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Of course there is a return for Hendriks. It just depends what people consider a return.

He wasn't really a prodigious power guy though. I don't know this all gives me flashbacks to the arguments that we couldn't develop high schoolers or athletes when really we were barely drafting them and the few we did just happened not to pan out as is common with draft picks.

I do have moments of wanting to believe. It requires believing this shooting coach turning around every single athletic single dimensional wing into a top 3 pt shooter with ferocious defense. But that lasts a few seconds.

And in both cases its clear when you have that as your top goal you aren't going to find the talent to even get you there.

There is a high probability all of the first rounders fail. And we certainly have not been drafting for any sort of power profiles, which is not the same as players that should have power profiles based off of body but like to slap it to 2nd base.

I actually think this handling of colas is pretty decent. Gave him a shot, was horrible, sent him down, bring him up with success. Not bad. You see the braves making early call ups on guys but also always letting them know they are in competition and need to improve. Vaughn Grissom was damn good last year. They took Arcia to start season over him. They had a good catcher, they traded for a much better one. It does a lot. You can't ever stop in baseball like the white sox do constantly under Hahn.

AJ Preller?

power is a huge huge glaring need thou.

Lol, pretty much Middleton.

We aren't trading cheap players of value. Cost cutting will be the goal here, not "re-setting".

Holy hell did trayce thompsons pumpkin hit midnight again or what

It is remarkable how he has entered with this approach as a prep draft pick…in this org

Mlb page gotta learn the words “suspended” instead of just claiming 2 inning wins

if only gambling was more prominent for minor league games, we might actually get information on injuries at these levels

Who is Skenes agent? Maybe if he takes a lower slot, but feels like an LSU baseball player has no need to take a discount

I cant' buy Cherington going pitcher 1-1.

Obviously most will judge a scouting director by the Major League value brought in by the classes. But I also think there is a big value in bringing in players with your top picks that retain or improve prospect value after drafting. Basically - one thing I really like about Shirley's classes, with a caveat, is with not great draft positions he's taken two super tooled up profiles that have entered the system and immediately entered top 100 prospect lists or conversations. This mainly by these guys entering the system and showing that their big tools played already while the rest develops. Maybe Colson and Schulz never make it as big leaguers, but if we weren't a trash team, it would be a huge boost to have big trade pieces like this as well. I think Crochet could have been an example of this, except the sox raced him up and 2020 was so weird. He showed that top level stuff immediately. Now I don't want to give too much credit for picks not made, but we were rumored to be watching Patrick Bailey in 2020, and ultimately chose Crochet. But it's still an example I hold in my head. I did not want Bailey, everything read kind of average. Now just 3 years later he's blowing up the league. It's what I keep in mind with Yohandy. The guy has the looks for this, and Shirley has prioritized "last-look". He obviously finished incredibly hot, and I was reading he really adjusted to different pitching looks in the playoffs. Maybe something clicked. We do just have a incredible dearth of power in this org. Liike Luis MIeses is now our best power hitter. His K-rate is really above the top of what I'd consider, but who knows. He's not Jeren Kendall thou.

also we get torched in offensive rebounding. Not all him, but it's also not not him.

We looked into tickets and we’re shocked at the first round being $200+. But glad since weather was awful anyway.

I get that the white Sox seem unlikely to make bradfield playable…but he’s also got the most translatable skill. I’d be ok with it. I’m not sure there is a player I despise in this class if selected. Even if they selected Schanuel I’d be like “well at least he’s lefty”.

Amazing that madrigal was so hyped for his baseball acumen and he is so dumb

I just still don’t get why you don’t stretch and waive lonzo if you are trying to compete with this crew

So what is the benefit to getting the player before UFA? Is exclusive negotiations that powerful? Does it make a difference in like dealing with this year vs 'next' years cap?

Congrats to people who cover hawks who probably had the easiest draft night in their history. I swear like 15 bedard profiles dropped at 630 last night

Love how we are back to the situation where bulls back themselves into a corner and people are like "well yeah couldn't have asked for much more than that"