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Jesse Sanchez is confirming the deal. Also there is this bit of scouting on him: https://www.mlb.com/news/white-sox-and-elijah-tatis-agree-to-deal?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

I just saw a tweet that I lost now but I DMed the guy asking for confirmation. From looking through their instagrams, it looks like I might have misunderstood the translation though because I only see the two. I'll update my post if/when the guy gets back to me. Edit: looks like there is another brother, though he looks too young to really know if he is good or not. https://www.instagram.com/p/BtKjMFQBoaq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

It sounds like there is a third Tatis brother that might be the best of all of them. Hopefully that family goodwill actually pays off this time.

Is it though? He is already 17 so he is eligible, we are just agreeing to it for next period. That seems different than agreeing to a deal with someone who isn't even eligible yet.

Article says for 2019-2020 signing period. EDIT: Weirdly, it also says this: I am going to guess that is just a case of something being lost in translation and it actually meaning an agreement instead of an actual signing.

If something is up with his arm or shoulder, then whoever did the physical for his extension should be pretty nervous.

Maybe a bit slower, but I think mostly distracted by the novelty and potentially not actually going to those lines as much as if you were at a Sox game.

WTF even Engel is hitting. Did we just like pull a space jam and steal Eloy's talent and spread it around the rest of the team?

I feel like they wouldn't do all 6 guaranteed. That just seems too risky when you already have control.

Callis was on the pipeline podcast and he talked a bit about Bishop. Said he has good speed and defense and really cut his strikeout rate. If draft were today he would could be top 5 and probably wouldn't make it past the top 10. He said he and Bleday are both probably in that 6-10 area right now.

Ankle injury when he got twisted up covering first on a grounder to the 1B. He stayed in after but lost command so he got pulled. Hopefully just a sprained ankle.

Probably going to be a lot of homeruns in charlotte this year. AAA is using the major league balls this year and everyone knows how juiced those are. So juiced balls in that stadium is going to look like a PCL team.

Luis Robert just hit another homerun

Luis Robert with a huge HR. Sound off the bat was amazing.

I'm listening to the radio stream and it sounded like he hurt his ankle covering first on a grounder to the 1B. It doesn't sound too bad because he stayed in after the injury, he just wasn't effective. He was limping when he walked off so it might just be a sprained ankle.

I think Law had a report about him only being a left fielder and then fangraphs has his arm as a 35.

Apparently he has a pretty bad arm. So it might be closer to Eloy at 1B and Bishop in left.

Prieto is my top available guy with Loidel Chapelli being close behind. Both of those guys have hit in every international tournament and Prieto has hit in the CNS. Cespedes is probably going to get a lot of coverage because of his name, but I think he is massively overrated when compared to Prieto. To me that doesn't seem likely considering this agreement probably came about after we could have been agreeing to deals, but it might be a nice coincidence especially considering it seems like the Sox like older international guys more than other teams.

When is that video from? I know he was really skinny last year but there were reports he had added some bulk since then. Again, hopefully we get to watch him in one of the games this week because I want to see how he looks too.

Cuban media is reporting the full list of players that seem eligible to sign July 2nd is 34 players including several 18 years old or younger who haven't played at the highest level of the cuban leagues yet. Full list can be found here: https://pelotacubanablog.com/2019/04/02/primera-lista-de-fcb-a-la-mlb-juventud-y-moralejas/

And what do you think scouts do after they watch a guy? They write about him. The format might be slightly different but the substance is the same.

Really that means #2. The way the two of them grade pitchers they said there are only a few #1s in the league at any given time. So basically it means he isn't going to be an ace and probably doesn't have the control and secondary pitches to be a TOR. I would slightly disagree with calling that his ceiling, but its not as much of a difference as what most people think of him. To add to this, with these lists really just being Kiley and Eric plus whatever they can get from scouts, there is a possibility they don't have the most up to date info on these guys. If you look at the write ups, most of these were from when they saw them once in spring or based on what they heard from the end of last year. The list just came out today, but that doesn't mean its all new info. Thinking about it, the White Sox are probably especially likely to have some of our guys overlooked. We don't have a ton of new acquired guys that have to be scouted, we don't have the young potential superstars that get looked at, and we likely aren't going to be trading any of our prospects of note any time soon. Those are basically all the reasons why not only these FG guys, but also ML scouts would be scouting our guys and we don't have any of them, so I could see how our system doesn't get as closely examined as it would from a site like FutureSox.

Welp, thats it, I'm sold.

On one hand I feel like his hit tool is too raw to risk taking him, but on the other hand I am worried everyone is overthinking it and he is this year's Nolan Gorman. Either way, that IMG squad should be interesting to watch. The tournament will also have my early 2020 draft crush in it with Pete Crow Armstrong. I hope he gets in one of the televised games.

This would work a lot better if you could follow anything I was saying. I literally said more ML at bats will make him figure it out eventually. I did not say that if he is not sent down he will bust like I assume you think I am saying. My argument is that starting in the minors could have been beneficial and potentially have had him figure it out quicker. The better time frame for this argument would be about another week or two, not five months.