What about Johnson, Snodgress and Beck?

 

Organizational filler/AAAA/journeyman candidates?

 

Swing mechanics aren't impossible to adjust if you catch them early enough and if the hitter is a willing learner. That's part of the due diligence that goes into drafting a raw/talented athlete with an unfinished game and lack of experience....who was just getting by at the high school level with pure tools and low baseball acumen.

 

He has the raw bat speed and abundance of talent, it's just a matter of getting rid of all the elements (hitch, bat/hand positioning, timing device/s, head movement) that are slowing down his swing plane.

 

Why bother. Anything that doesn't fit the agenda, will just be ignored.

I'm searching for a light at the end of the tunnel, but all I see is a 55% strikeout rate.

 

But but, he's only 19 duuuude!

 

So you've already decided that he's terrible based on 82 plate appearances, everything else bedamned? Glad to hear.

 

And Jared Mitchell has a 42% strikeout rate, which is actually pretty good in comparison.

 

Can't wait for the future to get here.

 

I don't think anybody really considers Mitchell a prospect any more. Highly talented and likely to make it to the majors at some point, but his contact ability is far too poor.

We sure love to lose games that are pretty much impossible to lose.

We sure love to lose games that are pretty much impossible to lose.

 

 

Not against the Royals.

 

But all the credit in the world to Axelrod and Quintana for bowing their necks and manning up when the defense around them was sucking us down into blowout losses.

 

At least they're fighting.

We sure love to lose games that are pretty much impossible to lose.

 

Great post.

The last month of last season and this entire season, my gawd, how we do just what you said? The Sox "love to lose games that are pretty much impossible to lose." That line shortly and succinctly describes the White Sox.

Edited May 6, 201312 yr by greg775