MINORS: The Eyes Have It—Luis Robert, Luis Basabe, and Blake Rutherford

The White Sox farm system is one of the most highly-rated systems in baseball. During the past three off-seasons, it’s been one of BHQ’s top-graded organizations, given the prevalence of top-end talent and overall depth. The past two seasons, we’ve given the system an A- grade (2018, 2019 Organization reports) each year. With top-end talent like Eloy Jiménez, Michael Kopech, and others making up the top tier of their lists, it was one of the easier high grades we put out.

Truthfully, I’ve been far from a fan of how the organization develops talent. A lot of their top prospects crash and burn their first 2-3 seasons in the big leagues (Tim Anderson, Lucas Giolito) or don’t develop at all (Carson Fulmer). In recent years, there have been...

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