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Summer circuit uses wood bats ?

Who should ? .A lot of people here questioned him going to starting pitching at the MLB level. Between Crochet, Bannister, Getz and Katz it all worked out beyond our upside dreams ..So far, knock on wood. Stay healthy Garrett . You may still be with the Sox to finish 2024.

@Bob Sacamano 2nd Rd about to start. Picks will come faster. Should know the Sox pick in 10-15 minutes or so. Sloan still on the board.

Vance Honeycutt

And if it rains ?

Reality is pitching is a strength of the organization now with Bannister around so it's possible they are killing 2 birds with 1 stone here. Plus never can have enough pitching with it being so in demand at trade deadline's. It also can be a position of strength in which to trade from if Getz starts trading MILB pitcher's for MiLB hitters. Maybe instead of spreading themselves so thin trying to fix so much at once they are building a foundation of strength in one area to start .

Those were the 2 I mentioned earlier in the longer draft thread. Unless it was in a trade trade thread. I can't keep track.

As much as I wanted Cags I didn't see it with teams holding back on their prized up the middle players and more catcher/1st base types likely to be offered.

I was going to send a post to Dirty Sox after the Kurtz pic and ask Smith ?

Wow Burns at 2

Ill guess Guards take Condom.

He has easy power to all fields and against LHP & RHP .I've seen him jack low and inside and high and outside. He's got personality. JacHammer or Gaston. He just looks like a star. And hey he can pitch a little bit.

The league would probably make another anti tanking anti White Sox move and prohibit it and take away the Sox 1st round draft pick next year for not negotiating in good faith.

Certainly wouldn't have guessed it was a drunk post. It looked well constructed .

I wonder if he did accept a conservative offer if the Sox would still trade him and if they decided to keep him would they alter whatever plan they have for how much to pitch him the rest of the season .

Another 2 years 2025 and 2026. FA in 2027. Or whatever team he's traded to can give him a better offer on an extension. I'm still not convinced he'll he gone by the deadline, high price plus availability concerns after the deadline. If he gets 2 starts after the AllStar break it all be interesting to see how many pitches he throws.

We all had very different ideas about how he would be handled that for sure when it was 1st announced he would be a SP. I've reread that thread a few times. I was conservative like everyone else. I understand the line of thought that the Sox have done him a disservice but on the other hand they'd allowed him to stay in the majors rather than in the minors and reduced the time it would take to become a FA. I'm one of a few who thinks if the Sox offered him a conservative extension that bought out a year or of his FA years he would be wise to take it given his history but others say it would take $100M to get him to bite now . But others think I'm crazy because they think in 2027 ( 2 short years) he'll get a big payday while I think 2 years+ is a long time and a lot can go wrong .

I agree as I've said many times it's unprecedented what's going on and there is a good possibility it could backfire which is why I don't understand why other posts say that Crochet could be in line for a $200-300M contract. A whole hell of a lot would have to go right for a guy with no track record of starting pitching and poor health to overcome those thingsto be in line with that kind of contract which I said a few posts back.

Are you like a child that doesn't understand that Crochet has a big say in what happens to him ? If Crochet thought the Sox weren't doing what best for him he could say I'd rather do it this way just like Kopech . But since things are working out for Crochet sofar then we have to assume he and the Sox are in sync on his pitch count per game . Why does that make me the old man ? You're the one always yelling at the clouds about how everything sucks . Screw Getz screw Grifol the players are bums as if you didn't know that in the 1st year of a rebuild and with huge budget slashes that things would be ugly. My approach is level headed, yours is very emotional . You wanted people to stick it to @JUSTgottaBELIEVE because Crochet went 2 innings and you thought it was the start of a permanent workload decrease right around the 100 innings mark until others corrected you that it was workload management for the All Star break and you said yes you guys are probably right.

Crochet doesn't want to pitch in relief. He feels being a starter puts him on a routine that best helps his arm. If it was relief pitcher every 5 days then maybe but then why not just be an opener for an inning or 2 through August and Sept. Or lower his pitch count to 40 pitches or 2 inning whichever come 1st for 6 starts then back up to 60 75 ,90 in the last 3 starts of the season. How that would alter his between starts routine I don't know. Maybe Crochet tells the new team through Getz what he prefers before a trade can be completed. How all of that affects his arm or gets him to pitch higher innings in the playoff I have no idea.Its all unprecedented.

It's possible . What they do in the draft may effect how they approach trades. Pitching in the draft has 2 really good arms and the Sox seem to be prioritizing middle infielder and OF and probably looking CF more than corners. Best player available in this draft may come down to best player available you can get a discount on. If they are getting offers on Robert and Crochet that look promising this early the offers may include high profile catchers or 1st base types such as Basallo or Rushing and pitchers which teams seem more willing to part with. The Phillies and Mariners have young prospects that may appeal to them. I'd be surprised to see Caglione drafted just based the availability of that type of player available in trades. But will those trades happen at the deadline ? If they plan on drafting Cags they better be damn sure he'll be a good outfielder. I'm not as worried about his out of zone swings because of his contact rate. He's tall with long arms so he can reach outside pitches more easily and has made it work for him. I would have to have a breakdown of what pitches outside the zone he's been swinging at. He's certainly an anomaly with such a low K rate with such a high outside of zone swing rate.