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The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Ep. 283: An off-the-radar White Sox prospect is now on our radar

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.4612 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Chuck Garfien and Ryan McGuffey speak with Winston-Salem pitcher Jonathan Stiever who has quickly jumped into the White Sox top 10 prospect list. Stiever explains why he likes to pitch at a quick pace (11:00), why he's become a better pitcher since being promoted to Winston-Salem (15:50), why his teammates call him "Verlander" (19:45), his favorite NFL team--ouch (24:00), his love for the band AC/DC (26:30) his thoughts about teammates Andrew Vaughn and Steele Walker (28:00) and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.5

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0:10.4

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0:15.8

Chuck Arfine here with Ryan McGuffie, and today, Guff on the podcast, we're headed down to the farm.

0:21.4

We're going to talk

0:21.8

to a White Sox prospect who has taken a giant leap. Huge. Into the White Sox top 10 prospect list. I'm talking about Jonathan Steaver. How big of a jump has he taken? He's into the top 10. He's number eight now amongst White Sox top prospects, according to MBOB pipeline.

0:38.0

That tells you what kind of jump he's made, and I know you have a list of names.

0:42.0

Some of the guys, he's passed along the way.

0:44.3

Yeah, he's passed because of the season he's had at Winston-Salem.

0:47.7

He has passed the likes of Luis Pesabe and...

0:52.4

Blake Rutherford.

0:53.0

Lake Rutherford and Zach Collins, Mike Rodolfo, and Gavin Sheets. Yeah. Big jump. Yeah. Right? And he's, I mean, we're talking about top eight, okay? Yeah. If you look a year ago at this time, the names that are in the top eight, you know, the Dane Dunnings. Yeah. And I mean, the names you just mentioned were all well above top eight. So that tells you the kind of Uri-S. I love these guys that are like below the radar until they're on the radar because you just, you and I, you look at the top 30, we could tell you probably too much about these guys. We spend so much time. But the average fan knows so much about so many

1:28.5

of these prospects that they're waiting for Luis Robert to come up that they kind of forget about those guys who are 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 right now. Yeah, he was the White Sox fifth round draft pick in 2018. He started the year ranked 27th. That's a huge jump. That's a huge jump. So we're going to talk to Jonathan Seaver in a moment, but first, got to get this out.

1:46.9

A reminder, we've got the live remote White Sox Talk podcast with Rick Hahn coming up on Thursday at Reggie's in the South Loop.

1:55.2

If you haven't been to this place before, I mean, it is a rock bar.

1:58.8

We have this stage.

2:00.3

It's an amazing venue. We've moved the start time up a half hour. So no longer at seven. It starts at 6.30. Doors open at 6. And mission is free. There's also free food. Can't top that. No, I'd say this. If you were planning on trying to get there closer to seven, just move everything up.

2:18.0

Yeah. The gate, the doors are always going to open at six. So just try to get there at six. I know a lot of you are probably coming from work and vice versa. So get there, get some food in you. There will be plenty of booze. Liquid courage. Maybe you got to pay for that. Yeah, yeah, you got to pay for that. But the bar is right there. The bar's right there.

2:35.0

You're in a great venue.

2:38.5

And so many of you have been reaching out on Twitter saying you got a question for Rick.

2:40.2

Well, he's, he's game. He's game.

2:41.3

We'll do our podcast. There will be a Q&A. So if you need to muster up some liquid courage in order to ask your question, I'd say get there by six.

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