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Impressive and reckless play by Alexei

QUOTE (raBBit @ Jun 27, 2014 -> 08:38 PM) Jacob May with two more SBs. It seems he is snagging bags at will. He is 16 for 16 in the month of June on stolen base attempts.

http://www.chicagonow.com/future-sox/2014/...is-hot-in-june/ Recap posted. Please forgive the cheesy headline. After looking into him, Jacob May is a fascinating prospect. He has good speed, plays a good center field by the accounts I read, and has shown pop. I will be interested to see how he progresses.

Our long cursed time has finally come to an end. After starting his professional career 0 for 10, Micker Adolfo has his first hit!

QUOTE (flavum @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 03:55 PM) Montas 7ip, 7 h, 2 r, 1 er, 3 bb, 5 k, 1 hr Not the greatest line, he obviously didn't have his best stuff and only allowed one run. Impressive

QUOTE (LDF @ Jun 26, 2014 -> 09:09 AM) hey it a great job you do.... keep it up and many thanks, it prob hard to due. BTW .... does anyone have a profile on James Dykstra his pitch tools and speed of his fb etc. Thank you for the kind words LDF. Below are links to reports on Dykstra, including from Dykstra himself. http://www.southsidesox.com/2013/6/8/44086...sox-day-2-recap http://www.chicagonow.com/future-sox/2014/...-james-dysktra/ http://www.perfectgame.org/players/playerp...e.aspx?ID=69399

http://www.chicagonow.com/future-sox/2014/...-boil-crawdads/ Recap posted. Unfortunately I will be finishing most of these in the mornings, as the AZL game doesn't start until late.

QUOTE (Dunt @ Jun 25, 2014 -> 02:26 PM) Michalczewski stays in Kanny all year despite production right? He won't even be 20 until next February, I would say he should stay in Kannapolis all year. However, the White Sox are very aggressive with their assignments and it wouldn't surprise me if they promoted him.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 25, 2014 -> 11:04 AM) That's before 2013, which means the old BHAM park. The new one is, from what I remember of the 2013 numbers, more neutral. I knew they were playing in a new park, was guessing it would be similar dimensions to the old one. Would have to check on that.

QUOTE (LDF @ Jun 25, 2014 -> 01:21 PM) i will take your word over my memory any day. but wasn't there also a catcher involve from sea? Probably talking about Montero, who is not a catcher any longer and is apparently only able to bat against lefties as a DH. Soooo limited value there.

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?c...mp;ymd=20140625 Charlotte- Health Birmingham- McCully Winston-Salem- Marin Kannapolis- Dykstra Great Falls- Brennan Kannapolis is already underway and Michalczewski homered, his 6th of the year.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 25, 2014 -> 10:51 AM) If he keeps on hitting, they'll find a spot for him. Also, he's saying he can develop into a power bat. Plenty of guys hit 20 homers a year at 1B, it's not a problem, especially in today's game. Yeah I don't have a problem with him slugging .475ish as long as he keeps his OBP .375-.400. Another thing to consider, Regions Field in Birmingham is traditionally extremely tough on home run hitters. Reference link is below. He hits a lot of doubles that could possibly be homers in Chicago. http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=2...b&fext=.jsp

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/chat/cha...=1403635205#new Jordan Gorosh had a chat at BP today and touched a few White Sox prospects. I'll summarize below.... Gorosh wrote that he "really, really likes" Tim Anderson. Which, in my opinion, is just about as close to love as you'll get without adding in another "really." He says that he has strong hands and wrists, plus bat speed, and excellent athleticism. But he is not a believer he will stick at SS. Erik Johnson velocity slipped into the high 80's and slider lost some "bite." Said he is a fan of him becoming a "back end" starter if the velocity returns. Woo. Not a big believer that Rangel Ravelo will develop power. Said that at his "absolutely peak" he is Yonder Alfonso, which this past off-season would of been a huge compliment, but now probably not so much.

Well deserved! Tim Anderson had to be right there with J.P. Crawford as well, but we could only have two reps anyway.

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?c...mp;ymd=20140624 Charlotte- Hill Birmingham- Recchia Winston-Salem- Bucciferro Kannapolis- Barnette Great Falls- Stone

Spencer Adams made his professional debut on June 23rd with the Arizona League White Sox, pitching two innings and striking out two.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 06:27 PM) So I've been engaging in a stupid and mostly time-wasting argument with a guy on another forum who claims to be a "prospect professional". He has a prospect book on Amazon, so he feels like he is the authority on prospects. Anyway. He is adament that the Sox system is the 29th or 30th farm system in baseball. He isn't quite sure if the Angels farm system is worse. Despite the fact that I told him all the major publications rank the system somewhere between 21-27, he insist Rodon is the only worthwhile prospect, and the only one who is a top 100 prospect. Thinks Courtney Hawkins, Micah Johnson, Tyler Danish and all those guys are pretty much garbage. Just to try and see how ridiculous he is willing to go with this, I compared the Brewers top prospects to the Sox. In case you were wondering, the Brewers are considered the 2nd worst farm system, and of the top 7 prospects or so in the Brewers organization, they are ALL having terrible seasons, except for 1 pitcher they have who is dominating. One particularly interesting opinion he has is that Orlando Arcia is a better SS prospect than Tim Anderson. You could take a bias into evaluate any prospect and come up with any type of result you want. To give you an example I saw recently, Keith Law did a chat before the draft and played devil's advocate with Tyler Kolek, who you should keep in mind, he ranked as the #3 overall player. "Sean (SF) [via mobile] Crazy how many people are caught up in Koleks velocity more than his tools Klaw (1:58 PM) Bingo. If I wanted to crush him, I'd argue that he has below-average command, his slider isn't effective vs LHB because he can't locate it, he doesn't throw his changeup, and he'll have to work to maintain his physical conditioning. If I didn't tell you that he throws 100 mph, wouldn't you ask why the heck that guy was in consideration in the top few picks?" The first few words tells it all, "If I WANTED to crush him..." There has to be a bias present to completely focus on the positives or negatives of a certain player.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 01:06 PM) Someone tell Rob Young thank you for the recaps but if you are going to write you have to know that " must of " is not proper English. It is often misused for the contraction must've ( short for must have) Very often see the same mistake with would of , could of , and should of. Sorry , see it so often in posts and it's my pet peeve. I edited the post and it is corrected. Thank you for reading and catching the mistake!

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 12:05 PM) He still has played 0 minor league games there. Micah Johnson was a butcher at 2B last season, so much so that they was talk of moving him to the outfield. He seems to have cleaned up his defense this year, but he's absolutely not a SS. Marcus Semien or Carlos Sanchez would be be more effective replacement. Sanchez has played 21 games at shortshop this season. Marcus Semien has played 214 minor league games at SS, but only six this year.

QUOTE (Feeky Magee @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 12:20 PM) Do we get to be excited about Kevan Smith yet? Dude is tearing up AA. Also Rangel Ravelo. His OBP is around .400 and he already has a career high in homers this season. I remember Nathaniel Stoltz just gushing about watching him hit bombs in BP, he has the raw power, just taking awhile to develop.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 23, 2014 -> 10:08 AM) The only person who said any day now was Rock. All other indications I've seen point to this taking a while, but there has been very little information available. If you read into what Hahn and Bell have said, they seem pretty resigned to this taking a while, and they are trying to prod him into getting it done faster. Some positives out his holdout is that the White Sox would be limiting his innings this year anyhow and there is still plenty of baseball to be played at the signing deadline. Kris Bryant signed two days before the deadline last year and still played in 36 games and participated in the Arizona Fall League. It's probably better for the Sox to pay a bit more up front and delay his arbitration clock until next year or even the year after, assuming he will be as good as advertised.

http://www.chicagonow.com/future-sox/2014/...ift-kannapolis/ Recap posted. Does anyone know why Nolan Earley missed the first part of the season?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 22, 2014 -> 04:12 PM) Apparently it's a broken hand for Lawrie and he'll be out a month. Fire up the trade rumor train, the express from Chicago to Toronto is now open.

QUOTE (winninguglyin83 @ Jun 22, 2014 -> 06:23 AM) who exits when/if rienzo moves to pen? engel and basto both played in arizona? jaye got rocked again. I had high hopes for Jaye coming into the season but he's moving closer to becoming a non-prospect for me.

I attended a Frontier League game tonight and Blair Walters started for the Joliet Slammers. Pitched into the 9th too, lost it on a walk off.