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I know teams limit the high schoolers innings in the minors but why don’t they mimick the college 7 day between starts the first few years?

certainly not the more sure talent you are looking for but it does help that last year we had guys like jose rodriguez do well and some developmental picks that signed out of high school like logan glass and chase krogman. If any differentiate themselves that prevents a huge gap between any reserves (sort of like we see behind shortstop currently).

This is the one where the actually suture it back to the bone?

I agree with all of this. It just seemed like people were getting mad at crochet for suddenly my taking a bigger discount so they could have a more fun draft.

So yeah I’m sure the Sox and crochet talked some numbers so just trying to hardball him after that isn’t something we should encourage.

Not surprised he was one of the most well known guys

Fresh arm is what you are saying

Wow nice job angels

Has Stevie emanuels been drafted yet? This is a nice writeup Emanuels set a Washington freshman record for appearances in 2018, when he made 34 appearances as a frequently used reliever and posted a 4.37 ERA over 45.1 innings. Since his freshman season, Emanuels has taken steps forward each year. He lowered his ERA to 2.35 as a sophomore reliever, before a strong summer in the Cape Cod League (3.68 ERA, 22 innings, 28 strikeouts, six walks) and transitioned into a full-time starting role this spring. He was the talk of Northwest area scouts and crosscheckers after four starts before the 2020 season was canceled, throwing 22.2 innings with a 0.79 ERA, 38 strikeouts and nine walks. Standing 6-foot-5, 210 pounds, Emanuels has a fastball that gets up to 95-96 mph at its best and sits in the 91-93 range. Over the summer the pitch played a bit true at times, and he tinkered with a two-seam variant to try and keep barrels off the pitch, in addition to mixing in his offspeed offerings more frequently. His slider is a potential plus pitch, a high spin-rate breaking ball that can blend into more of a curveball look at times and is anywhere from 77-85 mph. Whatever the breaking ball is called, it has the spin and shape to become an out pitch. Emanuels also throws a changeup, at its best average, though he throws the pitch infrequently at the moment. With a solid history of strike-throwing, most scouts believe Emanuels can handle a starting role, and teams all seem to appreciate the steady progress he’s made over his collegiate career. Even so, a limited starting track record could limit his ceiling in the draft.

Obviously they couldn't compete without this.

the cards draft is sooo good

yeah, but at least for me this underestimates how I can suddenly feel very very strongly about a player after reading a paragraph about them.

I also just forgot that we didn't trade stiever. For some reason I had thought he was traded for our RFer

uh hopefully this isn't because kopech is like rehabbing in arizona and they are teammates.

Oh man i hope this kid makes it to the cardinals and all their fans defend his charisma after their pissfits over acuna et al

not the blasted cardinals!

The big question to me is what the quality is of a draftee that may be way under slot this year compared to previous year. Is it obviously a senior anymore?

I'm going to throw out that kelly will sign for less than his "rumors"

this dude cubs drafted is pretty sweet to watch pitch, but i hate college relievers.

the ONLY thing I find funny is how recently sox seem to have gone against logic of the draft in recent years. 2 years ago it was a class deep in HS pitching and light on college bats, they went all college bats Last year was light on high school pitching, they go after hs pitching for first time in years with 2 picks This is one of the deeper drafts in memory - they go for a 2 person draft.

happened a few times iirc

All I can think of is last year when matthew allen signed for way less than people were rumoring. I feel like people were saying 4 million or something for him and he got 2.5

was just going to say this is our best opportunity to have a board draft pick. I think @Jake is our best shot

is punting this year as bad as punting most years (talent wise?)