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TheRealHenryFPotter
1:54
Follow up to the White Sox minor league pitching question: in recent years they’ve drafted Matthew Thompson, Drew Dalquist, and Jared Kelley (High School, but still) and they all seem to have plateaued, and not very high. The exception is Garrett Crochet, who I don’t feel they developed… he was drafted ready for his role.
Keith Law
1:55
And Kelley was always pretty high risk. Still, that's just 3 HS arms, not that many to draw any broad conclusions.
Nathanael
1:55
Hi Keith, do you ever get down to Richmond, VA for Double A scouting?  Great town for food if you're ever out here.  Great work on the redraft today as usual.
Keith Law
1:55
Last year, to see Kyle Harrison.
Colin
1:55
Who of the dodgers pitchers left in the minors has the best chance to become an ace or even a #2?
Keith Law
1:55
River Ryan.
shaff
1:55
Which happens first: I-95 fully reopens or Jackson Holliday makes the majors?
Keith Law
1:56
Given the incentives to reopen the highway and the incentives to hold guys down in the minors, I say I-95 reopens.
Nathanael
1:56
With the A's pending departure, I wonder why the Giants were so adamant about the potential move to San Jose in 2013.  Wouldn't moving further away to San Jose have been preferable to playing 15 minutes away in Oakland.  Vegas just seems like an awful market.
Keith Law
1:57
I'll believe they're moving when they actually play a game there. This is a disaster on many levels - Vegas will be the smallest media market in MLB, they already have two major sports teams there and at least one minor one I know of (not counting the Aviators), and the whole area is going to run out of water.
Appa Yip Yip
1:57
I really want the anti-woke people to learn that Glenn Burke was the co-creator of the high five along with Dusty Baker. Glenn was gay, high fiving is gay, I didn't make the rules they gotta boycott high fives now.
Keith Law
1:57
There's a kids' book about it - I think it's called A High Five for Glenn Burke.
Howie
1:57
Keith - when in Seattle consider getting the Caribbean Roast sandwich at Un Bien in Ballard. Amazing baguette, fall apart (not shredded) pork, thick caramelized onions, garlic aioli, romaine and pickled jalapenos. A messy sandwich, but one to remember.
Keith Law
1:58
That sounds great, and like it would be the only meal I would eat that day.
Danny
1:58
I asked a couple weeks ago but you responded Austin Wells just got back from injury. Now he's had 30+ games in AA and has 340ish AB at that level. Is defense the only thing keeping him down and shouldn't the Yankees at least start trying at him at different positions in that case?
Keith Law
1:59
That's less than a full season in AA, and even this year in a small sample he's still punching out 35% of the time vs LHP. I do agree they should try him more at first base, at least. I wonder if they're leaving him in AA to try to keep up some trade value.
Shawn
1:59
What’s the appropriate level of skepticism for a pitcher under 6 feet tall?
Keith Law
2:00
To me it's mostly a function of how the stuff plays from that height, rather than an injury issue. I don't know of any evidence that being sub 6' makes a guy more injury prone. I do know a lot of those guys don't work out as starters because they don't get good angle on the fastball. But guys who sink it or otherwise get a big vertical break can mitigate that.
Danny
2:00
I think you had Brock Porter going to the Yankees in your last predraft mock last year and we now know Porter signed for almost a million more the Yankees gave Spencer Jones. Do you know if the Yankees had Porter higher than Jones if the money was equal?
Keith Law
2:01
I think I had them on Jones somewhere - maybe the prior mock? - so he may very well have been their target all along.
2:02
Gotta run but thanks as always for all of the questions and for reading. I'll try to fit in a Q&A next week around the mock, and I'll have a third mock the week after that, and before you know it it'll be draft day. Take care & stay safe.
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