Ep. 128: Inside the White Sox minor league system with Chris Getz

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

White Sox Director of Player Development Chris Getz came on the podcast to talk with Chuck Garfien about many of the top prospects in the minor league system. What does Eloy Jimenez have to do to make it to the majors? What needs to happen for Michael Kopech to be promoted? Why are Joel Booker and Blake Rutherford having such big seasons? Was Laz Rivera the steal of the 2017 draft? Getz answers those questions and many more.

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0:10.7	Hey, everybody. This is Chuck Garfine, and you are listening to the latest edition of the White Sox Talk Podcast.
0:17.3	And as you know, there's a lot going on right now in the White Sox Minor league system. So today on the podcast, I speak with the man overseen at all. It is White Sox director of player development. Chris Gets. And the Sox made a ton of promotions last week. 17, to be exact. Many of the biggest names moving closer to the majors and some lesser names as well
0:39.8	who are moving closer. Guys like Ian Hamilton, Laz Rivera. So I speak with Chris about all sorts of
0:46.2	guys. I mean, we're talking Jimenez, Kopeck, Rutherford, Booker, Dunning. By the way,
0:50.9	I don't want to have you wait until the Dunning news. He said the Dane Dunning, who left the game on Sunday, I believe, with an elbow strain.
0:59.2	They are cautiously optimistic about Dunning.
1:02.3	Hopefully he won't miss too much time, but he is having an MRI on Wednesday to make sure everything is okay.
1:07.6	But they are cautiously optimistic.
1:09.6	So cross your fingers that Dunning is not going to be out for too long. But we cover a whole lot of stuff here on the
1:16.7	podcast. So the way I would put it is it's everything you want to know going on right now in the
1:22.8	minor league system. Chris Gets is going to provide it for you. Of course, this is the White Sox Talk
1:29.1	podcast brought you by WinTrust Community Bank, home of White Sox checking with free ATMs
1:33.2	nationwide. Go to the special White Sox web page, www.wintrust.com slash socks for more.
1:39.5	And here's my conversation with Chris Gatz.
1:54.7	All right, Chris, I think you have the best job and maybe the toughest job in the White Sox organization.
1:55.7	And what I mean by that is you have the best job in terms of you get to manage this
1:58.7	minor league system that is so good.
2:00.3	Tough job because where do you fit all this talent?
2:03.6	How difficult has it been to figure out, okay, we got to put this guy here, that guy there, that guy has no space to move up?
2:09.6	How has it, how have you managed that?
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