MLB.com’s Jim Callis talks White Sox draft--who will they take in the 1st round?

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Host Chuck Garfien is joined by Jim Callis of MLB Pipeline and MLB.com, to discuss next week's MLB draft. Jim discusses how the draft will be different with it being reduced to only five rounds this year. Then, he talks about several players who could be on the White Sox radar, the best player they could potentially draft and much more.(2:45) - How this draft will be like none we've seen before--and what that means(12:50) - "The best player" the White Sox could realistically get with the 11th overall pick(13:25) - Where will former Jackie Robinson West little leaguer Ed Howard land in the draft? (20:00) - Should the White Sox draft this intriguing catcher?(27:08) - The position player he keeps hearing being connected to the White Sox

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, it's Chuck Arfine, and you're listening to the White Sox Talk podcast, brought to you by WinTrust.
0:14.2	And as much as we all love baseball, and specifically White Sox baseball, there baseball there is frankly nothing bigger going on
0:23.3	right now than what happened to george floyd and the racial strife that is ripping through our country
0:29.7	right now and this is something i talked about with tim anderson and with my colleague laurence holmes
0:35.7	on the podcast on tuesday uh We spoke about what's happened not only in our city, but to our city, that we love so much.
0:45.3	And the people in our city of Chicago and throughout this country, police brutality solutions, where we go from here as a society these are big big issues that
0:58.4	we're faced with dealing with and we need to heal and so we talked about that on the
1:05.7	podcast on Tuesday encourage you to give it a listen in In the meantime, the MLB draft is next week.
1:13.3	And every year before the draft, we have Jim Callis from MLB.com and MLB Pipeline.
1:18.7	Come on the podcast to give us a preview and go over who the White Sox are probably
1:23.3	looking at and who they might pick in the first round.
1:26.6	There are some interesting possibilities, and we get into a bunch of them.
1:30.9	And I'll tell you the two guys I'd really like to see in a White Sox uniform as well.
1:37.2	So it is Jim Callis here on the White Sox Talk podcast.
1:40.9	Thanks for listening, everybody.
1:43.0	Here we go.
1:43.6	White Sox. White Sox. Go, go. White Sox.
1:47.3	A ball hit deep way back. Deep time.
1:51.4	Holy cow. Carlton Fess has put the White Sox ahead.
1:56.4	Jimenez leaves the ballpark. You can put it on board.
2:02.0	Yes.
2:03.1	We've got to change from something real special.
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