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If Bears splurge on a player I could see it being justin houston, who has gotten paid and may want more "fit" at end of his career, and it's a big draft class for edge. Or he'll get paid like 20 mill by the colts. edit: originally said sox not bears.

That was mostly two years ago but he survived birmingham which is a tough park for him, as seen by only a .373 slugging percentage at home. But he did a decent job getting on base and I'm a fan.

at this point with his struggles moncadas baseline is league average hitter and 2 war player. If he never improves this is his production. Thats one player in a package of 4 and 2 others are still promising.

Mendick and Seby producing this year would be nice indicators of player development. I think for the elite players its not necessarily player dev working as much as luck and scouting philosophy. But a good player dev squad should squeeze the most value from every player, so you get a solid stable of people like this. Mendicks power improves, his numbers are never good enough that you believe, not since W-S. But I don't know, if you get a tyler saladino level player from him that's really nice!

I get why, but this seems like a gift if you are the Jags, but obviously not if you give up the #7 pick.

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I don't really agree, Rosen was put in by far the worst situation of any QB last year and he had some really nice moments. Has a lot in common with goff/trubisky there. I think he's good.

Adolfo 0-2 2ks.

Could Bleday be why hahn was at the vandy game?

Randall Delgado not really making the case to be the swingman.

I agree, but the overall industry consensus being as apprehensive as the internet does make me question it. Though, I think 3 for 60 is the fulcrum for me. Below that and you've accounted for risk well, at it and its meh, above it and its going to be tough to move if it goes south. 3/54 gives him slightly over his QO with 3 years of security. The draft pick sucks though.

And brendan rodgers is still a top 10-20 prospect, so he holds a lot of value, I'd argue pretty confidently more than pete alonso.

It's become a self fulfilling prophecy, they were really 0-2 in last 20 years. You could take many years of college pitching and say we are 0-2 in many of those samples. So then they are hoping the limited selection of high schoolers in later rounds panned out to prove it, which is also a crap shoot. If you look at other teams, they'll fail on some hs picks. They'll succeed on several too. This isn't a pro white sox development take, moreso that we don't really know how good or bad they are because they don't really try. I mean, if they had drafted corey seager would corey seager suck? Man hopefully not.

So this Murray to the Cards thing is real?

That's fine but he should be playing OF majority of time because our OF is terrible, instead they've pushed him to be primarily an IF reserve and last year it largely seemed to be because of nicky/davidson...I don't know, don't see the necessity this year.

Pads acquired 13 mill of chase headley for a pretty middle of the road guy in bryan mitchell that was from what I remember basically a 40 man guy anyway

Interesting idea, still have figured out true price of "buying" a prospect this way, but would be a fan of it regardless. I really would like sox to try and get a comp pick this year and use of their salary would be best way to do it...except the only competitive teams in the as/rays have been very efficient. The twins could be the team to look at, but we have little to offer them. The other thing to keep in mind is assisting the nats in reducing their tax penalty may make it easier to re-sign Rendon. This is of course laughable that the sox would pay for a good player, but should be included in the assisting of the nats.

They started it last year though. Maybe it was to keep him healthy though.

Completely agree. Big difference with them is they are usually athletically superior (most will go to majors instead of college), and with the great ones you see them rise up levels and improve instead of just maintain due to their athleticism getting unlocked as more and more of their baseball instincts develop, while our college prospects just come in and you just hope they can be 60% of what they were in college.

They have made two good moves in a row. We'll see how it goes, I have a feeling we'll wish they had bought out Ro Lo but he is certainly helping with development especially on offense. I go to tankathon a lot. The only 48% chance of being top 5 is tough, but realistically it's top 3 or bust with this group and that's probably being a bit generous including Barrett with Zion and Morant. But yeah, these odds are wild, and I think they had their intended effect. The bottom 3 teams aren't removing all their star players, they are just playing their bad rosters. Same with Hawks/bulls. I'm not sure people are psychologically ready for how big of a likelihood it is that the worst 3 teams are scattered about the top 7.

I still am not crazy about trying to force Leury back to IF mostly

I felt better when kiley said their hit tool isn't that far off, sounds like witt improved with scouts in some summer/fall tournaments.

Well we could certainly mess it up, but we only have so much knowledge of these guys, so the exciting part is having some really exciting player types available.

Baltimore has such an uphill battle and new fo as you said. My prediction is if they value adley equally to another player, they'll take lowest deal and try to save up. However, AZ also has 6 top 75 picks, so you have to think about how much you can even compete with a team that has such flexibility. KC we have no idea, but judging by last years draft, if Adley slips to them I have a hard time seeing them passing him up, I could also see them go vaughn. If it goes Adley/Vaughn 1-2, I don't think the sox should feel bad about that.

At least in the top 5, they have carried pretty good value recently. Even when they bust out at the major league level, they still carry value for some time in the minors. One scary part with vaughn is if he hits AA and has just a .850 ops or something, that's a big hit to his value. You are basically saying he needs vlad jr type bat, and he may have it. It's not a safe pick, but elite bats should not be underrated.