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I wonder where she read that?

Still feels like we are going to be light on offense without a big bat.

It feels like this is going to be one of the weirder nfl offseasons.

It has been a really interesting series. Some white sox specific notes is you can see the sox doubled their scouting since 2009 and are in equal footing with most. Sox have also appeared to be influenced in the draft by trackman universities, and you have to wonder if part of their heavy tilt toward college players during hostetler is perhaps because of maybe overemphasizing those data points when available over none at all. Also really good stuff on university of missouri, who compete in the SEC with big disadvantage due to weather (though nashville not insanely different). But to counter it have really leaned into tech under Bieser, and there is a white sox angle there as Matt Lisle was a short lived Mizzou hire before being poached by the White Sox this offseason.

Yes and it will not end any time soon so strap it in.

Yeah that was the impression from the chat yesterday. I'm definitely gonna go from wavering on drafting a vaughn profile to having major fomo.

He is absolutely a feather in the cap. Top Sox Development Success stories since Hahn: 1. Tim Anderson 2. Leury Garcia 3. Yolmer Sanchez 4. Trayce Thompson 5. Omar Narvaez 6. Tyler Saladino Abreu I would consider a scout success, same with Kahnle. I think Avi and Rodon have been biggest development failures.

Keith bogans was more valuable than a player not in the league at the time, yes.

2 HS draft picks selected after zack collins in 2016 may make it to the big leagues before or on same time as him.

The other draft I think about which was still one of the more productive when you consider the history, but the 2004 draft we had 6? draft picks in the top 70. We got Gio in the supplementary which help fuel a bunch of trades but the second round that featured 3 sox picks and included dustin pedroia, yovani gallardo, hunter pence, kurt suzuki, (to lesser extents) jason vargas, and in the next round adam lind and ian desmond. Had we nailed that draft as Boston nailed their 2005 draft its just such a different franchise, for one, we'd have had enough capital to probably get cabrera in 2008. The trajectory of this franchise was so often just lost on the margins which is still where I see it struggling.

I'd say the fact that the best and one of the deepest teams in the league is still playing snell 18 mpg while he's hitting 40% from 3pt land shows he clearly is worth something.

He was a 37% 3 point shooter when we traded him. It wasn't the 3point revolution quite yet but yes I think he could have gotten a 2nd rounder. Its actually amazing that the jason kidd led bucks recognized what he was and doubled his 3pa but hoiberg was just in over his head his first year. I don't know why you are amazed they got a player that is basically a contract that just gets exchanged between teams now and are slighting the guy who actually received a good second contract.

I always thought of 2008 as the worst "recent" draft but 2013 will probably beat it as 2008 got some late life out of smoak and alonso.

One hypothetical I've thought about a lot is if we would have performed a rebuild if we drafted (and developed to equal status) Corey Seager instead of Courtney Hawkins.

I also want to get out of this inevitable response (yours was fair, I decided going forward I'd be more confident in value out of anderson), but I think only round 1 picks should be allowed for a redraft, so I don't want Cody Bellinger thrown in my face.

Eh, even so Tim Anderson in a redraft of 2013 would probably be a top 3 pick.

I kinda think AB with Josh Allen would be fun?

The contract has nothing to do with the trade. They traded a guy that had a useful skill (shoots 3s) for a guy who became useless for chicago almost immediately. And that obviously is most hilarious considering the team chicago was already building with wade/butler/rondo they added another "can't shoot" point guard. Trade snell, fine, he's a guy you get a second round pick for but MCW was trash save for his first game. He had 2.5 assists to 1.5 turnovers when he played 18 minutes.

The minutes will stagger and you can have wendell/lopez-esque big come in to play with either at the four, but when that lineup on the floor the other team is going to have to play against it rather than bulls worrying about what the other team has. That lineup I threw out would be an offensive machine, and so it will be about how good it can get defensively and I actually think it could develop into something pretty solid.

This is the year man!

1b/dh. Castellanos can absolutely play 1b. This org has some good prospects but past Eloy there aren't a lot of bats that project as elite.

I think process wise drafting a rb every year and trading them a year before free agency is going to be correct 9 times out of 10.

Honestly you could do both.