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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.

Something I didn't realize until I looked yesterday, he is actually batting behind Torkelson and has been for at least half the season (that's as far back as I looked). I assumed just from looking at their numbers that they were using Torkelson to protect Bishop and that's why he was still getting pitched to while Torkelson wasn't hitting for as much power because teams were pitching around him. Turns out Torkelson bats 2nd and Bishop bats 3rd. It kind of makes what he has been doing even more impressive. Also, the National High School Invitational (NHSI) is this week. CJ Abrams is going to be there so we should get some more good reports on how he does against good pitching and we might even be able to watch him depending on how his team does. Of note to us, Marist is going to the tournament and they have two outfielders which could be early round picks. https://www.mlb.com/news/2019-nhsi-preview?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

Maybe, but the way the specific thing of sliders down and away is being used to attack him it made me think something was up. And then if you check his BRef page they have spring training stats with an opponent quality index. For him, the opponent quality was on average somewhere between AA and AAA. So while his numbers in spring training weren't that bad, they were much lower than what he did against competition of that level the previous season, especially in terms of his strikeout rate. That leads me to believe something is off this year as compared to last year. You seem to think I am basing this solely on the first few games even though I have clearly stated otherwise. If you can't follow that simple line of reasoning I don't think this was ever really an argument in the first place.

What is fabrication? Me saying he doesn't normally have a whole in his swing? Or that there wouldn't be service time complaints because that was specifically stated as a part of the agreement with the new contract? Nothing you said discounts my point. Something is wrong right now and starting him out in the minors to work on it (or even just take the pressure off of him) could have been beneficial. Are you going to argue that it definitely would not have been beneficial? That working things out at lower levels isn't a technique used by every major league team. I'm not saying he isn't MLB ready. Check my post, literally did not say he isn't ready. He has done everything we could have wanted at the minor league level. In fact, he was probably ready by the later part of last season. But so far this season something is off. It could be a minor part of his swing or set up that we haven't noticed yet (god knows I don't trust Steverson to help at all) which could be an easy fix, but it might have been nice to let him work through that without the added pressure of his major league debut. The same thing more ML bats would achieve, which is to say a solution to whatever is wrong right not, but in a potentially more effective environment because there would be less pressure to perform.

4 games, spring training, and common sense. No way did he have this much trouble last year with something as simple as sliders down and away or every scout and coach would have been talking about it and exploiting it. That points to something being different this year as opposed to last. When he doesn't have a good spring and then you put the pressure of the new contract and starting opening day on his shoulders, it was likely to only exacerbate the issue. With that in mind, it might not have been a bad idea to start him in the minors until he figured it out and then brought him up. With the extension already signed there would have been no worries about complaints of service time manipulation.

To get better yes, but right now he looks like something is off. In spring training against similar competition to that which he killed in AAA last year he struggled. After the extension he chalked it up to putting too much pressure on himself, and that might still be the case, but it could also be that something is messed up in his swing or approach right now which would be easier to sort out in the minors. Its likely he will figure whatever is wrong out without the need to send him down, but some time in Charlotte to start the year may have been helpful.

No, he was ruled eligible a couple months ago. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/01/cuban-shortstop-yolbert-sanchez-cleared-to-sign-with-mlb-teams.html https://blogs.fangraphs.com/instagraphs/cuban-defector-ss-yolbert-sanchez-cleared-to-sign/