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QUOTE (raBBit @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 03:56 PM) Has anyone in the Chicago media confirmed the White Sox are interested in Cespedes? Levine for sure.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 10:01 AM) Anderson still has a large strike out rate to overcome, as well as his defense (while it sounds much improved, he still has work to do). He has improved the K rate every year and it was only 20.7% K/PA in 2015. I was more concerned when it was at 25.9% in Kannapolis.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 10:01 AM) Anderson still has a large strike out rate to overcome, as well as his defense (while it sounds much improved, he still has work to do). Agreed. But scary to think how well he preformed in Birmingham while working on those things. His OBP, for example, jumped from .337 in 64 games before the All-Star break to .363 the rest of the season. That is the type of improvement that is very encouraging to see.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 09:39 AM) Did Adams crack any top 2s? Guessing not "Jonathan Mayo ‏@JonathanMayo 3m3 minutes ago Jonathan Mayo Retweeted Joey Castro He has considerable ceiling. Maybe a No. 3 starter when all is said and done? Jonathan Mayo added, Joey Castro @JoeyBats5 @JonathanMayo What kind of celing does Spencer Adams have? #WhiteSox" Talking about Spencer Adams...

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 09:39 AM) Did Adams crack any top 2s? Guessing not No, I think he was the unanimous #3.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 09:26 AM) With the Sox history of developing pitching versus hitting, and the distance that Anderson has between his current ability and his potential versus where Fulmer is at, I would put Fulmer first on my list too, but it wouldn't be by much. Anderson is far from a finished product, but he did just hit .312/.350/.429 in AA. I would actually put him and Fulmer's Major League ETA's the same, mid-season/September of 2016. So while Fulmer might be the safer prospect because he has the higher floor, I think Anderson's ceiling just barely puts him ahead in terms of rankings.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jan 20, 2016 -> 09:07 AM) Great list. Minor complaints are that I think Robinson Leyer and Nick Delmonico should be in the top 30. Jim Callis ‏@jimcallisMLB 6m6 minutes ago I still would argue Fulmer > Anderson. @whitesox I'll put this here for argument sake. I tend to agree because I think Fulmer's ceiling is higher than Anderson's. We had several writers vote that way and I think with Anderson/Fulmer it is a 1a and 1b situation. Personally, I voted Fulmer #1 in the mid-season list but the way Anderson finished his season (.310/.363/.445 in the second half) and he continued positive reports about his defense won me over. I like Robin Leyer as a potential 7th/8th inning guy, but he's likely not a potential closer like Tago or Goldberg and the bottom of our list was more competitive with several Latin American signings making their debut. Delmonico just didn't hit enough (.238/.313/.386) for a 23 year-old 3B in AA for him to find a place on the list. He has shown power previously though and he would have to dramatically improve his slugging percentage to be considered a prospect IMO.

Four players (Solorzano, Feliz, Perez, and Rodriguez) on this list were J2 signings under Marco Paddy. Keep an eye on those guys, they were tough to rank but a lot more potential than usually shows up on the bottom-half of these rankings.

Adams finishes his 2015 with a 2.99 ERA between 19 starts for the Kannapolis Intimidators and 5 starts for the Winston-Salem Dash. He struck out 96 batters to just 18 walks over 129.1 innings pitched. Adams is the consensus #3 prospect in the White Sox system across several prospect lists pre-season 2016.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jan 15, 2016 -> 12:51 PM) 3 year thing doesn't placate fans though It's at least an offer. A true "we tried!"

QUOTE (Baron @ Jan 15, 2016 -> 12:47 PM) That doesnt sound like he's saying the White Sox are back in. That just sounds like he's just putting the pieces together with the info from a few weeks ago. Maybe Cespedes would only accept a low year offer from the Mets. Honestly it sounds like a leak from the Sox FO to placate fans. Nightengale is their outlet for that.

QUOTE (SouthSideSale @ Jan 15, 2016 -> 12:43 PM) @BNightengale If Yoenis Cespedes would take 1- 2- or 3-year deal, the #WhiteSox also would be an alternative for the FA outfielder. The three year thing again. Joy. How I missed being reminded that the Sox won't go beyond that magic number.

QUOTE (BlackSox13 @ Jan 15, 2016 -> 08:41 AM) This article kind of makes it sound like Baltimore threw an offer at Cespedes in an attempt to get him on the cheap. Interesting take. http://www.camdenchat.com/2016/1/15/107742...yoenis-cespedes "Making sense of the Orioles interest in Yoenis Cespedes" This is my feeling as well. It's very rare that a national writer will get a leak as detailed as the years and dollar amount. It accomplishes two things for the Orioles IF Davis is truly their focus... 1) The contract offer to Cespedes is a jab at Boras and Davis. It's effectively telling the Davis camp that the Orioles don't have to spend 7/154 to acquire a big bat and there are cheaper alternatives in this market. 2) It stirs up the Cespedes market which might prevent another team from focusing on Davis themselves. Signing Cespedes to a 5/75-90 contract would be feasible for a lot of teams that thought his price tag was 100+ and an attractive alternative to a team that was thinking of beating the Orioles offer to Davis. A third purely speculative motivation is the Orioles might be more interested in Upton than Cespedes as an alternative to Davis and the offer is misdirection.

I know the knee-jerk reaction to this news is disappointment, but if you are Hahn and Cespedes and Upton won't budge off of 5+ years and you could get Fowler for possibly 3/40ish...wouldn't you explore it?

Jon Morosi ‏@jonmorosi 3m3 minutes ago Source: #Orioles, #Rockies engaged in "ongoing trade talks" on Colorado outfielders. Rockies have surplus following Parra deal. @FOXSports DO IT!

Everyone else is holding their chips for the big free agents available and Dodgers just quietly doing work on the secondary market. Nicely done.

Jon Heyman ‏@JonHeyman 39m39 minutes ago Tigers have discussed yoenis, j-up, davis, fowler, desmond. Depends on $. may just go for platooner for LF tho (ie rebury) Some fear mongering for all of you who are terrified of the Tigers.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jan 8, 2016 -> 03:06 PM) The best part about the report, if true, is that they're willing to go 4 years I think they've always been willing to go four years. They are just creating leverage for themselves. Offer three, pretend to stick to it, then "cave" and get a deal done.

I am not enthused by this news. Don't get me wrong, I would be very excited if we acquired him, but why would we give up top prospects to acquire him rather than just signing Cespedes/Upton? Money. Cargo is signed to a 2/37 million dollar deal and we would need to go far beyond that to land Upton/Cespedes. It just seems cheap to me to voluntarily give up young talent when equal or greater options are available in free agency.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Jan 7, 2016 -> 03:33 PM) Well, if true, makes 0 sense. It's no coincidence these tweets are coming from Nightengale and no one else. It's intentional leaks, now the only question is why?

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 7, 2016 -> 10:31 AM) Right, they're paying almost exactly the same as we pay Melky Cabrera to "patrol" LF for the next two seasons. Not really, Melky got three years at 14M AAV for his age 30, 31, and 32 season. Gordon signed for four years at 19M AAV for his age 32, 33, 34, and 35 seasons. Gordon is much better, but they aren't making close to the same salary and Gordon will be much older when his deal runs out.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jan 7, 2016 -> 10:15 AM) Lol. The Royals gave Gordon $91 at five years. This just isn't true. Mutual option means mutual (which basically means team), so you can only factor in the 4 million dollar buyout. The only thing that option can be counted on now is the buyout, which is four million. So the real guaranteed money is approximately 4/76.

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 7, 2016 -> 10:06 AM) How many teams offered Gordon 4 years other than KC? What are the current offers for Cespedes? What are the offers for Upton? What was the Sox best offer for Gordon? If you answered I really don't know to these questions, any whining about the White Sox and how they are NEGOTIATING currently with free agents is premature. +1. Sox aren't going to blow everything else away. Obviously Cespedes and Upton don't have a stack of 5-6 years offers or they would of signed by now. Hahn is trying to take advantage of the market and do the best deal for the team. If the market of those guys progresses to point where Sox need to offer 5-6 years and they don't, then feel free to complain.

This is excellent! I am always amazed and very appreciative that prospects would be willing to write guest posts for us. I scouted and met Brad down in Winston-Salem this past August and he is very much a prospect and also a great guy.

QUOTE (Jose Paniagua @ Jan 6, 2016 -> 03:11 PM) Buster Olney ‏@Buster_ESPN 8s8 seconds ago Theres' been contact between O's & Justin Upton's camp. Matchup makes sense, especially if he goes Nelson Cruz route and takes 1-year deal. I would kick my dog if Upton or Cespedes signed a short "prove it" deal and it wasn't with the Sox. EDIT: I have a really big dog. So he'd be fine. Please don't call PETA