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The White Sox are paying Kath what is essentially the bonus for the 40th overall pick.

He’s signing for $1.8 million. Only a matter of time

100%. June makes the most sense.

The White Sox aren't eligible for a first round comp pick due to market size. Only the small market clubs get those. If the Sox QO Rodon and he goes elsewhere, they'll get a pick after comp round B. It's usually in the 70's.

Yes

Yeah it’s crazy. Shirley basically said Adam Virchis was all over him and got it done

The White Sox bonus pool is $6,618,800. With Montgomery at slot, Kath at $1.8 million, McDougal at $850K plus the guys in rounds 6, 7, 8, 9 and the $25K overage for Butler, they have $846,600 left to sign Burke, Gosswein, Sommer and whatever other overages they have. If Burke is at slot ($618,200), that leaves $228,400. I'll assume that Gosswein is $100K and Sommer is $10K. That leaves them like $100K before the overage to use for day three. I'm guessing that Edwards and Smelley could be more than $125K.

Thanks man. It was fun. That dude played in like a small private school league. Just stupid numbers

Not really. They added some arms. Signing for $20K is a pretty shitty deal. I haven't really dug into the signings though.

That’s his father but yes. Montgomery is signing today I believe

Masterful work by Ben Cherington and the Pirates. Saving $2 million allowed them to sign Bubba Chandler, Lonnie White and Anthony Solometo. They had a tremendous draft.

Badler told me he's a name to keep an eye on

I’m thinking Luke Shilling but he’s had Tommy John since

Burke will be slot and Gosswein is probably $100K at least. I think Smelley and Edwards could be above as well

Both lefty bats. Both project for power. Lots of people think Colson Montgomery will stat at SS. Wes Kath definitely moves to 3B and possibly even 1B in worst case scenario. They can both hit though.

I wrote about the White Sox draft class after listening to Mike Shirley. There were some clear target areas and some trends are forming. I wrote about it: https://www.futuresox.com/2021/07/16/positive-trends-continue-in-2021-mlb-draft-for-white-sox/

What a short-sighted organization. They will have a top 10 pick. They will have like 4 top 70 picks if he walks. Could push a top 20 player to 31. But they have really bad ownership so it’s not that surprising.

Disagree. They’ll get the 31st pick if he walks. That’s much better than the trade return they’ll get IMO

Yeah Fastball has been 93-94. He's a guy again.

If you'd like to head down to Charlotte on a nightly basis and cover the team for us instead for free, have at it man.

He's our Charlotte Knights correspondent for FutureSox and he works his ass off. Why are you such a fucking tool on here so often?

Yeah it's very disappointing

They should have multiple over slot players for day 3.

They can still go over by $330K. These should all be minimum $125K each.

They got two of the better prep bats in the class. Two top 50 draft prospects. They also grabbed a solid college starter who will definitely stay in the rotation. The prep pitcher is a bit under the radar but they liked him enough to pay a significant bonus. The 4th rounder is a decent prospect too. They’ll add more talent today and then we can really stack the class in order.