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This Week in White Sox Minor League Baseball
This week: Promotions have begun in earnest. RHP Gregory Infante and INF Drew Garcia are now with Charlotte. RHP Terry Doyle, RHP Charlie Shirek and LHP Hector Santiago are now with Birmingham. RHP Ryan Buch is now with Winston-Salem. Long-time minor league outfielder (and twice a drug cheat)...
This Month in White Sox Minor League Baseball
This month: Jared Mitchell, Eduardo Escobar and Anthony Carter will all be playing in the Arizona Fall League Rising Stars Game, which is televised live on MLB Network tonight at 8pm (Central). The White Sox prospect who has been the talk of the Arizona Fall League hasn't been Mitchell. It's been...
White Sox Minor League Affiliates Preview
Games start Thursday. Preview starts now. Charlotte Knights (AAA, International League) In last year's preview I wrote "The Castle has long been barren of legitimate star power." Last season provided a bit of star power with top prospects Daniel Hudson and Tyler Flowers making their...
White Sox Organizational Depth Chart
I'm sure some of you are familiar with these. Moneyball, co-authored by Billy Beane and Billy's IBM Laptop, introduced the concept to a wider audience. It's exactly what it purports to be: a player depth chart for an organization from the majors all the way down the minors. They're an excellent...
This Week in White Sox Minor League Baseball
This week: The material for TWIWSMiLB is becoming more threadbare. September call-ups have taken the likes of Daniel Hudson, Tyler Flowers and Carlos Torres. Minor league rehab assignments appear to be over for the season. And, just to further deplete things, Jared Mitchell and Christian...
This Week in White Sox Minor League Baseball
This week: Daniel Hudson had a decent, though inefficient, outing: 5 IP, 6 H, 2 BB, 4 K, 1 WP while also permitting four stolen bases. Ben Badler has an extensive scouting report on this outing (Jon Link report, too). The Tribune profiled Hudson and Kevin Goldstein declared Hudson his minor...
This Week in White Sox Minor League Baseball
This week: The big news, of course, was the amateur draft, the primary vehicle by which teams replenish their minor league systems. With a plethora of early picks on day one, the White Sox made good on their rumored preference for a toolsy outfielder by picking Jared Mitchell out of LSU with their...
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