At SoxFest, Amateur Scouting Director Mike Shirley spoke candidly about the White Sox willingness to attack prep talent in the upcoming draft.

For patrons, James Fox detailed the approach and provides a possible pitcher that could fall to the Sox this June. 

FWIW I've been reading that this draft is LOADED with prep arms.  I think it was Law that said there are half a dozen prep pitchers that would have been the #1 prep guy taken in 2019.  The Sox are going to be able to target a 60 FV guy at their spot, that's fucking awesome.

Learning about that upside target at #11 is exciting, not gonna lie.

But also, today I learned my hometown is responsible for Honel and I don't think I can forgive @Y2Jimmy0 for that.

Excellent article.  You guys really need to create additional Patreon tiers because the content is worth more than $2M/month IMO.

Yeah. The content is awesome. Quality of the writing is pretty good as of late too.

On 3/4/2020 at 8:04 PM, chitownsportsfan said:

FWIW I've been reading that this draft is LOADED with prep arms.  I think it was Law that said there are half a dozen prep pitchers that would have been the #1 prep guy taken in 2019.  The Sox are going to be able to target a 60 FV guy at their spot, that's fucking awesome.

60fv? You are talking 60 fv upside if they perform a couple years, right?

Right out of the draft fangraphs never had more then 2 60s and 11 was never better than a 50 except for 2016 which was very deep.

A 60 upside guy would be great too of course.

On 3/4/2020 at 1:04 PM, chitownsportsfan said:

FWIW I've been reading that this draft is LOADED with prep arms.  I think it was Law that said there are half a dozen prep pitchers that would have been the #1 prep guy taken in 2019.  The Sox are going to be able to target a 60 FV guy at their spot, that's fucking awesome.

This draft is loaded with arms but they are college arms. Not a particularly strong prep arm draft, lots of short right handers.

5 hours ago, bmags said:

This draft is loaded with arms but they are college arms. Not a particularly strong prep arm draft, lots of short right handers.

Ah reading comprehension fail.  Must have been that the plethora of top college arms will push the top prep arms down in the draft so those looking for higher upside and more risk might be in a good spot.