Hooray!!!!

 

Finally some good news about one of our guys in the AFL.

 

Might be a power arm for the bullpen by July.

 

Who knows?

 

This was from Baseball America's Arizona Fall League notebook today.

 

SLEEPER OF THE DAY: This might come as somewhat of a surprise, but White Sox righthander Dewon Day earns our first Sleeper of the Day award in the AFL. Day, a 26th-round pick of the Blue Jays in 2002 who was then taken by Chicago in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 draft last year, has been opening eyes of scouts early in the Fall League. The 26-year-old righthander was a two-way player in college at Jackson State and later Southern, where he played with Brewers second baseman Rickie Weeks. He's focused only on pitching as a pro, and he's starting to put his arm strength to good use.

 

Day shows good late life on his 90-96 mph sinking fastball, and is commanding his 83-86 mph slider with plus tilt and depth. In six innings for Scottsdale, Day is 0-0, 4.26 with nine strikeouts. "He'll hit 88 (mph) with the slider at times and he’s letting it all hang out," a scout from an American League club said. "He gave up three runs in his last start, but that was pitch selection more than pure stuff. The stuff is there, he's repeating well--which is the biggest thing for him--and locating with his fastball which makes his slider look that much better." Day went 1-4, 3.40 with a 63-21 strikeout-walk ratio in 48 innings at high Class A Winston-Salem during the regular season.

nice to hear, we need more prospects like him, high reward, high risk types.

indeed.

 

came cheap.

 

If he can help in the pen at a low salary in 2008 or 2009, all the better.

 

hopefully he's a later bloomer.

 

We don't seem to have many more power arms in our system.

This is off topic, but how exactly does the minor league phase of the rule V draft work?

sleeper of the DAY ?

 

He had one good day in the AFL ?

 

WOW I AM EXCITED NOW

 

Our farm system is kicking ass

Edited October 25, 200619 yr by WHITESOXRANDY

Dewon had a solid inning today 1-2-3.

considering the state of our system, take what we can get.

I assume we will place him on the 40 because he's one of the many guys we'll have to protect. The nice thing is we won't have to protect Robert Valido this year thanks to the new collective bargaining agreement.

Not too bad... Even though he is older, it doesn't mean that guys like this can't contribute to the major league squad at some point or even hold decent trade value.

 

I'd like to see the sox sign some more young guys, that are too old to be prospects, but have good attributes.

just to add to the question, what the hell is the minor league rule 5 draft. nice catch by preston wilson (ok i am wathcing the world series right now)

just to add to the question, what the hell is the minor league rule 5 draft. nice catch by preston wilson (ok i am wathcing the world series right now)

Found this on it (don't know if it's changed since the new CBA came thru though);

 

There is also a minor league segment as part of the Rule 5 draft; where players can be drafted from an organizations' double-A roster to another clubs' triple-A roster and also from a A-roster to a AA-roster. Players who are drafted in the minor league portion of the draft are not required to remain on the roster of the club which drafts them and are not subject to being returned to their original club. In return for the player, the original club receives the following cash considerations:

 

Triple-A Draft $12,500

 

Double-A Draft $ 5,000

 

For example, a player who is on the Birmingham Barons roster (White Sox) may be drafted by the Tigers for their Toledo roster; but that player is not required to play for the Mud Hens during the 2002 season. The Tigers would pay the White Sox $12,500 for the player's contract.

 

There are also two minor league phases, one which would place players at AAA for the price of $12,000, and the other at AA for the price of $4,000. Where the major league portion of the draft is used to get prospects from other organizations, the usually accepted purpose of the minor league portions are more to simply allow teams to fill out their minor league rosters with warm bodies at play positions where they don’t have legitimate prospects.

Rosenthal giving DD and the Sox some praise:

 

Good scouting by the White Sox, who added right-handed reliever Dewon Day to their 40-man roster just one year after selecting him from the Blue Jays in the minor-league portion of the Rule 5 draft. Day, 26, pitched only 161/3 innings at Class A in 2005, missing much of the season due to elbow-ligament transplant surgery. He held opponents to a .199 batting average and averaged 11.7 strikeouts per nine innings with Class A Winston-Salem Class A last season.

 

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/6196916

I guess I never gave him some consideration considering he was 26 years old and still in A ball, but I continue to hear he has a live arm. I'd hang onto him.

He's a "might as well" guy. They evidently saw enough of him to take him during Rule V.

He'll probably start the season in the White Sox bullpen along with Logan, Montero or Tracey.

Edited December 6, 200619 yr by WHITESOXRANDY