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Tomshaw sucked now we are gonna lose. Classic TLR

My thoughts: interesting development

What is xRV?

Good start for Thompson, 3 IP, 2 ER, 3ks

Naw man you are awesome for doing this.

Injuries are only noted when you are the Mets, when the writers have to mention how incredible it is they keep marching on despite a backup infielder having a twisted ankle.

I had to do this manually so I just chose his record vs Padres (we’re in similar positions to Sox), Milwaukee (because I love their f.o.) and the ALC. If anyone knows a site that sorts the players by draft position and shows some mlb stats in same table it would make this pretty easy to put together. I basically did lookups for draft picks to their 40 man and if they were there I looked up their fWAR.

Ha, “you got paid you were so good so you don’t need this ribbon if your achievement.”

Rays are the cream of the crop, and Padres to me are next best. Dodgers are incredible, but their money resources extend beyond their salary. That team had like 6 former GMs in its front office at one point. Their scouting, pd and latam system is boundless. But both Rays and Padres get an extra pick and/or budget for international. Sox need to make up for that with higher FA spending, but they have not vs Pads.

I don’t think it’s worth it to take Blackmon for 3 months of Story, personally. That could come at cost of Lynn.

I’m coaching my sons tball team and it is the very young 3-5 instructional league. YouTube is such an amazing help here, but would love if anyone has some favorite drills. Of biggest interest to me - designing drills that keep these kids all engaged at once. So hard to provide good instruction where half the kids aren’t standing around.

I’ve been pleasantly surprised with how much I like Goldstein’s tone in writing, which is much different than his interviews, and a balance to so many caustic draft analyzers like longenhagen and Law. One reason I’ll always lean first to BA is the only thing you’ll take away after reading them non stop is these dudes love baseball and love these players.

I think the hardest thing to wrap my head around when really digging into Sox intl and drafts is that they aren’t the process of follow, but they aren’t a failure. Yet this preferred path I hope they go on could totally fail! We may very well get zilch from Beard, Thompson, Dalquist, Kelly, Montgomery, Kath. But we may also get a top ten starter, and those cover up so much on a roster.

Missed this at time, good Romy article https://www.futuresox.com/2021/05/27/romygonzalez/

Doug Lauman, who drafted Anderson, Rodon, Sale.

I can’t remember but feels like that K% came down from the 30s. Maybe in line with his slowdown. Will check fangraphs today.

I mainly wanted to look at total productivity to date. I do think the lack of balance was beyond age, to positions too. It’s a lot of corner bats and bullpen pitchers. However, they did hit on a lot of them, though, and that’s where it’s hard to walk away with too negative a picture. 2018 I really wanted Xavier edwards or Jeremiah Jackson with pick 2. Edwards helped nab Snell. Walker nabbed Mazara. Jackson has moved super slow but is hitting over .800 ops in A ball. Neither of those guys made considerably more, which is why I think so many of us prefer Shirleys drafts - but we won’t know for a while.

See 2017 is where you need context though. That is just an overall trash draft, probably the worst since 2008. The top ten is fine, but I don’t remember any team except the Sox who had a major leaguer to date. 2016 had just incredible talent throughout AND the Sox had the extra pick, it just kills me. Between Tatis and the draft it just out the Sox in such a bad position before the trades propelled them. Collins is kind of a cool story and it will be interesting to see how he progresses with more playing time.

yeah I think this is the year I stop caring about prospect pedigree and go with the guys I think are the best and rodriguez just keeps outperforming his reports.

That's a great Christian Mena game in ACL

So good topic for the ASB for those that are okay reading a long ass post but I don't care because it took time so instead of giving you the info upfront, I'll force you to read my journey like a food blog (jk, i'll give you info up front then you'll have to stay out of guilt) Obviously, the white sox have gone through a lot of injuries this year, and it has led to a number of rookies coming up that have performed well. Nick Hostetler was the Scouting Director for the 2016-2019 drafts and responsible for most all of these guys that have come up. As someone that didn't care for Hostetler, the whole last year has caused me to re-evaluate, but the question of "did he do a good job" is always hard with drafting because: 1) we are only 5 years away from his first draft, and 2 from his last draft 2) compared to what? There is so much stuff to follow within the white sox itself that it's hard to follow how they compare to other orgs, and we are usually comparing them to their past selves. So I looked at 2 orgs I felt draft well, and then the rest of the ALC to try and get the first draft of the answer of "did Hostetler draft well". So here is what I didn't like about Hostetler: - Too college heavy, and often unathletic or "maxxed out" college players - Did not like use of 2nd round picks on college players like Steele Walker (still right) and Gavin Sheets (woops) - Too many bullpen pitchers and pitchability over stuff arms I thought the guys had higher floors but ceilings so low they get washed out in A+ or Bham. But then a funny thing happened and a lot of these guys kept coming. So I looked at # of players that made the majors, games played in majors, and WAR. There is a good chance I undercounted other teams as this was incredibly manual. If someone knows a better way to find this stuff let me know. I went into this kinda expecting a triumphant answer of damn Hostetler was way better than I thought. But it ended up being a weird middle. I guess I thought I'd walk away being like "wow my judgments of him were way off", but instead what I admired was this: Hostetler in an interview said the sox knew they needed depth in their minors so he set out to create it. Those were his words, but my interpretation of that was "don't swing for the fences, we need baseball players because the home run hitters are coming via trade". Now, I still take issue with the fact that for most of his time, he said "BPA is what you always have to do" which is weird in baseball and also apparently not what he believed. However, the guy had a plan, and he executed it...that's my takeaway. But I'm still not sure it was the best plan, even as we benefit from it. And my main issue is still 2016. Now 2016 for the sox actually saw a good amount of Major Leaguers: Players - Collins, Burdi, Lambert, Flores, Foster, Hamilton However, the combined WAR of that 2016 group was -0.9. The players from 2017-2019 provided 4 WAR. So 2016 is almost 50% of the players sent to the majors but like negative 20% or something of the WAR. And that's the draft that kills me. While some of this is unfair comparison because all of the other teams on this list have comp picks. It's a huge deal. It's a huge leg up, trust me, I'm not discounting it. However, the players that were most impactful to date are hard to say were due to that. 2016 for the padres netted them Cal Quantrill, Eric Lauer and Lucchessi (2.1 WAR). None probably make you swoon, but they are valuable starting pitchers. 2 of which were selected ahead of the sox, but still, the sox were in similar position to try and add this kidn of talent. The Indians this year? They added Civale in round 3 and Bieber in round 4. The sox drafted Alex Call (netted us Yonder Alonso) and Jameson Fisher (in AA). We had the most capital in 2016, yet walked away with least production, but Collins could be on the up and up. But thennnnn 2017. 2017 is a trash draft. Pretty much nobody did well, though McKay for the Rays (selected 4th overall) may be the best overall WAR leader when its all said and done. There is little to care about after burger was picked except the Royals suddenly have a guy in Pratto who is crushing this year. The sox now have Burger and Sheets in the bigs and potentially being solid long time offensive players. So they found good value then. In 2018 - Heuer and Madrigal were huge contributors. And vaughn on the way. But those were the top 5 pick guys. I still think there was a huge lack of finding a really solid non-bullpen late round pick that even teams like the tigers found (Skubal). Basically he did a good job doing what he wanted to do, I'm not sure it was the best thing to do, but he was still better than most and not as good as the best. Baseball!!!!

Romy has been heating up big time recently, and tonight he's huge 3/3 with a stolen base. Avg now up to .267 Krogman and Gladney both 2/4 which is nice to see, (see aforementioned post where krogman had a homer and gladney a double), and now both are at .217 and slowly climbing back up again. But damn..Romy Gonzalez what a story.

glad this happened but hoping defensively at least carlos perez is close.

Wilfred Veras went deep in ACL, he was a 200k signing in 2019 and is Tatis’ cousin or something.

Eloy 0-2 in Charlotte, Yermin with a double Micker with a 3 run homer, Romy and Carlos Perez 2-2 (what an incredible year for him) Krogman with a homer! Gladney double, typically bad pitching from Kanny.