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I'm not saying I'm betting against the sox taking a college player, but as much as I like the FG draft content, worth noting that they have been quite off in their intel on sox preferences. We heard mostly about Singer/Swaggerty last year. Felt like we mostly heard about Bukauskus/kendall the year before. You'd be crazy to say sox are likely to draft a high schooler, but I don't know. I'm not putting too much stock in idea they would go lodolo yet.

Worse is if Brandon Brennan is good in Seattle’s bullpen. That would be inexcusable.

Separately, I’m actually a bit offended at how bad the roster the bulls have been playing with the last few weeks.

NL pitchers are stupid?

Wow that was a late game!

This has happened my entire life.

Gave up 3 runs tonight

Fly out

So long as johan Cruz doesn’t Double play Robert should have a chance in the ninth of a tie game. Two on.

Dude, really enjoying the Lakers falling into knicks zone. Jerry West is a freaking wizard.

Sosa adds a walk. Bad Robert day. Bush with two hits. After an ugly start, the kids are turning things around. Curbelo, repeating kanny, is like to see more from. Codi Heuer had a really nice line.

I don’t need Sosa to be ranked or get hype. Would be happy with him as a fringe five guy who just keeps producing and holding his own when challenged.

Madrigal not playing, feels like something is up there

I think Keith Law is at W-S

the Only moderately interesting zig that our front office did in this rebuild was invest a ton in minor league and college relievers, which they invested a lot in. Not promising early returns. Shoulda zagged.

Some sox people looked at what Santana was pitching and said that it would be better than Banuelos. I question that.

I do, 100%, believe they should have mixed more vets with rookies for pitchers. But with so many young pitchers they should have had 5-6 more player dev and coaching guys on the field to assist.

No team - i guarantee - will have gotten less WAR for their dollars than the 2018-19 white sox acquisitions.

Here's the pro-Castillo in this order case: - Through two games, it seems the Rays have moved Morton toward being more like he was with Pirates, much higher 2seam/sinker (Was 4 seam/curve with astros) - Castillo is actually a damn good sinker hitter. He's a bad curve hitter though, so he may just get curve after curve.

I have a low confidence level for victory in today's game!

That's great, but the sox will need to supplement, so they will need to sign guys and have them produce. Targeting 2b/corner OF at least will likely get them players on contracts that will not be disasters like Darvish/Heyward if they miss. Your option of "don't do anything and just lament the position they are in" isn't compelling to me. There is a chance Madrigal is not great, and so if you have the option to get a shorter term controlled but great now player with a package around him - that's good! Take that! However, the sox are going to have to take a chance on a pitching contract with a high likelihood of it being a disaster at least in the late years of the contract. Their depth in SP is terrible. Best options are going to be high priced reclamation starter for cheap talent package or FA starter. There are some mid tier guys I like next year, but I wouldn't group together 2-3 mid tier guys.

Its so weird, I don't think I've ever seen a regression this extreme. What a trash job.

Trading a low priced guy for an elite guy would be a good strategy, not signing bad players like heyward and darvish is also an important strategy to being good. But the 2b market has been suppressed and likely will continue to be. Lemahieu/Lowrie were both short term, low cost. Trades for 2b were also fairly low cost and the rumored market was even bigger. Trading low priced guy for mid priced guy sounds bad, but if mid priced guy is much better value than his price - that's good! All depends, but with the exception of Robert, there isn't a guy in our minors that I would not put in a deal if a Yelich came along - to me we are at that point where it will make sense next offseason. Unfortunately, I don't see any other team about to be in a position that badly unless the ...nationals explode? Who knows, almost every team is in their long term plan at this point. There may not be an opportunity.

one thing kinda interesting to me about Jimenez v. Tatis and their starts: - I've been impressed (though annoyed!) at the game plan vs. Jimenez: 46% of the pitches he's seen are breaking pitches, 45% fastballs. He has feasted on fastballs for a .333 average. This guy has never seen mlb quality sliders and they are just going to pump him full of them and make him beat him. Good plan against any young player IMO unless they are josh fields (or Zack Collins honestly, he has a long swing that probably can't catch up to a ton of fastballs) - Tatis has seen 64% fastballs, by contrast, and has made his mark on them (As has Eloy). They have not just fed him full of sliders to see what he can do, which is kind of odd to me considering his reputation for swing and miss. Eloy is going to need to show he can fight off, stay back, and produce on these sliders, and if/when he does I'm excited. But Tatis may not have seen this same adjustment yet. But damn he is big, fast, and strong for 20 and whips that bat like Acuna does. Exciting player. Anyway if I was a pitcher and Vlad comes up, I'm just throwing 10 sliders, I'm not letting him come up and having a simple plan like being ready for the fastball.

I do think Rodon will actually be pretty successful this year. He's mccullersing which is good, and his slider is varied so it's not so simple as to classify it as a single pitch. But when his fastball is as bad as its been, and when he apparently does not bother with either a 2seam/sinker or changeup, he has a ceiling that I can't imagine more than a decent 3 starter. For real though, when he needs to he can just go slider every pitch in an at bat and it's very unlikely they will get a hit.