16 hours ago, PaleAleSox said:

No point in murdering AAA pitching after he did it on the big stage of the WBC.

You should look up his WBC stats again on Baseball Reference. Also, it was only 23 plate appearances. That’s less than the usual ST at bats and shouldn’t dictate anything.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=antona000sam

Edited Friday at 01:54 PM1 day by WhiteSox2023

19 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Not the year with McGonigle Griffin Wetherholt DeLauter Mune.

A) you get the compensation for finishing top 3 if you’re on 100 prospect lists right?

B) Griffin and Wetherholt are irrelevant to the AL RoY discussion

Edited Friday at 02:53 PM1 day by Bob Sacamano

17 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

If he's that bad with a glove then release him. No shortage of DHs in baseball. Sox fans are enamored with the worst defenders playing 1st, a position that handles the ball quite a bit.

They way they do things never makes sense and you are what your record is.

They way they are using him, he isn't going to get better. He would probably be another guy who got better once he's not a White Sox.

But there is a shortage on this team: Benintendi is the primary DH Sosa was our HR leader last season.
They can't just dump him and keep Benintendi...

As fans, we can do our own talent evaluation and come to our own conclusions based on everything we have access to - videos of the player's games plus all kinds of stats. Nothing is definitive and no one has a crystal ball. I have been following Sam for a little while and have been impressed with, among other things, his bat speed and power. Look how he turns on this pitch and hits a bomb:

MiLB.com

Sam Antonacci's first Triple-A homer | 03/28/2026

White Sox No. 9 prospect Sam Antonacci swats his first Triple-A homer for Charlotte

So, maybe Sam proves to be a marginal major league talent. Even if that turns out to be the case, if I am GM, I want him on the team. Why? He brings a lot of energy to the game like Kyle Teel does. Sam runs the bases like his hair is on fire (not with plus speed but with a purpose) and at the least, he can temporarily fill a position that is in need - LF.

Edited Friday at 03:38 PM1 day by tray

18 hours ago, PaleAleSox said:

No point in murdering AAA pitching after he did it on the big stage of the WBC.

Except he didn't really do all that well in the WBC.

17 hours ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

More compelling that he's found that power almost exclusively on pulled balls in the air. If he can get to league avg max EV's, with his contact and bat to ball skills he could absolutely become someone like him. His spring results were a big step up (from bottom 5% to the 30-35th%) but he still needs to add more strength and show it over extended period. I'm incredibly bullish.

Hell yeah. It's you and me on the Antonacci train, Ray Ray. I got shot down for suggesting he's a top 10 prospect in the system. Nobody has been more bullish on The Chairman of the Board than I have. The guy is going to be good.

Edited Friday at 04:53 PM1 day by ron883

This is the long-time debate. If you call up a prospect seemingly too early without enough minor league at bats, do you risk “ruining them”?

Edited Friday at 04:56 PM1 day by WhiteSox2023

8 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

This is the long-time debate. If you call up a prospect seemingly too early without enough minor league at bats, do you risk “ruining them”?

And why most importantly WHY? If he's ready, cool, but let him force it.

33 minutes ago, WhiteSox2023 said:

This is the long-time debate. If you call up a prospect seemingly too early without enough minor league at bats, do you risk “ruining them”?

I think my issue is that yet again we are sticking a guy in the outfield and asking him to figure it out. Meidroth isn’t exactly tearing it up right now, and wasn’t GREAT last season. Let the best man play the position that he knows best

57 minutes ago, ron883 said:

Hell yeah. It's you and me on the Antonacci train, Ray Ray. I got shot down for suggesting he's a top 10 prospect in the system. Nobody has been more bullish on The Chairman of the Board than I have. The guy is going to be good.

Yeah, I've jotted down all those taking shots and casting doubt on Antonacci in this thread.

On 4/2/2026 at 5:32 PM, fathom said:

He really struggled in the WBC after the homer

Started whiffing a bit against better stuff

5 minutes ago, Jake said:

Started whiffing a bit against better stuff

Looked overwhelmed after they got out of Pool Play...

Antonacci not in Charlotte's lineup today.

1 hour ago, DirtySox said:

Antonacci not in Charlotte's lineup today.

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8 minutes ago, DoUEvenShift said:

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Repurpose those t-shirts. Scrape off everything after "South Side Sam..."

11 minutes ago, DoUEvenShift said:

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Shriff should just drop "The Pershing Road Pasta Muncher" out of nowhere.

1 minute ago, WestEddy said:

Shriff should just drop "The Pershing Road Pasta Muncher" out of nowhere.

He wants to lose his job with more stereotypes...?

7 hours ago, Kyyle23 said:

I think my issue is that yet again we are sticking a guy in the outfield and asking him to figure it out. Meidroth isn’t exactly tearing it up right now, and wasn’t GREAT last season. Let the best man play the position that he knows best

If 129 WRC+, 3.3ish WAR per 162 isn't tearing it up, I'm not really sure what the expectation for Meidroth is. The home run is doing some of the heavy lifting but those aren't numbers that make you lose your starting spot on a bad team.

54 minutes ago, WestEddy said:

Repurpose those t-shirts. Scrape off everything after "South Side Sam..."

still partial to Sam Sosa.

6 hours ago, nrockway said:

If 129 WRC+, 3.3ish WAR per 162 isn't tearing it up, I'm not really sure what the expectation for Meidroth is. The home run is doing some of the heavy lifting but those aren't numbers that make you lose your starting spot on a bad team.

lol he is not a 3.3ish WAR guy now nor was he last season

7 hours ago, Kyyle23 said:

lol he is not a 3.3ish WAR guy now nor was he last season

Point being: why do you bench him if he's playing fine particularly when the left fielder is the worst player in MLB? There's a difference between making slow ass Andrew Vaughn play LF and having a middle infielder do it.

22 minutes ago, nrockway said:

Point being: why do you bench him if he's playing fine particularly when the left fielder is the worst player in MLB? There's a difference between making slow ass Andrew Vaughn play LF and having a middle infielder do it.

My point was “this guy Hasn’t really all been that great and his replaceable” and you responded saying he is a 3.3 WAR player, and now we are back to “well it’s better than Andrew Vaughn right”….?

Whatever man. I believe Antonacci will be the better player at second and he should play there because of that reason. Chase isn’t lighting the world on fire and forcing them to keep him in the lineup and you could try actual outfielders in Left instead of making someone play out of position

It’s funny you brought up Vaughn who was playing out of position the entire time with the Sox and it HURT HIS DEVELOPMENT

4 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

My point was “this guy Hasn’t really all been that great and his replaceable” and you responded saying he is a 3.3 WAR player, and now we are back to “well it’s better than Andrew Vaughn right”….?

Whatever man. I believe Antonacci will be the better player at second and he should play there because of that reason. Chase isn’t lighting the world on fire and forcing them to keep him in the lineup and you could try actual outfielders in Left instead of making someone play out of position

It’s funny you brought up Vaughn who was playing out of position the entire time with the Sox and it HURT HIS DEVELOPMENT

That’s not what I wrote though. All I did was extrapolate on his current production per Fangraphs and noted that’s what his statistics would be if he played at the same level for 162 games. You said he wasn’t lighting it up or something, except those are his current statistics. Extrapolate on Beni and you get a -8 WAR player. It’s pretty rudimentary math.

If you can play second base, you can play left field. Converting middle infielders to the outfield is not the recipe for disaster you seem to think it is. It’s incredibly common. It’s better when they haven’t debuted. Vaughn is not the measuring stick. No first baseman is.

We should definitely extrapolate the first seven games as truth, you are so right

14 minutes ago, Kyyle23 said:

We should definitely extrapolate the first seven games as truth, you are so right

Why are you being like this? I'm just replying to what you wrote and you happened to be wrong in your assessment. You said he was playing poorly but he is literally playing like a 3 WAR player because that's what the statistics are. His bat is 23% above league average and he is playing the same kind of defense he always does. Chase is playing fine and if he played exactly the same way for the rest of the season, he would produce 3 WAR. You're the one talking about 7 games and how he already needs to be benched. I simply ask "why would you replace the guy on pace for 3 WAR and not the guy on pace for -8 WAR? Because a middle infielder can't play left field?".

Fact of the matter is that several of these middle infield prospects need to learn the outfield. There's no room for them. There are practically zero notable outfielders in the system outside of Braden, and if there are some to be bullish on (Wolkow, Zavala, Ely Brown, Alcala), they aren't making the MLB roster anytime soon. Converting middle infielders to outfielders is just the way baseball works. If you're a position player prospect of some note, chances are you were a shortstop in college and high school or you're left-handed and played center field. I'd start playing Bonemer there too. Bryan Ramos should've learned left and he might still be on the team. If Carlson and Roch join the team and play to their potential, where are the rest of these dudes going to play?

Not to say Chase is the second baseman of the future necessarily, but there are by far bigger holes on this team.