Darren Black and Brett Ballantini are back with the Farm podcast, talking over recent injuries depleting the system, as well as three bright spots, all at the same position — and no, for once, it’s not designated hitter!

The highlights:

• The serious lat injury to Jonathan Stiever reduces the starting depth in the system to essentially zero
• If the White Sox had to have just a few standout players in the system this season, thank goodness those standouts are middle infielders like Romy González, Yolbert Sánchez and José Rodríguez
• A little bit of Yoelqui Céspedes chatter, who has his eye, like Romy, on Chicago in 2022
• The Arizona Complex League team has a lousy record and not much pitching, but the bats are alive there
• Darren offers his picks for September call-ups this season (just two this year). One recovers from a mysteriously lingering injury, the other represents the last upper-level arm left in the system

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