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for the record, 2 more doubles last night. Sox are putting him at DH when he's resting at catcher.

i'm not going to care about this but it certainly feels like the sox love signing DHs more than any other position and not having an explicit big boy in the DH may be making them sweat.

Polanco has really started to hit with power recently, has zero "pedigree", and appears to have a poor approach, but is only 21 and doing really well the last 6 weeks. Would be interesting to see what they do with Sosa and if they move both up. I will amend what I said, looks like Longenhagen had JR as #8, so there is some validation. BA's instructionals report was pretty rough.

I am really optimistic too, but it just feels like we are so in the dark here. We have no real commentary or validation from known evaluators beside Badler's comments liking Ramos (but also not a MI). And it would be nice to know how the sox thought of these guys but it's hard to know their belief in them other than through following who moves where, so +1 for Yolbert. It was crazy seeing Romy in AA, but Getz had made comments that assignments were more about playing time than anything, and WS had Sosa and Sanchez. But he thrived, and Sosa is doing great, and Sanchez is doing well. Basically, I'm really glad Romy and Sanchez look like reasonable depth. But I'd really like to know if any of Sosa, Rodriguez, Ramos (not an MI I know), and now Polanco are seen as "real". For now I think Soxtalk is in a rare position of being probably ahead of the evaluators but until its validated I still just wonder if I'm over emphasizing production and these tools just aren't that special.

yes unfortunately, but that would still be nice since it may allow a similar strategy the past few years without absolutely punting 5 picks to seniors.

Not that you stated differently but y2jimmy just reminded me that due to market size cubs comp pick for this would be just in the high 60s/low 70s, around 1 million for the pick. So it's valuable but not as valuable as Trevor Story's comp pick.

Yeah, I guess more than anything I think about how when our intl was just horribly unproductive Lenyn Sosa stood out merely because he was surviving at a young age, and he is finally turning it on in W-S, but was crushed in Kanny. Even if Jose's approach is bad and legitimately would stand out to the evaluators, he has improved his walk rate and decreased his k rate in kanny. Watching a player improve as he progresses just makes me think he could have it all click and really explode at one point given his age.

I'm a TLR defender now. This shit is ridiculous.

Man I don't know, 6% walk rate and 17% krate isn't nearly as bad as the "too aggressive at the plate" stuff would indicate.

So I'm guessing sox will just kinda announce a bunch of these guys at once before the bham camp? Feels like sox are so late compared to other teams.

I'm so bored of everything needing to be leveled up to the same story line. I'm going to give Yermin the benefit of the doubt here. He may be acting rashly, but he also isn't crazy to be at this point: - Yermin is 28 years old and has been in the minors for 9.5 of his 10 year playing career, and most of that in the absolute worst of what the minor leagues has to offer. - He was up long enough to be a part of the MLBs pension plan - He is now looking at an uncertainly long future of being back in the minors, being on a bus living nomad life for crap pay again, the guy never got a big draft bonus or anything. - He was probably given things to work on for the sox from hitting and defense. He was playing on a team that trusted multiple 1b only players to suddenly try different positions, except him who wasn't even trusted for his "own" position. So he's a bat only player that struggled mightily for 2 of his 3 months. Again he's 28. He's been really close to the big leagues for 3 years, he got the pension, etc. And if you are the sox what do you do? Just DFA him out of politeness? Trade him just because? He's pretty stuck in his opportunity right now. Good enough to be depth, still likely passed over. Adn as for Tony. I'll never let a coach slide for not defending his players. But there is no way that just caused Yermin to crater. He isn't the reason Yermin is retiring. And I don't want Tony worrying about AAA players when he has 26 guys to worry about right now.

What a damn season for Rodriguez

I shouldn’t be worried Robert was pulled right?

Also Samil Polanco stays hot ? 2-3 with a homer and 5 RBI

Also eloy had a single

Man Bham and Kanny erupt! Romy goes deep again!

Sooo he’s playing in Charlotte and is 0-2

That is remarkably level headed. I enjoyed rum bunter a lot during the Q days. Their prospect site is awesome too

there are bad times for everything. "What? You are drafting players in the middle of the college world series? And what are those players supposed to do, just keep playing after being drafted? Oh my god that's terrible whaarhrr"

The college students that play baseball can continue going to college and potentially playing baseball, and they can pay for the education they get in the meantime. The high school students could easily be drafted before their senior year of high school baseball, because...nobody already cares about their high school baseball except in 2021. The college coaches can figure it out because I don't know why mlb should care about them.

I like the quick peak at guys post-draft, and yeah, it would really make life difficult for college programs... but that last guy is right - November right after the season is great. Gives those drafted players months to prep for living somewhere else and get a training regiment to follow. College players could go play in a wood bat league after the season and show off pro skills. High schoolers can keep doin what they are doing. It seems like it would work way better, and gives the mlb an offseason of World Series - Draft - Winter Meetings - (Jan) - Pitchers and Catchers - ST

I believe retiro in spanish means pregnant

playing now, mieses double. Ramos cooled off quite a bit but started off with a walk today. Hope he gets hot again.

good for him. Not sure he is capable of being more than danny palka though.

SFG has la stella coming back.