It feels like just yesterday that we at FutureSox were previewing the Charlotte Knights season; yet, here we are, with the solstice already behind us and September practically looming. We were so young then. Everything is so different now. Everything including the Charlotte Knights roster. Like any minor league team, they’ve experienced a not-insignificant amount […]
Putting the Moves On: Roster turnover in Charlotte Read More »
Inspired by the recent rainout of the Southern League All-Star Game, which Michael Kopech was scheduled to start and which included Jordan Guerrero on the roster, here I recount the tale of my favorite rain delay. I’ve worked for three different minor league teams over five years, so I know a bit about how a rainy
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Yet again, I’ve been passed over for the MLB draft, and I’m starting to think that at 25, three years out of college, and having never played baseball, my golden chance is diminishing. To assuage my disappointment, I went through the last 20 years of White Sox last-round picks to see how they ended up.
Nice Guys Drafted Last: 20 years of last-round draft picks Read More »
Welcome back for Part Two in a sometimes depressing two-part series, in which I cast a nostalgic gaze back upon the recent history of White Sox minor league baseball, remember the prospects that had good years, and then remember the less good years by those prospects that were almost sure to follow. Part One, covering the late unpleasantness of
Fool Me Once: Good seasons by OK prospects, Part 2 Read More »
When I was a young girl, my father took me into the city to see a White Sox game. He said “Owens, when you’re called up, would you be the savior of the broken, the beaten and the damned?” As it turns out, Jerry Owens was not the savior of anything, not that the Sox
Fool Me Once: Good seasons by OK prospects, part 1 Read More »
Your browser does not support iframes. Earlier this week, the White Sox signed Cuban mega-prospect Luis Robert. This article is not about that (although this article is, if you want to get up to date on the teenager). Robert has been described by one anonymous scout as “the best player on the planet,” something that will
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There’s nothing like winning the World Series. Whether it’s a fluke or a dynasty, it’s baseball’s biggest stage and usually the most exciting games of the year. It’s all about the trophy and the ring. That’s what fans focus on, and that’s what players focus on. Weirdly enough, winning the Governors’ Cup doesn’t come with
Party Like It’s 1999: the last Charlotte Knights championship Read More »
The MLB draft is like baseball Hanukkah. Your team gets a present, uh, prospect every round, the odds against them are incredible, and the whole thing is stretched out over several days. The draft itself is spread out over 40 rounds, and with 30 teams, that ends up being hundreds and hundreds of players. Only
Good, bad, ugly – high round picks in the White Sox minors Read More »
Manny Machado was the first player to make it to the majors who was younger than I was at the time. I knew he was coming up and was forced to examine my youth in relation to the ceaseless nature of eternity. After this happened, I realized, it would never stop. Players younger than me
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As the first calendar month of the minor league season draws to a close, let’s take a look back at the last few weeks of play and see who should get a promotion to the next level, and why that player also shouldn’t get a promotion! CHARLOTTE 1. Yoan Moncada Why he should: Moncada, second-base prospect
Merits and Demerits: Potentially promotion-primed prospects Read More »
