GreenSox

wtf was that.

Pollock has been hitting a lot better lately.

Leury: The 6 Million Dollar Man (I'm rounding up).

Efficiency: Because they can get 2 utility infielders and a middle reliever for the price of one excellent outfielder.

Cleveland has been about the best there is at snaring prospects. Tampa has traded a lot of good ones away. The thing to avoid with Tampa is their veterans; Cleveland too.

Pollock has a 134 against lefties, which is higher than most in this group against righties. Someone just to platoon with him would help.

In our case, 2 out of 3 IS bad.

Exactly. Imagine that.

And yet by January, 6 months later, this prospect no one had ever seen, was top 50. Add to that that, the international guru, Preller, just happened to be the guy to get a hold of him. Lucky guess by Preller.

Well the Astros didn't make it in their year 2 of their now 8 year window. Need a deft touch; not this all or nothing stuff. And the Sox have the budget to stay good (if they would stop using significant bucks on utility infielders et al)

I notice no 10K guys in the top 10. The college seniors drafted this year did seem like an upgrade from previous editions.

Paddy. He really wasn't some obscure prospect. I figure Hahn didn't have a lifetime contract then, so he figured "it's now or never." a couple of weeks later he used a first rounder for Burdi. 6 weeks later, rebuild time. Hahn certainly has been more cautious in his trades since then. To some, too cautious. I can see Quintana if they are confident he can innings-eat; not to move Kopech to the bullpen, but to give him (and others) rest.

Quintana was pretty gnarly in 2020-2021; One of the best players in baseball. Hahn was warned not to trade him. Just don't trade good up-the-middle prospects. No one trades good prospects for a pitcher like Quintana anyway. Rule 5 guy or 3rd tier prospect.

That last at bat seemed like it took a month. Thankfully, Liam pushed through it. .500 has been passed, hopefully never to return.

Are they saying we should be worse or better?

He had a great year in 2021. But other than that, there may be 1 season where he had good enough numbers to be a 7th-9th inning guy. He received quite the payday for a great 2021.

Bullpen's been pretty good. I don't see how that's the top need, unless they're playing that "bullpen is moneyball" stuff. Maybe need a lefty, but that can be dangerous with the 3 batter rule.

Kiermaier went down; send Engel to Tampa. He's their kind of outfielder.

Strikes out 35%+ of the time; don't need those vibes around the team. Pollock's picking it up a little anyway (at least for the last few games)

I'm waiting for NotSteveChisek to post so that we can get some real information.

Yea, their FO is probably more screwed up than ours. He's a good pitcher. A really nice pull from the draft.

11-8. But it needs to be 14-5 or so. Need to have a great stretch a time or 2 per season, and if not against these opponents, then when?

That's hard to answer. If there are teams out there that view him as "one of the best players in baseball," then obviously not. But I look at things differently than most on this board do (obviously). I look at our top 5 prospects as as valuable to us as the Dodgers top 5 are to them. I realize that ours aren't as valuable to other teams as the Dodgers' would be, but they are as valuable to us. It's like 1K to someone with a net worth of 10K may be as valuable as 100K to someone with a net worth of 1 Million. Now to an outside party they aren't as valuable. So while to another team 3 of our top 5 may be worthy of Reynolds, whereas 3 of the Dodgers top 5 may be worthy of Soto, from our standpoint, we're paying the same price for Reynolds as the Dodgers are paying for Soto. Thus I prefer free agents and rents (especially if we're willing to honestly extend if we end up liking the player) until we get this farm system all squared away.

It's the price I would be willing to pay. Our top 2 prospects (or any in the top 5) is a heavy price. I realize our top 5 is not like the Dodgers top 5, but they are our top 5. To overcome that, until it is fixed, we have to do a better job in free agency than $38 mill for Garcia, Kelly, Harrison and Pollock. Hahn playing scorched earth again is likely to yield the same results it did the last time he tried it.

I don't think so; thus I'd be satisfied offering the packages I suggested and getting laughed at. We'll just have to disagree on Reynolds.