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Where you at Cubano?? What's the story on these two?

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/ar...b&fext=.jsp Way to be Rocco!!

There's also another SS in the DSL that is only 19 and he's been hitting the ball very well, don't have his name in front of me but he's got a great OBP, high BB, low K's but less power. Another interesting MI prospect. Less errors than JS too.

Are you attached to your swing or are you willing to make changes that could improve your ability at the plate? What type of player do you see yourself as right now, primarily a speed guy, an obp guy, defensive, or a well rounded player? What type of player do you want to be 5 years from now?

QUOTE (Heads22 @ Jun 11, 2009 -> 03:29 PM) Maybe it wasn't just grindiness. coke grinder maybe

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jun 11, 2009 -> 11:48 AM) Angels just dedicated their draft to Preston Gomez and Nick Adenhart. classy move

Philly just drafted a hippie

Just waiting for us to select Kenny William's daughters or Greg Walker Jr.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 11:29 AM) I'd say people have a legitimate reason to be disappointed if we overdrafted guys in the early rounds (e.g. Anything before round 10). No, we don't have unlimited funds, but Thompson isn't a guy that's gonna get a $1M signing bonus. That's the kind of guy I wanted to see us take in the 4th-7th rounds. We didn't spend s*** this past offseason and are about to unload a ton of money this coming offseason. I think we could have afforded taking a guy like Scheppers, Bailey, etc and given them the money they want to sign. If we do some slight overdrafts in certain places we put ourselves in position to guarantee signing them and addimg depth to our system instead of taking guys that would want a bunch of money. We just can't go and sign every player that we want, it costs too much money. By drafting guys who are cheap signs we get an opportunity to spend big bucks on a player like Thompson who probably will command a signing bonus in the area of a million, he is a big time prospect. As far as us not spending any money this past offseason, what about Viciedo, we dropped 10 million on him. That is essentially the same as a signing bonus on a draft pick except we didn't draft him. He's no proven veteran and I don't there was one team that spent 10 mil signing their draft picks last year, we spent the 10 on him plus another 4 mil or so on the guys we drafted.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 11:06 AM) From BA on the 11th round pick... Sounds legit

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 10:55 AM) Well, I just got home from work, but my first thoughts are that the 2nd day has been a bit disappointing so far. I like the Buch pick a lot, but other than that it seemed like we reached a lot, and didn't take a chance on any of the big guys that fell b/c of signability issues. On second glance, this Jones kid could be a good get if he signs. Lots of people have been ranting against this draft but I think that we need to remember 2 things 1. The draft needs to be considered as a whole body of work not just a pick by pick basis. We may take a couple guys who will easily sign so we can roll the dice on guys like Buch, Jones or Thompson who may want big money. You can't just take the best guy on the board every round unless you have an unlimited budget which we don't. This isn't like the NBA or NFL draft where you get selected and don't really have any other choice but to play for the team who drafts you. 2. You never really know how some of these picks will turn out. There's a good chance that there was some stud signability player that the Cardinals passed on when they too Pujols in the 13th round back in the day. There were probably some cards guys yelling at the monitor because they passed on their guy. You never know how things will turn out so our excitement and judgment needs to be tempered until we first see who actually signs and then see who among these players can be coached up to their potential. my 2 cents

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Jun 9, 2009 -> 05:26 PM) I laugh at some of the people in this thread pretending to be experts and saying it's inexcuseable to pass on a certain guy. It's the freaking MLB draft and we had the 23rd pick in the first round! None of you have any f***ing idea who is going to be good and who isn't in this draft, even the scouts who have seen these guys hundreds of times aren't entirely sure. We took a guy who is by all accouts a superb athlete with great talent who could turn out to be a star once he focuses on baseball entirely. Give me a break with the ripping of the pick when you have no idea yourself how it will turn out. It's not like we took some guy projected to go in the 30th round. +1

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jun 9, 2009 -> 05:15 PM) Crab shoot? well how the hell do you kill crabs????

good chance that we took him as someone who will sign for slot so that we can roll the dice on some guys who slide later on in the draft.

QUOTE (daa84 @ Jun 9, 2009 -> 04:59 PM) yep...im gonna say it cuz i know I'm not the only one thinking it....and people might torch me for saying this...but i think kenny williams gives preferential treatment to black players get that BS outa here

sounds like Arnett to the Twinkies, i hope we don't get him, he's a one year wonder. you don't take a guy like that with a first round pick

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 9, 2009 -> 04:45 PM) anyone else freaked out a little that there are people being drafted this year who were born in the 90's? just a bit, and im not even that old, born in 81

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jun 9, 2009 -> 04:45 PM) If the Astros don't take Brothers he's ours. Brothers is not a Twins kind of pitcher. why isn't he a twins guy?

anyone else hate seeing Selig's stupid face when he reads off the picks?

QUOTE (Markbilliards @ Jun 9, 2009 -> 04:41 PM) Why is Tanner Schepper still available? The MLB team doctors might have all seen something in his shoulder that scared them away. He tore his labrum i think last year right before the draft and dropped into the second round but didn't sign. Maybe it hasn't healed well

We do have a lefty DH/1B type coming up in Brandon Allen and I'd be surprised if he didn't play next year.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jun 3, 2009 -> 08:54 PM) He did make a change in his swing in the Arizona Fall League. If that was on his own or someone from the White Sox idea, I have no clue, but after he made the adjustment scouts who were lukewarm on him, and there were several, all changed to can't miss. what change might this be??

Too bad that they don't have a position for him but I think that he's mentally tough enough to handle moving around until things finally shake out and the see what position he will best serve the team and also what position he's most skilled at. Good luck Gordo.

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 3, 2009 -> 07:13 PM) Kanny scored 5 in the 9th to win 7-6: My softball team scored 10 in the bottom of the 7th to win on monday but you don't hear me bragging about it. I scored twice in the inning

QUOTE (Cali @ Jun 3, 2009 -> 05:52 PM) I'm sorry, but Beckham has "it". What ever "it" is, Gordon has it. He's just a gamer I wrote just about the exact same thing about him yesterday. He can just seemingly do everything on the baseball field, he is tearing up AAA and should be on the big team within 2 weeks.