Y2Jimmy0

What's the biggest issue with the financial allocation that people have? This is essentially what the White Sox did. Hagen Smith: $8 million at 5th overall. Caleb Bonemer: $3 million, equivalent to 29th overall Blake Larson $1.4 million, equivalent to #61 overall, 2nd round Casey Saucke :$857K, equivalent to 3rd round Nick McLain: $800K, equivalent to 3rd round. Sam Antonacci: $550K, equivalent to 4th round. Aaron Combs: $250K, equivalent to #219, 7th round Pierce George and Phil Fox: equivalent to #261, 9th round. Liam Paddack: $172K, just outside of round 10. In theory, they took one of the best players in the class at 5. Then they traded up for another first rounder. They added a 2nd, two 3rd's and a 4th but they didn't do anything equivalent to rounds 5, 6 or 8. I'm seeing people take issue with Saucke and Antonacci the most. That's fair. I understand why the White Sox didn't play it straight in this draft class though.

The issue seems to be what they paid for Saucke and Antonacci based on media rankings.

This isn’t what I said at all but cool.

I’d like Dalton Rushing, Alex Freeland and Jackson Ferris from the Dodgers.

I just think looking at slot values isn’t the way to do this. They had $15.3 million to spend and needed to get as much talent as possible. It’s fine if some don’t believe they did that but going overslot on a few guys and underslot on a few others later to pay for it doesn’t really matter. Teams operate similarly every year.

They’ll play. We just won’t hear about it. The Arizona affiliates will play backfield games every day.

Bonemer and Larson will play organized back field games in Arizona. Most of the others likely go to A ball

They didn't really punt at all. Just rounds 9 and 10 honestly. Which is totally normal for most teams to do.

Doesn’t really seem like anyone wants to ever. I saw a report that the Padres don’t want to trade Salas or De Vries. They’re 100% out on Crochet if that’s the case.

I don’t think there was a demand. Thorpe was the best player offered in return. Nobody was willing to trade a position player package.

He hired Brian Bannister and made multiple outside hires. Signed Erick Fedde who has been one of the best pitchers in baseball. He’s likely to get something for Tommy Pham and Paul Dejong. They already got something for Robbie Grossman. They waited out the market on Dylan Cease and did well on the return. We have no idea if he overpaid on the draft but only the first rounder is influenced much by the GM. Who have they lost on waivers etc that should still be here? I’m sorry but I don’t think it fits at all.

I don’t understand this nickname

Why? I bet some of them got $150K. Theres little incentive to sign otherwise

The White Sox don’t think they overpaid. They thought Saucke and McLain were third round players and Antonacci was a fourth round value. They maneuvered to ensure that they got the players that their scouts wanted. Now they need to be right. This is always weird but I’m guessing they had a deal with both guys and it was more likely that someone would take McLain before their next pick. Yes. Every pick signed. You can’t just look at rankings. Casey Saucke is ranked 53rd overall at BP and some publications have McLain ranked highly as well. The White Sox really like these players. I don’t know who represents Bonemer. Boras represents McLain though.

Hagen Smith had multiple teams in on him for nearly $8 million and the White Sox made a legitimate attempt to land Charlie Condon as well.

The most they can offer him is $847,465.

Where did he say this? I was on every conference call

That's a good deal on Larson imo.

He's already had Tommy John though. I don't think he's an injury risk right now more than any other pitcher would be from being a pitcher.

This is a great example.

What is significant? It's enough to not take $150K on day three it seems.

Oh see I don’t. There was risk that Cease wouldn’t pitch well. Crochet is healthy and awesome. I don’t really see much risk with him outside of the innings load, shutdown etc.

Really? I don’t feel this way at all. They’ll kill these trades or they won’t make them in my opinion. They didn’t want to incur the risk on keeping Cease but that was a good deal and by far their best offer. I believe he did this with Cease already so I don’t see why not.

I’m pretty sure they overslotted Burke, Cannon and Keener in round 3. They definitely overslotted Calvin Harris in round 4, Oppor in 5 and Wolkow in 7. They saved $600K on their first rounder last year though. Doesn’t appear that they did that this year.

I don’t know enough about the players. BP had Saucke at 53 overall and Sox scouts felt he really unlocked something with a swing change this year. McLain is a tweener but he’ll definitely hit. I don’t think they absolutely overpaid. I just think players have leverage now and the team wanted these players so they paid them.