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Hard to keep up. Missed the draft and will miss tonight’s and tomorrow’s, terrible timing for a friends wedding the tampa trade illustrates why I was upset a few weeks back on how bears always seem one pick back of the “fulcrum” pick. The bills clearly were going to move up but 8 was likely too late. They miss on getting to 5, Indy decides to stay, then Tampa got the spoils. but the az trade was less enticing. Likely not available to bears as the price should have been steeper and AZ may not have paid. A 3rd and 5th for 7 spots and likely a much lesser talent not worth it. i love getting Roquan Smith. He was amazing every game I saw him, then I bought into the “shed blocks” thing, the. I realized that was all about 1/2 of a game, then bought in again. i also said bears may go Landry, so I know nothing. His medical may be way worse than fans knew. Love what’s on board in 2nd, if we get Hernandez or Iowa C I’m happy, but feel weak can recoup some 4ths and still get a target.

I find it odd that people read this as “he can only play 2nd”

Not that exciting of a night on the farm yet. But Basabe walked twice. Just a different hitter so far this year.

QUOTE (Scoots @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 03:08 PM) That's kind of what I was thinking. He doesn't have an overpowering fastball, and his offspeed pitches aren't very deceptive. Which suggests to me he should have pinpoint control then, but that isn't there either. What am I missing? It's more that he can't locate his offspeed stuff, so people don't swing at them. When he has shown he can get to two strikes, his curve can do a lot of damage.

QUOTE (ChiSoxJon @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 01:20 PM) Why do all these highly regarded arms have control issues? Lopez, Kopech, Cease, etc. Throwing a baseball with movement and speed to a small area 60 ft away is difficult.

Re: de sadas Re: connor scott

QUOTE (DirtySox @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 11:36 AM) Too much to do at work for me to post Kiley draft snippets in case anyone wants to head that up. Some good stuff in there already. Here's a good one:

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 10:37 AM) Are there really a lot of examples of going underslot with the top 5, and having that pay off big later on, since these pools have come into play? I hope it's rare the Sox draft up here. To take a guy they don't have as their top available player, so maybe they can get an upgrade around pick 40 doesn't do anything for me. I have said before, but I think the reality of the situation is they don't have true 1, 2, 3 rankings. They'll have similarly ranked players and will take the best deal to have flexibility if they DO have a higher ranked player later on who is a signing concern.

Where are you seeing 21 players? I only see 5 listed at the top of the page?

There was nothing on the guy from Aruba?

QUOTE (Lillian @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 08:53 AM) With the exception of his strike outs, he is doing just fine, batting left handed: .256 .370 .487 That puts him near the top of Sox hitters, so far, in every category. No one is really lighting it up on this team, probably because of all of the off days and the terrible weather for hitters. If you want to do something drastic, maybe he could try facing lefties, from the left side. For my part, I'd prefer to let him continue to try to become a productive switch hitter. I just don't recall a situation where they dropped switch hitting and were actually better that handed.

QUOTE (yesterday333 @ Apr 18, 2018 -> 08:30 AM) Yup... his obp is above .300 right now. I don't see how that such a bad thing. Sure you'd like him to not strike out so much but his obp is gonna be ridiculous when he starts getting a few hits. Like, imagine if when Narvaez hit the ball he hit it really hard.

QUOTE (hi8is @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 06:41 PM) Your evaluations are far too early and shortsighted, IMO. Also, my preference is to focus on the upcoming draft for this thread. Regarding the above posted mock draft, that sure would be interesting if picks 1 through 3 all went for pitching... giving us free reign to select any bat of our choice. San Francisco is most interesting pick to me. Who knows how they’ll want to take advantage of this position (go for a fast moving college pitcher?)

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 08:11 PM) The W-S guys are sporting some ridiculous BABIPs so it’s only natural we see some regression to the mean. The good news is the K rates have been pretty solid for all of them. Yeah the best part is as a team they are just not striking out.

Luis Gonzalez turning it around, 2-4 with a home run. And Yurchak as well, 1-1 with 2 BBs

really could use a new mock draft.

I keep seeing Landry higher and higher. I'd wonder if he wouldn't be a pace pick, but on the other hand they may start paying attn to medicals more now.

QUOTE (Jack Parkman @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 01:33 PM) I'm not sure that we're confusing a good eye for complete lack of pitch recognition. He might be a patient hitter, but he looks at strike 3 way too much for me to believe that. If he was taking them and they were borderline calls that were going against him, I'd tend to agree. He's taking hangers and fastballs that are excellent pitches to hit for strike 3; pitches that cross in the heart of the strike zone. Todd Steverson touched on this when discussing Yoan in the Athletic: "“It’s there,” hitting coach Todd Steverson said of Moncada's pitch recognition. “You can recognize it, but is it a strike? There’s recognition and there’s recognition of a strike. I think that’s where some people get mistaken. His recognition is good, but recognition of what? Recognition of strike or recognition of pitch and strike? Or recognition of a ball? When I talk about recognition, I don’t talk about being able to see ‘Oh that’s a slider,’ I mean ‘That’s a slider for a ball,’ and I’m able to stop or ‘That’s a slider for a strike’ and I’m able to swing. Those are totally different things. “He’s good at recognizing the pitch and now it’s just a matter of height. That’s the next piece of it.”" https://theathletic.com/312574/2018/04/13/w...s-at-the-plate/

He's ramping up throwing in AZ. Sox don't give daily updates on guys in the minors, so don't expect much info.

I hope we can be done with the "Awarding the CF position based on spring training play" era.

QUOTE (Footlongcomiskeydog @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 11:47 AM) No. I'm saying that can't miss prospects do exist especially on the position player side of thing. They are extremely rare but they do exist. Ken Griffey Junior would be the textbook example. There are stories out there about when his Dad was playing for Cincy and Griffey was in high school. Junior would come to practice at the age of 17 and was already a better player than half of the Reds roster. Kid was a can't miss prospect Harper is a stud. Dude was so can't miss he skipped his senior year of high school. There is a reason he is going to get close to a half billion dollars this Winter. Yes I agree good baseball players have existed. That does not mean the can't miss label had a 100% success rate. Matt Wieters was baseball jesus. Just a year ago Kevin Maitan was the next Miguel Cabrera. Baseball ¯\_(?)_/¯

QUOTE (TheTruth05 @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 11:38 AM) Cordell being out means a way longer chance for Engel unless Tilson starts tearing up AAA (which might happen). He's a great defensive CFer and that's it. Not good enough to be an MLB starting CFer. Yeah this looks correct, though I'll say I'd be fine with Leury back in CF full time.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 10:59 AM) My answer is Cohen is an idiot and he doesnt understand attorney client privilege nor being a real attorney. So he considered Hannity a "client", even though he really wasnt one. If Hannity really was a client, he shot himself in the foot with all of those statements yesterday. Yeah I have no idea but it certainly seemed to me to be more like you are saying. Cohen wanted to inflate his client list to make him seem more legitimate, so he chose Hannity whom he's loosely provided legal guidance to because he thought he'd be a team player (my analysis).

QUOTE (Footlongcomiskeydog @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 11:27 AM) Absolutely not true. Bryce Harper, Kris Bryant, and Carlos Correa all say hello. You are just using the fact that you know their outcomes to paint the picture of inevitability. Kris Bryant looked really good, he also had swing and miss which could have derailed him (it didn't). Same with Correa. Harper, compared to the hype, has been fairly inconsistent with lots of injuries and only one true great year.

QUOTE (Jack Parkman @ Apr 17, 2018 -> 10:55 AM) IMO if you're hitting around .240 you have to hit 40 bombs or you're not useful. For a .240 player that doesn't hit 40 bombs to be "not useful" they would need to be: - Bat only - Have no baserunning value This is why it's so crazy to be this fatalistic about Moncada this early in. He has so many plus tools any one of them could be used to pull him into "good" territory. And if the hit tool develops into average, he suddenly becomes "very good". We may find that his hit tool is so off he is never an MVP player. That sucks. But man, there is a lot of baseball left to be played. Justin Smoak and Yonder Alonso 8 years into their careers suddenly became very useful players. You don't want that for Moncada, but there are good signs with him.