The 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 MoreThe White Sox are 8-12. Disappointing, but not a disaster, especially given how many things seem to have gone wrong already. And while Samardzija and Sale getting absolutely rocked got most of the attention - sharpened into extra focus given the circumstances of the Baltimore "Series" - the undisputed story of the season thus far must be how terrible the offense has been.
Read MoreAs far as PROSPECTS go, the White Sox sent shortstop Tim Anderson down to minor league camp Wednesday, along with right-hander Tyler Danish.
White Sox "prospects" got sent down from major league camp in the sense that many of the guys they sent down appear on organizational prospect lists, their status as employees of the White Sox is "prospects," because if it wasn't, management would have to consider why they're employing these guys.
Read MoreWhile working on Monday's post looking at the status of some of the White Sox's top prospects, I got to thinking about about last winter's trade that sent closer Addison Reed to the Arizona Diamondbacks for prospect Matt Davidson.
Read MoreWe're just about two weeks clear of the deadline for team to sign players selected in June's MLB Draft (or not sign, sorry Astros), so the prospect hounds are out updating their lists of top players in each organization.
Let's take a look at some of the highlights surrounding the White Sox, shall we?
Read MoreIt's been a few weeks, so I thought it would be good to check in on some of the notable minor league performances in the White Sox system thus far in 2014 -- notable for good, or for ill.
Good News:
By far the biggest disappointment of 2013 at the minor league level was Courtney Hawkins being completely overwhelmed by High A. Well, he's getting a second crack at it and he's doing a good job of just making us shrug our shoulders at 2013 and move forward.
Read MoreConor Gillaspie is turning into Matt Davidson soon, Alexei Ramirez could be turning into Marcus Semien, or just older Alexei Ramirez. Carlos Sanchez, Leury Garcia or Micah Johnson could wind up showing more range than Gordon Beckham--a man whose entire reputation is staked on defense--but are hardly replacing Dan Uggla. And while Jose Abreu is a wide-eyed pup compared to Paul Konerko, but is a natural designated hitter.
Read MoreAs we settle in to the 2014 season at the major league level, the minor leagues have kicked off as well. At the drafting of this article, the minor league season had statistics on the books for about five games. Not only do all of the same caveats about small sample sizes being meaningless that pertain to the majors apply to the minor leagues, we have even more confounding variables.
Read MoreWhat do the White Sox have at each position after the 2014 offseason? The picture has gotten a bit clearer with the recent cuts and reassignments. Let's take a look at the White Sox's third base position to see how it stacks up for 2014 and beyond.
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