Chicago White Sox

Isn’t the rookie threshold 50 innings?

Vaughn 100% needs to go after this season. Zero reason to commit more time on him at this point.

In theory each team should land 16 or 17. And I’m not going to lose sleep if we missed out on a couple guys in the 400’s in a weak draft, but I’m not a huge fan of what we did on day 2. Very little upside and not even one standout prospect IMO. Last year we had Keener & Wolkow as immediate top 30 prospects and the year before we had Cannon. McLain in particular was a very disappointing third round pick. I hope he proves me wrong and Shirley probably deserves the benefit of the doubt here, but I’m just not a fan of the tweener OF profile that high in the draft. Overall, it just doesn’t feel like we got $15M of talent across all three days and the lack of one more big overslot pick somewhere reinforces that.

It feels like one of the prep picks may have pushed for more money last second and put us in a bit of a bind. Yes, I get it was a weak draft, but day 2 felt like more of a fallback plan than it should have.

I fully get the don’t use one publication to evaluate a draft thinking, but only drafting 10 of the top 500 on BA’s list is not a great sign. Especially when it seems like several of our non senior selections on day 2 were mild reaches.

Phillies have shied away from Pham as an OF reinforcement per Bob.

Per Nightengale. What could a package look like there?

Latest update on Crochet from Bob: Also says the Tigers are talking to teams about Skubal, but that he’s unlikely to be trade (which is good for the Crochet & Fedde markets).

We don’t need pitching though. Not sure we pair up all that well with them.

He already declared he’s going to college

It seems like we went from having some of the best pro scouts during the prime KW years to the worst under Hahn. And I’m greatly concerned about Gene Watson being the one to right the ship.

He can square up with the best of them, but unfortunately has the upper body of a sedentary tween. The fact he is the biggest free agent signing in franchise history is an embarrassment unlike any other.

He looks like a solid back of the rotation SP to me.

Nothing…he is an absolute abomination of a player.

I have a bad feeling that Nastrini is pitching through some injury. Just a crazy fall off this year.

I don’t think Smith would be that much. My guess is $8.0M, $3.0M, & $2.0M for our first three picks, which would be ~$1.8M overslot in total. It’s very clear with our day 2 picks that we went well above the 5% $700k overage on day 1.

May is out with a weird injury and only has a year of control left. Lux isn’t anything special and only has two years of control left. Outman is 27 years old and his bat has been exposed in the majors over a larger sample. These guys aren’t all that valuable and certainly don’t really help us in our rebuild. One team acquiring Crochet & Robert in the same trade would be near impossible for all but a handful of clubs and I don’t see the Dodgers being one of them. That being said, a package of Pages, De Paula, & Freeland would be enough for one of them plus a smaller piece (Kopech, DeJong, Pham, etc.).

New update?

Mayo is RH

I think this has to do with trading DeJong and having an infield option they prefer over Mendick in place. Sosa should be back up soon I’d imagine.

That’s a really rough day 2. Let’s hope there is something coming tomorrow…I’m definitely worried they blew their entire load on the two prep picks.

New thread for a new day! Hopefully we can snag someone fun in the 3rd (Joey Oakie?)

Fully agree. It’s wild how little we are getting out of our LatAm program. If you look at BA’s latest update, we only have two LatAm signings in our top 20. It’s almost like the program is non existent. I get Reinsdorf is probably a roadblock there to some extent, but at some point you can’t turn a blind eye after years of lackluster production.

Smith is going to come fast and should hopefully fill in the TOR gap left by a Crochet trade. With him, Schultz, & Thorpe all but guaranteed rotation spots (if healthy), it’s going to be interesting to see who can claim the remaining two. It’s a good problem to have and we could have a really good, entirely home grown rotation ready to compete by 2026. Taking high upside prep players in 2nd was also a great strategy. Gone are the days of going overslot for college bats like Gavin Sheets & Steele Walker. The only real concern with this approach (other than the higher risk profile) is it will take time for these kids to ever sniff the majors. Still, if your goal is to build a sustainable, highly productive farm system this is the way to go. While overall it was an exciting day 1, the big question right now is how they expect to build an offense that will be ready to go at the same time the rotation is. It’s unlikely we’re going to land anyone at this point in the draft who is a high probability to fill lineup spot long-term. And the farm system remains very weak on the positional side (and doesn’t help that Montgomery, Ramos, & even Gonzalez are all underperforming at the moment). Getz will have to kill it on the trade front this deadline and offseason, because outside of Lee there isn’t anything to really build around offensively on the major league roster.

Baseball America has him 36th overall