Author Topic: White Sox - Trades and Rumors (Read 137804 times)

SoxRule · « **Reply #2425 on:** July 13, 2017, 03:31:11 pm »

Jeff Passan article:

The White Sox now have the best farm system in baseball. This is inarguable. It’s not just Jimenez and Yoan Moncada and Michael Kopech, three of the top 10 or 15 prospects in the game. Their depth is frightening. It’s fair to say Dane Dunning, a right-handed pitcher acquired in the Adam Eaton deal, is somewhere in the vicinity of their 12th-best prospect. It’s also fair to say Dunning would be the No. 1 prospect in a good five to seven other organizations.

Most striking in this trade wasn’t the fact that it was the first of any significance in a quarter century between the crosstown teams. It was how the White Sox are priming themselves to take back the city right around the time the Cubs face a gauntlet of difficult decisions. Quintana’s contract runs through 2020. Rizzo, Schwarber, Kris Bryant, Addison Russell, Javier Baez and Mike Montgomery all are set to hit free agency after 2021. By then, Moncada will be well-established, Jimenez settling into stardom and the White Sox free to have supplemented that jab of cheap players with a righteous hook of free agent stars.

Jose Quintana trade proves money matters for Cubs as they nurse their World Series hangover

The Cubs are juggling four balls simultaneously: fighting the rising cost of soon-to-be-arbitration-eligible players, staying flexible enough to pounce in free agency, remaining under the luxury-ta...

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