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Offensivly absolutely, but I don't think there's a high probablity of him sticking at short. I do think Gonzales sticks as a leauge average defensive shortstop. Colson will probably eventually end up at thrid, he's just too big and a few more years in the weight room will end any chance of him sitcking at short.

His approach makes you think he's going to be a legit pro. Watching Colson this year has been very frustrating at times as he'll literally take 3 pitches straight down the plate without flinching. I'm not souring on Colson, but man do guys like Baldwin do everything and then some and they just don't get the respect they deserve.

If Schultz could throw a 100 pitches in an outing he'd be ready for the bigs right now. Ky Bush looks like he's ready for the bigs too

If the White Sox are truly going to be competitive anytime soon again they will need to draft some impact position players in the next two drafts. What's currently in the system does not put them on a path to legitimate contention.

This was my first time watching Cousin pitch but I was really surprised by the quality of his stuff. Fastball up to 96, and the slider was nasty (almost curveball like vertical drop). He looks like he can pitch in a MLB bullpen right now.

Burke with 6k in 2IP, fastball is averaging 96 (Max 98.5). ?

If you watch Thorpe pitch he's clearly pitching to contact. He's putting a lot of pitches right over the plate. In the second inning he got in a bit of a jam and very clearly switched to a strike out strategy and whiffed the next two guys. The irony is his execution overall wasn't that great last night. But he still didn't get hit.

Thorpe command hasn't been particularly good today, but his stuff is deceivingly good. You watch some of the swings and he totally fools hitters. If his command continues to progress he's going to have a very successful big league career. I almost feel you have to move him up to challenge him a bit because even with his command being a bit wild today it doesn't look like he's truly being challenged.

Sean Burke sighting with 11 punch outs in 4 IP in AZ.

I haven't seen any statcast data on Ky Bush but once it's available I'm willing to bet the dude has elite extension. Elite extension correlates with high strike out rates almost as well as elite velocity.

Seems like half our starters need (deserve) a promotion.

My main concern with Colson has been the K rate. You won't have a lot of success at the major league level with a 30% k rate. His approach and his willingness to take pitches with 2 strikes may not be advisable when you come across pitchers with solid command in the bigs.

Any credibility I may have reserved for Getz is now gone. I don't think there's a single justifiable reason why you call a guy like Ramos up right now

Go pitching in round 1, then draft 9 position players.

90-93 on the fastball.

Thorpe looked lazy out there in a good way. Just kept throwing strikes, even on the walks he he was right around the plate. There's just something uniquely special about the way he throws.

I was really impressed with how well Adams can get breaking balls over for strikes. Dude just looks totally in control when's he's pitching. He throws a bunch of high curve balls for weak fly balls. Not sure how well that plays in Charlotte or the South side, but I'm willing to bet he finds a way to make it work.

Ky looks like a big league pitcher. If he can't cut it in the rotation and finds a way to stay 95+ I can see him having some success out of the pen.

Cannon was at 93.6 MPH Avg on the sinker (max 96.1) and 95.3 MPH on the fastball (max 96.9). 9 Whiffs (21% whiff rate, but only 10% swinging strike rate). But what's really impressive is he had 11 called strikes on the sinker with only a 50% zone swing rate. That's actually really unusual to have such a low zone swing rate and have so many called strikes on a sinker. It obviously was working well for him today. Yesterday Nastrini was at 93.2 MPH Avg on his fastball with a max of 94.7. 19 Whiffs (42% whiff rate, with a 24.3% swinging strike rate).

You can argue the strategy of improving the defense is working. The starting pitching has been decent and Soroka, Flexen and Fedde have looked decent enough where we can probably flip them. The Sox were going to be bad and we knew these guys weren't going to hit. If these guys are still playing in August and we haven't cut or traded have the roster then we have a bigger problem. This (and likely next year) are throw away years, there was no way to fix it, just enjoy watching bad baseball and hopefully when (if) they build a new stadium it's with the intent to sell.

I was surprised how hard Kuhl throws his sinker (avg today was 95.2, max 97). Not sure why someone hasn't put him in the pen to focus on 2 max effort pitches for an inning. It's clear he can't be a starter but everyone keeps throwing him out there.

I think most of us probably accepted the fact the Sox wouldn't score many (or any) runs this year. But the pitching and defense at least have the potential to be respectable. I will say if they pitch and catch this well all season (they won't since if they do many of them will get traded) they will likely over perform their projected consensus low 60 win total.

Hit 98 with the fastball and threw twice as any sliders as fastballs. At one point he threw 6 straight sliders. Most of the pitches in the zone were sliders. Kid needs to figure out how to get a (98mph) fastball over if he's going to have success. It's only 7 fastballs, but his spin rates were 1200-2800. That's actually absurdly inconsistent. A 98 mph fastball with a 2800 spin rate is 70+ grade. There's definitely something special there with some consistency.

Yeah, it's not worth brining him back to save a few million but potentially lose a hundred million of future reputation value. That was some amateur penny pinching s%*# that should be above a respectable organization.

The fact that they haven't been able to leverage financial flexibility into tangible assets doesn't mean it's still not valuable. The purpose on an exercise like this is to quantify value. Having money to spend is very valuable.