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Kiley McDaniel's first mock at ESPN came out today: https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/29154256/kiley-mcdaniel-2020-mlb-mock-draft-10 11. Chicago White Sox: Reid Detmers, LHP, Louisville The White Sox are another team leaning heavily toward college options at this pick, though they've leaned that way in recent years for higher picks as well. Kjerstad fits here if he makes it down to this pick. It makes a lot of sense for the White Sox to add the Illinois prep product who could be big league ready right as the team gets to playoff contention.

They can sign but only for $20K. They'll either go to school or play at JUCO next year.

No. It means teams will play in their home cities instead of at spring training sites.

It's still the American League and National League. The only thing that's different is the schedule. The Sox would play 12/13 vs KC, Cleveland, Minny and Detroit. And they'll play 6 games vs Cubs, Brewers, Cardinals, Pirates and Reds. It's 78-82 games. Then they will take 7 playoff teams from the AL and 7 playoff teams from the NL. Seed it 1-7 with division winners 1-3. The top seed gets a bye in each league. 7 at 2, 6 at 3, 5 at 4. Likely a DH in both leagues.

Here's the latest proposal that Ken Rosenthal has obtained from MLB: https://theathletic.com/1804433/2020/05/09/rosenthal-latest-details-on-baseballs-plan-to-return/ It will be presented to the players this week. 78-82 game regular season in home ballparks. White Sox would play only teams from AL Central and NL Central. 7 playoff teams in each league.

I think he'll be gone but it'd be an interesting decision if he's on the board.

I'd break it up into tiers. It's going to be college heavy at the top. Spencer Torkelson, Austin Martin, Asa Lacy, Nick Gonzales and Emerson Hancock are the likely top 5. Zac Veen is the top HS OF in the class. Max Meyer is the RHP from Minnesota and Reid Detmers the southpaw from Louisville. So those guys are probably all gone but you never know. College outfielders Garrett Mitchell and Heston Kjerstad, prep righties Jared Kelley and Mick Abel and prep hitters Robert Hassel, Austin Hendrick and Ed Howard seem to be the options along with Garrett Crochet and Cade Cavalli.

This isn't entirely true. The White Sox wouldn't take back Dontrelle Willis' contract in the trade

Here is the 2nd draft profile in our series. It covers Tennessee LHP Garrett Crochet: https://www.futuresox.com/2020/05/07/2020-draft-preview-garrett-crochet-lhp/

This isn't what they're doing though.

The financial aspect doesn't make sense though because they really aren't saving any money. The White Sox have $7.7 million to spend in a 5 round draft. In a10 round draft, it would be $8.8 million. Everyone after that was limited to $125K anyway. The owners are doing this to defer payments for two years and save a couple million per team. It's fucking stupid. And there are many stories like Paul Goldschmidt for example. He was an 8th rounder. What would happen to him in a year like this?

An update tonight from Jeff Passan suggests that the draft will in fact be just 5 rounds

The union turned down the latest 2020 Draft Proposal from the owners. The draft is still expected to take place on June 10th but that's all that's really known at this point. I wrote about the details and what it means for the White Sox here: https://www.futuresox.com/2020/05/06/the-latest-on-the-2020-mlb-draft-and-how-it-relates-to-the-white-sox/

With our first draft profile, Jasper Roos checks in with Arkansas outfielder Heston Kjerstad: https://www.futuresox.com/2020/05/05/2020-draft-preview-heston-kjerstad-rf/

Thanks Jack. We're all aware of this. Every single proposal requires approval from health experts. That's been the case the whole time.

They will likely play minor league games on backfields or at spring training sites. There's no way they put these guys on ice for a year.

It can be pushed back but it would be pointless. These players have been signed for like two years now and it's less than $6 million per team. No reason to wait.

#20 is Cuban right hander Norge Vera. The White Sox reached agreement with him for this period in addition to a bunch of other smaller signings. Their remaining money likely goes to either Cespedes or Oscar Colas. We'll see.

I heard today that the draft will be June 10th. I'm not optimistic that it'll be 10 rounds though. 5 is more likely.

I'd be pretty surprised by this. I hadn't heard them on many college bats.

I doubt it. Charlotte is one of the best markets in the minor leagues and I can't see the White Sox dumping them. The affiliates don't need to be closer to Chicago as long as they're all somewhat close to each other. My guess is the Sox 4 affiliates stay the same but they add a 2nd team in the AZL. Getting out of Great Falls is probably a good thing anyway.

These guys are all idiots if they though they'd be back to playing in front of fans. It's not happening. I've heard similar things that Harold has. I disagree with him that there won't be baseball though because I think the players will ultimately cave. If public health officials deem one of those plans effective and safe to play, I think they're playing. Could you imagine if the other sports resume, baseball has a place to play and owners cancel the season anyway because they can't afford it? The sport would be essentially over. It would be just like the strike year where many people wouldn't return. The players were fronted $170 million. If there's no season, that's all they will get this year. For that reason, and that reason alone, I would bet on there being some semblance of baseball this year. Money talks.

It'll be just the strike season if it happens. Many, many fans would never come back.

Not sure. All these plans require the players and everyone else involved to get tested a lot. Testing will be better by the time they'd start playing. Ideally if someone gets it, they retest everyone and go from there. If the testing capacity improves to this level, I don't think the league will need to shut down. On the other hand, if testing doesn't improve to this level, the entire economy will crash and we'll likely all die anyway.

If the league and players association decides to play baseball games in Arizona, the players will play baseball games in Arizona. As I've said, it's the only way they're getting paid. The players will play regardless of what they say in April and May.