White Sox win draft lottery, will pick #1 in 2026

[WhiteSox2023]

8 hours ago, fathom said:

 

Wow, what a slip.  LOL.  I guess we know who the Sox are drafting.

Edited 23 hours ago by WhiteSox2023

[Y2Jimmy0]

59 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Wow, what a slip.  LOL.  I guess we know who the Sox are drafting.

Doing anything else would be stunning

[fathom]

Also, they cut that out of the podcast, funny enough

[Sleepy Harold]

2 hours ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

Wow, what a slip.  LOL.  I guess we know who the Sox are drafting.

Also listening to podcasts at 1.3+ speed is not for the faint of heart.

[WhiteSox2023]

58 minutes ago, Sleepy Harold said:

Also listening to podcasts at 1.3+ speed is not for the faint of heart.

I knew something was off.  🤣

[WhiteSox2023]

2 hours ago, fathom said:

Also, they cut that out of the podcast, funny enough

Probably by Getz’s request.

[Timmy U]

1 hour ago, Sleepy Harold said:

Also listening to podcasts at 1.3+ speed is not for the faint of heart.

That’s the only way I listen to podcasts. Too much dead air otherwise.

[WestEddy]

19 minutes ago, Timmy U said:

That’s the only way I listen to podcasts. Too much dead air otherwise.

Except the FutureSox podcasts with Dylan Barnas and Elijah Evans. Those guys speak way too fast as it is. 

[Lukakke Appling]

1 hour ago, Timmy U said:

That’s the only way I listen to podcasts. Too much dead air otherwise.

 

[baseball_gal_aly]

7 hours ago, Y2Jimmy0 said:

Doing anything else would be stunning

Things change during the season. Idk why they'd have a decision before the 2026 season has even been played. Sometimes players emerge and move up, and others have a bad season. 

I'd hope they do their due diligence and pick Cholowsky only if he's deserving. But this is the White Sox we're talking about. 

Edited 15 hours ago by baseball_gal_aly

[SoxBlanco]

12 minutes ago, baseball_gal_aly said:

Things change during the season. Idk why they'd have a decision before the 2026 season has even been played. Sometimes players emerge and move up, and others have a bad season. 

I'd hope they do their due diligence and pick Cholowsky only if he's deserving. But this is the White Sox we're talking about. 

Really? You think they would make a decision now and then not change no matter what happens between now and the draft?

Roch is the obvious pick right now. They would 100% pick him if the draft happened tomorrow. But they will obviously see how everything plays out. 

[WhiteSox2023]

16 minutes ago, SoxBlanco said:

Really? You think they would make a decision now and then not change no matter what happens between now and the draft?

Roch is the obvious pick right now. They would 100% pick him if the draft happened tomorrow. But they will obviously see how everything plays out. 

Yep.  It was a slip of the tongue but it’s obvious that Getz thinks he’s a potential superstar.  But like you said, if he suffered a catastrophic injury between now and the draft, they would obviously consider other players.

[Y2Jimmy0]

3 hours ago, baseball_gal_aly said:

Things change during the season. Idk why they'd have a decision before the 2026 season has even been played. Sometimes players emerge and move up, and others have a bad season. 

I'd hope they do their due diligence and pick Cholowsky only if he's deserving. But this is the White Sox we're talking about. 

Correct. 

3 hours ago, SoxBlanco said:

Really? You think they would make a decision now and then not change no matter what happens between now and the draft?

Roch is the obvious pick right now. They would 100% pick him if the draft happened tomorrow. But they will obviously see how everything plays out. 

Also, correct. 

[CaliSoxFanViaSWside]

On 12/20/2025 at 4:03 PM, Chicago White Sox said:

The biggest issue with the previous rebuild was a lack of future wave of prospects to support the original core, partially driven by safe / need-based drafting.  We should be talking the best, high talent ceiling regardless of position in the draft moving forward and in rounds 2 & 3 of next year’s draft that will likely be prep players with the amount of pool dollars we should have.

I certainly have no problem with picking the best choice. My point was that it's possible another college player is the best choice. 

Of course you need a strong 2nd wave of players but ideally you   want it to be closer to 2 years behind the 1st wave or main core with MLB debuts in 2027 or 2028 when guys like Teel, Montgomery and whoever else emerges are strong fixtures in the lineup. Braden Montgomery ,Antonacci , Bonemer perhaps followed by the 1:1 pick and later by Carlson or another college kid from the 2026 draft. 

Murakami might only be around until he's traded if he can emerge as a guy who removes the doubts that led the Sox to be able to sign him. That could keep some  young prospects incoming who may already be in A ball who were HS draftees . 

[Y2Jimmy0]

9 hours ago, CaliSoxFanViaSWside said:

I certainly have no problem with picking the best choice. My point was that it's possible another college player is the best choice. 

Of course you need a strong 2nd wave of players but ideally you   want it to be closer to 2 years behind the 1st wave or main core with MLB debuts in 2027 or 2028 when guys like Teel, Montgomery and whoever else emerges are strong fixtures in the lineup. Braden Montgomery ,Antonacci , Bonemer perhaps followed by the 1:1 pick and later by Carlson or another college kid from the 2026 draft. 

Murakami might only be around until he's traded if he can emerge as a guy who removes the doubts that led the Sox to be able to sign him. That could keep some  young prospects incoming who may already be in A ball who were HS draftees . 

This is possible for sure but it's going to very unlikely that someone overtakes Cholowsky in this class. Guys like this just generally aren't available as collegians.