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With nothing but a hunch, I think they draft Witt.

My top ten, based on no scouting beyond stat sheets and scouting reports for player types I like: 1. Rutschman 2. Witt 3. Abrams 4. Vaughn 5. Greene 6. Bleday 7. Carroll 8. Lodolo 9. Manoah 10. Baty

Reading astroball... Elias being high enough on Vaughn makes me reconsider a bit. The whole RH hitting short 1b does seem like the kind of stuff they tried to avoid being swayed by in discussing drafting bregman/correa. There really isn't a player at 3 I'd be angered by, though I really would not like Bishop, Stott or Lodolo. I really like the prep players.

No. Which is why I wrote my correct statement.

For context, a very good Madrigal comp is Luis Urias, who is a short, low power 2b (not rod Carew). Urias as a 19 year old hit .330/.397/.440 in A+. Madrigal as a 22 year old is hitting .271/.341/.373. Urias as a 22 year old is now hitting in AAA is hitting .351/.442/.731. It’s disappointing.

He hasn’t been unlucky though. People shouldn’t be comforted by his stats, he was a polished college hitter repeating high A. If he was hitting the ball hard and getting outs it’s one thing, but you could easily point to bad defense as inflating his batting average. He has to tap into more power. That doesn’t mean Luis Robert power but it means more than a sub 100 iso.

It’s been like 14 months. It’s not an excuse anymore.

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