Nope. No need to do that. Keep them all down. Call them up on April 15th next year. That's the cut off for one more year of control.

The minor league season actually ends at the end of August. So they're almost done with their season. Some guys might do Fall ball in Arizona. Eloy and Kopeck won't. They don't need it.

It does matter. Because if Eloy is a star the Sox aren't giving him 500 million. So I want to keep him as long as possible.

Take the B+ prospects and offer them longer-term deals to sign through their arbitration years now, a la Scott Kingery of the Phillies or the Kenny Lofton era Indians. Those who sign, bring up right away, the rest stay in Charlotte until mid-June.

For the better prospects, they really need to just bring Eloy up as soon as he'll still be ROY eligible for 2019 and be done with it.

You're not gonna sign any prospect to a long term deals until they play at least a year in MLB. More likely 2 years. That would be stupid. Especially when they don't even make 1 million dollars in their first 2 years. Shwarber isn't making 1 million this year. He's about 600k or so.

If Eloy is Manny Ramirez and they dont plan on extending him then just quit. Give up now.

The Sox are going to have ridiculous payroll flexibility the next 3-4 years. They arent signing Harper or Machado.

One way to spend that money is early extensions for guys who perform. Some will take the money, especially the pitchers.

No. You don't have to quit. You'll get 7 years of him before that happens. Maybe you can win 2 World Series in that time.

Maybe they will extend him in year 3 or 4 and then it would be more friendly for the club. But sometimes players want to take their arbitration year to year and go to free agency as quick as possible. Because in years 5, 6 and 7 his arbitration will get him 25 million a year anyway if he's great. Sometimes players sign early because they fear getting hurt or they think they might suck and get nothing. But the fear of getting hurt is more for pitchers then position guys.

August 17

I thought it was about games played or plate appearances as far as being eligible for being "Rookie of the Year" the following year. Not about the date of their call up. But maybe I'm wrong.

So Kopech is at 113 right now. Puts him in a prime positon to get 50 big league innings and get stretched out to 160 while keeping rookie eligibility. He wont be able to get 160 at Charlotte, and him not hitting that mark would be a lost opportunity. Anyone saying he should go to the AFL needs to go away.

I don't know if it was Haugh or someone else, but I think the morning show was pushing the idea that the Sox don't have nearly the same level of affinity for 'saving a year' (for lack of a better term) that the Coob did. No idea if that was an informed opinion or not, but it didn't seem like they were trying to hedge or qualify their statements at all ... they were saying it pretty matter-of-factly

Well Jerry will be close to 90 by the time they reach free agency.

Jerry is gonna live to be 110.

You ever notice that he doesn't age. He looked older for his age when he was 50. But he stopped aging at that point because he looks the same at 80 as he did at 50.

There is a rumor that Jerry has advised his son to sell the White Sox and keep the Bulls once he dies. Bulls print money. Sox probably make a few bucks every year. But not a killing. Despite that, they'd still get about 1.5 billion if they were sold.