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Maybe they'll let him play a game or two before trading him. 

Edited April 10, 20196 yr by Sleepy Harold

Long term recruiting, good job Rick. 

This is hilarious. 

I love and hate this.

Anyone remember Craig Griffey?

You can't make this stuff up. What in the hell. I don't even know what to think.

hahaa...why not. They'll hoard him like a fat kid with a donut tho.

Which aging SP will we trade him for? 

Is this for next year’s class?  That article mentioned $500k which obviously wouldn’t be allowed this year for us.

1 minute ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Is this for next year’s class?  That article mentioned $500k which obviously wouldn’t be allowed this year for us.

Yeah I believe it's a 7/2 signing 

I can't stop fucking giggling at this.

So we have Eloy's brother, Tatis' brother, and Vlad Jr.'s cousin.  Am I missing any other relatives of super prospects?

 

Just now, Jose Abreu said:

Yeah I believe it's a 7/2 signing 

Thanks...any idea how this kid is viewed as a prospect?

Just now, turnin' two said:

So we have Eloy's brother, Tatis' brother, and Vlad Jr.'s cousin.  Am I missing any other relatives of super prospects?

 

Yonder Alonso

Just now, Quin said:

Yonder Alonso

Hahaha.  Ugh.  Barf.

5 minutes ago, Jose Abreu said:

Which aging SP will we trade him for? 

Does Shields have a little brother?  If not, maybe they'll just trade him to AARP for James.  

3 minutes ago, turnin' two said:

So we have Eloy's brother, Tatis' brother, and Vlad Jr.'s cousin.  Am I missing any other relatives of super prospects?

 

Is Josue his cousin? I didn't know this

6 minutes ago, Jose Abreu said:

Which aging SP will we trade him for? 

Fortunately there are no former All-Star starters with the initials JS to trade a young SS for.

Laz Rivera and Lenyn Sosa are safe.

The only possible thing more White Sox than this is if Drake LaRoche becomes a top draft prospect, the Sox draft him, he refuses to sign and then becomes one of the best players in baseball with another team.

Also, translated from the article:

"Elijah is more like his father than his brother as a player."

It’ll be like how we have the only bad Guerrero

14 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

Is this for next year’s class?  That article mentioned $500k which obviously wouldn’t be allowed this year for us.

Article says for 2019-2020 signing period.

EDIT: Weirdly, it also says this:

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"Elijah is more like his father than his brother as a player, we already signed him and we are scheduled to debut in professionalism with our subsidiary of the Dominican Summer League this year," said a representative from Chicago who preferred to remain anonymous.

I am going to guess that is just a case of something being lost in translation and it actually meaning an agreement instead of an actual signing.

Edited April 10, 20196 yr by GenericUserName

So I was being flip, but I actually think lineage is as good a thing as any to go on with kids this young.

You could tell Paddy had a pretty good relationship with the Tatis's from this very good article in the athletic

https://theathletic.com/884960/2019/03/25/everybody-was-surprised-but-here-we-are-an-oral-history-of-how-the-padres-acquired-fernando-tatis-jr/

8 minutes ago, bmags said:

So I was being flip, but I actually think lineage is as good a thing as any to go on with kids this young.

You could tell Paddy had a pretty good relationship with the Tatis's from this very good article in the athletic

https://theathletic.com/884960/2019/03/25/everybody-was-surprised-but-here-we-are-an-oral-history-of-how-the-padres-acquired-fernando-tatis-jr/

You know, I've thought this for a long time. If anything, lineage is the biggest reason I would not have traded Tatis. The genes are in there somewhere. Of all the org filler you could trade, it's not worth the risk.

I don't know where Elijah Tatis would rank on a top 30 international list or anything but $500K is a real bonus. I think Fernando only got $700K. Lenyn Sosa was signed for $350K. He becomes part of their international class on J2 and likely joins Yolbert Sanchez. This leaves them with about $2 million in international space. I really wish one of the scouts wouldn't have mentioned the signing prior to J2 though. That was pretty much on the record to Rojas and that type of detail is frowned upon.