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Yeah I’m not really concerned about any of em. Draft years are a bit boring. Think about how much life change these guys are dealing with. Vaughn has moved 3 times.

Or Witt. i am really impressed with Abrams’ moving to single A though.

Yeah and stiever. The others are just a pleasant surprise if I remember. Martin is entertaining. Reliever wise basically only Perez is doing anything for me.

Damn it you always beat me to it. never noticed this guy, adding him to the pitcher follow list (currently 3 deep)

obp is nice to tell you how often they are on base compared to their opportunities but yes, not as great to let you know how often they hit home runs.

This is such a soxtalk conversation.

Bears have dealt with very minor injuries so far (knock on wood).

https://theathletic.com/1139341/2019/08/14/why-matt-nagy-held-a-detailed-mock-game-which-included-an-unplanned-fight-and-injury-in-bears-camp/ This was good. wish sox would hire Nagy.

He’s at least 300 pounds there

Love calling a kid sight unseen destined for 1b/DH

Fun game, sucks when it’s just a series of mlb game day text alerts but some good vids to watch

call the game now.

I believe this was Flores first game back? He pitched really well in Birmingham, 5 IP, 6 ks, 2 ERs

ha, that's great. Usually when it's an error driven run it usually just says "2 runs score", that it still said sac bunt made it super confusing.

lol can someone explain my phone update saying 2 runs just scored on a sac bunt?

Would you rather acquire brandon belt for players + a 2 year, 34 million dollar deal to get back a slightly better OPS+, or would you just re-sign abreu for a likely discounted deal. If we are going to replace Abreu let's get on with it then.

I mean the best options include converting players like castellanos to flex outfield/1b/dh roles or grandal to C/DH. Yonder Alonso may be signable this offseason IMO edit: lol sorry was not advocating moving Grandal to OF.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-old-school-approach-failed-jose-ramirez/ Really good read

you've never read this.

Bailey has played some CF at least. I think repeating DSL should raise some skepticism with Laureano, especially when so much of that class graduated to AZL.

Ty Cobb averaged 5 homers a year over 24 years. Pebbly Jack Glasscock only averaged 1.6 homers over 17 years. You gonna tell me homers are all that matter! PSSH PSOSH

You are right, if someone was is born in 2000, and their birthday is in october, that makes them 18 turning 19. Good ole math. Still, the lack of an AZL 2 squad in a year they actually drafted HSers has made some log jams for some nice years in DSL. Look forward to him coming stateside next year.

Laureano homer. OPS now near 1.000 for year, he's also nearly 20 (turns 20 in october). Hard to know what sox think of this guy. Yolbert giving us the ole Yolbert 0-2. DSL slash 244/.334/.346 Last year of Cuba slash: .260 / .297 /. 302 I am yearnin for yolbert.

Re: Sheets, I am pleased that he has played his way into being a reasonable asset. I'm still not that excited by him as a prospect to the point where I think he is a legitimate option as a starting 1b. It's really crazy to go look at even starting 1b and checking out their minor league stats. There will obviously be outliers, but they usually destroyed the ball, not just played slightly above average offensively. Like Lucas Duda was in the 150/160 wRC+ zone before being called up. Now, that said, there are players like Christian Walker who have become late in career pretty good offensive 1b and were up and down moving up. And Josh Bell's minor league iso's weren't that great, albeit he was younger but not that much younger by time he was in AA. So anyway, I'm still in wait and see mode, but mainly just hope he's used as a trade asset for major league upgrades.

little bit of late season fade from the HS and younger guys, still very happy with their first seasons.