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Didn’t Lopez get hurt? Maybe he’s replacing him and VV stays in pen

The third day 11-20 is basically more beneficial than late day two now. The White Sox will absolutely be “punting” picks. With a tiny bonus pool, they’ll try to spend close to $6 million on their first 4 guys. To pay for those players, you need to draft seniors in 5-10 for like $10K. It’s smart and lots of teams do this. In rounds 11-20, you can spend $125K without it counting against your pool. For example, taking a college arm ranked in top 200 in 7th round and paying him $200K costs $200K against the pool. Doing it in round 11 counts $75K only. For FutureSox, I always list the names in order of bonus given instead of round because it’s much more significant. In order to use the pool space, you have to sign all the players in the first 10 rounds. That’s basically why it’s done this way. Even the punted picks have value though. Horn and Weems were used in trades. Sousa is in the big leagues. Gil Luna will pitch in the majors. My advice is to pay more attention to the players chosen on day 3 than in rounds 5-10.

There are some issues on the pitching side for sure. Can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit though. They needed more from the prep arms but 2020 really hurt. Just haven’t spent a ton of resources on college arms that weren’t cheap seniors.

Yeah it’s tough to do though with their draft strategy. They never have much money to spend so if you give slot bonuses in round one, take a bunch of prep players and sprinkle in a 5 round draft, it’s puts you in a bind.

In this scenario, I’d move any reliever and Jose Abreu but I doubt they’d trade anyone under control. They’ll be division favorites once again next year regardless.

I know, right? That James Fox is annoying as hell.

They actually don’t. I can’t account for like $300K though so they must have an additional signing

Yes. Snelling would likely be cheaper than Jared Kelley was in 2020 though.

The White Sox will either miss the playoffs or host the 6 seed for 3 games. I'd take my chances in that first series with Giolito, Lynn and Cease.

I just meant that they're doing team top 30's like regularly. Not sure I like that though

They're actually updating these every month I guess from now on which is interesting but I'm not sure how reliable it is.

If he starts at Schaumburg over Memorial Day weekend, I’ll be there

Could go lots of directions. It could depend on what they want to do later. If they think they can get Ryan Clifford at 62 for like $2 million, it could influence what they do in round 1.

I’m writing him up now. Solid signing this late in the game. He defected with 12 others from Mexico last year. Sox had like $850K still because of their failed deal with RHP Angel Cruz. Also, the Sox offered Luis Danys Morales $2.5 million for next period. He’s taking over $3 million from Oakland instead. I’d heard that Sox were confident they could acquire more money in January but the player settled on Oakland. It’s significant because $2.5 million is all the White Sox have available in the next period due to pre deals. I’m wondering if some of the others who defected with Chapelli are coming as well in January.

Yep. You have to be 76 years or older to manage the White Sox

The White Sox have the 3rd smallest pool for the 2022 Draft. It didn't have to be this way. I wrote about why it could've been different and offered up some first round possibilities here: https://soxmachine.com/general/white-soxs-paltry-mlb-draft-bonus-pool-a-result-of-unsound-priorities/

Colas injury minor from what I’ve been told. Should be back this weekend hopefully. Also, we talked to Andy Barkett for Tuesday’s podcast. New minor league hitting coordinator. I think he’s already paying dividends with some of the performances this year. There seems to finally be an org wide hitting plan which is positive.

I believe he’s in extended spring

Yeah he was shutdown.

The White Sox have been all over Roman Anthony this spring.

I just think when you’re trying to win a title, Bryan Ramos’ inclusion in a deal shouldn’t be the hold up.

This would be an ideal outcome imo.

Marco Paddy is well respected but the strategy is often poor as we've both noted numerous times. I think the White Sox will do an awesome job once there's an international draft. What do you think about that?

I wrote about the additions to the international class and their strategy: https://soxmachine.com/futuresox/latest-international-class-comes-into-focus-for-the-white-sox/

Nobody really does but he isn’t signing for what Sox have left. It would be for next year