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I open the Birmingham boxscore and ask myself who is this Left-Fielder Smith with a homer, 2 hits and 2 walks today? Well it's the same as the catcher Smith. Good gracious. Call him up (or move him up if Charlotte is a requirement). Good players are just moving faster these days. If they are ready, they are ready.

Hudson is a rich man's Eisert: throw's a bit harder and is more accurate. Can't complain about the pub we get when Plesac is afoot. He knows more about the Sox than our regular TV announcers. He loves this team. Keep it going.

5th to last in OBP; they needed to make the most of their chances and they did.

I keep repeating myself, but our incumbent DH has a negative WAR. So there is room for anyone who can hit.

So what happens if one of your, say, round 8 punts, decides to go back to school for a 5th year or just give up baseball rather than take the 10K. You lose the whole allotment? I would think the $500 Braves might be at risk.

I don't think the Sox need to trade for a reliever (the pen has sharpened up nicely; Sandlin and/or others can handle any further needs), but if we were to trade, I like Huascar Brazoban from the Mets. He's 36, but doesn't have "high mileage" throwing barely 550 professional innings. Contrast that with teammate Luke Weaver who is 32 but has 1300 professional innings. Considering Weaver's in the midst of a career (albeit great) season, Brazoban would be much cheaper. Not that concerned with "control" for a middle reliever, but Brazoban is controlled through 2029 (unfortunate for him; old friend Tanner Banks had a similar fate).

That's the idea - get him on the IL and bring up Bonemer (or someone).

Sox need a RH bat. Sox Receive: Luis Robert, Jr. Mets Receive: Andrew Benintendi I say: Bring Him Home

Don't forget Bonemer. He might be the best hitter of all of them. He'll be ready next year. We need some RH Pop. Heck bring him up now. He can replace our negative WAR DH

I love trades. But I hate young-for-old trades that seem to be all anyone can come up with this time of year. Those trades destroyed us over the past decade (and beyond): Samardzija, Shields.....Kimbrel trade was the kill shot of the last playoff edition, and it would have set this edition back another 2 years had the Cubs picked Crochet instead of Madrigal. Yea, let's do more of that.

And the drafters haven't changed. And the old PD, which apparently was the bigger part of the problem, was headed by Getz. All so weird.

I am surprised by the angst about this. I was and proponent of Gonzales in May on and he hasn't disappointed me. And of course the idea to trade him would come up and the near universal sentiment was that a couple of good months in Charlotte didn't create trade value. In Chicago, he wasn't overmatched, but he didn't wow either; and he never played middle infield. So how much trade value did he really build up? And then the reality is that he just wasn't on Getz' A-team (sending him back down was the final statement on that). Getz may be wrong about that, and perhaps other teams saw him more favorably, and, thus might have paid more. But I could also see scenarios where they let him linger in AAA for a while, and whatever value there is wastes away. I'll save my angst for when we package young players for an average starter....

One interesting aspect of this trade is how Eisert has been revealed as an analytics darling and is an otherwise high value pitcher. I got the shakes every time he entered a game and had assumed he was #13 on the Sox pecking order.

Not a huge moneymaker, no. But the school's not paying it...the donors are. Some of these schools have donors with Ishbia level resources. The baseball NIL hasn't gotten that much out of hand...yet. But when a player ranked 250 isn't picked until the, what, 400s, I assumed it was NIL. I read that the Oklahoma pitcher Johnson had a first-round grade out of high school. It's a big bet on yourself. (I love that pick, fwiw).

The bonuses for the ranked college guys picked in the teens will be interesting - NIL effect.

"Lack of defensive value?".....

Could the Sox have 2 DSL teams like most of the other orgs, and they just choose not to? Everyone's under a cap, so the number of players should be relatively equal - Or do the other orgs just sign a whole slew of $10K, players

The lists do look a bit raggedy. I suppose the international void takes its toll. Bonemer is MLB#16. Might be the highest ranking this century for a player drafted and developed by the Sox.

Trade? Yes. Always be open and alert for opportunities Buy? Never

Sure

Teams are going to be all over Getz for Bonemer. Especially after this draft. Various 35 year olds, career years, clubhouse clowns will be offered....do not give in. The Dodgers are getting long in the tooth in the IF and have a hole at 2B and will have a OF prospect or Emmet Sheehan to offer. Do not give in,

I assume some facetiousness here; nevertheless, to replace departees, downturns in performance (as we know), injuries (as we know), trade for young players at different positions. Up the middle ballplayers are of extreme high value. And just upgrades.

Hicks has been pitching like one of the best relievers in the league. Now can he keep it going and can he do it in leverage situations? I guess I had hoped Schultz would have a little more "Stuff." Maybe it will come. As are a mess - glad we took advantage.

What is the theory behind taking the college senior in, say, round 8, and using the savings to pay overslot to a prep player in, say, round 12; versus taking the prep player in round 8; and the college senior in round 12. Can you not use the savings in rounds 11-20 to compensate for overslots in 1-10?

Another punt. I hope it's for big fish in future rounds, but I'm not holding my breath.