mac9001

My issue with the Sox and their approach to trades or free agency is they waste money and assets to get marginally better. If you're going to trade just a few chips to pick up like 3 more games and maybe be marginally more competitive in round 1 don't bother. Save the money and chips for the off-season and go all in (or wait to do it the following year or that when you feel the time is right). That's one thing Preller seems to understand, if you're gonna swing, swing for the fences otherwise you're just showing enough effort to justify keeping your job but you don't have a viable strategy for legitimately winning it all and at the end that's all that matters.

Anytime I see a 11-20 pick not get the full 150k it gives me the icks. Give the goddamn kids the full $150k.

That's exactly the point. It makes a mockery of the system that you draft guys you don't intend to actually sign.

Honestly, they really should do away with the pool. All these senior signs getting nothing to manage pool space is kinda of a shitty way to bring these guys into pro baseball. They should have at least a 50% floor on slot value and maybe cap the bonus on day 2 picks so you can't go a million over on pick 11 and force a team to spend their full pool day 1.

This has been a fantastic draft. I may go as far to say the best draft they've ever had. I feel pretty confident the first 3 picks will be big leaguers. That really sets you up to take a lot of risks and go for development potential over floor. They might not have a single big leaguer with picks 4+ but I like they took a bunch of "if" (if x develops they might actually have something).

It doesn't seem to matter who makes the decisions for the Sox, but there's always a clear deficit in strategic planning. I'm not a huge Gonzales fan but the Sox need pitching without trading low on a dude like Noah. This accomplished nothing to improve our MLB pitching and makes the probability of giving up meaningful value to fill a deficit need (legit MLB pitching) while reducing our IF depth. If they had traded him for a legit quality reliever (or packaged him with someone for said RP) I would at least appreciate the need to consolation value for MLB assets. A move like this only makes sense if you don't plan to be a buyer and you think you're selling high on a dude that's not going to produce with a longer term vision of truly competing next year after you've spent some serious cash.

Seems like a waste of an asset, if you wanted a low minors filler C you can just pay cash.

Seems like a dude you could have got for straight cash anyway.

I've only seen a few WS games, but it was obvious they were pitching around Bonemer. He probably swung at every first pitch trying to catch an early count fastball. I'm actually kinda of surprised his walk rate is this high as he seems to swing early and fall behind in each AB.

Unfortunately the White Sox have significantly lowered my standards. League average position players seem like a novel concept.

He's now in the top 10 of most offensive categories in the IL and most of the guys in front of him have super inflated BABIP. It's hard to take anyone's Charlotte numbers seriously but it's also hard to believe he couldn't be a WRC+ 100 big leaguer if he keeps this up for a few months.

Sosa isn't very good, or even average. But his ABs will be replaced by someone less average, probably bad, really bad. Can we at least have a goal that MLB ABs should go to people that actually have a legitimate reason to wear a MLB uniform?

But each time you send a dude down he can't come back up for something like 15 days and there's now a limit how many times you can option a guy. Just seems unnecessary to call up a dude for one night.

Not sure I understand the logic of bringing Schweitzer up for a day only to option him for Eisert. Why not just bring up Eisert yesterday?

That would make more sense. I guess we're going to see A Davitt debut.