DirtySox

From Passan today. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/49306462/2026-mlb-trade-deadline-addition-top-contender-moves-dodgers-brewers-braves-yankees-phillies

Yikes. Having Burke be the only respectable starting pitcher ain't gonna work.

Woof. Offense is gonna have to wake up to win this one.

Slightom is the guess. Local guy who has crazy helium. Might go top 30.

Forgot this tidbit. God I want it.

Wrong thread.

From Joe Doyle's draft intel piece today. Posting some but not all of it. This is the second time Santarelli has been mentioned by Doyle and the White Sox which I find surprising. The power is stupid good, but corner prep bats really aren't the White Sox type.

Wonderful FutureSox podcast with Joe Doyle on the draft. Great listen. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2026-mlb-draft-preview-with-joe-doyle/id850054474?i=1000775914484 Seems like Joe is a little lighter on Thome then others. Doesn't sound like he would use 41 on him. They talk Dylan Bowen who might have a high number. 3 million was mentioned. Also fully agree with @Y2Jimmy0 on not using high picks outside of the first round on college position players. No more McClain/Lodise/Saucke please.

From Kiley's final draft rankings. Sharing the top 3 guys that are in the mix for the Sox. He also goes into what could go wrong with these players. I also found it interesting that these 3 and Flora (49) are the only players that would crack his top 100 MLB prospects list. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/49297819/2026-mlb-draft-rankings-top-250-prospects-roch-cholowsky-grady-emerson-vahn-lackey

The chaotic side of me wants an Emerson pick just to read the crash outs.

BA's penultimate mock. Will get one more the night before or the day of. Sharing the top 10. https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2026-mlb-mock-draft-6-0-latest-first-round-pick-predictions-for-every-team/

There aren't too many high ceiling prep arms that are getting less than a million. Otherwise they just go to school. The Bolemons and Borthwicks of the class are gonna run you 2 to 4 million. Regardless of where they are selected.

I wish the college pitching crop was better. I've been looking at college arms that would be around at 41 and I don't love any of them really. The high school pitching is abundant and a strength of the class. I wouldn't mind if they dove heavy into that demographic. Even at the expense of Thome.

I go back and forth on this. I trust the hitting development so much more than the pitching side at the moment. I don't mind them sticking with what seems to be working. I just don't have a solution for the dearth of pitching though.

Love it. Sharing the recent blurb on Ferraro from BA, as well as the reports on Putnam who I was unfamiliar with. I really would kill for an extra comp pick at this point to grab another high upside prep arm. Or even a college arm they think they can work with.

We cookin!

Not sure where this came from, but semi-well known social media White Sox fan guy who also posts here? Not sure how he became internet famous, but he seems like a good dude. A bit too reactionary for my tastes on Twitter, but some folks are wired that way with sports.

Damn. Can't believe they fixed Hicks. Bannister is a god.

Sheesh. Hicks looks great.

This is quite a take.

They talk about it on the FutureSox podcast, but Teel has never had this stellar defensive reputation. He's here for the bat.