Ep. 51: Eloy Jimenez wants ”to be one of the best players in baseball”

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

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4.7 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The White Sox centerpiece in the Jose Quintana trade, Eloy Jimenez came on the podcast to talk with Chuck Garfien about what it was like being traded from the Cubs to the White Sox, his approach as a hitter and why he wants to be as good as Miguel Cabrera and Mike Trout. He explains how he learned English, why it's important to him, and how far away he thinks he is from playing in the major leagues. Then Garfien speaks with Jimenez' new manager, Willie Harris, who is the skipper for the Winston-Salem Dash. Harris talks about his impressions of Jimenez, as well as some of the White Sox top prospects he manages: Zack Collins, Dane Dunning, Luis Basabe and Alec Hansen. Later, CSN's Chris Kamka joins the podcast to talk about the latest Todd Frazier trade rumors. Did a medical issue with a Red Sox prospect stall a possible Frazier trade to Boston? That and more on this edition of the White Sox Talk Podcast.

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0:00.0	All right, the White Sox Talk podcast is brought to you by WinTrust Community Bank, home of White Sox checking with free ATMs nationwide.
0:08.5	Find out more at wintrust.com slash socks. That's wintrust.com slash socks. I'm Chuck Garfine. We come to you every Tuesday here on the podcast or as White Sox news breaks, listen, subscribe, review for all things,
0:23.9	White Sox.
0:24.5	All right.
0:24.6	So today on the podcast, I'll be joined by Eloy Jimenez, the newest edition, one of the
0:31.4	newest additions to the White Sox organization, the big piece in the Jose Cantana trade.
0:35.8	Is it Eloy?
0:36.7	Is it Eloy?
0:38.7	How do you pronounce his name?
0:45.1	He'll clear that up. And I'm just so impressed with this kid who he's 20 years old. He's more than just a baseball player. He wants to learn the language. Speaks very good English. There's a lot there
0:50.1	to him and you can hear it in his voice. And I think you're going to really like what you have to
0:54.9	hear from Jimenez coming up also we're going to get real good perspective about not just Jimenez
1:01.7	but the Winston-Salem dash from their manager former White Sox player Willie Harris who is in his first
1:10.5	year as manager of the dash he's going to fill us in on
1:14.5	all sorts of guys. We're talking Basabi, Luis Basabi, Zach Collins, Dane Dunning, Alec Hansen, and as well as
1:22.1	Eloy Jimenez. And then later, Chris Kamka, our CSN researcher and number cruncher, is going to join
1:29.9	me as we talk about the whole Todd Frazier, David Robertson, trade possibilities. We're going to
1:35.8	dissect that and a whole lot more coming up on the White Sox Talk podcast. Here we go.
1:53.7	All right, so join us on the phone from Lynchburg, Virginia, where the Winston-Salem are playing a double-header today, the newest member of the White Sox organization.
1:58.6	It is Aloi Jimenez.
2:00.8	Aloi, how are you today?
2:02.6	I'm pretty good. Thanks for giving the opportunity to talk to you.
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