SoxBlanco

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.

Richie, you need to read this article: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

I am bumping this now that spring training has been underway for a while. Fulmer is definitely making a case for a bullpen spot, like many of us predicted. That last bench piece is still a question mark. Cuthbert? Mercedes? Delmonico? Collins? I feel like Collins will be in AAA, unless McCann is traded.

Interesting that the “new RFielder” whose name you forgot made your cut of young electric players, but Robert didn’t.

I could take a wild guess, but I’d probably be way off the mark.

You could catch Grandal for 90 games and DH him for 50/60 games. Abreu and EE could still play 130/140 games each.

This. 100% this.

Dumb post for $500, Alex.

I’m so glad Konerko didn’t swing at the first pitch with the bases loaded in game 2 of the World Series. Oh wait...

SouthWallace, whatever you do for work, it must be the greatest job in the world. Thanks for the updates.

Luis Gonzalez, my man! I think I'm his biggest fan on this message board. He's gonna bounce back this year.

New projected opening day lineup: Anderson Moncada Abreu Engel Grandal Jimenez Encarnacion Robert Garcia

This discussion came up earlier this offseason. Most people think Ricky will keep him 3rd all year no matter what. I don't think there's any chance he keeps him 3rd if he's struggling and other guys deserve to be in that spot. He wants to win games. He has never had a team that can win games, so you can't use his past decisions to predict what he will do this year.

Based on today's lineup, Ricky will be going with something very close to what you have here. Push EE up to 4 or 5 and I think you nailed it.