Ep. 155: What we learned about the White Sox farm system in 2018 with MLB.com’s Jim Callis

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4 • 612 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Garfien is joined by MLB.com Senior Writer Jim Callis to discuss the White Sox farm system in 2018. Callis explains why they named Dylan Cease the 2018 Pitcher of the Year in the minor leagues, why the Cubs will come to regret trading Cease and Eloy Jimenez to the White Sox, how soon Nick Madrigal will be ready for the majors, what outfielder besides Jimenez and Robert has the highest ceiling, why Kodi Medeiros could become a lights out left-handed reliever, plus thoughts on Zack Collins, Alec Hansen, Steele Walker and many more.

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0:24.8	www.w.wintrust.com slash socks.
0:29.0	Chuck Arfine here.
0:30.6	And all right, the news about Michael Kopeck and needing Tommy John surgery was a gut punch for
0:37.0	White Sox fans. He's a big part of the rebuild. He's
0:39.9	not going to be back until 2020, and that sucks. It sucks. Totally does. So I felt we needed a podcast
0:46.9	to lift your spirits. We'll call it like the feel good White Sox Talk podcast to talk about
0:53.7	some of the big developments that happened in the minor leagues this year.
0:57.3	And we've got one of the best guys in the business to talk to about it.
1:00.0	One of our favorite guests.
1:01.0	It is Jim Callis, senior rider for MLB.com and MLBPipeline.com.
1:08.9	They recently made Dylan ceasees, their minor league pitcher of the year.
1:16.6	They added Sees and Jimenez to their all minor league first team and had a surprising
1:20.4	socks prospect on their second team, so we're going to talk about that.
1:24.3	But first, I did have a chance to speak with Michael Kopeck the day he found out he needed Tommy John surgery.
1:30.4	It was after the Sox played the Angels last Friday night.
1:33.8	And actually before that, right before the game that night, I'm in the camera well.
1:37.3	Carlos Rodon was pitching.
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