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Even though I know better I’m still constantly amazed just how bad this team is.

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Just 2-3 with a BB ho hum for Colson.

It's common courtesy to link rather than force people to look for origin, rather than the much smaller inconvenience of clicking on a site and realizing you do not subscribe to it. Also if people are wondering, the Futuresox forum holds a lot of the discussion around when new prospect rankings drop.

honestly I don't think they have done enough of these transactions given how bad their AAA rotation has been and bottom of 40 man pitching wise. Not gonna s%*# on this.

I think they have been doing more rolling updates and last year I wanna say the mid year drops right after July 31st since they have a more clear trade deadline now.

Keener was 97 in Law's rankings, 108 in mlb pipeline, he was drafted 87th or something. Of the 500 or so prospects they rank they accurately pegged that guy around the back of the 3rd round and the sox picked him middle of the third. Not really a huge reach there.

and another great Jeremy Gonzalez start.

Bummer that Ramos injury hit him out. Just goes to show what fools gold Hostetler kept buying

thank god that's updated, hahn puffed his chest out a lot when the 2010-2020 looked so favorable on the sox because of Anderson/Sale/Semien. Going into a tear it down rebuild and picking hostetler to give the top ten picks to...woof.

bummer, dsl delayed

Try the veal!

Same story for the braves.

Hahn hasn’t failed because of budget constraints

I didn’t say he’d be hired as a GM?

Yeah it feels like this is CBA year 1, next year will be Year 2.

I think sox do to some extent know what "advanced stats" are important, but have a common cycle of: trying to make changes to achieve against one of these metrics being bad at it and not seeing a change assuming it's the players targeting players that have exclusively that skill See it not actually help them because they weren't smart enough to balance out the impact of improving that skill vs the decline of getting bad players that were only good at that one skill I think they cannot figure out where the balance is between Player Development helping players develop plans and improvement and finding players that can be best improved by these plans, so occasionally they'll try to just force feed players that already have that skill. But if they were available and the sox could sign them, well there was warts elsewhere. There was definitely warts. They are a little bit better at it in pitching, but even so you see their ability to get good strikeout ability from their pitchers has come at a cost of command. And maybe that was a plan because they can't teach defense or find players with any baseball instincts whatsoever.

I can't remember this rule, is it you can't pick in back to back years within top 6 if you are a non-revenue sharing team?

I think he could find another position in the MLB in some capacity pretty easily.

I think Hahn could legitimately resign.

No 2b from OSU please.

damn those are good.

I think he's going to be popular because he's local (everyone in organized baseball around here would talk about him), but the big thing is suddenly these really tall players went from one single anecdote to multiple. Add to that he's young. Add to that, just less reps in the midwest. Unfortunately the sox drafted him, and his hamstrings will likely rip in half soon.

looking back that year was our big preview of hahn teams that deployed astonishing lack of power given what the sox identity was for a good decade prior.

It was an awful year but it was sposeda be a year of ascension. But yes prior to this year 2015 was my least favorite sox year of all time.