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He's a solid 26th man. He'd be an awful regular in CF or at SS. On good teams guys can slot into roles, thankfully we have one this year.

Fun to read the posts from a couple of years ago that didn't age very well. As they say, hindsight is 20/20. I hope in a few years, we can similarly bump the Gonzalez trade and Draft threads and have a good laugh at the posts crapping on what the Sox did with this year's draft.

He was also so bad to start the year that regression had to pull him closer to the player he was last season eventually. And that's basically what he is now.

Where’s Grady? Just curious

Not sure where to put this. It might be in another thread.

2019

In 2020, there were only five rounds. How Cade Smith ended up going as an udfa to the Guardians. Somehow the players that belong in the big leagues always find a way.

Very cool for him, and also can't hurt the Sox' growing profile in Japan.

Correct. 5 in addition to the largest bonus ever. It's 6 total.

That was a long damn four days. Kinda glad starting in Toronto where the air quality shouldn’t be a problem, especially since Chicago Fire game got postponed for it

Then these guys wouldn't be drafted and they'd be going to Indy ball most likely.

Honestly, they really should do away with the pool. All these senior signs getting nothing to manage pool space is kinda of a shitty way to bring these guys into pro baseball. They should have at least a 50% floor on slot value and maybe cap the bonus on day 2 picks so you can't go a million over on pick 11 and force a team to spend their full pool day 1.

Believe Hahn did

Roch enters Baseball America's top prospect list at #5

It's a feeling, but my guess it that Acuna is benefiting more from selective usage off of the bench than he is having any kind of a major resurgence.

Let’s see what Ken Rosenthal thinks…what

Detmers… Stink of Anaheim irrelevance/non-competitiveness, minus Trout and previously Ohtani?

There is some weird obsession fans have with guys production over small samples. You're literally talking about 46 at bats. To answer your question, he's been worth .6 fWAR. While running a 486 BABIP. Maybe you think he's going to start running 486 BABIP's for fun, but I have my doubts! If he was running a 293 BABIP (where his career has been so far), he'd be hitting around 230 over that period of time. That said, his xwOBA is at a much more respectable 343 over that period of time, but again it's small sample noise. He's very likely still a bad baseball player. He's also been a negative defender over that same period.

Fedde had bad-to-middling stuff and Detmers has very very good stuff. So they're not at all similar to me.

I was thinking Erick Fedde's breakout season, but yeah, something doesn't pass the smell test.

The Testaments was a great follow up to Handmaid. I can't wait to see the next season.