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QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 16, 2018 -> 02:30 PM) I feel pretty confident we’re drafting a college bat. Unless Mize somehow falls to us, I expect the pick to be Bohm, Madrigal, or Swaggerty. On that note, I saw this earlier:

QUOTE (yesterday333 @ Apr 16, 2018 -> 03:18 PM) I feel like your list is from months ago... It definitely is. The guys now are Mize, Swaggerty, Bohm, Kelenic as almost definitely on the list. Madrigal and McClanahan are also probably on there. For the other spots, maybe Gilbert, Liberatore, Stewart. Our pick will probably be from one of those first four though.

So we're going to draft Michael Byrne from Florida is what I got out of that comment haha.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 16, 2018 -> 10:32 AM) Surprised Liberatore seen as a riser. Didn't have much to rise, hasn't performed that well recently. I almost feel like he means since the season started, not just his recent movement.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 16, 2018 -> 12:01 AM) Oops, thought he was reacting to Clarkin and not Cease. With Cease, it's the overwhelming stuff right off the bat in ST...carrying over to the regular season as well. For example, the fact that he's not pitched SIX complete innings in a game, he never did that (entire MILB career) up until his last start. Ha, reading it back now I think he might have been talking about Clarkin. So I may have been wrong.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 15, 2018 -> 11:03 PM) I think you’re overreacting to two good starts. I don't think so. Most of the prospects analysts were super high on Cease even when he wasn't performing. I think we were all lower on him than we should have been even if we thought he was going to be good.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 15, 2018 -> 07:14 PM) I never said we should promote him right now, I meant at least a couple months I never implied that you said we should promote him right now. I said its too early to be talking about promoting him, which you are. And even June, which you referenced as the time which he would be back in the field and as such the time he should be promoted, would be too early. I'll say it again: he is on a hot streak right now, so we have to see what he is like when he cools off before we talk about promoting him.

Whoever said they liked Torres was on to something. Probably if he keeps it up he is probably gone before the second round.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 15, 2018 -> 05:55 PM) 10 errors now for Bohm, fielding percentage near .870. Again not sure what's considered good or bad for a 3b in college but he has seemingly made like 6-8 of those in last few weeks Yeah, that is not good. As we get closer and he stays in the top group we should get a better read on his defense when the same people view him many times in a row so that they see both good and bad. I almost wonder how much of it is the playing conditions or field being bad. The Fangraph guys were pretty sure he would be at least average defensively.

In this quick article about the draft, Scott Merkin says that Hostetler was in Wisconsin scouting a game for a draft prospect earlier this week. Can anyone think of anyone else playing in Wisconsin this last week besides Kelenic? That's what my mind first jumped too, but I could be forgetting someone. Hostetler also said they are down to 8-10 names for #4 at this point. If the Wisconsin thing is Kelenic, that would mean the list probably includes him, Swaggerty, Bohm, and Mize as names we've been connected to plus Mize who everyone says has separated himself.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 15, 2018 -> 03:51 PM) Because he wasn't good at those levels until last year? It's not like it's rare for a 17 year old kid to be stuck in rookie ball/low A for awhile Yeah, but you don't put all that work into him putting it together to promote him before he is ready and destroy his confidence when he can't hit again. He is on fire right now, let's let him cool off a bit before we start talking about promoting him.

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 15, 2018 -> 02:16 PM) Yeah, I believe the whole point of him DHing is the alternative to surgery, and said surgery would only occur if something goes wrong with the natural healing process They are going to try and not have the surgery but that doesn't mean they are going to let him play the field for half the year. Keston Hiura didn't play 2B for a whole year when he had this injury and he still had a scare during spring training. I highly doubt they let him play the outfield this year. Also, injury aside, they had him do two years in rookie ball and two years in low A and now they are going to promote him through advanced A after 2 months?

QUOTE (Jose Abreu @ Apr 15, 2018 -> 02:09 PM) If Adolfo keeps hitting (not at this unsustainable rate of course), I think we'll see him in AA as soon as he's able to play the field So next year?

Well maybe I will freak out a little bit

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 14, 2018 -> 08:51 PM) They said it was 2 to 3 MPH slow on the broadcast earlier, but that probably doesn’t explain that droppoff. If its three off, thats fine. There were a bunch of 95s, so 98 in reality. I think he also pitched yesterday or the day before, so maybe just a little tired still. I'm gonna try and not worry about it until someone who is in attendance brings it up.

Is that TV radar gun right? Looks like Vieira is sitting in the low 90s. If he lost some velo he is not nearly as interesting of a prospect.

QUOTE (fathom @ Apr 14, 2018 -> 08:04 PM) I will get yelled at for this, but I hope they take Bohm or Madrigal instead of Swaggerty due to this Alternatively, adding another outfielder would give us a definite area of strength to trade from rather than a gamble that a draft pick will help the areas of weakness.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Apr 14, 2018 -> 07:49 PM) When Robert’s healthy, where is he going to start? A or AA? Winston Salem. He is already hanging around with the team. He will go to Arizona to get ready once he gets the cast off, but right now he is with the team.

QUOTE (soxfan49 @ Apr 14, 2018 -> 07:42 PM) Basabe has had a HUGE start to 2018 Is he the new Ronald Acuna?!?!?!?! I mean probably not, but maybe haha

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Apr 14, 2018 -> 11:35 AM) He will have to hit because he apparently is terrible in the field. Yeah, hopefully with time he becomes playable at third. I wouldn't mind trying him in left like we are with Delmonico.

Swaggerty had a pretty good day. Went 3-7 with 1BB 1K 1HBP 2HRs in two games of a doubleheader today. So should this thread just turn into the daily Bohm & Swaggerty roundup?

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Apr 12, 2018 -> 10:20 PM) Thanks, appreciate the explanation I'd love that...wonder if it's better to get a handful of okay prospects or go all out for a Robert Kiley McDaniel was talking about this in his chat a while back: whether its better to spend all your money on a few (or one) high upside guys or spread it out over a ton of lower level guys. There are so many guys who simply develop later and get passed over in their initial J2 or are very risky that you would be able to sign cheap, and we see so many of them in the majors, its weird no teams spread the money out. The only real downside is that you would have to operate several DSL teams and that would cost an extra few million per year. The strategy I think we should use is to go after the big guys when we can, but concentrate on the lower level guys because we don't really have the big international draw like some other teams do, so we would be working at a disadvantage going against other bigger name teams for the same guys. I would have us operate two DSL teams standard and add more if we go big on a few guys and then pick up a ton of sub $10k guys. This would make sure we are always bring in good numbers to increase our odds, and when we do go for the big guy, bringing in even more guys to make up for the lower talent level of the players besides the big one.

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Apr 12, 2018 -> 09:36 PM) Awesome, loved Tejada but I thought CWS can't sign any J2 guys for another year We can, just not for more than $300k. It sounds like he is an okay prospect, but nothing crazy, and bonuses are down with the new hard pools, so we should be able to sign him for $300k.

QUOTE (bmags @ Apr 12, 2018 -> 02:26 PM) Exactly what a few of us have been talking about doing (in a much smaller scale) Well we might be able to get at least one big name, even though he may or may not be a big talent. This article mainly talking about Acuna's brother links us to Miguel Tejada Jr. for next J2:

QUOTE (Dunt @ Apr 12, 2018 -> 03:11 PM) This Lenny Torres Jr. kid around our second pick has some pretty electric stuff I just watched some of his videos after you said that....wow the arm side movement on his fastball is nuts! One video had him striking out Turang looking and Kelenic swinging on the fastball on the outside corner. Looks like he has raw secondary pitches, but a fastball like that would be a nice get in the second. And he is basically a year younger than most of the other HS guys, so he could probably add a little more velo too.