The White Sox took their first high school positional player in the 6th round of the MLB draft, that player is third baseman Rangel Ravelo out of Hialeah HS (FL). Rangel Ravelo A former teammate of the #3 pick in the draft Manny Machado, Rangel Ravelo has made a lot of improvement over the last […]
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Baseball America reports that three of the White Sox’ early round draftees, second round pick Jacob Petricka, third round pick Addison Reed and sixth round pick Rangel Ravel have all signed. Jacob Petricka signs for a reported $540,000 signing bonus. Slot bonus for the 63rd pick is estimated at $576,000-$585,000 (the slot bonuses have not
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In the 18th round of the MLB Draft the White Sox selected a familiar name; Randall Thorpe. OK, so maybe Thorpe isn’t a familiar name to most, but you may remember that he was selected by the Sox out of high school in the 29th round of the 2008 draft. He didn’t sign with the
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It was just a matter of when, not if. We all knew the Chicago White Sox would select Ozney Guillen, the youngest son of Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, but while I was expecting his name to be called in a single digit round, it didn’t happen until quite a while later, which caused a fair
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After a fairly conservative second day to the 2010 MLB draft, the White Sox starting swinging from their heels with several of their latter round picks. Typically, high school players drafted in the later rounds do not sign, but there’s always a chance that the Sox will dangle significant amounts of money their way in
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Bored of merely selecting baseball players in the first 9 rounds of the MLB Draft, the White Sox turned to former reality TV “star” Ross Wilson in the 10th round, with the 308th pick. Wilson starred in the MTV show “Two-A-Days” as the starting QB for his high school football team at Hoover HS (AL).
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The White Sox have made a habit of drafting relief pitchers early in the draft in recent years, selecting Drew O’Neil in the 4th round in ’08 and Kyle Bellamy in the 5th round last year, but they waited until the 9th round this year to select their first true reliever in Kevin Moran. Kevin
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The White Sox made it back-to-back middle infielders with the selection of Joe Terry in the 8th round of the 2010 draft. Terry is also the first junior college player selected by the Sox in the 2010 draft. Joe Terry wasn’t a highly thought of prospect coming out of Long Beach Polytechnic HS (CA), a
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For a system that is starved for middle infield prospects, you would have thought that the White Sox would have grabbed a middle infielder before round seven, but they didn’t. Tyler Saladino, however, does offer intriguing upside for a seventh round draft pick. Saladino was something of a late bloomer having not been much of
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The Chicago White Sox waited until the 5th round before they selected a position player in the 2010 MLB Draft. The Sox had drafted pitchers with their first 5 picks before they turned to University of Arkansas first baseman Andy Wilkins. Wilkins, 21, was previously drafted in the 25th round of the 2007 draft out
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