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jeeeze this is some kinda pitching run.

Burger Alumn

surprised a little by lampe to guardians. Not so guardians like, but that's the stuff you can do with comp picks.

So for sox related stuff I'd say Maclean, Lipscomb, Palmquist are SPs that I would have been happy with now gone.

I kinda thought padres would go Joyce.

I seriously can't believe they moved this stuff to the ASB to be a big event, and have day 2 live streaming with the quality of HS gymnastics competition.

I agree, but I think some of the day 1 guys I'd feel good about having the opportunity to check that box. But I also like Carlos Perez a lot anyway. (edit: and I meant to say here that I don't feel like the prospects today have made me confident they have much of a chance to provide what you wanted depth wise in this org) But when we have such limited expectations, I'd also point out that a guy like Garrett Stubbs was available for a song, his expectation is what you described, and sox are mostly just idiots. Their journey with catchers during the hahn era just seems like a bunch of own-goals over and over.

Also found the discrepancy, the 11 million the rangers would have had but they lost two picks for Semien, Seager. Otherwise they'd have a much bigger haul just by being a top 5 team.

It's been a while, but Loidell Chapelli is on the board with his first home run

I don't think it will ever, ever change. I think if you are steve cohen you are more concerned out not being punished with salary limitations and so, sure, who cares about giving an extra first? But the sox are really the fulcrum of where it sucks a lot for us, the fans. Jerry doesn't give a shit about it, but we are just the side of that ledger where our "superior" payroll doesn't really give us much edge compared to the rest of our division sucking up more cheap talent inputs.

i kinda want to see the breakdown of total 6'8 and taller draft picks in general and miss rate. Sucks but now the rule is we all have to root for Bailey Ober just so we can increase the numerator when we yell at keith law.

3 hours have gone by and I'm even higher on Dombrowski because he's the only name I actually remembered correctly. Definitely already switched Jake to Joel. It's been a big weekend for cameron smiths though so maybe we should do it.

"can't believe this talent keeps falling to the cards" i.e. cardinals can nab them without destroying rest of draft since they have that budget.

your list would be my list down to your honourable mentions (i'll even honor the brit spelling). Robert's late surge is the only other consideration I'd give. And i'd also give big thanks to Zevala, Martin, Burger who gave us really good sub production at different points.

Rangers only have 9.5 mill, but the difference is just due to having higher draft picks than the sox. When the sox were top 3-5 in the draft they had top ten bonus pools. Teams like the padres and cards get bigger bonus pools because they are the fortunate teams with orgs that spend like top 10 payrolls but get treated like poor small market teams that get additional first round picks because the yankees / red sox sign away all their talent (or so the thought goes)

Haven't seen anything. I wouldn't be surprised if he's slot, overslot, or underslot.

I would say college does develop pretty well. That's why the reds stole derek johnson from vandy, and the tigers took michigan's pitching coach. There was a thought, not sure if it's been closed, but that college had begun doing a much better job at player dev than mlb minors were. That was the thought in 2018 at least.

I don't disagree with paragraph 1, I'm just much, much more ok with it at 26. Did not want prep arms when we were in the top 15 ever. And I'm not sure I agree with paragraph 2, I know the acquisition is different but Cease/Kopech are huge ceiling arms, and they were still in A ball. Obviously had shown more than, say, a Kelly at that point. I don't really know what to do with the sox ever though. Ideally we create a pitching machine like the indians and draft uber command pitchers and develop velo and stuff into them. But the sox don't have that, but they have some track record, some, of harnessing big stuff at this point. Not sure where on the spectrum Giolito falls.

Alright so we aren't starting today at much of a deficit, will be interesting to see how today unfolds.

if he is being declared a fa he must have defected a while ago, so I don't think it's that crazy there is already a deal in place.

@Y2Jimmy0 any chance we'll get Schultz signing amt today?

future good hitter is the kind of analysis I love

It's not quite literally built on that. It also doesn't artificially cap player earnings like in NBA or have non-guaranteed contracts. And the earning power in MLB destroys the nhl. When we get to day 3 you can cry about this with me, but Noah Schultz is much better off being given the choice of millions to go play pro now or going to vanderbilt for 3 years. He chose going pro. Chose. Jack Leiter chose to go to college, I wonder why?

I think sox should try with Dunhurst, but I know in 5 years I'll be bored by him hitting .500 OPS in birmingham.

Forcing kids to go to college because you don’t want to pay them full salaries before they are productive vs giving them an opportunity to be paid while they learn the trade at lower levels is 100% better imo. The nba wasn’t being noble, they didn’t want to draft guys not yet ready to play and he “forced” into re signing them after only four years.