This Week in White Sox Minor League Baseball

by larry on Apr 4, 2009 5:59 PM CDT in Minors Comment 11 comments

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Jeff Marquez will have to prove he can strike out more than 3 batters per 9 innings pitched at AAA Charlotte.

Each week, I will summarize the posts in the Minor League Update fanpost for those who don't venture into it, mix in some new stuff, and generally discuss the previous week in White Sox minor leagues. This week:

Gordon Beckham, Dayan Viciedo, Tyler Flowers, Brandon Allen and Aaron Poreda are all on their way to Birmingham; Jordan Danks is headed to Winston-Salem.
Jack Egbert is being converted to a reliever at Charlotte. Joining him there will be Donny Lucy and Cole Armstrong, where the two will split the catching duties.
A scout on Beckham: “If he was 24 and was a guy with a couple of years in the minors, he just flat-out would have made this team.”
Allen apparently is a pretty good defensive first baseman.
Santo Luis continues to create a buzz amongst White Sox insiders. The strikeout machine last year at Kannapolis pitched impressively last night against the Diamondbacks. Now 25, he was quite, quite old for his level so this pick-up from Houston in the 2007 Minor League Phase of the Rule 5 Draft will need to show his 2008 improvements are real. The White Sox should have him skip A+ and move him straight to Birmingham.

Once the rosters for the affiliates are set, I will be doing a preview of the four full-season clubs.

Finally, please welcome Shoeless in SC as one of my Carolinas Correspondents. He will be providing occasional coverage of White Sox minor league affiliates in the Carolinas, most notably the Charlotte Knights. I have literally dozens of these exciting and unpaid positions available. Do you live in Montana? The Dirty South? Appalachia? The Camel City? Dominicana? Then you too can be cool by writing on a blog and using numbers.

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For a relocation fee and an allowance

I would be happy to provide coverage of the Dominican team

"...and when it comes to baseball, we have two favorite clubs: the Go-Go White Sox...and whoever plays the Cubs!!!"

by 815Sox on Apr 4, 2009 11:24 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

BENAYOUN! HOLY SHITZZZ!!!!

by CWSKeith on Apr 4, 2009 1:28 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

the white sox have affilliates in all the most glamorous cities in the country.

i would like to hear more about these unpaid positions.

Cashing checks and having sex.

by MarketMaker on Apr 4, 2009 1:42 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Nice feature, thanks.

"I never had sex with that Governor" -
Roland Burris

by Chiburb on Apr 4, 2009 2:42 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

OKAY!

I can lead you to 4 Wisdom, but I can't free your brain from the evil of Punto.

by colintj on Apr 4, 2009 2:42 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

No game thread today?

C & C look good so far thru 6……

"It just occurred to me that the White Sox could win the division."

by SuddenSam on May 22, 2008 9:45 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

" That just makes me want to puke all over your head, sir."

by Tdogg on Apr 4, 2009 4:55 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

oh yes...

The greatest trick the White Sox ever pulled was convincing their fan base that "Ozzieball" ever existed.

by The Wizard on Apr 4, 2009 5:03 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

just what we need. another thread with no comments.

"If they had this s--- when i was playing, I would have been the best f------ shortstop who ever lived." - Oswaldo Guillen

by larry on Apr 4, 2009 5:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Prime real estate?

Even when no one wants to buy?

keep it to a game thread or something like that, people will want to look at this again and don’t want to see a pair of bollocks every time they come on, you fucking wanker.

by winningugly on Apr 5, 2009 9:29 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs