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QUOTE (DirtySox @ Jul 14, 2011 -> 02:21 PM)
Very slightly, but yes. I'll be more impressed if they sign some of the prep players they took later on. Especially Freese.

I thought Freese sounded intriguing too. Anyone heard anything on the Sox signing this guy?

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 15, 2011 -> 07:49 AM)
I imagine if they got a college junior to sign in the 30th round, they didn't pay him 30th round slot.

Laumann mentioned him as a guy that went over slot, but we have no idea how much over slot. He could have gotten 10th round money and that would be significantly over slot while still not being a lot of money.

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News article on Dakota Freese. I've bolded the interesting soundbites from the story.

 

Dakota Freese leaves Warriors for Chi-Town Cream

Monday, 20 June 2011 22:33 Jim Ecker Washington - Baseball

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Dakota Freese has left the Cedar Rapids Washington baseball team to play for the Chi-Town Cream, a summer travel team that's based in Chicago.

 

Freese said Monday he plans to play for the Chi-Town Cream for most of the summer, but plans to return to Cedar Rapids and play for Washington in the Class 4A substate tournament in mid-July.

 

Freese said he hopes playing for the Chi-Town Cream will improve his bargaining position with the Chicago White Sox, who selected him in the 34th round of the Major League draft this month.

 

"I'm trying to do as good as I can and face the best competition I can and get a good contract," he said.

 

Freese missed the first seven games of the 2011 high school campaign while serving an in-school suspension at Washington. He compiled a 1-1 record and 2.63 ERA for the Warriors in three appearances after the suspension, with 26 strikeouts and 11 walks in 16 innings. Opponents hit just .113 against him.

 

Freese, a 6-foot-4 righthander, was 6-3 with a 2.69 ERA in 2010 when he made all-state. He fanned 91 batters in 57 1/3 innings last season with 20 walks.

 

Freese has signed to play college baseball at LSU-Eunice, a junior college in Louisiana, and said there's a chance he'll enroll in school if he doesn't like the offer he gets from the White Sox.

 

"I'd love to go pro. No matter what, I want to go pro, but there's always that price," he said.

Freese pitched for Washington on June 13 against Iowa City West. He told Washington Coach Brent Henry a few days later that he was leaving the Warriors and joining the Chi-Town Cream.

"This is something the White Sox want him to do, and his advisers thought it was a good idea," Henry said. "It's good for him.

 

"He's trying to help himself and get a contract and get a signing bonus, so we're supporting him on that," Henry said. "We've had other obstacles that we've had to overcome, and this will be another one for us."

 

The Warriors are 8-11 overall and 3-8 in the Mississippi Valley Conference. They have had 14 players in uniform for most games, including Freese.

 

Freese traveled to Chicago last Thursday and played for the Chi-Town Cream last weekend. The Cream is scheduled to play Glenbrook (Ill.) South on Wednesday and play in the University of Michigan-Great Lakes Tournament this weekend.

 

The Cream also is scheduled to play in tournaments in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana and Texas this summer.

Freese has been clocked at 92 mph and throws a sharp curveball. He was hoping to be drafted higher than the 34th round, and is determined to have a pro career.

 

Freese is living in an apartment with a Chi-Town Cream teammate in the Chicago suburbs. He said there's a possibility he'll rejoin the Warriors in late June during a break in his travel team schedule, but said the chances are "very high" he'll be back for the Class 4A substate tournament that begins July 15.

 

"I really hated leaving the team," Freese said. "It was hard. I know the guys feel bad about it. It's really hard for all of us."

 

 

http://www.metrosportsreport.com/index.php...&Itemid=227

 

 

 

I also found this link: http://soxbronzetitan.wordpress.com/2011/0...the-34th-round/

Call it an AAP - it has writeups on Freese as well as three Youtube vids of Dakota pitching. Very interesting mechanics.

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This too.

 

Posted July 11, 2011

Freese pitches in Chicago, waits on White Sox

No comments Jeff Johnson

 

CEDAR RAPIDS – No news is frustrating news for Dakota Freese right now.

 

The former Cedar Rapids Washington pitcher hasn’t been told much by the Chicago White Sox, who drafted him in the 34th round of last month’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, let alone offered a contract.

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Dakota Freese

 

Freese decided to leave his Washington team after the draft and play with a high-level 18-and-under amateur traveling team from the Chicago area (the Chi-Town Cream). The hope is pitching right under their noses might entice the White Sox to eventually sign him.

 

“That’s exactly what that is,” Freese said. “Things are going very good. The team is winning, and I feel like I’m pitching pretty well.”

 

Freese said he was clocked as high as 92 miles per hour with his fastball in a start over the weekend that was observed by a White Sox scout. Clubs have until the middle of August to sign their draft picks.

 

The 6-foot-4 right-hander has signed to play junior-college baseball at LSU-Eunice but badly wants to get his professional career started instead. We’ll see if the White Sox give him that chance.

 

“When it comes down to it, nothing has really changed with that right now,” Freese said.

 

 

http://iowaprepsports.com/2011/07/11/frees...s-on-white-sox/

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Chadd Krist is playing for the Hyannis Harbor Hawks in the Cape Cod League

 

Cape Cod League Player Stats

 

Interesting side note: Chadd is playing with 2011 White Sox NDFA Jon Gulbransen's (LHP) younger brother, Dan Gulbransen. He is an outfeilder at Jacksonville University

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QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 20, 2011 -> 08:52 AM)
Sox have already signed their first 7 picks, 10 of their top 12, 20 of their top 24, and 30 of their top 38. That's really pretty damn good even for after the deadline, let alone a month before it.

 

So who's left unsigned that we should really be hoping they are able to get signed? Freese?

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