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Is calling sanchez yogurt a soxtalk joke thing or is it a autocorrect thing

"in the next 12 months" means within the next 12 months

We can always trade for more space on 2019 class. Unclear if we are close to using our full allotment on J2 signing day.

thanks ron for making sure you hit your troll thread quota for 2019 in june.

There is a thread on this book in futuresox forum. It is an excellent book. As even seen in the book though, the sox are mentioned, but they are trying to play catch-up. Matt Lisle was hired as a hitting analytics coordinator, but the astros have integrated that with every coach in their system. But a lot of the book is about driveline and trevor bauer, and about how players may now have the resources to control their own development, too. The stuff on pitch design (using edgartronic) that bauer basically invented along with kyle boddy are really fascinating. And that's the stuff you read, and think "oh are the sox doing this to help Burdi re-discover his slider faster?". And you hope so! There is also a part on k-vests, which the mariners bought a ton of, that you read and think "oh shit buy one for Madrigal!". But you don't know that the sox aren't, but I woudl guess they are more providing resources for players to follow than being as prescriptive as some of the teams like Rays/Astros/Dodgers and now twins.

I mean, they don't have a shortstop underneath anderson in the organization aside from Mendick (stretch) until you get down to A-ball and even then that's an unknown. Obviously, there is Madrigal. I just worry most, considering how they jump and throw resources at older Cuban talent, that they undervalue the international market of 16 year olds and overvalue players they can "see", which was my issue in the draft avoiding HSers until this year too. But if they got a positive rating from Paddy, they do what they gotta do. I hate it but oh well, I really hope he transformed while he was away from baseball.

oh wow

definitely the first shortstop to have a first baseman catch low throws from him.

god damn it.

Frankly that Madrigal line of 3-4 with a BB, a 2b, and 2 SBs is the kinda of stuffed stat sheet I dreamed of when they drafted him. Kinda funny but has Beard stolen a base yet? Seems like he keeps getting picked off and caught stealing.

Not optimistic https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fishstripes.com/platform/amp/2019/5/8/18537446/mlb-international-free-agency-marlins-linked-to-2019-20-top-prospects-jose-salas-junior-sanchez

I do not know very much about Cappe, who has the best write up? edit: nvm saw the post from jimmy in other thread

not a moment too soon, tired of seeing riley greene and abrams highlights.

We don't really have any SS prospects remotely close so that makes sense. If his D is as extraordinary as they say, and his bat is somehow better than very pedestrian Cuban league numbers, then you have a trade piece. And for sox who just appear often very conservative in wanting to get any production out of INTL, I can see them thinking "this is a guy with sure thing ML skill, let's get him instead of 10 projection guys who could have 1 ML skill"

FG had him with red sox for a while in chats, so this probably means it's a done deal (props to @Y2Jimmy0) I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate that this is the execution of this class, but I hope like hell Sanchez turns out to have transformed in the meantime, and rips the ball once he's here. He could be a phenomenal asset.

As always, it will depend. I don't dislike Puig though, I feel pretty good that by the end of the year people will see his stat line more favorably. If we only get puig as our RF solution, that's effed up, but I'd say the same for akiyama.

I wouldn't mind signing puig if it presented itself well in a deal easy to ditch.

lol jay above moncada

@TomPickle

just in time for independence day thanks everyone.

Another non-top 30 success is Ti'Quan Forbes, who has not hit for any power in Birmingham but has been an OBP machine. His contact is decent but he's 22 in birmingham, has handled the jump well, and maybe he taps into power but he may very well be a nice depth piece or the type of piece that could net a good MR at the deadline next year.

The ID was presented so fast, it created a gust of wind that knocked the officers brain into his skull and gave him a concussion.

I don't understand why in order to make your position seem more favorable you are trying to act like Machado and/or Harper would be coming at the cost of Anderson or Moncada, when they very much go together. Its because the sox had Anderson and Moncada and kopech and giolito and eloy and robert that using money to acquire additional talent made sense. But you cannot grasp that, so you try to make fun of a caricatured representation of why people wanted Harper/Machado. And if that's not enough you need to provide over the top critiques of how bad Machado and Harper are when they've actually been fine!

Also Harpers defense this year has been a net positive according to fangraphs and neutral according to baseball savant.