Y2Jimmy0

The White Sox have less money to spend on the draft than they've had in previous years. They have just over $5 million to spend internationally. I wrote about the bonus pools and the scouting process for FutureSox: https://www.futuresox.com/2021/04/20/importance-of-scouting-with-limited-amateur-bonus-pools/

I suppose they could have but the manager requested Liam Hendriks

It's not on the front office. It's on Jerry Reinsdorf for not having enough in the budget and Tony La Russa for choosing to not play Andrew Vaughn.

Then he should be at the alternate site and I'd be fine with that decision as well.

Andrew Vaughn has a .400 OBP and Nick Williams should never be playing instead of him.

I think some guys will pop for sure but it's probably still a bottom 10 system after graduations.

He'll throw more than that. They're gonna try to get him between 80-100 IMO

Adolfo has never been to Charlotte. I'm guessing High-A will include Bryce Bush, Luis Mieses and Anderson Comas and some others. Cespedes could go there too but I think they might send him right to Birmingham.

I believe right now it's Zavala, Mendick, Reynolds and two pitchers

Yes

Burger, Adolfo and Cespedes likely headed to AA Birmingham. They're in Arizona. The alternate site is likely the Charlotte Knights team basically. I'm not sure what the deal is with Jimmy Lambert though.

I've heard Pacheco is a definite target and Georgia catcher Harry Ford as well.

Nobody should be understanding. Jerry Reinsdorf sucks.

You just can't look at this way. They didn't have $54 million to allocate elsewhere. That's not how they operate under Reinsdorf. They basically had $30 million to spend. Hendriks is $11 million of that. They can't just take the full value of Hendrik's contract and allocate it for 2021. It doesn't work that way.

They can get the best reliever in baseball for $54 million. The best players at other positions cost a lot more. That's my point. They play at the very top of the market for catchers and relief pitchers.

Tony wanted him. It's one area where they can acquire elite players due to the low price point. They think Crochet is a starter. I'm just dubious that it ever happens.

I understand it. Don't want to waste innings at an alternate site when the club is trying to win. I have my doubts about how it works long-term though. There's no doubt in my mind that Kopech is a starter in 2022 but I feel Crochet will be a reliever forever at this point. He won't have the innings base to convert to starting and you'd need to pull him from an effective bullpen role to do it while trying to win championships.

We're playing football currently.

I think Lamb will be on the team in place of Mendick

It has to be for him to be on the team

I don't really think Lucroy makes any sense. They'd have to clear a spot to add him and they already need spots for Vaughn, Lamb and Hamilton. Collins is the backup catcher and Grandal will likely DH when he's catching. Yermin has more power on the bench. I also don't believe Lucroy has an opt-out so this makes sense. I just didn't see them doing it.

I don't think there's any way that the White Sox would take Jud Fabian. They didn't take Jeren Kendall who was very similar. 30% strikeout rate in college is brutal.

You said that the cheap group wouldn’t pony up for Marco’s guy. That’s nonsense

This isn’t true lol. Sox offered him $1.4 million. They probably should’ve offered more initially but he took $1.5 million from Washington at a later time. There was no negotiating. Just unfortunate. The takeaway should be that Marco Paddy identifies talent Yes. They’re both tremendous and would’ve been anywhere.

They aren’t moving Vaughn to the outfield because they have no outfield depth. They’re moving him to get Collins in the lineup and see if it’s functional long-term because they have a Jose Abreu problem.