Ep. 121: Nick Madrigal’s college coach: ”This guy is going to be a superstar”
The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien
Chicago Sports Network
4.7 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2018
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:10.6 | You are listening to the Nick Madrigal White Sox Talk podcast, brought you by WinTrust Community Bank, home of White Sox checking with free ATMs nationwide. |
| 0:19.6 | For more information, go to the special |
| 0:21.2 | White Sox web page, www.W.W.W.Wintrust.com slash socks. Chuck Arfine here with Ryan |
| 0:27.5 | McGuffie and Vinnie Duber. In moments, you're going to hear from Pat Casey, the head coach at |
| 0:33.4 | Oregon State. He has been the coach of Madrigal. |
| 0:37.8 | He was one who signed him as well out of high school, |
| 0:41.1 | actually signed him out of, maybe out of eighth grade, |
| 0:44.4 | which you're gonna hear in a moment. |
| 0:46.5 | But before we talk to Pat Casey, |
| 0:48.6 | your thoughts, Viti Duber, on the drafting of Madrigal. |
| 0:52.8 | The guy's the best rated position player in the draft, right? You can't be unhappy about that if you're the White Sox or a White Sox fan. I mean, I think you look at a guy who obviously the first thing you notice about him is his height or lack thereof and you think, you know, do we have some issues here? But I mean, the guy's production has been incredible. Banting over 400 |
| 1:11.4 | coming into draft night. You got to like that. No strikeouts as you keep talking about. |
| 1:16.2 | Five and 129 or 228 at bats. You know, he's described as a gold glove caliber |
| 1:22.1 | defender at second base. What more can you find to say good about this guy? And you know what? |
| 1:32.2 | At number four, the White Sox were probably going to get a really impact player, |
| 1:33.6 | and it sounds like they got one. |
| 1:35.7 | Guffin, we had Nick Hostiller on the podcast. |
| 1:42.5 | He had brought up that, you know, the guy that I asked him if there was a guy that had like this Jake Burger effect where you walked in the room and they just |
| 1:44.4 | they were won over by his personality and his makeup and he said yes there is somebody and you're |
| 1:49.7 | going to find out on draft day and it's clear like that the thing I love about Nick is he doesn't |
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