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Chuck Arfine here with Ryan McGuffie, and we've got two podcasts this week.

Tuesday, Don Cooper came on, and he went in-depth on 14 White Sox pitchers.

Copac, Hanson, Rodon, Lopez, G. Alito, Nate Jones told us what minor league pitcher is going to make big strides in 2018.

If Joachim Sore is going to be the closer, hey, Guffie said there's a lot of fake news out there, but he wanted to give us the real news. Hey, look, there's no one that's more real than Don Cooper. And when you can hone him in the way, the way he does in this pocket, it's a must listen. I mean, I'm halfway through it because there's so much information there, like in a different Don Cooper way, if you know what I mean. Like, you have to listen to it to kind to understand what I'm saying, but it's not just like Don Cooper from the, this was a prepared Don Cooper. He knew the names you were given. Yeah, he wanted to know who I was going to ask him about because he wanted to really think about it. Yeah. So I gave him the names and and I mean, there were some names I brought up that he wasn't prepared for, but most of them he was all ready to go. He's always prepared. Yeah, but he wasn't talking in circles. He was really honed in on the guys that you were asking. All right, so that was the podcast about the White Sox pitchers. Today, it's the White Sox hitters. The Sox are holding their

hitting camp at their spring training facility in Glendale, Arizona. It's a who's who of

White Sox prospects. Jimenez, Robert, we believe. I'm saying Robert. Okay. Mankata. So we wanted to

bring on somebody who took part, or is taking part in the hitters camp.

And that is Nikki Del Monaco.

And I learned a lot of stuff.

You know, I wanted to go deep with him on Jimenez and Robert.

But the conversation went in some areas I wasn't expecting, and I'm kind of glad we went in those directions.

Don't do you.

What do you think. I totally agree.

I actually felt like there was a need to go there

after a little while in the conversation.

I just think he, because of the experience,

the life experience that he's had.

I think he's able to think things through a little bit more

and project them differently than maybe some, I don't want to say an average 24 25 year old

But I don't he's had he hasn't had average experiences and he's he put him out there last year as we all know

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