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The Trout-less Angels and woeful Twins are hovering just below .500. The Brewers, a truly miserable roster that had no intentions of competing to start the year, are only 0.5 back of the juggernaut Cubs. All it would take is Rodon/Lopez/Giolito all playing up to their potentials and it will be extremely difficult for the Sox to be so bad again.

You cannot pretend to know what the White Sox offseason strategy will be. They are maybe the most unpredictable front office in the game. raBBit, who clearly has as good an inside scoop on this franchise as about anyone, said they would never deal with the Cubs...then lo and behold. You argue whether they should or should not sign free agents but to assume that they wont be active in free agency is a baseless presumption. Especially with all the payroll they'll have available. In any case, cream will rise to the top as it always does in baseball. Even teams like the Padres that are desperately trying to be as bad as possible eventually churn through their AAA roster and minor league free agents enough to eventually find something that plays major league baseball. Maybe it doesn't play major league baseball well, but they are nowhere near as bad as what the White Sox are now. For the next two months the Sox are open tryouts for the majors, anyone who gives even an inkling that they can hack it in the majors is gonna get a shot. From that point they either succeed, or they dont and someone else takes their place. This process repeats itself enough and you find major league ballplayers.

Ehhh I wouldn't say that. I've seen people rooting for #1 overall in 2019 already.

Anyone hoping the Sox do this again next year is out of their minds.

Lopez not heading to the majors on a high note. Lots of strikeouts at least.

You always find a place for a guy who can provide above average production batting left handed. Delmonico deserves his shot.

The last thing you want to do is have him get all amped up "one promotion away from the bigs" when he's already way over his previous career high in innings. He breaks camp in Charlotte next year and is probably in the majors by July, provided he earns it.

Probably open next season in Bham.

Also, Giolito is doing very well so far against a very talented Gwinnett squad. Arms!

Jimenez is getting the buzz, but Kopech might be the best prospect in the system. Hell, if there wasn't such a bias against pitchers he'd maybe be the #1 overall prospect in the game.

.977 OPS is crushing, or at least very close to it.

Next year's Sox team will win this game.

If there is a player in the Sox system who is showing the ability to just fly through the majors its Eloy Jimenez. And really we do not know with Luis Robert yet, he's crushing his competition in the DSL but we wont really have an idea of who he is on the field until the AFL (if the Sox chose that) or his first stateside assignment. If he really is "The Cuban Bryce Harper" he'll force their hand pretty quickly.

Well they graduated Delmonico and Moncada in the last few weeks. High A is also closer to the majors than many people realize.

I don't agree with that. Kopech is in AA, Giolito and Lopez in AAA...Id say their top end talent is fairly spread out.

Collins did his 1 for 4 with a HR thing, except he didn't strike out at all! I would not be upset if him and Basabe, who's starting to play a lot better, repeat this level again to begin next year. Zavala has clearly earned the promotion to AA more. Kannapolis is an awesome follow right now.

Most of these dudes would've been top 10 (and some were!) a year ago today. The improvement has been vast, to say the least.

It'll be interesting to see if they put him in left field at all

I could easily see Jimenez as #1, but Kopech isn't quite there yet.

2018 Kanny LF Gonzalez CF Robert RF Adolfo W-S LF Fisher / Basabe CF Call / Basabe RF Rutherford

Honestly, an org guy. Adolfo has rebuilt his prospect status, now's not the time to overpromote him. I would let him start really excelling against his current competition before moving him up.

Give him the starts, shut him down, start him next year at Charlotte with eyes on a August 1st callup if he's doing well at AAA.

For about 10 minutes it looked like the worst. Whew.

Now she saying he can put pressure on it. That's encouraging.