Chicago White Sox

Go hog wild outside of Sox picks!

As has been discussed for months, there was a clear top three in this draft and those guys go chalk to kick things off. It appears that all the talk of underslot deals at the top proved to be nothing but plays to drive prices down. And based on these bonus amounts, the agents for Roch, Emerson, & Lackey knew teams were unlikely to pass on the handful of special talents and had the leverage.

He’s incredible at 3B

All the leaks saying otherwise was noise to help build leverage…unfortunately for us it doesn’t seem like it worked.

The Sox have five picks today

Ugh that really sucks. Bummer they couldn’t negotiate something south of $10M here.

I think that makes more sense than Thome. College juniors are obviously much harder to float to a specific pick, so makes more sense if there is a college arm they love and were aggressive in increasing their chances in getting him.

Let’s fucking go!!!

Here are today’s slot values: 01) #001 - $11.4M 01) #034 - $2.9M 02) #041 - $2.4M 03) #077 - $1.1M 04) #105 - $0.7M I’d expect at least $1.7M of savings on our first pick. We have $1M from the 5% overage and roughly $0.4M of potential savings if we go seniors with our 9th & 10th round selections. That’s $3.1M of additional dollars to work with. Theoretically, we could allocate $1.4M to our 3rd pick and bump it up to $2.5M and take a very special talent. We could then bump our 4th & 5th round picks to the $1.5M range and get two more additional preps. That’s a six player class plus we’d still have full slot value in the 6th through 8th rounds that could go to college pitching.

Bold prediction, but Sox take Volchko with their second or third pick.

God why did they have to show a 2024 draft recap

It’s the dream. Shirley needs to make the most of this though, because we have an opportunity to take a bunch of preps and build a future wave of talent.

100%

Nope, I think this first hour and a half is just the first 10 picks, so NBC is going to drag this s%*# out

Would be a shocker if it’s Emerson at this point.

I wish they let the prospect table do the heavy lifting.

With the extra pick, I’m hoping that five guys are displaced from this list after today.

For the Sox? Roch & Rocco would be quite the pair

So fucking awesome!! Kid totally deserves it!

@DirtySox - Great stuff as always!

Zero concerns with taking Thome…I’d love to grab him. But if the cost to get him is effectively Jacob Gonzalez, then I think it’s a highly questionable move.

This is only selling high if you don’t believe in the player. As I mentioned in my last post, two years of mediocre Gavin Lux returned a Comp A prospect and a decent prospect. With any extended stretch of productive major league play and Jacob’s value exponentially increases. And while he’s blocked right now, any injury to an infielder or Benintendi and he’s a regular once again. If Getz & Fuller don’t think Jacob can sustain what he’s showed in Charlotte and the majors over the past couple of weeks, then I agree this is selling high. But to me, this feels like we’re overpaying for an asset he had to have for reasons unknown vs. not believing in the player. If we were really trying to sell high, we’d have waited until after the draft when more teams are engaged.

This website is pure garbage. This is suggesting Jacob for Woods would be a fair trade…lol.

Fully agree with you here.

Having an extra pick and the additional bonus pool dollars is awesome, but the draft is still a crapshoot and the odds of the player selected at #34 becoming a quality major leaguer is far from a guarantee. And we just used our best, most fungible trade asset to get it. To me, there should have been a second prospect coming back to make this trade make sense, one who could have been used to help upgrade the major league team. The Reds gave up a Comp A pick and Mike Sirota (pre blow up) for two years of Gavin Lux. I get Lux was a massive prospect and only one year removed from a very nice season, but I think 6+ years of the current version of Jacob is at least worth as much. This feels like Getz was committed to getting this pick at all costs for reasons not yet known. I’m actually pretty excited about Thome as a prospect, but if they made this trade to ensure they 100% get him then that’s a bad move. Right now, you dream Landon can be as good as Jacob one day and if he can’t play SS at the major league level I’m not sure the ceiling is really any higher.