It’s no secret that the offseason is long, boring, and at times completely devoid of content. As a consumer of content, this is incredibly disheartening and depressing. As a producer of content, it’s somehow worse. That is why I have turned to the great former Baseball Prospectus podcast, Up and In. The soothing tones of […]
Tag: Yoan Moncada
Friedrich Nietzsche on the new White Sox prospects
To provide perspective on the White Sox glossy new farm system additions, I begin to look back at the last time the franchise boasted a No. 1 farm system, before the 2001 season. But then I shook myself out of it and just decided to talk to Nietzsche about it. He always knows what to […]
White Sox rebuild off to the inspiring start it needed
A funny thing happened on the way to me putting together a sentimental retrospective about getting to watch the beginning of Chris Sale‘s career: the White Sox knocked away my focus with their massive Adam Eaton trade. The second shocking blockbuster vaulted the Sox’ still growing farm system into the top-10 in baseball, before they have […]
Sale is gone – BPSS Roundtable
On Tuesday, the White Sox executed the first and most daring step of long-rumored rebuild: they traded Chris Sale to Boston in return for top-prospect Yoan Moncada, extremely live arm Michael Kopech, a far from irrelevant secondary prospect Luis Basabe and right-handed relief prospect Victor Diaz. While we can look at this package, see a […]
White Sox Have No One to Blame But Themselves
The White Sox made Chris Sale the 13th overall pick in MLB Draft on June 7, 2010. He debuted less than two months later, over the next six years he had developed into one of the best pitchers on the planet. He’ll enter the 2017 season on the heels of his fourth straight Top 5 […]
Chris Sale Traded to Boston
There is a lot to unpack here, and we will analyze this trade to death in the coming hours and days, but Chris Sale has been traded to the Red Sox for Yoan Moncada, Michael Kopech, Luis Alexander Basabe, and Victor Diaz. Depending on whom you ask, Moncada is somewhere between the No. 1 prospect […]