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Soft-tosser whose home field is in an extreme pitchers park. We didn't get a prospect like Carlson for Cease or Crochet.

Maybe because they already played a season; then the emotions with the drafts. They're young and can handle it, but it's a lot.

Wikipedia says it's now Catster. It's about cats. I don't have a cat. But I do subscribe to the Athletic, so I hope he's going there.

Apologize

Dare I ask...what is Cat Fancy?

I thought Fedde was in the pen. Anyway, yea, keep it up Thorpe.

I don't know the business, but I figured SM was more of a part-time gig. He's got to make a living and he's really good covering the Sox.

What a boss performance by Castillo. Hadn't had anything like that in a while. I hope H Smith's summit isn't as a 1 inning pitcher; but if it is, more of tonight.

Yuk

It's common for the rankings to be behind the reality. They are really a lagging indicator. Jake Eder was still ranked in the top 100 when the Sox traded for him. And from a trading standpoint, I think it's a lot easier to trade a pass-along prospect like B. Smith than it is to trade one that you drafted and developed. The sense of loss is less. Somehow the Nats, who originally traded B Smith, ended up with a promising young pitcher; we ended up with a year and 2 months of an expensive pitcher who appears to be on his last legs.

Hays was unavoidable (if they couldn't trade him) but dumping Pereira and Gonzalez while keeping Joe Rock (and others) seems nutty.

It's unbelievable really. The 1-inning drop off in mph is crazy. Smith practically falls off the mound after every pitch. Why do the Sox draft so many sidearm/low slot guys? Is that what Bannister orders? Getz? Shirley on his own? All of the above? And it was the same thing in the 2026 draft.

Smith's delivery looks even more pronounced than it was in college. Seems like it would be hard to throw strikes, much less hold pinpoint command..

Sadly, in most cases, that's probably the right move. At least there's a chance to get something out of them. I'm hoping that Taylor and Vasil start next year. Vasil for sure;

Bottom 1/3 is the Sox natural spot over most of the last 60 years (c. 1990-2006 excepted). After 2022-2025, it's absolutely ridiculous not to have more talent than that stockpiled; our major league team isn't that loaded.

How does that happen? I didn't like him much in college, but at least he was throwing 98; or so they said. 93-94 is pretty much the norm for a Sox pitching prospects. Do any of the draftees this year have velocity? I know they have funky deliveries, odd arm slots, pitch shapes, and I would guess spin...but velocity?

In the 12th, we get 3 hits and a walk and score 1. They get no hits and a wild pitch and score 1. That was that. Getz traded for a terrible Castillo, and, not surprisingly, he's still terrible. And moving Fedde to the pen has been a disaster. Except really for the catcher trade, these were trades just to make trades. And they were done on the other teams' terms....and he listens to these GMs who are trying to rip him off.

Feels like we have been off a week. Time to play ball.

Yea but we had Perez out there too. Could have kept Hill in lieu of him. Anyway, if Doyle can re-channel 2024, we're set.

So we traded for what we had and then virtually gave away in Hill. We’ve done several of these zigzag sort of things over the last couple of years.

I give it a C-. After calming down, the only trade that really annoys me is Luis Castillo. What should have been a salary dump, Getz sends Seattle one of our more interesting prospects, and who plays a position in which he was the only interesting prospect. The best trade was the Bart trade. Otherwise, it shows that our farm still has a long way to go.

Well yea. He whiffed on that one.

Maybe, but he's got a point (although it begs the question of whether not protecting him was the right move.). and as another x-blogger pointed out, 94 mph isn't that great and the Sox really lack high-end pitching prospects (lack ofquality international signings and draft?)

Right. Heck we were in similar positions with Robert, Cease, Crochet and waited for offseason. Angels have/had a lot of good players. Could have an expedited rebuild.

That's the one piece of comfort. To me expecting these players to revert to 2024 form is mostly wishcasting. but if they can hit on one of the 2, it's a Win.