Sink-or-swim appears to be a theme for many White Sox prospects in 2021. A year off from Minor League Baseball and the removal of a rookie ball affiliate has forced some players to make aggressive leaps without the typical prep. The Winston-Salem Dash have a few top 30 prospects, but also a number of fringe […]
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Even though a minor league season is still planned to start in May, the Schaumburg alternate site is back in 2021. Now we also know the players who are heading there. While the location is the same, the personnel is very different this year. Last year, the alternate site was loaded up with prospects so
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Friday was a night of firsts for the White Sox in Anaheim. It was the team’s first win of the year. Andrew Vaughn made his MLB debut and got his first walk. Yermin Mercedes got his first MLB hit and ended up with a whopping five of them. If Mercedes wasn’t busy making history, the
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The White Sox open the season Thursday in Anaheim and that means the Opening Day roster is set. Andrew Vaughn has been the center of a lot of speculation and attention since the start of spring training. Now he’s breaking camp with the team. Though the White Sox haven’t announced any transactions regarding Vaughn, general
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The scheduled start of the regular season is less than two weeks away, which means roster decisions are going to start coming fast. The White Sox made more cuts from the spring training roster on Monday. Outfielder Luis Gonzalez is the most notable name from a prospect perspective. Reynaldo Lopez will be joining him at
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The light at the end of the tunnel just got a little bit farther away. Minor League Baseball released its schedule two weeks ago, but there has already been a significant change. As first reported by ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the start of the Triple-A season has been pushed back to May 4. Initially, Triple-A was
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The first Cactus League games haven’t even been played, but there’s already seemingly an answer to two of the major storylines coming in. New White Sox manager Tony LaRussa explained the early plan for talented pitcher Michael Kopech and Garrett Crochet in a radio interview on 670 The Score on Friday morning. The Crochet part
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It’s rankings week at FutureSox! Our full top 30 is out as well as scouting reports and info on 25 more players in the Just Missed group. In addition to our regular content, some of our writers who participated in ranking the prospects are releasing their individual top 30 lists to Patreon subscribers throughout the
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It’s been more than 15 months since Minor League Baseball was in action and the wait is still several weeks longer, but the light is at the end of the tunnel. We have schedules for the 2021 season. We’ve known that Double-A, High-A and Low-A would be starting later than Triple-A. We also knew that
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Prospect rankings are a big deal for us at FutureSox. We’ve done them for more than a decade at this point and they are among our most popular content. Normally, we have them down to a science. But of course, 2020 wasn’t normal. Typically we use a points system akin to AP polls in college
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