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[BSLChrisStoner]

NBC Sports / HBT: 2017 Preview: Chicago White Sox

[Cisc-O's]

Nick Delmonico is still in the league and knocking on the door?

 

Delmonico, a former 6th round draft pick of the Orioles who was traded to the Brewers in 2013 and released prior to the 2015 season, resurrected his career with a breakout 2016 season with the White Sox (.837 OPS, 17 HR, 30 2B between Double-A and Triple-A). While he fell short of making the 2017 Opening Day roster despite an impressive spring, he has continued to make noise down in Triple-A, where he’s slashing .328/.397/.492 after a 10-for-18 week in which he walked twice and struck out just one time. The 24-year-old will get a shot at some point in 2017 and it wouldn’t be a surprise if it happened before the end of April.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/

[bnickle]

Nick Delmonico is still in the league and knocking on the door?

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/

Younger than Mancini

[glenn__davis]

I believe the word was that he had a substance abuse problem.   If true (and I have no idea if it was or not), nice to see him bounce back from that hopefully he can make it all the way.

[BSLChrisStoner]

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[BSLChrisStoner]

NBC Sports / PST: Report: White Sox nearing deal with Luis Robert
http://mlb.nbcsports...th-luis-robert/

[dude]

NBC Sports / PST: Report: White Sox nearing deal with Luis Robert

 

CWS will pay 100% on the contract so they'll likely be spending something north of 50M (Orioles saved them 1.5M) when it's done.

 

They really need to be working over-time to dump the Frazier, MCabrera, Shields and Robertson contracts where they could offset a huge % of the Luis Robert cost.

 

None of those guys are going to drive a prospect haul....they really just need to move the $$.

[BSLChrisStoner]

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[SportsGuy]

WS trade Robertson, Kahnle and Frazier to the Yanks.

Yankees trading Rutherford...top 40 prospect.

WS have 5 top 50 prospects and 8 in the top 100.

Their system was one of the worst in baseball a few years ago and now they have the best (or second best, depending on how you rank them and Atlanta).

[Mike B]

The White Sox are calling up Yoan Moncada, their top prospect.  He will replace Frazier at 3B

[Mackus]

WS trade Robertson, Kahnle and Frazier to the Yanks.

Yankees trading Rutherford...top 40 prospect.

WS have 5 top 50 prospects and 8 in the top 100.

Their system was one of the worst in baseball a few years ago and now they have the best (or second best, depending on how you rank them and Atlanta).

 

Seems like a terrible deal for the White Sox to me. 

 

Rutherford has plenty of promise, top 30-50 or so coming into the season as the 18th overall pick in the 2016 draft and considered by many as one of the top bats but with signability issues.  He was a prep school kid who was a year removed from HS when drafted, and dominated the rookie league as a 19 y/o which isn't too old for that league, but it isn't young.  As a 20 y/o at Low-A this year (Delmarva's league) he's got merely a 281/342/391 slash line.  He could fall quite a bit in the rankings if he doesn't have a much better second half.  Still very talented and young.

 

Clarkin has decent numbers but nothign jumping off the statsheet.  Polo doesn't look interesting at all to me.  22 y/o OF at High-A with a sub-800 OPS.  At those levels scouting matters way more than stats, and I've never seen any of these guys play so I could be way off, but these two don't seem like guys who will ever contribute.

 

So they got one really good prospect who is having a struggle at Low-A at 20 years old in his first full professional season and two throw-in lottery tickets for Robertson (having a great year and signed through next season), Frazier (decent bat but pending FA), and Kahnle (having an amazing season with 3 years of control left) and they took on Tyler Clippard's remaining salary.

[BSLChrisStoner]

FanGraphs: Nicky Delmonico Might Be Something

[SBTarheel]

Wellington Castillo to the White Sox,

 

Good luck to him

[DJ MC]

Two years, $15 million, with an $8 million club option for 2020.

 

That's a lot of beef.

[Nigel Tufnel]

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[Mark Carver]

Ex-MLB pitcher Esteban Loaiza arrested after 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of powder found at rental home

 

http://www.espn.com/...kilograms-drugs

[BSLChrisStoner]

The Ringer: How the White Sox Are Trying to Perfect Tanking
https://www.theringe...ing-cubs-astros

[CA-ORIOLE]

Beef suspended 80 games for roids. Wonder if we knew something.  -

[DJ MC]

Beef

Don't call him that anymore. Beef should be hormone-free.

[BSLChrisStoner]

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