bmags

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

The time gods chose my more boring modest title. kC you swept

TA WELCOME BACK

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”.

I’m not sure it’s that much of a concern. Trying to drop Priester is probably impossible. But anyone mocked past 20 could probably be available anywhere from 21-60.

story of the decade.

Well bush but yeah. Big question is who gets Great Falls assignment. Weaver performed the best, and was the youngest.

Lopez going to suddenly have a much more interesting game plan than all fastballs for 4 innings before introducing a changeup.

Second rounder still sounds like a fun investment, but I'd still rather go after a prep pitcher over Hinds. I like that they are looking though.

He's really bad getting out of the box, but when he gets going it's like seeing old timey roberto clemente clips where he's flailing his arms and sliding in to the base like a mortal combat finishing move. I love it.

Just to be clear, you think Hinds is still in the latter category (lack of pitch recognition) but is far behind where Adell and Witt are/were, so not likely to be flying through the minors like them, correct? I also thought Adell was hit a bit because of geography.

Maybe it's just getting them tyler flowers goggles though

2018: 4th - Lency Delgado 7th Cabera Weaver 11th - Kevin Maldanado 33rd - Bush 2017 8th - Sam Abbott 2016 6th - Luis Curbelo 2015 4th - Corey Zangari 15th - Chris Comito 2014 2nd - Spencer Adams 10th - Jake Jarvis 2013 2nd - Tyler Danish 5th - Thad Lowry 7th - Trey M With the exception of 2013 and 2014, there has been very little investment in high schoolers.

Lol this video: https://www.mlb.com/video/2019-draft-rece-hinds-3b-c2520533383?t=mlb-draft

I have more tolerance for swing and miss in high school, particularly with a 2nd round pick. For example, this was the write-up on Jo Addell: Adell has the best all-around tools in the 2017 Draft, and his physical gifts have drawn comparisons to Byron Buxton and Melvin Upton Jr. Both of those players were drafted No. 2 overall, but Adell won't go nearly that high because of persistent concerns about his bat. Though he won the home run derby at the Area Code Games, he struggled at the plate for much of the summer showcase circuit, and he hasn't eased many worries this spring despite leading the nation's high school players with 25 homers and winning Gatorade's Kentucky player of the year award. Adell's electric bat speed gives him huge raw power from the right side of the plate, but his propensity to swing and miss leads to questions about how much he'll be able to translate that pop into production. He has trouble catching up to average fastballs at times and must learn to recognize breaking pitches. A tremendous athlete who already has a big league body, he has well above-average speed and is a quality center fielder who usually has a plus arm (though it has been sore at times this spring). Though he'll almost certainly get drafted as a position player, Adell is intriguing on the mound as well. He has reached as high as 97 mph with his fastball and can also spin a hammer curveball. He has committed to stay at home with Louisville if he attends college. You just never know. If it's swing and miss with electric bat speed it's more tolerable than someone who they don't believe can catch up to fastballs.

There are few things as beautiful to me as Tim Anderson going from 1st to Home, especially when he rounds 3rd. And soon I can add to that Luis Robert going from Home to Third. Although Tim runs so much more violently than robert so it's still kinda more fun to me.

Let's raid LSUs recruiting class. Burn it to the ground.

you should try to convince the college junior to give up millions to go to college because the white sox disappointed us.