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Giolito is #1 pitching prospect in baseball. Solid chance that Riobles is top 3 prospect in baseball next year. Fedde is very good too but Reynaldo Lopez would be pretty disgusting haul.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 5, 2016 -> 11:37 AM) Honestly kind of scared of drafting an LT that high. There's only one 1st round OT in this class currently. Ryam Ramczyk from Wisconsin. Possible Cam Robinson from Bama as well. Not a good OT class.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Dec 5, 2016 -> 11:26 AM) Okay. Make Turner available and maybe something can happen. No way they get both Sale and Cutch without him. I don't think Cutch has the value that people think. He's not good defensively anymore, wants to play CF, and was a negative WAR player last year.

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Dec 5, 2016 -> 11:28 AM) This is a great idea in principle but Washington would have to allow the Sox to clean out their system for me to consider it. For Robertson? No. It'd be like 1 extra piece. And they pay the 2/25 contract.

I wonder if Nationals would be interested in Robertson or Jones with Sale since Melancon is going to the Giants

QUOTE (ChiSoxFanMike @ Dec 5, 2016 -> 10:13 AM) Can someone tell me why Washington is so appealing if Turner isn't involved? Giolito has already had TJ and didn't do much of anything at the big league level, and Robles is a 19 year old in A ball. The Sox can't develop a player like him. Mike, Giolito is the best pitching prospect in the minor leagues and is close to ML ready. Robles is #10 prospect in baseball according to MLB.com. He's the type guy that you acquire and is the #1 prospect in all of baseball in a year and a half. If the Sox can't develop Victor Robles, then they are screwed as an organization and doomed to fail anyway.

Western Kentucky HC Jeff Brohm is the new coach at Purdue. Excellent hire for the Boilermakers. I love his pro style spread system. It's a tough rebuild there but he's a Petrino disciple and really knows QBs and the passing game. Has a good young QB in David Blough.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Dec 5, 2016 -> 10:00 AM) He spent last season entirely in the secondary. He's just not very good at coverage which is why he was converted to an OLB this year. He's good at setting the edge and blitzing. Jourdan Lewis is head and shoulders a better defensive player and playmaker. Stribling actually had an awesome year as well. Malik Hooker is going to be a dynamic safety in the NFL, however right now he's leaning towards staying. If someone is hell bent on taking a Big Ten defensive player in the first round, Lewis is the hands down no brainer selection. I don't think Lewis meets the Bears Arm Length and Height threshold at CB though. The kid at Iowa is better than Lewis. Both guys at Ohio State (Conley, Lattimore) are both better too.

QUOTE (Ro Da Don @ Dec 5, 2016 -> 09:36 AM) Me too. Although there's a lot of questions in it, you get 2 top 20 guys in Giolito and Robles, 2 guys to plug instantly at the back end in Ross and AJ Cole. Depends what the other remaining piece or 2 would be. You'd get 2 top 10 guys in Giolito and Robles. #3 and #10

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/top-21-pros...cago-white-sox/

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 5, 2016 -> 08:33 AM) These rival evaluators said the same thing in 2010, and passed on drafting him. People thought he was unsignable and some thought he was a reliever.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Dec 4, 2016 -> 04:22 PM) I might be a big ten Homer but I think peppers would be a great pick for the bears. Give them the play maker on defense that has been missing. I'd rather take good players over a QB that isn't worth a top pick. Peppers isn't a top 5 player though. I don't know what he does for you. He has 1 interception in college. He has 3 TD's so people think he's awesome. He's good. You have to be Sean Taylor for me to take a S that high though and I think Jamal Adams from LSU is better.

I'm actually coming around to a pitching based package from Washington. They can always trade the pitching later. According to mlb.com Giolito is the #3 prospect in baseball and Robles is #10. Reynaldo Lopez is #37 and Eric Fedde is #75. Give me all of them at 3B Carter Kieboom and I probably do it. I'm still high on Giolito though. He's the best pitching project in baseball. Legit 80 fastball and 70 Curveball with 55 command. He's an ace. Also have CF Andrew Stevenson and RHP Joe Ross. They can get it done.

QUOTE (WhiteSoxLifer @ Dec 3, 2016 -> 09:56 PM) Sources: Melancon has multiple 4-yr, $60M+ offers: #SFGiants, #Nationals, perhaps one other. SF thought to be strongest, as @jcrasnick said. https://twitter.com/Ken_Rosenthal/status/805256686994853888 And David Robertson just became a bargain again.

Brohm would actually be a very good hire for Purdue. Develops QB's and scores points.

Really good info about the new CBA from Jeff Passan: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-inside-de...-082559072.html International $$ can be traded. Teams like the Padres get no amnesty and still can't spend more than $300,000 on a player for next 2 years. They do however, still get a pool amount of $5.75 million and they can trade it.

I will say that the Sox settle on one monster headliner and upside for Sale and do this: Astros Receive: LHP Chris Sale White Sox Receive: INF Alex Bregman 1B/DH AJ Reed RHP David Paulino OF Preston Tucker OF Jason Martin Here are a few more: St. Louis Receives: Adam Eaton and Dan Jennings White Sox Receive: OF Harrison Bader 3B Paul DeJong RHP Jack Flaherty RHP Sandy Alcantara RHP Dakota Hudson Los Angeles Dodgers Receive: Todd Frazier and Zach Putnam White Sox Receive: 2B/DH Willie Calhoun RHP Jordan Sheffield Boston Red Sox Receive: RHP David Robertson White Sox Receive: C Blake Swihart Texas Rangers Receive: OF Melky Cabrera White Sox Receive: LHP Cole Ragans Keep Abreu, Nate Jones, Quintana, Gonzalez for now.

Lets say Dexter Fowler signs in Toronto. St. Louis was said to have some interest in that type of player. How many of the following guys would you need from St. Louis to trade Adam Eaton: RHP Luke Weaver, RHP Jack Flaherty, RHP Sandy Alcantara, OF Harrison Bader, C Carson Kelly, SS Delvin Perez. I think STL can acquire Adam Eaton if they ponied up honestly.

I coach HS football and don't have a ton of contacts but I heard this yesterday from some guys: Les Miles made a bunch of demands at Purdue that they weren't willing or able to do and their focus has shifted to PJ Fleck. Fleck is interested in the Purdue job but is holding out for a better offer.

Adam Eaton is my favorite player on the team. With that being said, he's a speed player and much of his value comes from his throwing arm and he's 28 years old. I think they will only trade him if they received an absolute haul in return but if that's the case I'd be fine with doing it. I'm not sure that Adam Eaton is going to be a 5-6 WAR player over the next few seasons. Even if he's a 3-4 WAR player though he's an incredible value. If he gets moved, I think we'll be pleased with the return because I can't see him moving otherwise.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 01:25 PM) If the Pirates are looking to use Meadows in their OF, that seriously dents the package they could be able to offer for Sale. They aren't going to be able to give up both frontline starter candidates for Sale and still fill out their rotation. Meadows is a great Sale deal headliner because he's currently blocked. You can make something work with Meadows and one of those 2 starters as a headliner, you have an average at best deal for Sale if they say you get 1 of their 2 starters along with basically everything else they can offer. The Pirates aren't trading for Chris Sale.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 11:27 AM) Pretty stupid. Not as stupid as it was before. All Star Game winner hosting was dumbest thing in sports.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 11:10 AM) The qualifying pick doesn't really help the Sox because we aren't a team that will largely play in the big free agent market, so it helps the bigger spenders more then the lower spenders. Further, the fact that the compensation is paid based upon market size also hurts the Sox when you look at it from that perspective, because what we will give up vs. a team like the Royals/Indians will be more and akin to what the Dodgers / Yankees / Cubs would give up (again, not exactly fair given our revenue's, which are much more middle-market in size). I do agree that the international cap is a move that is beneficial for the Sox. Now they have incentive to do so though. If Fowler were on the FA market last season and all they had to give up was their 3rd rounder, they would have ponied up and paid it. In the future, I think they are much more likely to pay for free agents with a QO by losing a 3rd round pick rather than a 1st rounder. There won't be that many players receiving the QO though because teams are most likely going to trade their impending FA's.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 11:13 AM) I'm pretty sure Adam Dunn is the only player the White Sox have ever signed that would cost the Sox a draft pick with the new rules, assuming he would have been given a QO. That's not true. If you sign a player with a QO offer attached, you are still giving up the 3rd round pick regardless of the contract that you sign them for. The only thing that changes is the compensation that the other team receives in return.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 1, 2016 -> 10:22 AM) We will likely be lumped into the large market players and thus, if it is based on market size, will get treated like the bigger spending clubs vs. the clubs we more or less fit in with from a revenue perspective. IT helps the Sox actually. They can sign free agents now and only lose a 3rd round pick for doing so in future years. They also have a $5 million cap on international spending. The Sox have been spending their entire bonus pools but they are often in the $3 million range. They never go over though. Now that nobody is allowed to go over, I would expect the White Sox to spend the entire $5 million annually on international amateurs.