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Sox have Quero now too, he belongs with Montgomery and Schultz. Also reports are that Gonzalez will stick in MI and he could be a fine 2B. Probably really solid, nothing spectacular. Ramos isn't too shabby either. There's a lot of pressure on these guys though. It's not completely destitute, but not good either and their best players are 2+ years away. I like what Shirley has done, Gonzalez wouldn't have been my pick this year based on who was available and everyone can split hairs on Crochet. I think Shirley is a massive upgrade on Sox scouting departments of years past. Even if some guys don't work out, I can't really argue with the philosophy much. I can totally split hairs with Paddy because Reyes and Erick Hernandez have been a disaster, though there's still time.

Actually I forgot that he missed half the season, but the power outage existed before he got injured last year.

Power outage existed before his injury last year.

Anderson always relied on bat speed and I think the natural aging process got him. I don't think Anderson is as much of a villain as the fanbase makes him out to be, he was very good for a while.

I honestly don't think that Anderson and Moncada will ever be good again. They just lost all of their talent.

Typical Sox prospect

Sox have been the dumbest team in baseball for as long as I can remember.

Whenever Yoan gets a hit it looks a lot like that. He's turned into Madrigal with a worse hit tool.

What has Vaughn ever shown that suggests he can hit spin?

Hi Rick, nice to see you drop in.

Would actually be nice, tbh.

He looks like he's about to go into a funk though. Will be interesting to see what his final numbers look like this year.

Cannon didn't miss a ton of bats in W/S, this shouldn't be a surprise. He has to come up with an out pitch.

Burger is basically HR or K though.

Well now is as good of a time as any to conduct that experiment. I wonder what his fielding metrics look like when there's a big enough sample size.

Good, so can we move on from the bust Vaughn and put Burger at 1B?

I'm well aware, I haven't thought that in a while. I accepted he wasn't that good in 2021 but thought he could still be slightly overpaid until this year. 2022+2023 led me to finally give up on him as a hitter. Moustakas had more power than Yoan does now but is otherwise a very good comparison as a player and highly ranked prospect.

Moncada peaked with the moonshot off Strasburg in 2019.

Not that they'd do it, but in a sane organization Vaughn would be a non-tender candidate, right?

I really thought he was gonna be a Jose Ramirez clone. This is a guy that used to hit 115 mph HRs and stole 40 bags in AA. He's one of Baseball's greatest enigmas.

$29M if you include his buyout.

93 mph from Cease. WTF. He injured?

They already moved Reyes to the Pen? Yikes.

It's amazing how the Guardians can pull starters out of their ass.

If we're being honest, Burger doesn't have a position either.