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The sad parts is revising my 2nd round pick options. There is a college heavy version of the draft that player type wise would be annoying but player wise I still like enough: 1. Vaughn 2. Ethan Small 3. Sikkema But, otherwise I think this is interesting 1. Vaughn 2. Yordys Valdes 3. Quentin Holmes (4 lyfe) Valdes Cuban background maybe means he won't require as much to sign for a HS SS. He is a pop-up guy, and I believe may be same scout that scouted collins so he may hold a lot of sway. Draft is gonna be fun.

Gotcha. I listened to the Hostetler interview yesterday. I just have this gut feeling that he is negatively reacting to the fangraphs mock which has been putting them on Abrams. And the color commentary about KW being involved is so much like last year. So I would not be shocked at all if sox go Vaughn. As I've said, last year it was Singer. The year before it was Jeren Kendall and JB Bukauskus. The year before it was Rutherford/Ray. Now, it's a lot freakin harder mocking 10/11 than 3/4. But maybe people read too much into sox scouting preference, or bad agent info.

the chances Abrams would slide to 16 are slim to none. To 6? Possible. There is a top 6 and different preferences within it. I like all of the top 6 too.

So it went from 60-40 vaughn to 50-50 Adley, since presumably the other 50 isn't exclusively Vaughn. I wonder if its negotiation tactics or what.

Frank Thomas was probably a 99% percentile outcome for Frank Thomas. Assigning essentially 1.000 OPS outcomes as Vaughns floor is ridiculous. Exclusively for Vaughn we are supposed to assign their absolute max with certainty and go off of that? It's not that easy.

Vaughn really pulls at me. I really am not opposed to him as much as I really like the opportunity to get a player like Abrams. But the part that the article hits on for me is: yes, Goldschmidt was drafted in 7th round, but that was a huge mistake! He would quite obviously go top 5 in that redraft (I don't want to look it up but I know trout was 2009 so assuming there may be a few better from it) So the question is will the market correct itself in identifying players that will perform so well (hoskins, goldschmidt, etc) and drafting them higher, and making them as hard to acquire as an athletic shortstop in the future? He is going to just rake for the first 2 years, and it will bite at me the whole time. It's a really hard question. I mean if we walked away the first three rounds with Vaughn and could afford Hampton and then get my new hearthrob antoine kelley in the 3rd? That's an insane draft. We'll see what happens. As I said, I like pretty much all of our options.

The BA500 is obnoxiously formatted too, you have to click read more like 50 times. I would imagine this is a scout issue. They have virtually every SEC Junior/Senior. BA does a lot of legwork but is located in NC. They do great work but I'm guessing the difference between guys beyond 200 and those left off are more about contacts. It's an impossible task for a team like that. More than that, I do wonder if midwest/northern scouts may like their "hidden gem" status and try to keep guys secret.

Not in their 500

I've decided that despite it being unneccessary I don't really care anymore and if they extend him it's a nice move. His game calling is so nice. Even if his offense regresses you can easily get rid of the contract OR still pair him with a better catcher. Depends on price. Catchers that are working this well with the staff are worth keeping.

Hodges BA Writeup Also of Illinois dudes, Michael Massey has a nice college write-up. Oooh, Antoine Kelley, come on down: thanks @GenericUserName for the heads ups

Pro Hodges.

Derek Dietrich was signed in March and has a .700 slugging percentage right now. He'll be a FA, slot him over to 1b. That's the beauty of 1b, basically anyone can be one.

I mean, trade or sign for one.

I'm so excited for Cease. I think he's got that no nonsense attitude that plays well for a starter, more than the fake bulldog mentality.

sweet so in three years our players will be caught up to the 2014 Dodgers.

That’s an argument for why it’s jnexcusable to be so bad at international and player development. It’s hard to acquire talent, let alone star talent. You can’t be bad at things that improve your chances to find starters. But also Sox have been pretty terrible in the rest of the draft. Cleveland has finds like Shane Bieber.

I don’t think Sosa had an injury just a horrid slump in April and early May

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Left center so he pulled it.

Madrigal Bomb!

I already pulled your list. What is the 4 year college hitter list look like? Really good? Does it seem like this is a stupid way to judge whether to draft a player yet?

Again, Sox have followed your preferred draft philosophy. I’m confused why the results aren’t more positive?

This is probably just due to the necessity that most right handlers be decent against RHP to be proficient big leaguers.

That is a list of like 12 dudes out of 180 draftees. Most were not even top picks. Your being scared of specifically high schoolers as opposed to “all draft picks” is almost as idiotic as being scared of “athletes”.