SoxBlanco

Did he go 4 or 5 innings?

Yeah, we have to take advantage of the 17 games before those 14.

Love that we end the season against the Cubs. If one or both are in the hunt for the playoffs, those games will be crazy.

Opening against the Twins. Nice! Friday, July 24 at home at 7:10 PM.

Dan wrote that.

Is this an educated guess, or have they talked about this? Will there only be 3 game series?

Just settle on 64 games, for f***s sake.

What did Passan say?

So when does everybody expect things to be finalized? Something has to happen this week, right?

I don’t think he’s talking about getting both. He’s saying if Crochet comes in at slot, then we could have had Abel/Kelley or Howard/Kelley, and he would prefer one of those combos.

Love what we did. Rounds 3-5 were going to be long shots even if we went slot. Grab two high ceiling pitchers and hope for the best. If one hits, it’s a success. If both hit, it’s one of the best drafts you could imagine.

Thanks for your input. So what’s your take on Kelley, specifically? I know you touched on it above, but do you like his chances of staying healthy? Or are the odds too much in favor of high school arms flaming out for you to ever feel good about somebody’s chances?

Here’s an article that discusses some of things you are asking about. The part about Blake Snell touches on your question because he was only throwing 90 when drafted and was allowed to grow into his velocity. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.si.com/.amp/mlb/2018/11/19/mlb-draft-high-school-pitchers-velocity-tommy-john-surgery-problem

Yeah, pretty dumb way to ask that question on my part. When you go under slot with a guy, there has to be an agreement in place that allows you to go over slot in future rounds, right? Does that stuff not leak?

When do we find out how much under slot it was?

Howard! (I can dream, right?)

Is this from a tweet?

Replying to my own post here, but I looked back at tweets from last year’s draft. The Sox picked 3rd and the pick was right around 6:30. Toronto picked 11th and made the pick around 7:15/7:20.

How much time does each team have to pick tonight? Trying to figure out approximately when the Sox will pick.

Bump. Sounds like this guy could be the pick.

No, Abel should sign. I believe the post you quoted meant that he thinks the Sox will take Abel.

I thought the 60’s ranked guy was a guess for who the Angels will punt. The PCA guess that you quoted was for a Jimmy tweet about the Sox being linked to a prep name recently.

What has made you change your guess from around 80 games to 65 games? Just the lack of a deal so far?

@Y2Jimmy0, if you had to give a percentage right now on the likelihood a deal is reached in the next 7-10 days, what would you say? I’m still fairly confident, but I’m worried that I’m overly optimistic. I’d say 85% chance a deal is reached.