Farm Fortnight: Strength up the middle, weaknesses elsewhere

3:00 PM CDT on August 25, 2021

Romy Gonzalez (Laura Wolff / Charlotte Knights)

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As many White Sox fans following the farm system have noted, the system is suddenly awash in credible middle-infield prospects after entering the season with none who had proved himself at a stateside level for a full season.

Romy Gonzalez made a thunderous debut in Charlotte last week after being a boon to the Barons for the first four months. Yolbert Sanchez and Lenyn Sosa both earned promotions to Birmingham. Jose Rodriguez was rewarded with a bump to Winston-Salem, and while Bryan Ramos hasn’t been able to join him -- and he may not be a second baseman when everything settles -- he’s been the least of Kannapolis’ problems at age 19. Throw in Colson Montgomery making his pro debut in Arizona, and each level has a guy worth following.

And thank goodness, because outfielders and arms remain in short supply, with two pitchers suffering injuries over the past week. Let’s proceed. (Note: The shown stats are through Monday.)

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Charlotte Knights

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Overview

Last two series: 3-3 @Jacksonville; 4-2 vs. Norfolk
Record: 36-59
Next two series: vs. Durham, @Norfolk
Individual stats

Charlotte’s the one affiliate that seems to have found something, at least on offense. The Knights scored six runs or more in eight of 12 games over the last two weeks. Besides contributions from the guys seen below, the Sox have received bumps from organizational players like Mikie Mahtook, who crossed the 20-homer mark and earned league honors for his efforts over the last week. Laz Rivera also had a nice Triple-A debut after being pressed into action, although he's currently on the injured list.

The pitching remains in rough shape, reflected in journeyman Mike Wright being the one to get the call to Chicago in order to provide innings. At least the bullpen has stabilized after some really awful weeks, so the Knights have enough to win slugfests at the moment.

Position Players

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Micker Adolfo has struck out 12 times over his last 10 games, but he hit .353/.405/.676 over the past two series. Jake Burger returned from a bone bruise in his hand, and joined the home run barrage after a couple of strikeout-laden games on his way back from the injured list. Gavin Sheets picked up where he left off, posting a 1.043 OPS in the 12 games since coming back from Chicago. Blake Rutherford and Yermin Mercedes both hit over .300 and slugged over .500.

But everybody has been overshadowed by Romy Gonzalez. After hitting his 20^th homer to reach 20/20 status with the Birmingham Barons, the White Sox promoted Gonzalez to Charlotte, and he’s loving Truist Field thus far. He hit two homers in his first game with the Knights, followed by three doubles in his second game for a full house that’s nearly impossible to beat. Charlotte’s been short on infielders, especially whenever Danny Mendick’s in Chicago, so he’s injected a lot of excitement for that part of the diamond.

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Starting Pitchers

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The season of Jonathan Stiever is over due to lat surgery. It wasn't as ugly a season as the ERA would suggest, but mostly for the consistency of his mediocrity. He'd stalled out at about three runs over five innings each time out, with peripherals that fluctuate between pedestrian and promising. Chris Getz told James Fegan that the White Sox are calling his season a success when accounting for developmental strides and numbers that adjust for the environment. Perhaps that's true. Perhaps Stiever was forgiven due to the lat issue. Perhaps Reynaldo López shows the environment is thoroughly warped.

Stiever was a more stable presence in Charlotte than Jimmy Lambert, although Lambert can say his season has been disrupted by a few emergency appearances in Chicago. The last one resulted in three innings of one-run ball, helping the White Sox steal a win with a bullpen game against Cleveland.

Good luck to McClure.

Relievers

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Zack Burdi is in Baltimore, and with Nik Turley still regressing to the finish line, Kyle Crick is worth monitoring as a potential bullpen candidate, if only because the White So have until the end of the month to add him to the 40-man roster for postseason eligibility. He had useful moments for the Pirates in the past, and while I remembered him getting in a fight with a teammate there, he appears to have the high ground, because that teammate threw the first punch, and that teammate was Felipe Vazquez, who was recently sentenced to prison for statutory sexual assault.

There’s no graceful way to segue to Bennett Sousa or Lane Ramsey from here, but they’ve been fine.

Birmingham Barons

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Overview

Last two series: 4-1 vs. Chattanooga; 3-4 @Tennessee
Record: 51-44
Next two series: vs. Montgomery, @Chattanooga
Individual stats

The Barons have graduated a lot of talent that made them the organizaton's only winning team -- Gonzalez, Adolfo, McClure, Sousa and Konnor Pilkington -- but they're getting just enough from the guys who have taken their place.

It's refreshing to see a Barons team overachieve relative to their roster's preseason hype after their dismal showing in 2019. Let's blame Omar Vizquel.

Position Player Prospects

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After hitting five homers in 60 games at Winston-Salem, Yolbert Sanchez is on the doorstep of matching it in half the time at Birmingham (he hit his fourth homer in his 27^th game on Tuesday). He grows increasingly intriguing with every 10 points of ISO, which is now at .116, especially since he doesn’t have a whole lot of swing-and-miss in his game.

Yoelqui Céspedes can have a little bit of a strikeout problem, and neither he nor Sanchez have drawn a walk over the last two weeks, but he’s otherwise producing while playing center field, so he’s having the year he needed to have.

Lenyn Sosa is somebody who has struggled for a month or more at each new level before slowly figuring it out, and Birmingham appears to be no different. The good news is that he’s getting that month out of the way at the end of this season, so perhaps he’ll be able to start a fresh slate of stats with the worst out of the way in 2022.

Carlos Pérez has been flat in August (.527 OPS) after a dynamic July (.837 OPS), which just might be the way he hovers around 700 over the course of the season. That’s still a useful guy to have in an organization, but it makes protecting him on the 40-man a harder call.

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Starting Pitching Prospects

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Jason Bilous spent his first three months in Birmingham dropping the occasional dominant outing into a field of starts that were middling at best, but even most of his lesser games featured strike-throwing. He’s seen the walk rate creep up in August, with eight of them over 10⅓ innings this month. That wildness has limited him to an average of only three-plus innings a start. He’s still way ahead of where he was in 2019, but just because somebody is out of the woods doesn’t mean they can’t go back in.

Davis Martin recovered from a dud of a Double-A debut by throwing six scoreless innings over his last two starts, the first of which was cut short by rain. The strikeouts still aren’t there, but baby steps.

Relief Prospects

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Caleb Freeman briefly lost the thread on his strike-throwing, allowing two hits and two walks over an inning while throwing just 19 of 34 pitches for strikes on Aug. 11. He bounced back to throw three scoreless, walkless innings, needing just 38 pitches total. There probably isn't room for him in Charlotte's bullpen this year, but he should be a prominent part of the high-minors relief landscape next year.

Andrew Perez has seen his walk rate spike over the course of a couple weeks, then sat for 10 days after an appearance on Aug. 11, so he might be battling something.

Winston-Salem Dash

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Overview

Last two series: 0-6 @Greensboro; 2-3 @Hickory
Record: 35-60
Next two series: vs. Hudson Valley, @Rome
Individual stats

Thanks to the cluster pitching failure in Kannapolis, Winston-Salem isn't going to be getting meaningful reinforcements after pushing a number of arms to Birmingham over the course of season.

All of their improvements are going to come on the offensive side. The latest of which is Harvin Mendoza, who returned to WInston-Salem on Tuesday for his second shot at cracking the code at High-A after looking overwhelmed starting the season there in May. He went 2-for-5 with his first double in his first game back.

Position Player Prospects

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After the Dash graduated both Sosa and Sanchez, Jose Rodriguez is doing his damndest to replace the production of two players by himself. I'm not sure anybody has done more to boost his stock this year.

Luis Mieses is hitting .284/.312/.514 over 19 games since getting his second chance with Winston-Salem. That line includes a stretch where he went 4-for-37, but at least there's some "hot" to go with his "cold" this time around. We'll be doing the same thing for Mendoza in two weeks.

Luis Curbelo resumed his happy hacking after a rough stretch to August. He's still striking out in bunches, but he's also approaching 20 homers. It hasn't been a total loss. Caberea Weaver got crowded out of the Kannapolis outfield situation, so he's taking one for the team.

Pitching Prospects

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The pitching equivalent of Weaver is Yoelvin Silven, who was bumped up to Winston-Salem despite unimpressive numbers in Kannapolis because he had more professional experience to lean on. He's keeping his head above water so far, although his starts are opening acts for bullpen games with the Dash.

Kannapolis Cannon Ballers

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Overview

Last two series: 0-6 @Augusta; 1-5 vs. Down East
Record: 27-69
Next two series: vs. Lynchburg, @Down East
Individual stats

The Cannon Ballers reached a not-nice 69 losses by the end of their previous series against Down East, and I wrote up the experience of watching their 70th loss on Tuesday night, which seemed to sum up their season in one game.

Position Player Prospects

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With Harvin Mendoza earning a second shot at Winston-Salem, the Kannapolis lineup has lost its linchpin. Bryan Ramos has a smattering of tools, but he's in the midst of a hitless skid that extended to 0-for-31 with an 0-for-4 on Tuesday. The Cannon Ballers are 1-17 over their last 18 games, so perhaps the team's fortunes mirror his own.

Shawn Goosenberg is hitting .313 through four games. After him, Wilber Sanchez is the only one with an average above the non-Harvin Mendoza Line in August at .204 ... and he has a .218 OBP, thanks to 27 strikeouts against one walk in August. DJ Gladney has 28 strikeouts in 48 plate appearances. Misael Gonzalez provided a brief boost, but an active 0-for-17 slump dragged him down with the rest. It's pretty messy here.

Pitching Prospects

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It's not any prettier on the pitching side. Take Andrew Dalquist, who threw five scoreless innings his last time out. That should be an unqualified positive, but he walked five batters over five innings after a start with six walks over 2⅓ innings the time before.

After closing out his July with two gems, Matthew Thompson has given up 13 runs over 12⅔ innings in August. I'll get to see him tonight to better understand his deal. I saw Taylor Broadway on Tuesday, when he gave up his first run.

At least they have their health. Jared Kelley departed his last outing after just two batters with a trainer after showing depleted velocity due to a right shoulder impingement, according to James Fegan. It's not yet considered serious, but it's certainly an obstacle in a season full of them.

Hopefully 2021 third-round pick Sean Burke can give this rotation some ballast. The Maryland lefty pitched three scoreless innings for the ACL White Sox in a tune-up before getting promoted to A-ball, allowing just a hit and a walk while striking out five.

ACL White Sox

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Overview

Record: 16-24
Individual stats

The uninspiring record of the ACL White Sox belies actual progress being made at Camelback Ranch. The White Sox's top two draft picks are both off to decent starts, and there's another teenager who is doing even more damage.

Position Player Prospects

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The signing of Elijah Tatis drew attention for obvious reasons when the White Sox announced their international signing class of 2019. The signing of Wilfred Veras, the nephew of Fernando Tatis and son of former MLB player Wilson Veras, is paying earlier dividends. He signed for $200,000 out of the Dominican Republican at age 16, but had to wait until this year to make his pro debut. Veras is making up for lost time, if one can say time was even lost. He's hitting .431/.492/.741 in August. The only drawback is that he's had to shift from third base to first to accommodate other players -- and five errors in 13 games might mean he wasn't a natural at the hot corner. There's room in Kannapolis if the Sox want to give him more space to stretch out.

Colson Montgomery had a cool two weeks, but the strikeout rate remains acceptable, so there's no real cause for concern. Wes Kath is offering more action per at-bat at the moment, and James Fegan wrote up how his draft stock surged this summer. Veras is younger than both of them, along with 15th-round pick Cam Butler, whose pro career was expected to start slowly due to his small-school background. That's why Veras is so compelling.

Benyamin Bailey is enjoying his first steady production of the season, hitting .273/.429/.394 in August, with nine walks against 11 strikeouts over 41 plate appearances. It's a level lower than the White Sox wished, and I wonder if it's timed with the influx of draft picks reaching pitching staffs, but it's more than the rest of this board is doing.

For those who were wondering about Elijah Tatis, he's hitting .110/.159/.134.

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Starting Pitching Prospects

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Burke is in Kannapolis, but the next two highest-paid pitchers from the most recent draft class are still in Arizona for the time being, and thriving. Maybe Brooks Gosswein ($200K, fourth round) should be tough on rookie-level hitters with his collegiate background, but Tanner McDougal ($850K, fifth round) is a prep pick, and he opened his career with an immaculate inning.

Ronaldo Guzman and Erick Bello just turned 19 over the last week, so maybe the new year will bring new results. Cristian Mena remains 18 until December.

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DSL White Sox

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Overview

Record: 14-16
Individual stats

The Dominican Summer League's White Sox affiliate has been in the same groove for most of the season, but the addition of Norge Vera to the pitching ranks finally provides the hook this roster needed.

Position Player Prospects

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This board still shows 17-year-old catcher Manuel Guariman still reaching base nearly half the time, but he's been doing that nearly all season. If you're looking for novelty, there's 17-year-old third baseman Victor Quezada, who shook off a very rocky start by hitting .282/.408/.359 with nine walks against nine strikeouts over 49 plate appearances in August. It's been a pleasant development, as Randel Mondesi is cooling, and Carlos Jimenez's turnaround is a slower one.

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Starting Pitching Prospects

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Norge Vera should dominate the DSL, given that he's 21 year old with plenty of Cuban experience under his belt. Still, he's doing so, and reportedly throwing in the high-90s all the while, which is what you want to see. Carlos Hinestroza is the only other pitcher of note getting regular work, although 18-year-old Yohemy Nolasco just surfaced for his first August appearance on Tuesday.

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