SouthSideSox deep dive/profile on Brooks Baldwin

[WestEddy]

Brett has kept the lights on at SouthSideSox since Jim Margalus vacated a few years ago. SBNation keeps jerking the money and rules around that causes periods of the site being a guy sitting in an empty store front reading his phone. Malachi Hayes proposes a series to look at unexpected cogs of the next competitive window. This is the first in a series. 

** I may also use this string to post the odd player profiles from SoxMachine, the Times and Trib and so forth.  **

The phenomenon known as Brooks Baldwin:

Fringe to Foundational? A short series | South Side Sox

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Still, there’s still a much wider range of outcomes with Baldwin than many of us are giving him credit for. Defensive metrics have panned his work pretty much across the board, but he’s plenty fleet of foot, ranking in the 82nd percentile for Baseball Savant’s sprint speed metric. It also thinks he has a solid enough arm, one that will play all across the diamond even if it’s nothing special. Contrasted with someone like Lenyn Sosa, whose lack of lateral speed and overall athleticism put a hard cap on his defensive ceiling, Baldwin still has room for improvement. This is not the guy who has the tools of a negative defender.

 

[WestEddy]

Barry M. Bloom does a short  piece about Braden Montgomery's goal:

White Sox' Braden Montgomery confident he'll find Fame - Chicago Sun-Times