A raft of minor news adrift in a sea of inactivity and apathy, the still relatively newly-minted White Sox Scouting Director Nick Hostetler spoke with Dan Hayes about how he's feeling about the 2016 draft class.
Read MoreWith the White Sox BASICALLY out of contention, every Monday and Thursday until the end of the regular season, we'll take a quick peek at where the White Sox stand in their 2016 MLB Draft position.
Read MoreAfter grabbing Vanderbilt RHP Carson Fulmer at No. 8 in Monday's first round, the White Sox had to wait all the way until No. 112 to make their next pick, thanks to the signings of David Robertson and Melky Cabrera that forced them to forfeit their picks in rounds 2 and 3.
Read MorePersonally, my optimism for this pick has been skyrocketing ever since I realized this is not the 35-year-old quarterback with multiple ACL tears.
Read MoreThe thing about projecting the MLB Draft, which begins with the first two rounds tonight, is that, like most drafts, it's a fool's practice. As Ben Lindbergh noted on Grantland last week, nobody gets anything right. Even Kevin Goldstein, for years one of the top prospect minds in the game who now works for the Houston Astros, only got 18 picks right over a six year period, and in 2010 only got the No. 1 overall pick correctly before whiffing on every other pick, as noted in Lindbergh's piece.
Read MoreThere is a certain futility to speculating about the MLB draft. For one thing, baseball prospects, unlike those in the NBA or NFL, for example, are so many years away from ever making it to MLB - if they ever do at all. Then you have to factor in for years - like this one - where there isn't a clear cut Top 2 or Top 3 or Top 4 and chaos reigns. As opposed to say, last year, where there was a pretty clear Top 3 and the only question was their sequence. Then you have to take into account the different valuations that different organizations place on tools, present baseball skill, cost, positions of need, etc. etc. And, what's more, it's not like teams necessarily have anything to gain from telegraphing the players they're interested in - and you could argue it is quite the opposite. Still, while forecasting specific players may be quixotic, there are still inferences you can draw from a team's general draft philosophy.
Read MoreThe success or failure of teams in the MLB Draft is difficult to determine. The main reason for this is because it takes so long for most draftees to reach the majors, and players shuffle from team to team so often (whether it's by trade or otherwise) that looking at a particular team's draft class for a particular year will often only yield one or two players who actually made an impact on that team's major league roster.
Read MoreWe're less than three weeks away from the 2015 MLB Draft and the picture is becoming a bit more clear in regards to who the White Sox could be targeting with the No. 8 pick in the first round.
Read MoreWhen the San Diego Padres agreed to terms with James Shields earlier this week, the 2015 MLB Draft order was finalized — finally.
Read MoreWith one week remaining in the White Sox's 2014 campaign, one of the most important things I've been paying attention to is the team's position in next season's MLB Draft.
Read MoreUnderstandably, almost all of the attention given to the 2014 White Sox draft class was directed at Carlos Rodon. Heading into Draft Season, Rodon was the highest profile prospect and he represents the White Sox' highest draft pick since they took Harold Baines number one overall in 1977. But the White Sox also made a significant pick in the second round, the 44th player taken in the draft as a whole - Spencer Adams.
Read MoreJames: After the second round, we're both blowing past anyone who might have snagged a place on a top-100 draft prospect list, but also drifting away from players with tools that have much more than a puncher's chance of flashing above-average. The list of current White Sox who were drafted after the second round is this: Tyler Flowers, Adam Eaton, Adrian Nieto, Javy Guerra, Matt Lindstrom, Zach Putnam, Scott Carroll, Daniel Webb, Scott Downs, Nate Jones.
There are plenty of these dudes, but it’s not exactly a haven for stars. Anyways...
Read MoreLike many drafts, the 2014 MLB draft wound up with a huge amount of conversation based on extremely limited information. The general public only gets tiny snippets of meaningful knowledge about a lot of these players. Then you factor in the rumors - many of which are deliberately skewed by front offices floating misinformation in order to disguise their true strategy. And even if we did know what the front offices did, just take a look at Top 100 prospect lists or drafts from 5-10 years ago and you'll see how accurate that information turns out to be. After weeks and then months of prognostication and mock drafts, people had generally deduced what would happen, and then began talking themselves out of it.
Read MoreJacob Gatewood was snagged by the Milwaukee Brewers at No. 41, taking away from the MLB Draft broadcast of its most high-profile example of a highly-touted high school talent sliding past his first-round draft projections. The poor guy was just sitting there on the floor for four hours. But he wasn't the only one.
Read MoreMembers of The Catbird Seat staff have been floating in and out of a google doc all night sharing their thoughts on the White Sox draft pick, Most of it is unusable.
Read MoreThere you have it.
After months of speculation, the White Sox have their next top prospect, someone they hope will be able to join the big league rotation within the next year or two in North Carolina State left-hander Carlos Rodon.
Read MoreThe 2014 MLB Draft is finally upon us, and later tonight we'll finally know who the White Sox will be adding with arguably the team's most important draft selection in more than 20 years.
Read MoreBelieve it or not, there's more to be discussed regarding the upcoming MLB Draft as we wind down to one day until the White Sox make their selection at No. 3 overall.
Read MoreWe're a little more than 48 hours from finding out the identity of a player who will almost immediately become the White Sox's most hyped prospect in years.
Read MoreThis was somewhat of a miserable exercise.
With the 2014 MLB Draft rapidly approaching and the White Sox selecting in the Top 5 for the first time since 1990, I thought now would be as good of a time as any to look back at the who/what/why of the team's draft history.
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