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you know one thing that sucks about Hahn is how in a decade the only fun "buying" he did at the deadline was in 2021 with kimbrel. Despite several, ostensible, competitive years. This was obviously whiplash from KW where sox were always finding ways to add even if it wasn't for this years team. Different time a bit, but KW got away with a lot with a small farm just by looking at deadline as a way to take on salaries from embarrassing franchises. Hahn tenure: - 2013: sell year (Peavy) - 2014: Rebuilding year - 2015: competitive year but we do not buy. This is a year KW would have definitely made a buy for someone to help in 2016. - 2016: it's all falling apart, so we trade Zach Duke. - 2017: sell - 2018: sell - 2019: sell - 2020: buy year, but do nothing. The team makes the playoffs with their pitching depth about to fall off a cliff because it is so young and had no build up. - 2021: We buy relievers and the worst of the traded 2b. So many legit amazing players traded, but hostetlers s%*# drafting already showing that we could only trade major league pieces because he was so fucking bad. - 2022: We trade a DFA'able catcher to take on bad money in Diekman. - 2023: Sell Well that's a lotta fun.

Chuck tries to take the negative wheel and drives right off a cliff lol.

Lmao

19th round pick Caden Connor The notable thing here is he was announced as an OF when drafted.

I mean we have an incredible collection of heights as well

Interesting, rough story on Mikey Kane our 17th rounder. Has some interest in D1 baseball out of high school but with COVID rule he loses his spots as Seniors stay. He goes to College of the Canyons juco to play but they cancel the season for his first year. He finally plays the next year and gets recruited to Oregon State. He had an ok year, but shows the weird ass careers some of these guys had to navigate. He's a big boy at 6'3. Would be cool if he becomes a late bloomer.

He looks taller than 5’6. The Tom cruise of infielders

So here are my thoughts now mostly thru the draft: - One thing I did not like about Shirleys first 2020 and 2021 drafts that featured a lot of 'punted' top ten picks to afford some high cost high schoolers was it coincided with some very small intl classes from Paddy at the same time. This year, Paddy added a large class of 17 year olds, many of which in DSL. This draft is mostly College Juniors, with one HS and one CCer. That makes a lot more sense in balancing the load where the college kids have runway in Kanny while the DSL kids can own the DSL/ACL spaces together. - I still am not very positive about Jacob Gonzalez or Grant Taylor. For Taylor, I think he's a great talent, I'm just not a huge fan of drafting injured pitchers unless they showed dominance prior. For Gonzalez, I actually think he has more upside than people state - I just feel like the sox are going be screwed on that swing. But I'm more positive than many of the bad commentary on Gonzalez. - There is a lot of LH hitting added, which is nice. - There is a lot of commentary that the position players are smart baserunners, hard workers, while not showy leaders. The showy leaders have been fools gold recently. - A lot of weak armed outfielders, but good range. Probably better than a lot of our "good arm but actually their knees are connected straight into their hip" outfielders. Overall, for as hyped as this class was, I sure wish our 15th pick had worked out differently. But it was a nice, well rounded class bringing in some guys who seem smart and some stuff to dream on. Like big dreams, not like "the guy plays water polo!" dreams.

good call

Because he can get the up to $125k, i'm guessing he'll sign. If he'd been taken in top 10 rounds and offered like $30k I'm guessing he'd go back to UT.

seems like the UTenn media a little bummed after thinking they escaped without Galanie or Dickey didn't go top 10 rounds. Thought this was interesting from Rocky Top Insider: https://www.rockytopinsider.com/2023/07/11/chicago-white-sox-draft-tennessee-transfer-commit-ryan-galanie/ The question for Galanie is whether he will use his final season of college eligibility at Tennessee or forego his final collegiate season to start his college career. Galanie told RTI that his dream is to play in the MLB earlier this month but that he wanted a fair signing bonus that wasn’t taking advantage of him. “If I feel like I’m being taken advantage of at all— in the position I’m in now I’m a right-handed corner infielder that can hit a little bit. I’m a mid major guy that’s old,” Galanie said. “There’s not a whole lot of leverage and there’s definitely area for me to get taken advantage of a little bit by organizations so if I feel like I’m being taken advantage of I don’t plan on signing because all I want is fair value and I’ve been told I have the possibility to be a money saver guy on the second day. That’s kind of what I’m expecting but if I feel like it’s gone from money saver to taking advantage of me I don’t want to be a part of that. I want to be looking forward to going somewhere like Tennessee.”

if we can't have any international scouting outside of LatAm we can at least ...um...maybe donate to colleges to provide baseball scholarships to them so we can then draft them traditionally

Number 479 on the ba500 Nishida is an outlier in many ways in the 2023 draft class. It starts with his physique, which is one of the smallest in the class—high school or college—at just 5-foot-6, 150 pounds. Next is his setup at the plate, where he starts with an extremely open stance before taking a large leg kick to get back toward an even setup. He’s very active in the box and will constantly shuffle his feet and move back toward the catcher or further up in the box toward the pitcher in the middle of a delivery. Despite all the moving parts, Nishida has excellent pure bat-to-ball skills and struck out at just an 8.7% rate through 63 games, while slashing .312/.394/.443. His overall miss rate was just 16%. Nishida has 20-grade raw power and will be more likely to bunt for a hit than hit a ball over the fence in pro ball. He is an expert at bunting, and has plus speed that could allow a slap-and-dash approach to be viable when paired with his contact ability. He’s an aggressive base runner who went 25-for-33 (75.8%) in stolen base attempts this spring and scouts praise both his defensive ability at second base and his overall instincts on the diamond. The list of successful big leaguers at Nishida’s size is exceedingly small, and because of that he faces an uphill battle and is unlikely to command anything greater than day three draft stock.

he is uhm...very small

we signed the wrong cespedes https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/teenager-yoeilin-cespedes-stands-out-with-dsl-red-sox/ (he's not related)

one clip I desperately wish was on youtube is the end of the game when the sox were vs. giants and up 1-0. Bartolo Colon had pitched an unbelievable game which included 3 ks of Barry Bonds where he climbed the ladder on him and got him to swing high and inside. There was a man on base, and bartolo was pitching in the 9th vs Bonds. He was going to the well again. He had him at 2 strikes, and then threw him that high and inside pitch...and Bonds got around on it and smacked a 2 run home run. It was insane. It was sort of like if we faced ohtani and instead of giving up a home run every at bat to show how great he is, we actually challenged the hell otu of him only to see he couldn't be stopped.

That SEC stat is wild, but interesting looking at the college representation. Really much fewer college players, like 1 per class. Probably self selecting with some of what's required in the HOF being longevity and many college players entering league at a later age.

I don't even know. I feel like montgomery emerges, or TA emerges, and have overcome so much adversity in this system to get their they were that special player who just hits their 100th percentile. But why this org fails is it can't turn guys like Sosa into anything remotely passable because they come up with average defense, they have no approach and are just eaten up and spit out as not good enough.

"I contributed $25 to your marathon fundraiser so now I get to make fun of you for getting divorced!" - normal person

Liberty university’s next head coach

I know the man for the job

SEC is tough.

Park does have a Stephen kwan comp, and I do kinda like just getting an extremely well rounded and competent guy in the system. Especially at outfield.

The Pitchers and left handed bats draft

Doesn’t feel THAT long ago to me, he had a bit of a resurgence with 15 home runs in Kanny in 2019 but the pandemic happened and he was released when they came back.