Y2Jimmy0

Baseball Prospectus has Nick Madrigal as the #12 prospect in all of baseball on their update today. I think that's a bit high but there are certain factions that love him obviously.

We are attempting this for FutureSox right now. I'm currently doing this: 1. Luis Robert OF 2. Michael Kopech RHP 3. Dylan Cease RHP 4. Nick Madrigal 2B 5. Andrew Vaughn 1B 6. Zack Collins C 7. Dane Dunning RHP 8. Steele Walker OF 9. Luis Alexander Basabe OF 10. Andrew Dalquist RHP 11. Micker Adolfo OF 12. Blake Rutherford OF 13. Luis Gonzalez OF 14. Matthew Thompson RHP 15. Yolbert Sanchez SS

Rutherford doesn't hit for enough power and can't play CF. I'd still probably go: 1. Luis Robert 2. Steele Walker 3. Luis Alexander Basabe 4. Micker Adolfo. Then Rutherford and Gonzalez.

And it sounds like Logan Glass is signing as well.

The White Sox are signing 34th rounder Chase Krogman. They might have decided on him instead of Glass.

I'm not sure about that. They had really good luck for a decade. That has swung the other direction.

I just meant that they aren't going to use a 40-man spot on Mercedes.

Glass is not official. I have conflicting info. There's a reporter from his hometown that kept swearing to us that Glass was signing for $200K. Hasn't happened. It's not official. If Glass signs for $200K then they can offer Krogman like $225K and see if he bites.

He was a minor league rule 5 pick. There is no chance they protect him.

He's not a catcher so probably nothing. Fun minor league player serving as org depth.

Yeah this is all true. They also don't have 2 DSL affiliates which could be one of the issues maybe. I'm curious to see what happens because Getz is pushing some of these guys through. Very small samples but Mieses has a 118 wRC+ in Great Falls and Harvin Mendoza is posting a 155. They may have some guys. They used to have absolutely nobody though so we might just have to accept them being average. It annoys me that they are so averse to risk and I tried to be fair about it in the piece.

Glass is unsigned as well. Dalquist, Freeman and Glass are all signing. The others will not.

The authors actually made me empathize with Trevor Bauer

You just need to go play shortstop!

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/trainers-mlb-teams-unhappy-with-current-international-signing-system/ https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/why-were-not-ranking-the-top-july-2-prospects/ This is crazy. Ben Badler isn't reporting signings this year. These articles are fascinating.

How do you figure? There are multiple $4 and $5 million signings.

They've done that before and gotten solid guys. Mieses, Comas, Sosa etc.

It doesn't work this way. They knew what the price tag was when they drafted the player.

If the Sox give Vaughn the full slot amount, they should have about $2.2 million left to sign Dalquist and Glass.

I wonder if they missed out on guys during this period over the uncertainty of which class Robert would be in. These guys agree to deals at 13 or 14 years old usually.

Yeah they're signing him. Curious to see where the rest of the money goes and to hear what they see in the development of the bat.

The White Sox 2016 class is pretty promising and there are some interesting guys (Jose Rodriguez) in the AZL from the last couple years. Allocating resources in this manner is a bit puzzling but they must see something in the bat of Sanchez. They saw him a lot since he was teammates with Robert.

I disagree completely. I think he was going to stick at 3B without the injury.

Burger was a fine selection where he was taken. I would have gone with a prep most likely but he was absolutely in that range. Some ridiculousness in this thread.

Our Sean Williams checked out some AZL action this week and wrote about it: http://www.chicagonow.com/future-sox/2019/06/observations-from-week-1-of-the-azl-white-sox/