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Will be interesting. That recent ty Cobb bio showed how crazy it is where myths established in the era of more modern media could stick as fact for generations later. Basically if a movie or whatever was put out in the fifties or later with a bunch of tropes about a pre video time period that became the statement of record.

There’s things like trackman though that do modernize it. In the wrong hands though...

Is this true? Though production is hard to measure, I would imagine they value the type of athleticism and other spare-like metrics that you need to draft high school or international to get because college gets so picked over before they start. With HS you are judging them on where they are going to be if you develop them, which as I’ve said, is great because you are challenging them with tougher competition as they are improving both physically and mentally. I am not against college players but the focus on them means you miss out on players with high upside.

I think more than anything, how they’ve handled 2nd round/1st round comp picks has been my largest gripe. But regardless, there was huge importance on getting these draft picks right. The difference between 11 and 17 in a draft isn’t huge. But the rebuild just looks so different if you draft Kirilloff and not Collins. Or Kieboom and not Burdi.

Thanks that makes sense.

Sucks, looks like if bears gambled they could have had him. I don’t blame them for ensuring they got a guy they liked but personally not crazy about Skrine.

I tuned out after that, lotta like people are doing well. Name a player, they are doing well. Then he mentioned ADolfo would start season on opening day as DH and I listened.

Okay, kind of a big if. This wasn't a 17 year old kid, he's a 22 year old mass of a man in one of the best hitting parks we had who in 437 at bats had less home runs than Laz Rivera had in 225. He was 8th in homers despite being second in at bats. He had only 4 more doubles than Luis Gonzalez in 200 more at bats. He's not a center fielder. He only has a route to the big leagues with power. You have guys like Brandon Belt in the mlb, but he had 23 home runs across three levels in his first year.

The sox want us to be very impressed that they scout players when they are young, as opposed to every other organization.

If y'all want news, Micker Adolfo will start the year as a DH it sounds like on time.

RH is on. Spring training has been incredible. Very positive one.

No the good results are real and the bad results are fake.

I don't really care about spring training Giolito. It has proven to be a false indicator before.

That was a nice one and I missed it because I was staring at Welington Castillo's splits page garitall

That's giving them more credit than I was thinking. Castillo is much much better against righties than mccann and only a wee bit better against lefties so my guess is they were going to bat castillo basically exclusively against righties.

I didn't call them good platoons!

Darby went for 1 year 8.5 mill back to the eagles, which is admittedly a bit more than I thought he'd get considering he may be a tough call to start season on short term IR.

These are never interesting but it has felt more than ever like the manager, boyer, etc sound defeated knowing they are pushing trash.

I think this is true, I think Gomez is wrong on this though, I'm guessing Rosenthal has denials from org and agent whose worried he will look bad with being significantly under.

My guess: Hamels is lefty, and he's a career .797 ops hitters vs. lefties, and so this year we are going to see a whole bunch of terrible platoons.

Most interesting thing to me was Sox signed a 16 year old named Ronaldo Guzman in October from DR for 75k. The note on him: "He's grown to 6-foot-1, throwing a fastball up to 89 mph with easy arm action and an athletic delivery that he repeats well to throw strikes with an advanced changeup for his age." Sounds like someone that could pick up velocity and be an interesting pitching prospect.

Jonathan (Los Angeles): Does Zach Collins establish himself as the White Sox catcher of the future by the end of this year? Kyle Glaser: It's tough because evaluators who think Collins can actually catch are limited exclusively to the White Sox organization. No one, and I mean no one, anyone on our staff has ever spoken with thinks he's a viable major league catcher. Given that, I have to say no. There is a major league role for him, but everyday catcher does not appear to be the one ++++ Sounds promising.

I went with Yonder, Jay and Manny.

While certainly true, I feel like I recall people saying this about him in his first year, that he really lacks confidence. I hope he can cope with his nerves and have a great year.

This was really great. Was disappointed in last years write-up which had very little detail...but also may have been an indication of those prospects. He had tremendous detail in here, really looking forward to seeing some stats from these guys.