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Does it really matter? If it's done we will find out when it's announced.

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WOW !! Alonso hit a HR on every swing I think in the bonus time and defends his HR Derby crown !

Agreed but Alonso's going to have to earn it. But if he rocks it like he did against Soto he'll win.

Rut roh -Alonso 16-15 Soto and Alonso still had 1:48 to go if he needed it. Mancini is going to have to be Trey magnifique to beat Alonso .

Mancini beats Story . Mancini in finals against either Alonso or Soto .

Shohei loses the shodown with Shoto in double OT ! great match up !

Thanks don't have it. Soto with a 520 footer !

Where can that be found ?

Poor Salvy . Hits the 2nd most HR's so far in the Derby but got matched up against Alonso. 35-27 .

Surprising Alonso was underrated coming into this with Ohtani and Vladdy competing and the massive power of Gallo.

Yea but i like the quicker pace. Less time watching hitter take pitches and waiting for the ball to come down before the next pitch and more HR's with the clock. Just no time to savor them.

Zoinks ! Alonso defending his title with some bombs. 25 with a minute to go . Polar Bear Power ! Salvy Perez has his work cut out for him. New record for Alsonso was it 34 ????!!

Zoinks ! Alonso defending his title with some bombs. 25 with a minute to go . Polar Bear Power ! Salvy Perez has his work cut out for him.

Yea but it still beats Chris Berman no matter what they do.

Yeah his 1st round doomed him . He got in a little groove in the 2nd part but the tying HR didn't count because time has ran out. Story beats Gallo 20-19.

Yea it's a little different and you don't get to savor the really long ones. But I think I saw Story hit one that measured 518 ft. so that's pretty amazing and now it's Gallo to try to beat Story's 20.

Exciting round with Mancini barely beating Olson 24-23 . The balls are flying out of Coors !

Losing Grandal does hurt OBP but the Sox but hurts their power even more. The Astro's and Sox are 1 and 2 in baseball in OBP so losing 1 guy isn't too bad. As of yet they haven't missed Madrigals OBP that much but they do lose a steady bat but not a run producer. The thing that concerns me most is the Sox are 14th out of the 15 AL teams in HR's barely ahead of the Royals and this is with the Sox facing the dregs of their division Tigers, Royals Twins pitching staffs and 7 games against the Orioles too. Of course injuries are to blame for some of it but so is lower than expected HR's from Moncada and the just recent loss of Grandal will hurt it even more. Also the Sox eliminated 12 HR's from the lineup when ejecting Eaton and Mercedes. They have picked up a few recently with better then expected results from Engel and Goodwin but they need better results from the guys in the lineup every day and without Grandal they need to have another regular pick it up or go outside the organization for HR's which is why Escobar should be the pick. If the Sox shock us and go for another position player I'd be happy to add Starling Marte in RF if the cost for Gallos' HR's + OBP is prohibitive.

Good good make your picks. I'm going with Gallo.

Kind of surprised there was no thread for this already. I love the All-Star Game and the festivities leading up to it. I guess the HR Derby is tonight so I turned on the MLB. app on my TV that I use to watch the Sox games and there is a program on from T Mobile leading up to the HR Derby and I just watched Hunter Pence talking to Castellanos and Tatis, Jr. on who they thought would win the HR Derby and where do they think the farthest HR will land. Also saw Peyton Manning and Big Papi roaming around the field. I am like a kid in a candy store when all the best players in baseball despite the opt outs are gathered all in one spot and looking froward to seeing the 4 Sox All-Stars perform with finger crossed . Should be an epic HR Derby in Colorado with Ohtani, Gallo and Vladdy , Jr. and the others. Trevor Story could be the favorite since he is used to the elevation but Ohtani is the #1 seed.

Arizona has played 46 games against the Dodgers, Giants, Padres, Mets, A's, Brewers. That's more than 1/2 their games against some of the best pitching in baseball. Escobar has 20 HR's on the season and he would be cheaper than Frazier. That's all you need to know.

I don't think it's negative or ridiculous at all. I know all the young talent we currently possess . Yes the Sox guys are so good they are in the majors now but it's not like I am the first one to say the Sox had a top heavy Farm System. Anyone who's been paying attention to the Sox farm knew this. And that's facts are as I presented them during the rebuild about trading Int'l money away and spending money on Manny's friends. I didn't even go into how they have only in the years few years upgraded biomechanics and analytics because it would ve taken a lot more research and a much longer post to support my claims that the Sox didn't make changes fast enough to make the talent on the farm deeper nor simply didn't care about it enough judging by the Machado fiasco and trading away money. i know there are a certain amount of very positive posters who don't like negative posts but if you objectively look at the ownership of the team and see the results of so so many top 5 payrolls it always ends the same way. No sustained success. Feel free to trust the Sox to do the things you fully expect them to do. I won't call your post overly positive or ridiculous. I love the Sox and am enjoying this season very much. That's why I want the Sox to win the World Series this year when the talent level is in all likelihood at the peak as far as a balance between pitching and hitting. You won't find me in game threads complaining about every decisions TLR makes or the lineup. I keep my eyes focused on the big picture and what to expect in the future from indicators from the past. Apparently you trust JR . It's not like there has ever been any sustained success. It's always been one and done despite you pointing out the obvious to me. I am optimistic for this year but cynical for sustained success. You can believe in Santa Clause if you want to but it's not ridiculous if I don't.

They seem related to me after reading what Atlanta had to say about getting Eaton.

I'm trying to understand your post. You rightly point out the starting pitcher issues for the near future and even go so far as to say that any weakness puts the Sox in the barely over .500 territory. Yet you ignore your own knowledge by saying the Sox can't trade a lot of farm talent to go all in. What if "this rebuild and all the associated pain for a decade" actually does turn out to be "2-3 years of pleasure" because the bottom ranked farm system doesn't provide what's necessary to continue the sustained success we have been promised. Then we only have Jerry's pocketbook and the ability of Hahn to make good trades to sustain the window . You will reap what you sow if you trust JR and Hahn to guide this team to sustained success. We were told repeatedly by Rick Hahn that the goal of the process was to ensure the White Sox “were competing for multiple championships.” https://ontapsportsnet.com/2020/02/10/defining-success-for-the-white-sox-in-the-competitive-window/ Wouldn't it be better to go for it by trading that talent to help the team now ,when we have the pitching ,rather than wait until we no longer have the pitching ? The Padres built a great farm system and have made a lot of trades but they had a plan going back to 2016 on how to build the farm. I'm not sure the Sox ever had a plan to build the farm. Sure they built the farm by trading Sale, Eaton and Quintana but a plan outside of that , one to go hand in hand with sustaining success never seemed to materialize. We still saw them trading away international, money and taking gambles on other teams rejects like Palka, Skole, AJ Reed and others like most teams do. They didn't invest in players to try to flip them for more international money or minor leaguers. Instead they invested in friends of Manny Machado to try to lure him to the Sox. Does everyone conveniently forget these wonderful plans to sustain the farm system ? I'm going to give you links about how the Padres did it and when they started it and sustained it. Maybe no one reads them but it doesn't sound like how the Sox have done it at all . The Padres had players graduate to the majors and traded half their top 30 prospects yet still had the 6th or 7th ranked farm system https://www.mlb.com/news/how-the-padres-rebuilt-their-farm-in-9-months-c193571200 https://www.eastvillagetimes.com/comparing-padres-rebuild-cubs-mets-astros/ https://www.thebiglead.com/posts/a-j-preller-and-the-san-diego-padres-have-built-a-monster-farm-system-01dm2y62b3mn https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/padres-join-excellent-company-as-no-1-farm-system/ https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/yu-darvish-trade-grades-padres-cubs/1m9d0eavxu9tk1uybp77g50i0a https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/story/2020-12-28/padres-farm-system-blake-snell-trade-luis-patino https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/story/2021-02-10/padres-farm-system-baseball-america-rankings-mackenzie-gore-cj-abrams https://friarsonbase.com/2021/02/10/padres-farm-system-ranked-seventh-best/ https://friarsonbase.com/2021/03/18/padres-top-prospects-farm-system-rankings/ The Sox did a good job of getting good minor league talent for good major league talent with good contracts. But did they ever get a superstar by trading someone who sucked with a big contract ? That's essentially how the Padres got Tatis, jr. from the Sox a measly 6 months or so before the Sox decided they didn't have the brains or wouldn't spend enough money to find a way to win without tearing it all down. Don't worry if the Sox miss the playoffs next year and Keuchel sucks maybe Hahn can trade him and find the next Tatis, Jr. Good luck with that.