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Obviously you can post links: Glad he's out of the org.

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Alright one more "watch with intrigue" this year if college baseball plays: Gavin Williams, Eastern Carolina "At his best he has touched 100-101 mph and should again be right at the top of the hardest-throwing arms in the 2021 draft class. He gets to that velocity with ease in the delivery and has good natural feel to spin a breaking ball with flashes of an above-average changeup. Considering the pure stuff, Williams’ upside is tremendous." naturally, control is an issue.

What?

Well that is why they waived him. He was a camp invite and now won’t be at camp.

I don't think Colome would be $7-8m in savings.

wait wtf was this posted before or after I said my peace

Karl Malone would never join forces for a title shot.

well that sucks

I know non-frontline people at hospitals slated for the vaccine in feb. That's with just pfizer so who knows how much moderna spreads it, but a pitchers and catchers report sounds unlikely if they want a vaccine for the players, but march isn't that unlikely.

??? Jackson Jobe Heritage Hall HS, Oklahoma City, Okla.SS/RHP Notes: Ht: 6-2 | Wt: 185 | B-T: R-R Commit/Drafted: Mississippi Age At Draft: 19.0 One of the top two-way prospects in the 2021 class, Jobe may have been thought of as a primary shortstop entering the summer, but teams are enthralled with his athleticism, arm strength and feel for spin after seeing him pitch over the last few months. A 6-foot-2, 185-pound righthander committed to Mississippi, Jobe has shown a solid four-pitch mix with a fastball up to 95, but his slider is the main event. The pitch is among the higher spin rate breaking balls in the class and has gotten into the elite, Carter Stewart 3,000-plus rpm range. The pitch is an easy future plus offering in the 80-84 mph range and has two-plane break with plenty of depth and power when he hits on it. After that, Jobe has a curveball in the upper 70s that’s solidly behind his slider and a low-to-mid-80s changeup that has good fading life down and in to righthanded hitters. Jobe has shown solid control with most of his pitches and works with a simple delivery. He has plenty of arm speed and throws from a three-quarter slot and scouts have praised the crispness of his actions on the mound. MLB clubs love the idea of putting an athlete like Jobe on the mound, so most likely have his pitching upside in front of his position player upside for now, but he’s a real pro prospect as a hitter as well.

He signed a 5 year deal, he could have signed the 1 and 1s at that point in his career. Sucks to suck.

It is, especially with the Harden stuff.

They should allow fans in the stands with masks and just ban alcohol.

Round 2 guy: Joshua Baez.

When a college player is projected high because of high athleticism so rare in college, but not world-beating numbers, I think the assumption should be that they struggle to put the athleticism. I say this for position players, for pitchers it's mostly what I look for because they could have had terrible college coaches. Athleticism is great, it brought Adam Engel to where he was and allowed him to tap into every bit of hitting talent he's had. But especially the "college shortstop, pretty athletic, hasn't tapped into their power" woof. woof woof woof.

I don't think BAP exists as a concept in baseball drafts or is even how you should operate.

I agree. Would I rather have Liam Hendriks or Yates/McGee? It's actually a tough call for me. This virtually guarantee Yates/Mcgee will struggle to finish the year.

I can't remember the last time sox were connected correctly. They still do the "sox like college picks" which is true but they also get it pretty off. 2016 was a lot of kyle lewis (which they should have!) 2017 was all about Jeren Kendall 2018 I'm not going to claim wasn't madrigal heavy, but it was also a ton of Brady Singer 2019 was top 3 pick so i'm not counting it, not hard to figure out top 3. 2020 was a lot of Detmers/Bailey And I don't know what to say, he doesn't have the Team USA connection, but for some reason I see this and think this is going to be the guy they put on the sox: 13. Sal Frelick, OF, Boston College Gatorade's Massachusetts High School Football Player of the Year in 2017, Frelick also starred in baseball and hockey as a prepster. While he's not overly physical at 5-foot-9 and 175 pounds, he could have three plus tools in his bat, speed and center-field defense, and he might develop average power. I kinda think it might just be college player that the college baseball media scouts all love that they aren't getting great feedback on from team-side evaluators they just would put on the white sox because the love college. Or maybe the jeren kendall year was just too influential on me.

Now that we're at 22 and not top ten I'm trying to familiarize myself with the profiles I wouldn't touch. BAs writeup is pretty nice though. I would say in general I'd prefer they stick with multi-sport, projectable, athletic players who didn't quite put it all together in HS. My guess for player the sox will be connected to a lot but not draft is Sal Frelick.

Hey how do you feel about Joe Mack

I mean somewhat related but a tangent: this caused me to go back and look at David Wells page because I always think it's hilarious how old some of the players KW acquired in the early 00s that we still thought would be great. David Wells was 38 when we acquired him, and he pitched 6 more years. But that's not what I'm writing about. The real surprise I always have looking at Wells page is he's not that good? I mean when I was a kid and we got him, I was thrilled that we got a bonafide Ace. And yeah, that's because he won 20 games...but his ERA was 4.1! And then I'm like "man, late 90s early 00s, the offensive environment was just incomprehensible to now" But then you look at the top 10 in ERA then and it looks pretty similar to now. He didn't strike people out, though he didn't walk people. Completely at odds with how I remember him as a kid. Anyway pedro martinez is the best pitcher in history.

what about brad peacock?

It's true that I worry more about a bigger 20 year old who hasn't shown they can handle their body weight than a 32 year old that has shown they can handle their body weight.

Definitely Jordan.