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ugh the marlins are just a disaster

easily yes

I can't find the tweet now but Eric DeCosta pointed to Ben Powers (guard) as someone unlikely for baltimore to keep. That is a guy I had circled, with Phillys Seumalo second. Would love for bears to get him.

I'm still bummed we lost mark payton.

I think he’s gonna be that rare short armed tackle and if not an all pro guard but I am probably gonna end up wrong. He just was so good against top competition, so sound.

I’d kinda rather they not. It really does seem to always be a kiss of death

One thing looking at this draft class has taught me is you better get used to a whole lotta 25 year old rookies

I’m going to defend him. Last year charlottes rotation, not Chicago white sox, was beyond trash. We had 6 guys on the 40 man with ERas above 9. In AAA. Yeah, minor league. No risk. There should be 10 more signings for Charlotte and ideally showing much more recent confidence that their arm exists.

yeah that haul would be nice but not a fan of either clemson guy. I'd rather just go Skowronski there and kinda amazed that christian gonzalez isn't even in the first round in that mock.

Insane how athletic he is to change deliveries like this and be consistent with it. I hope he shoves and Sox decline QO just in case.

Embarrassing try.

would love to hear someone argue that Leury's contract doesn't matter.

Not a surprise since mid season but Colson at 39, Colas at 89. https://www.baseballamerica.com/rankings/2023-top-100-prospects/ BA has done a pretty good job adjusting to the realities of pitchers, but still I feel like if someone offered me straight up Elly De La Cruz for Matthew Painter I'd take De La Cruz. I knew Jack Leiter struggled last year but didn't realize how much he'd fallen to not even be a top 100 guy and was ranked 7th in Texas system? Crazy.

I think if he fails we'll look back on it. But I read it as a guy who was eager to prove he could be in the bigs by beating up on some A ball pitcher, while sox lower level instructors were trying to impress on him that what will prove he can get there is showing he can handle the major league routine. And that it was hard for him to see the value in that (vs game reps) when he was able to do things so easily. So, yeah, he's probably gonna strike out 40 % of the time then we'll see whether he's capable of adjusting.

I like Marisnick but he just missed 4/5ths of the year with injuries...is that protection against injury?

I read the review of this and it sounds like he legit wrote a book just about how much he hates the astros.

unfortunately cesar hernandez you are out based on name association. edit: jeremy pena you are very much in.

The server couldn't handle the amount of mock drafts I was posting to the nfl thread.

so dane brugler had his mock go out today. Had bears trade 1st overall to Colts for 4th overall, their 2023 second (where they selected BJ Olujari), and a 2024 first. on a PFF podcast yesterday, they indicated just a 2024 first to Bears for 4th overall. In both cases, they took Jalen Carter.

It is amazing. It's why it's hard to figure out what to think of the current grade of our scouting/intl/pd. It actually does feel different, and hopefully that leads to much more success. I think 2018, as Robert was about to clearly blow thru the system, it was rare to get any of our international classes into A+. If you look at like our 2013/2014/15 classes (we'll just uh, ignore that one guy), they were bad in DSL and then awful in Arizona. You'd be pumped about Amado Nunez and then he'd struggle to put up a .500 OPS. Adolfo we kept hoping on and he would barely play for 4 years. Hey this franklin reyes guy sounds awesome whoa 440 ops. Such was life. I feel like that's why Lenyn stuck out like he did. We hadn't seen anyone just hang in there as a younger prospect. The outlier was Carlos Perez ho-hum climbing up the system.

I don't think that's WIlder anymore. I think sox have convinced themselves its a fools game. To some extent, houston has played that game too, but more effectively likely due to superior PD. They have found some gems in that 18+ intl market that fell thru the cracks.

If you went with one heuristic to judge a bunch of 16 year olds playing baseball, probably their bloodlines would be tops. Despite that, I do get nervous paddy is graduating to a stage of just rewarding friends and former players kids that aren't at the echelon of bidding wars. Feels like he runs things a lot like ken williams. Likes being hands on in the scouting, but maybe runs a smaller network because of it (like how we clearly don't even bother with Asia). He's a great talent scout so we end up with some huge hits, but smaller volume, and the lack of delegation is maybe why we are so often left with smaller classes? Just some theories on why things look like this.

didn't know this happened, very pleased. Not sure he's even lost anythign defensively, looks like it's just less opportunities since his heyday. Downside of Engel was always his arm. Not my biggest care (would prefer they get to the ball), but considering the scenarios at end of games, you don't want players to get so easily from 1st to third. or taking second on stupid throws.

Not sure yet, have not heard any real changes have been made. May still be at the mercy of whatever is going on.

Everyone’s hoping the large amount of Cubans that just migrated can sign in this class and we can get them.