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nice new writeups but pretty boring list. They are very conservative to drop players down their rankings.

Maybe. He kept getting thrown out in AZL.

You basically named them. The draft classes of 2016-2018 were very samey in getting unathletic college plodders. Last year + international helped, but really could get more youth, more athleticism. SS is bare. But ... also needs pitching depth. After stiever you go to the HSers.

top 20 had good writeups including placing Beard, Ramos, Rodriguez and Gladney in top 20 (and keeping Bush there). He put Thompson as his sleeper if he can regain his pre senior HS days. Stiever was ranked above Madrigal, sees him as possible MLB callup from AA.

Engel > Robert.

I respect the game but this year more just into "my guys" that I'm excited for. Basabe/Rutherford/Sheets certainly "better" prospects than them but they've been in system for years and not who I'll be on. My Guys 2020 (alternate name "HOT WATCH 2020") 1. Bailey 2. Thompson 3. Dalquist 4. Gladney 5. Jose Rodriguez 6. Brayan Ramos 7. Ronaldo Guzman 8. Bryce Bush 9. Lenny Sosa 10. James Beard edit: swapped out wilber sanchez for beard.

It seems to me this could go one of two ways.

It's weird that you respond to this as if Kyyle was arguing that players in fact like Boylen instead of that your specific example is probably wrong.

This is a pathetic attempt at trolling. I'm glad KW/Hahn got the ship in order, but no team should go 12 years+ in between playoff appearances. They did not get fired and they improved their operation (thank god!), but there are a lot of worthy people in this world who could step into the white sox baseball GM job after 2012 and not taken 8 years to get us to the point we have a competitive team. I'm glad Hahn learned from the mistakes of the previous 16 years he had been in the org by the time he shifted gears in 2017. But yeah, people change! But this job is a tremendous, rare commodity and it's fair to expect results. We can't all be Jim Boylen.

There sure are a lot of backhalf projected first round catchers. I doubt it drafts that way.

But it's all relative to year. I think Shirley will be more prep focused, but that doesn't have to mean he goes all prep for 10 rounds. It's not hard to be more prep-focused than Hostetler.

That is a bizarre decision unless what this really means is "sox are enamored with this prep player and are going to make sure they get him"

I don't think it's that he is saying "he's david eckstein and david eckstein isn't that valuable" as much as "the only recent player who has succeeded with that profile is david eckstein" which makes madrigal actually more risky than many would admit. Madrigal really needs to keep his walk rate where it is though. He really needs that .350 obp

I don't know that sox should try to have a profile player at 11. I like as a fan using the profile approach for top 5-6 picks because when you are that high you can get the kind of athletes with some baseball skills that are rare to find behind it. But at 11 you don't know how draft will shake out. With this draft the way it is, we just have to wait to see what's left of the college pitching crop after injuries and helium. Maybe a college hitter makes sense in that the elite college pitching crop pushes a normally top 5-6 hitter downward. Maybe the teams in the top ten don't want to go college pitcher due to state of rebuild and a guy we don't think is available falls. We need more athleticism and there are some 2nd round prep infielders that sound great. Not sure we need to address that with our top pick.

Right. I think the obsession with getting a good deal is blinding people to the benefit of just guaranteeing you have him on your team beyond FA.

Valuing his opinion? Is that what’s happening?

Also while discounts are great, There is no cliff for this team which is excellent. They don’t have to worry about time bomb years as they move to get the final pieces.

There have been plenty of experts who have written him, a highly visible college and minor league career, and law's previous writings. Madrigal is about to be up and be the real validation on whether his style of play can translate, Law giving a thumbs up or thumbs down doesn't change much of any known variables at this point. But by all means, scream into the void.

dang I forgot to record this. Thanks for the tip it re-airs!

Do people want these lists to just confirm what they believe or tell them something new? Is Law a crank when he stays with Giolito despite performance or when he leaves off Madrigal (despite never being much of a fan)? These lists are more fun to let you know about players you can't get many looks at...that's not madrigal. We know a lot about him and what he needs to succeed. We don't really need a writer to tell us more.

Is this people's first spring training?

Yeah so I'm going to go ahead and stay out of this thread. 6. Robert 16. Kopech 28. Vaughn fin https://theathletic.com/1627163/2020/02/24/keith-laws-top-100-prospects-for-2020/ (despite the discourse that will becoming, it was an interesting list. And he has certainly put his chips in with Corbin Carroll still.)

Parody.