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Speaking of Illini, woof Spillane is struggling.

That we don’t know the answer is why we don’t promote him yet, but I’d like him at at least a .130 iso before he is promoted

The white Sox should demand that they can get more than that from his offensive profile from their development staff.

I am going to revise this for the record. I was going through the free agents and last years and he is definitely going to require $20 plus to scare away bucks and others. Maybe even up to $23, and I think he is worth that to a bulls like team.

I wouldn’t promote him until he starts pulling the ball consistently in a favorable level. This has not been a successful year to me even with the barrage lately.

Who did the twins lose a pick to sign?

Many would have said same about brewers. But they have a smart front office that is smart enough to use trades and free agency to provide short term value while players like Kiriloff and Lewis arrive.

Yes, cut back coverage until nobody goes to you for their coverage then point to that as to why you have no coverage. As I said. The trib has trashed their sports section, it isn’t a meaningful metric.

Trib barely has a Sox beat writer, a lot of that is their own fault.

It’s simply that few expect him to be there. I think pretty much everyone rates Witt above Abrams, myself included (Abrams fan #1) Edit: I severely misread this. You are discounting Witts excellent defense, mature approach, physical skills and current power. It’s a beautiful baseball package. Hawkins was just power, both in hitting and throwing.

There is a severe misunderstanding of what tanking in baseball is actually about, it’s not the same as basketball.

Chill

I like how people are saying Vaughn is being punished for past draft picks by Sox but aren’t applying the same concept to Abrams, who is getting punished because people are still upset about Courtney Hawkins. Abrams is also punished because many people in these threads just fall in love with comps, and comps are stupid.

I think many had been discounting what the twins had done and this was clarifying. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Goes to show how quickly and how beneficial adding a modern front office can boost winning.

I definitely forgot how awesome Kawhi is

This is true

this, but for the 4th spot.

ha ha ha

Man going through BA500 their rankings are pretty wild. They are very conservative in moving players down from bad years or half years. Players like Paris that looks to go round one is in the 70s.

Of the player write-ups, Corbin Carrol really does seem like that guy that in 3-4 years people are like "why wasn't he a top 5 guy?"

Short of a casey mize, I'm not sure there is a profile I think is a slam dunk for them. But seeing Robert succeed makes me want to just lean into athleticism and hope power comes through body development. Shame because Burger would have answered a lot more questions about what a polished college bat does in the system, and just gonna ignore sheets.

First I'll start off by saying as the high man on Madrigal I am so incredibly disappointed and learned a valuable lesson that that plus baseball IQ and instincts can elevate a player another level only if they are supplemented with a player dev team focused on maximizing their offensive profile. Sox seem to be weirdly only focused on maximizing his baseball IQ like they are going to have the best sac fly player in history. They are such trash it's embarrassing. That said, I think your comment is shitting on him just for shitting on him sake. Madrigal had two things to work on after his crappy appearance in W-S last year: increasing walk rate and increasing power. He has increased his walk rate to 8% despite no real power showing yet. This is probably going to work in tandem. As he works to increase his selectivity he will likely find better pitches to drive, but there are also mechanical adjustments he needs to make to tap into power more. Unfortunately sox will not provide that guidance, he'll hopefully go to a private coach in the offseason or get a random tip from a peer in a workout. But because he is so competitive, eventually he will realize sox need him to be a plus offensive player to be valuable and he will figure it out on his own. Because of his makeup/BIQ, I still believe in him there.

Crazy what adding a stellar player dev group can do.

One, like that entire team is slugging at least .500, it's crazy. But both Cruz and Cron have brought A game slugging this year. And Eddie Rosario may be a star.

Ok I just signed up for a few months of BA again. I always end up talking myself into it. You will no longer bear the burden.