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The poster is named oldsox. Some of us can't wait.

My preference in 2024 was "anybody but Smith." I am more of a "do not draft" guy. I still don't quite get why Sox need to honor other teams' promises to him: He was a 3-year college player, so he had no leverage to not sign. Overslot obligation seems like another reason to pick someone else. Given that Sox philosophy is to overslot and punt, a comp pick would be particularly beneficial this year.

In order to compete as best we can as soon as we can.

One thing I don't understand in this thread is people talking like "give Kelenic a chance," as if he hasn't gotten 1500 PA's over the past 4+ years. Why should he be treated differently than any other minor league add? A starters job? Guy should be lucky to be a 4th outfielder at this point. Fuller will fix him is becoming a pretty fun MEME though.

I’ll have preview out this weekend for FutureSox. They have some monster classes coming if the rules stay the same.

Yes, I’d like to bring back a player who just put up a 115 wRC+ and 1.4 fWAR despite some physical deterioration from age & injury. He’d obviously have to pass a physical and would have to come cheap, but at say $2M I’d bring him on and run him out there until he breaks down. When that inevitably happens, the hope is either Braden is ready or someone like Pereira is ready for a bigger role. Meanwhile, you want to hand a starting role to a post hype prospect that has lost some athleticism, comes with significant makeup concerns, has a career 84 wRC+ and 0.9 fWAR over essentially 2.5 seasons, and is coming off a 64 wRC+ in AAA. If you hand him the LF job, you are very likely looking at a negative win player. The only reason people are excited about him is because it’s a name they remember from top prospects lists a few years back. Unfortunately, the reality is a 35 year old and injured Tauchman would almost certainly blow Kelenic out of the water next year in terms of production. If Kelenic can show some signs of improvement at AAA, then he’ll find a way to get an opportunity. Until then, he should be below even Tristan Peters on the depth chart.

I can't wait until the international side starts bearing fruit.

Wetherholt was my choice that draft class. Sadge.

Kiffin may pull his offensive assistants back from Ole Miss now that the transfer portal has opened, even though Ole Miss is preparing for the Fiesta Bowl.

They should’ve taken Konnor Griffin and I said it at the time too but this is what happens sometimes. Teams behind the Sox were offering Smith close to $8 million. They had to top it to reach a deal with him. I would’ve pivoted to Griffin or Wetherholt instead. They medical red flagged Wetherholt. Everyone missed on Griffin. Yikes

But you want to bring back Tauchman? Speaking of deterioration…

Barely any. They have a million picks. They could offer him like $11 million and just use the overage. They have two extra picks and $20 million to spend. The 5% overage gives them an extra $1 million. They could add that to the #2 pick and theoretically pay Cholowsky $11.5 million if they wanted (this is $2.2 million more than the record bonus) and they could still pay slot at every other pick.

Put me officially down for believing that Pereira is far more likely to be a positive contributor next year than Kelenic. Beyond being a bit of a head case, it just feels like Kelenic’s physical tools have deteriorated some since his prospect glory days and he hasn’t really shown any signs of improvement with his swing & miss issues. I think people are excited because of the name and former prospect status, but I don’t really see much of a reason to believe. With Pereira, he’s made some small gains with his plate discipline in the upper minors and I feel like his combo of power and ability to walk could result in him being a productive three outcome type of hitter eventually. No guarantee there, but I do feel like his chances of being a solid 4th OF / short side platoon bat is fairly high and that’s far more optimistic than I feel about Kelenic right now.

I am starting to think that: 1. There are plenty of Sox FO members who lurk here. 2. They signed Kelenic as an act of trolling ST.

Well s%*#, this round of the playoffs went pretty much as well as it could’ve. And the only team left that has won a national title before is Miami.

That's the problem when ball players get out beyond "can just play one game at a time" and all that gibberish. Somebody had him on camera and probably asked him to comment on the signs. That's the thing he remembers about Segura. It would be weird if he knew about that struggle, and then only talked about his sunflower seed eating, or whatnot.

That almost makes it worse. He’s talking about it with a weirdass smirk on his face. And to bother to even mention how a player slumped at the plate after his infant died is even more out of touch with reality.

If he was THAT hated, it wasn't just one comment.

Having said that, I'm not going to hold a dumb comment from when someone was young over their heads forever.

Here's more of the full context. He does say "I felt horrible" but you are right, at the very minimum a super weird/cringy moment. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0atKtqL5iV/?hl=en

Yeah, like I said it was weird

The context doesn’t really make that comment any better or less weird.

That clip is a little out of context, even though it was still a weird thing to say. He was basically saying that his kid passed away and it really affected his play. Again, weird thing to bring up but he wasn't like "Jean Segura, his kid died" end of statement.

In 2020, Horn’s slot was $386,600 and he signed for $150K. At least a partial punt. Crochet was slot. The problem was signing Kelley for $3 mill when his slot was $1,580,000. Kelley was a consensus first round talent. But it was a serious miss in a 5-round draft. In 2021 Montgomery signed for slot and they then reach for Kath $1.8 mill v. slot of $1,243,600. Some of the more recent over-slots look better. Some seem unnecessary (like over-slot for Smith).