12 minutes ago, Y2Jimmy0 said:

Odds get reconfigured. So the bottom two teams, Sox and Pirates right now have 22% odds at #1 pick and 3rd team is Baltimore with 17%. Rockies will pick 10th no matter what and Angels and Nats likely 11-12. 

Poor Rockies.  Imagine setting the loss record and then only picking 10th in the very next draft.  😶

33 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Poor Rockies.  Imagine setting the loss record and then only picking 10th in the very next draft.  😶

Sounds strangely familiar…

While the Rockies will pick tenth in the first round in 2026 (assuming they finish last) like us in 2025, they will draft first in the subsequent rounds.

White Sox: Grant Taylor, RHP (No. 7)
Since the White Sox moved Taylor to the bullpen in mid-May, Double-A hitters have gone 1-for-14 with nine strikeouts against him. He has a 1.38 ERA with a 15/2 K/BB ratio in 13 innings over the last month and an overall 1.27 ERA with 28 whiffs in 21 1/3 frames. A 2023 second-rounder from Louisiana State, he features some of the best stuff in the system with a fastball that sits in the upper 90s and touches 101, a low-90s cutter and an upper-80s slider.

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The bullpen solution is to build enough org wide pitching talent to where you have failed starters and guys otherwise pushing for MLB experience but that are still potential starters to fill in slots like 1-4. Then for setup and closer you make smart signings.

On 5/27/2025 at 2:58 PM, southsider2k5 said:

As a franchise we should be doing everything we can to keep our high end guys as starters.  There should be no other options left before we make them relievers.

That is what the Sox did with Kopech.  It was a waste of time for him and for the team .

A top reliever can have a lucrative, long and great career.

12 minutes ago, tray said:

That is what the Sox did with Kopech.  It was a waste of time for him and for the team .

A top reliever can have a lucrative, long and great career.

He wasn't great as a reliever until he left here.  Weird right.