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MLB.com top 10 pick mock from Callis and Mayo: http://m.mlb.com/news/article/121103208/ji...s-in-2015-draft

Next up are the corner infielders: http://www.chicagonow.com/future-sox/2015/...corner-infield/ Trey Michalczewski leads another thin group, but at least a few of these guys have impact potential.

Final lines: Danish- 6 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 6 SO, 7 GO/2 FO Johnson- 5.2 IP, 4 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 6 SO Fry- 7 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 2 BB, 4 SO, 10 GO/0 FO

QUOTE (Brian @ Apr 26, 2015 -> 12:10 AM) Anyone know what this Scrotal Recall show on Netflix is? British? Yes, British comedy. I watched the first 4 episodes which were mildly amusing, but didn't feel compelled to see the last 2. If you're interested in this type of British show, I'd recommend both Plebs and The Inbetweeners, which are/were excellent, if they're available over there.

Taking a look at the organizational strength by position, starting with the catchers. http://www.chicagonow.com/future-sox/2015/...stem-catcher-2/ Not the most inspiring list of names, headlined by Kevan Smith, our #21 prospect. Hopefully someone can step it up this year.

Lucius Fox officially declared an international free agent and is eligible to sign from July 2. http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/lucius-fox-...y-2nd-signings/

QUOTE (LDF @ Apr 23, 2015 -> 02:41 PM) good point. i would like to consider 1 thing. the pro's who does this baseball evals, all think that Swanson, Bergman, and Newman can stay at ss, but they also can see them moving to another infield position if the team needs them there. the other point, they are saying Newman is a #2 rank prospect, ahead of Swanson and the pitchers, that is what i am confuse about. I don't know about all the experts, but Law definitely doesn't think of Bregman as a SS. http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/...sider-keith-law

Luis Martinez: 4.2 IP, 6 H, 3 ER, 2 BB, 4 SO. Rondon 2-3, 2B, HR Already equalled his HR tally from last year (1).

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 21, 2015 -> 03:05 AM) Timmy gets his hits. And 2 steals for him today. Up to 6 on the season now. Only had 10 all of last year.

Ugly start for Montas: 5 IP, 5 H, 3 R, 6 BB, 4 SO Feels like it hasn't been a great start to the season for most of the top arms, though I haven't been looking too closely at the numbers.

QUOTE (LDF @ Apr 19, 2015 -> 03:51 PM) for me who is a complete amateur, a fan, who likes the draft and prospects. my wish list is constantly changing, esp with new info coming out, esp in the injury front. i really like Swanson, maybe Buehler. i also like Happ, but that is about it for the favorites that were listed pre-school yr. Buehler concerns me a bit. His raw stuff is very good but there is no deception to his delivery and his fastball is flat. That combination is not a problem in college but I'm not sure it would work in the higher minors, let alone the Majors.

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Final line for Montas: 5.1 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 8 SO. Excellent start to his season.

HR for Barnum. Nice to see some early signs of life from him.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Apr 11, 2015 -> 07:33 PM) I've been saying this all offseason - we won 73 games last year. We didn't get 10 games better this offseason let alone 20 But I thought Robertson was going to prevent 20 blown saves and make this a 90+ win team all on his own. Is that not how it works?

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Apr 8, 2015 -> 11:23 PM) Couple things: Love the aggressiveness for Brian Clark at WS. I really like him as a sleeper prospect. 2nd, I'm pretty sure Merkin said that Adams is for sure going to Kanny. I like it if they plan on having him start, less excited if they're pushing him as a potential fast moving reliever.

QUOTE (flavum @ Apr 8, 2015 -> 04:55 PM) The forecast for game time has got worse. Hopefully they do get rained out tonight, and make it up in August. I assume they'll insert a 6-man rotation once in a while--especially in August. If they can get 95 starts from Sale, Shark, and Q, I'd take it. And have Sale in line for 163, the wildcard game, or Game 1 of the ALDS...which would be his 32nd start. Samardzija 32 Quintana 32 Sale 31 Noesi 31 Danks 10 Rodon 22 Other 4 This would be nice. This is optimistic. On average, teams will use 10 starters per season (Sox used exactly 10 last year) and will need, on average, 32 starts from starters outside their top 5 (Sox had 26 last year).

QUOTE (oldsox @ Mar 28, 2015 -> 10:53 PM) Can't tell if that Mock Draft was put together prior to Aiken having TJS. My guess is yes. No way Rockies take him that early now at #3. It's from March 20, so definitely before.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/12...-2022-world-cup It will be interesting to see how this all works out logistically and what the fallout will be. From an English perspective, one of the reasons continually given for the lack of success in major tournaments has been that the players are burnt out by the end of the season due to not having a winter break. I guess the World Cup will be played roughly half way through the Premier League season, at which point the players should be at their peak in terms of physical fitness, so perhaps we will see a performance that is not an utter embarrassment (one can hope, anyway).

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 8, 2015 -> 11:52 PM) I'm going to Spain March 12-22nd. Madrid for 5 days then Valencia. Trying to go to a soccer game though I can't really figure out how tickets quite work. We're right next to real madrid stadium do I'd love to do that but it seems they only have "vip" section tickets on sale. Anyone have experience buy tickets to big soccer team games? Do they usually make tickets available closer to the game? Right now the date of the game isn't even set in stone so I'm not sure if it's sold out or if tickets just aren't available yet. Also any Spain recommendations would be great. You have probably figured this out by now but you just have to wait for the tickets to become available to the general public (for Real Madrid anyway), which typically happens only 5 or 6 days before the game, otherwise you would need to be a club member. You can buy tickets for the game on the 15th now (Real vs. Levante), and it looks like there are still around 4,000 tickets available so you shouldn't have any problems getting a seat.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Mar 9, 2015 -> 08:46 PM) I believe there are 2 financially sound deadlines to wait for on Rodon, correct? The "extra year of control" dead that will pass sometime in early May, maybe? And the "1 less year of arb" deadline, which is usually sometime mid-June, right? April 25th per Keith Law (talking about a different player but the same rule would apply to Rodon): http://espn.go.com/sportsnation/chat/_/id/...sider-keith-law

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Feb 9, 2015 -> 04:21 PM) That list is beyond awful. Having Bryant at 5 is criminal. Anderson above Rodon is just not true. And Bundy and Syndgaard above Urias is terrible. That list is poorly thought of. Ehhh. 5th is still really, really good. It's not as if Bryant doesn't have any faults too. The four in front of him play premium positions (and play them well). Bryant may be a LF and he strikes out a lot so might have trouble hitting for average. Again, Urias is 10th and hasn't pitched above A+. I wouldn't get too worked up about the difference between players ranked 8th, 9th and 10th.

QUOTE (southside hitman @ Jan 28, 2015 -> 05:15 PM) http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/...ll30farmsystems It's behind a paywall, but Keith Law ranks the Sox system as 12th(!) this year. A huge jump from 27th last year, he noted that the Sox acquired four top 120 prospects in the past 24 months and didn't give up premium guys for Shark. Only 12th? Law is such a hater.

From Kiley's prospect chat: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/kiley-mcdan...cts-chat-12315/ Assuming his grades have remained the same since he did his White Sox list, that would be Rodon and Anderson in the top 50 as 60 FV guys and Montas around 65 as a 55 FV.