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McCann CAN

He and McCann are now basically toying with the royals. The more they see him the less they know.

It focuses on a series of players such as Trevor Bauer and their use of targeted training to improve, The hitting coach of JD Martinez, Driveline, rapisodo tech, the astros and I believe the Rays. Its not really a survey around the league. More of how advances are changing the league as analytical scouting once did, and the history of it

Great job getting stuff on the 12th rounder out of PR. Hostetler said he had 80 speed and Sox had him at their workout and liked him. Was by far the least known with next to nothing about him online. His academy though has produced big league talent including Heliot Ramos (still a prospect)

2 out of 40 seems reasonable.

Me neither. I think a true contender would consider Colome a supplemental arm, one that builds up your 7th/8th dominance. If I’m giving up a top prospect the closer would need to be performing well and have a k rate closer to 35% than 25%

So hire him as a GC. That he has more information than a fan and comes to worse conclusions, consistently, is not impressive. We have a great tool to evaluate him, we can compare him to his peers, who have remarkably similar circumstances.

Doesn’t mean he wasn’t good.

Because age is a thing, he is a player with established production, and you are talking in retrospect about signing two of the more successful free agents who were 32 and 33 years old. If you are constantly buying free agents for their next year of production when they are 30 plus, you are going to end up with a substantial part of your budget on declining players who may turn into pumpkins all at once.

Machado would have been good for 6-7 years. There is a reason people prioritized him. Trying to get a productive next year on the second tier market in free agency is walking in a mine field.

That theoretically should help the sox. I know, I know, Robert, but by and large they were ceding ground to the other orgs in international and allowed themselves to get muscled out.

Joakim Soria was good.

I would do it regardless, tbh.

This dude is in his second year of DSL, is 19, had decent k rate last year but lots of walks, this start today was great: http://www.milb.com/player/index.jsp?sid=milb&player_id=679363#/career/R/pitching/2019/ALL Luis Rodriguez, 7 ks in 5ip 1 BB

If they offered Haseley I'd take it.

Well we'll have to hope he sucks.

Fegans mailbag he mentioned how Robert has admitted he is learning a lot by the advanced sequencing in AA despite him cruising in the stats dept. Kind of gets at why I think AA is the best developent spot for him and I don't care if he skips AAA or not, though I think AAA will see him deal with pitchers throwing with better offspeed/breaking control stuff.

*whispers* I think signing Didi to man second base on a possibly reasonable deal due to his injury and age would be beneficial due to his power and veteran presence even though many would find it to be blocking madrigal, because I think it would truly provide us with the type of depth most good teams seem to have and I really like him

I totally get the defensive issues but I'd hope we do eventually find our longterm RF internally that is more well rounded, and I'd rather pay for a big bat.

It's cool that Hahn came from the type of family that allowed him to get multiple degrees during his 20s and then go into a virtually unpaid position as a scout, but a lot of baseball orgs have harvard mbas and multiple degrees so it's not really an advantage. His degree hasn't led to anything particularly advantageous vs. other clubs so I'm not sure why I should praise it.

I think convincing michael wacha to move to bullpen could be a good signing in offseason.

Thanks, I threw this up because there was a question whether Matt or Mike would own it again this year. I'll throw the link at the top so more people can see it (currently at the bottom)

After the poor offseason it seems the rationale for going after manny/bryce has shifted. I do not want the white sox to just spend money to spend money, and stay around a a budget in line with previous just because. I wanted an influx of young, cost controlled talent, and the use of additional budget to add elite, top of market talent. I think I was one of the few who actually liked Keuchel in the offseason, but he was less logical the longer the delay. We can go after him next offseason if he plays well for the same role. It actually worked out better. But I don't want them to go out and sign 5 mid tier free agents to get to $130 million just to say "see, we spent". That's how we end up as the 2015 white sox. That logic was the "if we just turn these negative war positions into just 0 war it's a big win!" Not so much.

I had to start a thread on it, because for those interested in player development advances, this has been a fantastic read: https://www.amazon.com/MVP-Machine-Baseballs-Nonconformists-Players/dp/1541698940 Excerpt from the ringer: https://www.theringer.com/mlb/2019/6/3/18644512/mvp-machine-how-houston-astros-became-great-scouting About half-way through it, one of the best baseball books I've ever read.

Ugh.