When did Eloy go to AA? Are we talking about the 17 games he played there at the end of the season?

He turns 21 in 3 weeks. Seems like some fuzzy math is being employed here.

He’s not Cuban. He’s Dominican.

Dominican you add 3yrs, Cuban anywhere from 5-7yrs.

Whoops, Baez is still 20 at least.

The other 4 were all 22 and all made their pro debuts in their 22nd year. Its not like we are talking about career minor leaguers. At 22 he is still 2.4 years below the average player.

Another 20 year old outfield OPSing .900+
.304 .349 .554 .903 Felix Pie

And at 20 years old but his second taste of AA
.376 .421 .569 .990 Mr. Starlin Castro
.288 .347 .396 .744 -19 year old starlin at AA

I'm not even rooting against Eloy. The Cubs got a fantastic number 2/3 pitcher and if he does get a bump playing in the NL possibly a 1.

The Cubs have had a good number of players torch AA, just saying pump the break before the kid is destroyed with expectations.

"Our former Cubs prospect is better than your former Cubs prospects turned (mostly) successful Cubs players because he was younger"

Love it.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Plenty of sourness expressed here in the Jimenez thread.

I just think you're a little ahead of yourself mocking the trade.

Not mocking the trade, I think it was a bad deal for the Cubs.

as tantalizing as Jimenez may be, the lynchpin to future success is going to be Roberts playing CF

Does anyone know if he has a future at the position?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

That's fine. There are some who would scoff at that and mock you for acting like a guy who has not played a game above AA is a sure thing.

I'll @ Keith Law.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

He is Cuban, they can do anything!

I think the Sox won this trade big and I'm happy about it. I'd be happy about any trade as lopsided in favor of the Sox as I think this one is. That the Cubs, Theo, and his proprietary data were on the other side of this makes it that much sweeter.

Yea, this isnt a Cub Sox thing for me. I'm talking about prospect love. A lot of people say Cubs fans do that but Sox fans dont.

You are my example.

People on twitter? Larry Horse? Who are these people?

The guy we were drinking with at the Sox game

Been a standard line of Sox fans around this board for a long time.

Now that is changing.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

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There is literally no limit to Luis Robert's ceiling.

What are we looking at, 2-3yrs before he sniffs the majors? Eloy will have something like 150hrs by that time.

That's what was said about Alex Guerrero and Hector Olivera.

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In America’s defense, there is no prediction on floor.

JORR? Your attempt to drive a wedge between two good Sox fans will not work.

I'm not ruling out 2018. A lot of guys have been saying he's the one in all of prospectdom that can just rocket through the minors. The good-case scenario is 2020, the great case scenario is 2019.

Of course he could bust. Injuries are already a pretty huge worry of mine.

I am gonna guess and say that Hahn will give him a month in the minors.

We'll have to pretend that he needs to work on his fielding for another 6-10 games in the minors and get mad when people point out just how stupid that excuse is. It's the Kris Bryant rule.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Those 8 games absolutely prepared him for this...





Now back to the White Sox...

Im thinking...

2018 83 Wins

2019 90 wins

2020 AL Pennant, possible World Series win

Possible?

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

Wow! You must have seen him play a number of times in order to make such a statement.

I certainly hope the lynchpin to future success is not a 19 year old who has only played in Cuba and 28 games in the Dominican. If one guy is the key to future success wouldn't it make more sense to go out and get Bryce Harper and have him play CF rather than rolling the dice with a guy who hasn't even played in America yet?

Typical Cubs fan worried about the White Sox.

SAD!

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