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Yet they had holes to fill at RF, 2B and needed another mid rotation SP. The savings at the aforementioned positions should be allocated at those spots instead of throwing big money at Kelly.

Completely agreed on the priorities. I would never throw big money on two BP arms and then try to bargain hunt for RF, 2B and SP. Imagine if the bullpen expenditures took us out of the running for Conforto and we have to settle for Joc or someone worse.

Good analysis.

Even if he’s getting traded, overspending on BP is the reason why we lost Madrigal. We’re being managed by someone who is about a decade or two behind in baseball who insists on throwing all the resources at BP and paying for past performance, while successful orgs invest in scouting and pitching development to develop their BP arms (see Rays’ spending on BP). I’m more ok if we threw the money at someone other than Kelly. Kelly was decent with Dodgers last year but was used in low leverage situations, and yet we’re paying him like an 7th or 8th inning high leverage arm. For comparison, Raisel Iglesias, who is arguably a top 5 reliever in baseball, got $14.5M AAV, which is basically what we’re paying Harrison and Kelly (longer contract and all). Also FWIW the Dodgers who have unlimited payroll could have kept Kelly for $8M this year, yet they declined the option. We’re paying him $17M for next 2 years.

Doesn't it help if he's already 23 (24 in Sept)? In fact he's almost exactly 1 year younger than Cespedes, who signed last January and played stateside. I would think at that age they would rather try to get to majors as early as possible and make league minimum instead of minor league salary.

I'm glad J Rod, Adolfo, and to some extend Sosa are showing some success on the LatAM side. They're the first young J2 signings that have been able to progress past the Low A level since J2 system began. Having those names graduate to the MLB level would be a major win for the LatAM scouting and player development team. Unfortunately on the US prep side success is just as hard to come by. The list of recent prep hitter - Zangari, Curbelo, Abbot, Delgado, Weaver, Bush, Beard, Gladney, Glass, and Krogman have all failed or are failing to develop. When I say they're bad, they have been really bad... sub .200 hitters with 40% + k rate and 1/8 BB/K rates, those are astonishingly bad number. Prospects are a crapshoot and even more so for high schoolers who aren't top 3 round talents. But you would think out of all those names, at least one would have a modicum of success at low minors or at least develop passable plate discipline, but no we have seen no evidence of it at all, whether it's a scouting issue or player development issue is another debate. For Sox to continue a produce a pipeline of prospects who could contribute at MLB level they need to start hitting on some of these players, or at least develop them into org players. They're player scouting/development in general still have a lot of catching up to do to be able to build a continuous pipeline for the team and catch up to some of the better farms in the league.

His comp is Juan Soto… Not too bad.

I might be the high man on Yolbert but he’s a top 10 prospect for me right now, might be closer to top 5. I hope he could tap into that power more consistently.

If Yolbert could keep this up, he should be the starting 2B for the Sox by OD 2023.

It’s early but we might have an interesting prospect in Veras. Big power corner IF with comps to Edwin Encarnacion, and nephew of Fernando Tatis.

Why though? I am not sure if there are many teams that do not spend the 5% overage that’s why I had thought Burke and Gosswein would go for more than what people are projecting. In a way, with this class, I was hoping they didn’t spend the full 5% overage and sign the picks for what they would have gotten on another team. Sox has a tendency to overpay for college signings, their bonus to Gosswein, picks 6-12 which are all college seniors (including some 5th year seniors) only continues that trend. That limited their ability to go after another HS pick like Butler this draft, and would continue to do so going forward.

Lots of gaudy SB numbers in A ball this year due to changes to run game (in low A there is a 2 PO attempt limit per AB). I think his 2019 SB numbers are more indicative of his skills on the base paths.

As you said, the guy crawled his way to the majors after 10 years in the minors, he has dealt with a lot of adversity and setbacks along the way. I don’t think the TLR incident would have been enough to break him and force him to retire. From the BLA article, he’s struggled financially (no surprises given milb pay) and has a large family to feed. There’s gotta be more to the story then the TLR incident to make him step away from the game.

Wow he really did retire…

Yea but if he work himself back to a DH/1B role for a second division team he could be making so much more. Too early for him to call quits on that.

How in the world is Yermin who barely made any money playing professional baseball retiring at 28?

Winner stays at SS in 2024 loser moves to catcher.

Probably due to aggressive assignments in low minors and most of the prospects there hasn’t been doing that well. I am not sure if there will be too many low minor promotions for the key prospects, but I could see one or all of Adolfo, Romy, and Pilkington moving to AAA at some point.

Does this set up J Rod to A+ and Montgomery A ball in a few weeks?

White Sox wins WS in 2023. Parkman: be glad this happened, everyone is gone in 2 years.

Lambert, Stiever, Pilkington, it was nice knowing ya.

Yea I think he is, but still not sure if he’s getting too much overslot even with the leverage.

Even if they’re over, do you think it will be by much, especially with Edwards being a senior? I can’t don’t understand not using all the bonuses, even in a pandemic year with limited traveling.

If you include the the 5% overage Sox could spend up to $6.95 mil. Assuming all of those figures are true, Burke is slot, Gosswein is only $15k signing (per Harold?), and that Butler is the only overslot signing for past round 10, then I have them at $6.39 mil currently. That tells me Burke is likely overslot by quite a bit, and that Gosswein would be more than $15k, which is likely. I would hate for them to leave bonuses on the table if they could have taken shot at another HS kid.

I am including him until he isn't, but yes more than likely he's gone. Whichever one of Thompson/Daulquist who could right the ship would be the next man up for me.