! Jerry is the definition of private equity. He came closer than any owner in the history of Chicago came to moving this franchise out of Chicago, and has literally stomped this original AL franchise into the lowest earning franchise IN ALL OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL. Ishbia doesn't have to be better than every other owner, he just has to be better than Jerry to seriously improve the status of this once proud franchise. Literally every nutjob fear tactic you keep using to try to scare people about Ishbia, HAS ALREADY HAPPENED! If you want the team to succeed, you should recognize this. It's like Roy Kohn is your ghostwriter using the old "accuse everyone else of whatever it is you are doing" tactic.

This looks like the definition of a lottery ticket, based on a couple of potential plus tools, and a very athletic kid. I get Sosa had pretty much zero market value, but eh.

Apparently going into his senior year, he was a pretty highly thought of CB in football as well, connected to some lower d1 programs. https://www.mlb.com/news/blue-jays-2025-draft-day-2

I see another source that has him at 5'10" 175. BlueJaysNationBlue Jays select Jordan Rich 502nd overall<p>With their 17th-round pick, the Blue Jays have selected Jordan Rich, a prep outfielder from American Heritage School in Florida. Rich stands at 5&#8217;10&#8221;, 175 lbs. The outfielder is from Ho

5'7" 140? Holy crap!

It was inevitable. I guess we will see what this kid has for us. Was he an overslot pick?

It totally depends on how much they save on Roch, and how much LeBron is looking for. If the Sox can save a couple of million on the Roch deal, plus they have about another million in their 5% overage, they could push their #41 pick somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.5 million if they committed all of those dollars to one guy. That's about the slot value of the 14th pick. Does he fall far enough to where that is more than he could get in slot value from his drafting team? Well, that is the question.

This could be an interesting guy to try to push down and pay to play, depending on how far down he goes, and how much they save with Roch.

Depends on if you get the disinterested Peterson or not.

He missed the window twice when he could have gotten way more for him. THAT'S why this wasn't a great trade. It's letting your stock go from an all time high, to a 52 week low, and then selling.

Better than him throwing it into CF.

Hagen Smith

FEAR MY POWER!

Exit velocity 40.4.

Dude missed a ton of ST in general.

Chuck Garfein is say it is ONLY Schultz, and NOT Ant man.

Two words. Ol. Yeller.

Why not?