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9 homers in 41+ innings now for Diaz...

Machado's perfectly capable of playing SS. Then you would have Moncada at 3B, Machado at SS, Madrigal at 2B and Tim Anderson and Luis Robert in the OF...a MUCH better team with a true middle of the order hitter at the peak of his career instead of Jose Abreu.

Well, who exactly is to blame for that? Anderson is at 7.9bWAR and 5.8fWAR for his 4 years with the White Sox. I guess you can divide by 3.66 if you want. Still not going to get to 2.

Well, considering he represents the only 2.0-3.0ish position player we've developed internally within the last half decade...not sure what that says. Nothing good. (Someone will mention Yolmer, but that's clearly not the case as of 2019.) Let's just call Omar Narvaez the Franmil Reyes of catching, then...to put it in proper perspective. His bat is creating X amount of positive value, compared to those numbers coming from LF/RF/1B/DH.

We never needed Manny Machado...somewhere I read that. Well, somehow Luis Robert got over his constant injury problems, but doesn't seem like Moncada's going to be so lucky. Is this the same one as last year...or earlier this season? Impossible to keep track he's had so many "day to day" situations since joining the White Sox. Yolmer Sanchez, like Adam Engel...gets an 8th cat life. https://www.fangraphs.com/standings/playoff-odds The good news is we were just passed by the Mariners in "win expectancy" and that's without factoring in Moncada missing 2-3 weeks. 6th pick in the first round projected

He had that promotion for 1 year and 3 months before anyone caught on. Ironically, of the 23 players/parents/2 buscones involved or implicated, pretty sure Andre Rienzo was the only one that ever made it to the major leagues. I remember Anderson Gomes and Luis Silverio. The total amount skimmed, $440,781.00. Enough to screw up our Dominican operations for a decade...not that it was so productive compared to other organizations at the time.

Shhhhhhhh. Don't tell, KyYl E. Coyote... Signed, the Roadrunner P.S. Notice the list below, YOU WILL FIND ALL FOUR SMALLER BUDGET AL CENTRAL TEAMS LISTED...NO WHITE SOX (darned that Dave Wilder and his CLUB BURN in Phoenix, that's where the Sox money ended up)...to quote Thad Bosley, that's what has happened to White Sox fans for 38 years since JR and EE purchased the team. "The Dominican Summer League is vital to the development of our Latin players, especially the kids we're signing at 16, 17 years old," said Louis Eljaua, special assistant to the president and general manager of the Cubs. "It's their first taste of pro ball. We try to accomplish a lot of things here at the academy, not just in the Dominican Summer League Season, but throughout the year. But this is probably the most important part of our year down here with the players, the academy, because it's an actual professional season." Every club has at least one team in the 72-game regular season Dominican Summer League that starts in June and ends in late August. There are also playoffs. The Cubs, Cardinals, Dodgers, Indians, Brewers, Phillies, Rangers, Rays, Red Sox, Royals and Tigers have so many players that they have two teams in the DSL. Most players in the DSL are 17 to 22 years old. The best prospects graduate to the Arizona Rookie League or the Gulf Coast League in Florida then Spring Training, Extended Spring Training and lower level Minor League teams. "The Summer League is about the games, for me, and I think a lot of organizations feel the same way," said Dave Keller, the Cubs field coordinator in the Dominican Republic. "It's not about the volume of work before the games. We want to see what these guys can do in the games because most of them don't train for the games, they train for the tryout to get signed. We want to see how they act and react to situations, what their instincts are like. That's where the teaching comes in."

Jay and Castillo won't be released. The White Sox have too much respect/loyalty for veterans...as long as they're contributing SOMETHING positive. With Santana and Alonso, they really had no other choice. And it would just make Hahn look dumber, and bring even more unwanted/unneeded attention to the fruitless pursuit of Machado again.

The Chicago American League ballclub

Except playing McCann everyday is wearing him down to the point where he's not the same player he was in the first half...since Renteria also wants to DH Castillo, or he will continue to get those at-bats when Reed is released because we're afraid of completely pop the Collins confidence balloon.

Narvaez has gone from 0.1 to to 0.9 to 1.0 to 1.5 fWAR (2019) and still under control for 3 more years. Seems like progression. Meanwhile, we still don't have a future catcher, and are currently putting 25% of our eggs in McCann not regressing any further and 75% into the pursuit of Yasmani Grandal. If you compare 4 years of McCann having an overall negative value to that line, it's obvious. Hahn's just extremely fortunate that McCann has been the ONE good move he made so far that makes him look good... By bWAR, 1.2, 1.9 and 1.7 (on pace for 2.9ish)

What's the exact amount of money that's going to the Astros? Bukauskas was fading and leaving most Top 100 lists, but Beer has done nothing to diminish his draft day value and has undoubtedly increased it... So the Astros are paying $52 million and AZ $24 million on the remaining amount...#3/4/5/22 ranked prospects in the Astros' organization. Interestingly, the DBacks have added Gallen (Marlins, for one of their top prospects in Chisholm) and Mike Leake to their rotation, although fans will surely be pissed. Crazy times. https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/mlb/diamondbacks/2019/07/31/arizona-diamondbacks-trade-zack-greinke-houston-astros/1881640001/

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Wait 'til next year...then the trade value of Colome will still be there, just like with Quintana (except we were incredibly fortunate Epstein got desperate, his performance fell off enough that the first 2-3 months of 2017 were spent constantly worrying about his eroding trade value). It worked out that time, but it usually doesn't. Anyone want to post early odds on Colome repeating his first 100 game performance in 2019 over the next 162 games?

That would be the fans in Miami. After the Yelich/Ozuna/Realmuto/Gordon trades, they don't even care anymore...which seems much worse than what's currently going on with the White Sox fanbase. At least love is the opposite side of hate, instead of apathy.

Which indicates that if he's already fairly-valued in terms of his salary, another year of control wasn't a huge factor here. The problem is that the top teams in baseball would never view him as THE closer they could actually count on in the playoffs...or someone would have paid the asking price above a Tilson/Cordell level.

This write-up from Ben Badler is hilarious for TWO REASONS.... The Rangers traded for $1 million of international bonus pool money today to be able to finalize their signing of Bayron Lora, a 16-year-old outfielder with huge power from the Dominican Republic. Lora has been playing for the Rangers' team in the Tricky League, an informal league in the Dominican Republic for recent July 2 signings, with clubs supplementing their rosters with unsigned amateur players as well. He homered yesterday, his third home run of the Tricky League, which opened two weeks ago. Lora will add to an international signing class that also includes shortstops Maximo Acosta from Venezuela and Zion Bannister from the Bahamas. WHITE SOX ACQUIRE Joe Jarneski, RHP Age: 19 Ray Castro, RHP Age: 22 Jarneski and Castro aren't prospects, so it looks like the White Sox are just moving Jones' contract to save money. My comment: I think this is the first time I've ever seen BA do a trade write-up without any information...and "where's OUR TRICKY League team, Hahn?"

The bottom line is that rebuilding teams should be taking advantage of EVERY opportunity that presents itself. We shouldn't be more concerned with saving money or helping out other GM's. It's that same mentality that led to us being satisfied with signing Luis Robert and not going on to spend another $25-30 million to have a superclass. Instead we spend that exact same amount on Nova, Herrera, Jay, Santana and Alonso.

And if nobody acquired Alonso (the White Sox were probably the only ones interested after his second half)...they would have released Alonso to make way for Reyes?

Yes, from Venezuela...not the Dominican. I just don't understand why we can't find our OWN players from the Dominican Republic, it's not like every single kid under age 16 doesn't want to play professional baseball...

DUH!!! That's all we do, HELP other teams. By taking on Alonso's salary, we've now opened a spot for Franmil Reyes to beat up on us for the next five years. By providing them the money (the Rangers), they get to sign their targeted players and we spent it writing insurance checks for Burger and all of our pitching prospects. WHEN DO WE ACQUIRE INTL BONUS POOL MONEY so we can actually sign someone? It's like...yay! we signed Robert, it looks like he's the coup of the decade, so we can go back to business as usual.

Okay, here's a question. What have we received in terms of all that supposed investment into the Domican Republic? How the heck can Jesus Pena be the last player to come out of there....is the Ghost/Shadow of Dave Wilder THAT long?

Sure it does, one more potential multiple tool player we don't have for our outfield... Why does it seem the SAME organizations year after year (Dodgers, Braves, Padres, Rangers, etc.) always have the connections to these players that we don't despite Paddy, who we keep hearing is the best in the business...?

Of course, he will inevitably go on to become the next Trout/Tatis...at least with Bush last year, there was a narrative that we'd produced this gem out of nowhere that would show how brilliant the scouting department was at their jobs. Just surprised Bell or Jordan isn't part of his name.

http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&player_id=668709#/career/R/hitting/2019/ALL JJ Bleday was the first one in the class up to an advanced A league...struggling so far in his first 11 games. At any rate, Vaught will start next season at Winston-Salem and be a fast mover, similar to Madrigal. Can't imagine they'd push him into the Arizona Fall League, but that could change if he lights up the stat sheet over the next month.