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There's really zero reason to push him that hard since White Sox are playing for 2026 draft positioning and Rockies are locked out of Top Ten next year. They wouldn't even get a bonus pick for RoY since a non Top 100 prospect right?

So Lankford and C.Smith for current big league outfielders...but the White Sox haven't done it with any college position players other than Madrigal/Vaughn in ages. Dollander won't last long at this point. Wyatt Lankford made it to A ball in his draft year. I was asking for players that missed SS/A ball or skipped but still made it up in 1 1/2 seasons. Cam Smith also to High A South Bend his draft season... Dylan Crews made it to AA his draft year but was severely disappointing at least in 2024 and is far from dominating this year. All three of those guys played for 2-3 months after being drafted, though. Pitching it's certainly a lot more typical if you come out of the draft with big arms like Skenes, Crochet or Sale.

https://legacy.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/ White Sox 28th here...Oakland just $100,000 less but have spent big already on Severino Rooker Butler and you can bet Jacob Wilson, Mason Miller or Kurtz would be next.

White Sox are still considered a large market team...so not getting all those benefits like Pittsburgh Oakland/Sacramento/LV and the Marlins/TB. They also have Skenes, ONeil Cruz, Reynolds and K.Hayes with big financial commitments...or soon to be extended in all likelihood. Sterling Marte and G.Polanco in past years, etc. Skenes ofc likely to force a trade at some point like Glasnow Musgrove Taillon etc.

That's where we fast track our most recent collegiate outfield first rounder (see 2025 pick when it comes in) into the 2027 OD outfield picture in CF with Braden in RF...maybe Benintendi is still in LF since JR will refuse to eat his salary until that final year.

Okay...so any mid to late teens first round draft pick who made it to the majors in just 1 1/2 seasons, bypassing MiLB ball their draft year for whatever reason? Neto I guess...one of the Angels first rounders, Neto with 1 1/2 years in the minors but played SS ball in his draft year out of Campbell, which isn't high P4/5. Then you have Schanuel at 1B out of Florida International...also played in his draft year. Still aren't many outfielders to pull off this trick.

Story of two franchises...Witt Jr. and Caglianone vs. Vaughn and Smith. Two playoff appearances for CWS since 2008 vs. two WS and beating the O's last year and likely headed to postseason 4 in 2025 with all that pitching and a franchise cornerstone not even leaving yet.

Other than Vaughn/Madrigal...when's the last college (position) player who didn't play professionally at all during his draft year and then made it to Chicago in just 1 1/2 years? Aaron Rowand took the equivalent of three seasons...considering 1998 at bats in Hickory and 2001 in Charlotte. Brian Anderson 2003/04/05. At least 2 1/2 seasons and a first round pick out of AZ from roughly the same point in the draft as Montgomery. Just can't simply project 100% linear development for 1 1/2 years based on the first six weeks of 2025.

Then they're going to have to luck out with Oppor McDougal or Taylor, because the entire success of the pen flows downward or backwards from having 3 lockdown guys to split the 8th and 9th...one a LHP.

The Shane Smith numbers tell the story. Without an offense, a guy with even a Top Ten ERA is all of MLB has a team overall record of 1-7 in his first eight starts. Smith Schultz and Taylor aren't all going to replicate that success right?off the bat...and without a bullpen and solid defense behind them, pitching does nothing unless we're just going to be a farm system for the rest of baseball like the Pirates or Marlins. They need breakout stars on the position side...not a bunch of 1.5-2.5 fWAR producers if absolutely everything breaks right, which it almost never does.

For? Baty is off the market. Alvarez is not a need. We have a handful of Luisangel Acunas...

The problem is it's almost all on the pitching side until at least next June/July...and it wouldn't be shocking to see Braden held back until 2027 for service time reasons. He still has to conquer Birmingham at the very least...and that's a very tough league for hitters. Teel was one of the Big 3 in Boston until Campbell tore through their entire system last year...and we've yet to see that type of impact hitting yet from him. 760 in Charlotte feels like 660...because of how inflated the numbers are there historically. Finally, at least one of Vargas Baldwin Quero Meidroth or Sosa needs to finish the season as a 700 hitter or better, or it will be a pretty big disappointment imo. Because we won't have any surefire projected future starters other than Quero/Teel, Braden and maybe Bonemer (2027/28), and they pretty much are going to have to take another college outfielder in the first round of the draft...or get one back for Luis Robert.

Why would you bail out the Red Sox?

1. Max Fried 1.05 2 Tyler Mahle 1.48 3 Hunter Brown 1.48 4 Kris Bubic 1.69 5 Yoshinobu Yamamoto 1.80 6 Garrett Crochet 1.93 7 Nick Pivetta 2.01 8 Nathan Eovaldi 2.03 9 Tarik Skubal 2.08 9 Shane Smith 2.08

https://www.teamrankings.com/mlb/stat/runs-per-game White Sox and Rangers battling for 27th/28th in runs scored per game Pirates and happens Rockies at the bottom

Who's REALLY left though? Teel and maybe Ramos...who's struggling early on AND coming back from injury. Obviously the Big 3 starters, but all indications are they're going to hold them until next 2026/May for service time. Then Fletcher Julks DeLoach types...no more real position candidates until you get all the way down to Braden and Bonemer.

20-0. 13 runs surrendered last night...two weeks of production for Sox. Last time I saw a starter give up 12+ was James Shields.

All the attention on Monfort Bryant etc. in Colorado right now.

19-0 Top of Five in Colorado mlb needs mercy rule Sheets 292/841 5 hrs 20 rbis

24,264 Reinsdorfs profitable tonight

Palacios has to go back down...

Quero and Meidroth both scuffling...defense perfectly positioned.

Foul ball into the Elko Family section...

Giving the high strike but ump didn't give Smith low strikes at all.