https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects/whitesox/

Also Roch 11, Bonemer 30, Carlson 62, Hagen and Braden come off Top 100

$50k bonus baby Boston Smith 13th for #1 Seattle system

gaudy 6/Top 16 from this year's draft

Oppor still #21

Zavala 30th

Seems Ian Thorpe also lost his eligibility...

Sebastian Romero flies up charts

Scouting grades: Hit: 50 | Power: 50 | Run: 55 | Arm: 55 | Field: 55 | Overall: 40

Romero received the second-largest bonus in Chicago's 2026 international class, signing for $1.5 million out of Venezuela in January. He's a more advanced hitter than most 17-year-olds, and his tools are roughly comparable to those of Jaden Fauske, who landed an above-slot $2,997,500 bonus as second-rounder last July. He'll likely spend his first pro season in the Rookie-level Dominican Summer League.

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I don't think I've ever seen a pitcher have a season like Christian Oppor. The fact that the White Sox still trot him out there instead of just shutting him down is amazing.

40 minutes ago, kwill said:

I don't think I've ever seen a pitcher have a season like Christian Oppor. The fact that the White Sox still trot him out there instead of just shutting him down is amazing.

Alec Hansen did to some degree and was never the same before exiting baseball. Let’s hope an offseason can cure whatever ails Oppor.

46 minutes ago, kwill said:

I don't think I've ever seen a pitcher have a season like Christian Oppor. The fact that the White Sox still trot him out there instead of just shutting him down is amazing.

Whoa, I haven't checked in on him in a minute. I play this nerdy ass baseball simulation game called Out of the Park Baseball and he generally turns into a stud. What the heck happened here?

47 minutes ago, kwill said:

I don't think I've ever seen a pitcher have a season like Christian Oppor. The fact that the White Sox still trot him out there instead of just shutting him down is amazing.

TBH, it's a fairly bog-standard yips situation. Nick Nastrini went through something similar after the Sox cut him. Sox farmhand Jarold Rosado seems to be playing footsie with the yips but isn't quite so clear-cut. The persistence of sending Oppor out there is kind of noteworthy though as it seems like teams often send those poor guys into hiding.

I can share that when chatting with a few minor leaguer parents at spring training this year, I heard that Christian had some reputation as being kind of arrogant and perhaps uncoachable. The message I was getting was they felt like he was good-hearted but definitely felt like he was the big dog and wanted everyone to know it. Makes me wonder whether the Sox marching him out there is some kind of humiliation ritual or something, lol