Chicago White Sox: Breaking down the top three prospects

1. Eloy Jimenez

I’ve written about my personal experience watching Jimenez play before when he played Class A ball with the South Bend Cubs. And since the Chicago White Sox acquired him in exchange for Jose Quintana, he has only gotten better from there.

Basically, Jimenez sounds like the real-life version of Roy Hobbs, making literally everything one can do in baseball look easy.

I really can’t remember seeing a guy hit a baseball with what looks like a warmup swing.

All in all, he had a .353/.397/.956 slash in Class AA Birmingham, accumulating three home runs five doubles, seven RBI and 38 total bases. And the power will only continue to develop from there, not that he currently lacks any of it.

The Chicago White Sox will likely allow him to get some at-bats with the big club in Spring Training. However, they’ll want to see what he does with more time in the minors, especially in adjusting to big-league-level breaking pitches.

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In time, though, I expect Jimenez to start getting time in left field: the position the White Sox hope he mans for the next 10 years at least. Assuming he hits the way he has been hitting, that’s going to happen at least by September.