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I love that hostetler has now coded college hitter as a negative the way KW did “athlete” for this board. ?

Seriously it’s a bummer. Consider their rumors around power and college bats I don’t get it.

This has nothing to do with this draft, and there is nothing about the pirates drafting someone that is more noteworthy than any other team.

They are saying college bat because it’s the strength of the class not because of improving system depth for the ML club. There is nothing wrong with drafting college players, the problem was writing off other profiles entirely.

Holy s%*# mason adams with a 5 scoreless inning 10 k day behind Schulz

Colson 3-3 now

Luis Reyes absolutely torched today.

I would like to see detmers but I’d also feel bad entering him into this org

oh god that should read 238" not 138" oh no

Flipside, best short draft (first 3 rounds) 1 - Tommy Troy (5'11) SS 2 - Adrian Santana (5'11") SS 3 - Luke Shliger (5'9) C tough for the short kings but I kinda like both drafts not sure if teams have drafted strictly on height yet but I may have something here.

hmm I think the tallest cumulative first three rounds the white sox could feasibly get would be 1 - Bryce Eldridge (6'7) 2 - Alonzo Tredwell (6'8) 3 - George Wolkow (6'7) This would add I believe like 138" to the org.

*Rick hahn in the bathroom practicing his resignation speech when wife tries to get in locked door* "What are you doing?!" "Umm Drugs" - Rick Hahn

carlos come on man give us a dart 15. White Sox — Tommy Troy, 3B, Stanford Slot Value: $4,488,600 Total Bonus Pool: $9,072,800 It’s been college and hitter heavy for the White Sox for a while now in my conversations, and they should be right in the middle of a solid wave of college hitters. In this scenario Troy, Enrique Bradfield, Nolan Schanuel and Chase Davis seem to be the best of the bunch. Chicago gets linked more to the college third base duo of Yohandy Morales and Brock Wilken than others around it as well, and I think they are real options here as well. It’s very hard to see players like Brayden Taylor and Jacob Gonzalez getting much further down the board than this if they are somehow still available with all of the potential landing spots in front. Dart Throw Later Picks: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2023-mlb-mock-draft-version-4-0/

I thought this would be a Seattle 29 guy but with them getting mocked preps that fall at 22 who knows.

I think Jerry really bailed caring about stuff when 2011 fizzled plus the 2012(?) CBA largely creating a framework that fit his tendencies. There was nothing left to fight for anymore.

Guy walked 16 times in 100 PAs despite zero threat of power at that point. He could certainly pick a walk man.

Funny how memory works. I remember Roberto Alomar as somewhat effective ( he was miserable) and Manny Ramirez as miserable (he was somewhat effective).

Danks was a good trade, that kind of self-scouting of org talent is inconceivable under Hahn. But KW was definitely a believer in the "great man" era of baseball orgs where he thought himself like single handedly finding players and trading for friends and treating it like a fantasy team. Remarkable compared to Hahn who fancied himself smart because he grew up in winnetka around rich parents coddling him and tried to make an org approach to please papa but is miserable at it because he's a talentless hack.

I think this is still giving sox the broad organizational preference of college pitchers that was true for 20 years but not really shown under Shirley + where they are in the draft where they are using them to sop up players that are falling. But yes if I was a mock writer who wrote multiple mocks I think I'd occasionally put a prep player on them...

yeah I think this sounds right.

Getz sucks we now only have shirley as a minor hope. Sigh, it'll be KW jr.

was clear that he was just one of those players that could crush d league but was physically limited in nba to be effective.

I would have preferred moving man over too. Not because I think we could execute a sac fly, but because I think the highest chance we had of scoring a run was by far a passed ball, which is 80% of our offense. Failed bunt is worth it, still the highest probability play was toronto accidentally throwing a ball in the dirt or hitting the umpire in the head.

I think when sox were in the 20s we got some pretty good info on who they could take based on representation. I find this years mocks less compelling as at 15 there is a mix of top ten players falling and being in that position of the round where they try to stop falls to us. I guess I don't buy Jacob Wilson at all, and Waldrep doesn't sound like a Shirley guy either. I guess I think I buy them potentially stopping a Dollander fall. I buy the Yohandy Morales interest just based off sox taking quite a few miami players in the last decade. The one guy I thought based off of scouting reports I'd hear sox interest on was Nimmala but I haven't really seen it come up in BA/Law (haven't looked at mlb pipeline or mcdaniel). I guess just doing draft write up tea leaves plus what we know of shirley/sox I'd go Yohandy at 20%, Dollander/Bradfield at 15%, Houck/Miller/Troy at 12% split the rest up among surprise fallers and people not mentioned, but I guess I'm not including Chase Davis. I don't know, but I guess that makes this a fun draft

Couldn't help but look at this roster last night and just see zero difference between it and 2019. Some good players that are exciting surrounded by AAAA or worse, and veterans on their last stop before (non voluntary) retirement. That's what happens when you fill up a $180 mill payroll with a bunch of long term bullpen contracts.