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Davidson makes a great story for prospects overcoming struggles and I am rooting for the guy, but I am still worried about his K%. He's still around 30% and I'd like to see it below 25% going forward. Players with that high of a K% has a higher propensity to struggle over a long period of time. Simply put, his 38% HR/FB (firmly 2nd in the league by a huge margin) is not sustainable.

Don't know what I would put up yet, but I bet if Parke has another strong start, he moves up to WS.

The look most quarterbacks get before they get tackled.

So if it was indeed Soto and their entire org was fine with it except for the owner.. then Lerner had just saved himself from having to fire Rizzo. Imagine the backlash of trade away Soto for an RP, 6 months after a trade that everyone in the media pegged them as being fleeced on.

I thought laid his balls on the table and asked for Robles. Note "would have been".

Juan Soto's season and his career BA is pretty much ridiculous. Where does he rank in the prospect list right now? Not sure if he was available during the Eaton trade, but would have been nice if we "settled" for Soto, Lopez, and Dunning.

But he has had the same K% rate from R to AA? That difference doesn't change the fact that they have similar profile as a hitter, obviously one is a better prospect than the other. If you want to look at the recent trends, Skoug is also sporting a 1.300 OPS since start of the month.

31% vs 26%? Obviously Skoug is more raw and doesn't have same 1st round pedigree, but he also profiles as a low average, high OBP and plus power type of hitter. Really nice to see that BB% go up this year, and the K% is down substantially in May.

Does Skoug's triple slash remind you of someone else in this org?

I would think opposite. If it's anything serious, he'd been DL right away and you'd about X-Ray results. Usually the ones who don't hear about are the minor ones that just takes a few days to heal.

Maybe it's good scouting, maybe it's good coaching, or maybe we've just been lucky, but this system is clicking on cylinders right now. Even the guys who are supposed to be bad... aren't bad right now. Thinking back 5 years earlier, guys like Trey M, Mendick, Rose, and Booker would probably all be in our top 10 list.

Burdi got hurt early July and had surgery late July. Not sure how fast he's recovering but I was expecting a 50/50 chance we see him in the minors regular season.

Will Burdi be back by then? I understand the service time concerns that others have, but I am all for bringing up Eloy and Kopech if they prove they're ready this year. We need both of those guys, along with Moncada, and some combination of Rodon, Gio, Lopez and Fulmer to be performing well to bring optimism to this rebuild, if we have any chance of landing a Machado or Pollock. Record wise, this team couldn't be any worse right now.

Moncada Anderson & Dickman sounds like a reputable law firm to me.

I don't think anyone would argue against that. Simply put, the current Quintana does not get you a top 2 prospect in baseball.

Da Besss is the besss. I like Q, but would have done that trade 100 times out of 100. I hope Eloy becomes a superstar and Cubs fans can be bitter about it for the next 15 years.

Feel bad for him. Seems like a hard working kid based on his offseason training stories. With that said, at least the BPA in the draft might be a 3B.

Who was the last Coop fix' em special? Tommy Kahnle?

So if it's a launch angle issue rather than a power issue, then it could be corrected overtime. My concern is he's not making hard contact at all or that he's not generating the same power switching to wooden bat.

He did hit 21 HRs at Wake Forrest last year. Not sure if it's an issue with transitioning to wooden bat. Somebody who has watched him play can provide some insight here. Though with that kind of plate discipline and contact ability he just needs to hit 15 HRs a year to be an MLB regular.

If we could get Moncada, Collins, Sheets, and even Basabe playing on the same team, that’s hella beastly OBP team.

With so much going on in the Sox farms, it's easy to miss that Cease leads MILB in Ks (as of 5/6), and Skoug hit HRs in 3 straight games last week.

Meanwhile, Kanny just seems like a team that has the IT factor, keep finding ways to win even without their best player. Seems like Jirschele has done a good job so far, despite being the second youngest manager in all of minor.

His BABIP coming into the year was something like .290. So a .300 BABIP WOULD be considered high for him. Without seeing any batted ball data, it's hard to see whether the increase in BABIP is sustainable and if that number would continue to go up.

Let's also not ignore that he has cut his K% drastically the last 10 games, from 37% to 14.5%. Since BABIP doesn't take this into consideration, that's why I think using it as the argument here is flawed. Consider this, he can put more balls in play simply by not striking out as much as he did in the past. If the improvement in K% could be attributed back to the swing fix finally paying off, then you will see sustained success from him.