Chicago White Sox

Kid had a wRC+ of 105 coming into tonight as a 21 year old CF still adjusting to AA. Now the power we saw at A+ is starting to materialize as expected. I’ve said it before, but if he was in the Yankees system he’d be a top 70 prospect right now. IMO, he’s our clear #3 OF prospect behind Jimenez & Robert.

Probably saving his arm for his major league debut next week.

Yeah, I could dig this. I go back and forth on Covey, but I would like to see Stephens get a look. I’d also DFA Santiago and call up Danish to be the mop up guy.

With Sheets it’s clearly a launch angle issue. He hits way too many balls on the ground in games I’ve watched. That can hopefully be addressed during the offseason and his 70 grade raw power should allow for improvement next year even in Birmingham.

Legit question, but can Madrigal be like a .330 hitter in the pros? Someone like him should have a higher than average BABIP and if he never strikes out, his BA & BABIP shouldn’t be too far apart.

But I thought Wake Forest has Statcast data or something similar and based on that info Sheets’ power was legit?

I mean, Avi’s walked like three times all season and the rest of the lineup outside of Moncada, Davidson, & Narvaez are below average at drawing walks. It’s a real issue. The good news is we have several prospects coming who should help solve that problem.

Madrigal with an infield single to start off game 2. Still no strikeouts.

We aren’t keeping both Avalin & Cedeno, at least one of them will be moved if not both.

Kopech, Cease, & Adams too, but no huge issues there IMO.

Stephens, Zavala, & Mendick

I’m guessing Feliciano is in the trade.

Holy fuck!? Predictions??

I’m not sure that’s really the case. I mean, he just started for the World Team in CF at the Futures Game. I’ve watched him quite a bit and while he may never be elite out there, he seems to have all the ability in the world to play a solid CF.

It's the best top 30 I can remember in my lifetime other than perhaps the 2000 list (which didn't end well).

Seven top 100 prospect, including five top 50. That’s not too shabby, but I’m going to whine anyways because I don’t see how Basabe doesn’t make the cut but Kyle Lewis does? Basabe is a year young and has greatly outproduced Lewis to date. And I’m not sure the tools are that much different to be honest. Basabe may have a little less power, but he makes up for that in speed. I just don’t see what Basabe has to do to crack one of these lists. I also think it’s nuts Hansen has fallen completely off the list, but I’m willing to give that more of a pass given how bad he’s been since coming back from injury.

It really does.

Agree, take the lottery ticket with the one exception being a 3B. For example, while I don’t see happening, I would happily take a chance on JD Davis for Soria because we have less depth at 3B.

I would do Abreu & Soria for Alvarez straight up at this point.

We have a top 5 system so that’s going to be much more difficult. But I still think we get a guy who falls into that tier around #15.

Scrap that, former 1st round pick Forrest Wall is actually in the deal and not that Bourchard guy. He was the 13th ranked prospect by MLBPipeline & 7th by Fangraphs (FV 45) coming into the season. This is actually a pretty decent return now for a rental. I’m back to being optimistic about getting a solid return for Soria now!

We’ll certainly find a taker, just seems like the market is flooded with solid rental relievers and it’s becoming a bit more of a buyer’s market.

I don’t disagree with anything you say and am not shitting on the trade from the Red Sox perspective. They got an rare & elite talent during their window and I’m sure they view the deal as a win for them. Having said that, Sale wasn’t going to win here before he hit FA so swapping him out for value during our next projected window made all the sense in the world. The fact we’ll likely end up with more overall WAR (and hopefully substantially more) makes the deal a sure fire win from our perspective.

It’s not that they’ll all work out, it’s the simple fact that they’ll all get extended looks before the ones that bust get removed from the rotation. And by then, Cease, Dunning, Hansen, & maybe even Lambert will be ready for looks. There is no obvious path to a rotation spot for Adams.

We can only dream.