WestEddy

Yeah, some keep portraying Crochet as frail, dude's a tree. Insider guys have talked about how he finally looks healthy for the first time in his pro career. If there was going to be a problem, it probably would have happened where it did in the past - somewhere between 10-20 IP.

Nice article offering an overview of the Cards' system and what we could hope for in trade. https://www.sportsmockery.com/chicago-white-sox/building-an-erick-fedde-trade-with-the-st-louis-cardinals/

Well, he's a LF, and I don't think Benintendi's going anywhere. I go back and forth between Sheets and Vaughn being gone, and both making the OD roster next year.

Julio Rodriguez has an OPS+ of 102. Robert is 122. That means Luis Robert's OPS is 22% better than the league average. He's an exceptional player having a less than average (for him) year. He is cheap, going forward. He will bring back a haul.

If the Sox clean house, I can see them taking viable players for the 2025 back. Not as headliners, of course, but a reliever or somebody's SS who is squeezed out as a 4th piece. Do the same thing as this year, just with better players. Then flip everybody at the deadline, again.

That was an amazing trade. Tom Bradley is a forgotten name, but for 2 years, he was so great.

Yeah, and Roland Hemond started doing what Getz is about to do: trade off all the veterans for prospects. The Sox then went on to log 8 of 9 sub-.500 seasons, not posting a winning season until Reinsdorf and Einhorn bought the team.

There's your run, Thorpe. We'll get some champagne on ice while you hold 'em.

At least Brooks Baldwin put a ball in play. Maybe it'll spark some muscle memory.

Watch out for the MLBPA grievance being filed. I thought it was in the last negotiated contract that Witt had to get a hit in every at-bat against the Sox.

I hope to God that in 10 days, we're looking at Sosa, Colas, DeLoach, Fletcher, maybe Ramos, maybe a guy or two from trades. Eloy, Senzel, Benny, Sheets - this is uninspiring.

There have been a few where I think he's alluded to high school kids having some unrealistic demands.

So, it looks like the Sox may have only "punted" on 2 day two picks. Quite a bit different from the draft day narrative.

Seth Lugo threw 7 shutout innings against the Sox in April. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/CHA/CHA202404150.shtml

Lowest number of high school kids drafted in the top 20 rounds.

There were 54 MLB ranked kids who went undrafted. Most of them are high schoolers and college sophomores. If they're pie in the sky on their bonus, and they're the 150th ranked prospect in a weak draft class, why not gamble on weirdo reach prospects who have room to grow instead of gumming up the works with unrealistic tweeners?

Here's a Twitter dude, used BTV to balance the value, and he got jumped on by all of Twitter. Not really sure if it was Sox or Cards' fans.

Davis Martin is off the AAA IL, and is starting games. They appear to be getting him stretched out. He pitched 4 innings yesterday. https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=martin023dav&type=pgl&year=2024 Scholtens had TJS in spring training, so he most probably won't start rehabbing until next season.

No. A player drafted in this season cannot be part of a trade initiated before the end of the world series.