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Clearly saving the heroics for tomorrow.

Also 1  Eloy Jimenez 2  Michael Kopech 3 Luis Robert 4 Nick Madrigal 5 Dylan Cease 6 Alec Hansen 7 Zack Collins 8 Dane Dunning 9 Blake Rutherford 10 Micker Adolfo 11 Luis Alexander Basabe 12 Seby Zavala 13 Jordan Stephens 14 Zack Burdi 15 Spencer Adams 16 Jake Burger 17 Luis Gonzalez 18 Laz Rivera 19 Joel Booker 20 Steele Walker 21 Ian Hamilton 22 Lincoln Henzman 23 Tyler Johnson 24 Blake Battenfield 25 Konnor Pilkington 26 Thyago Vieira 27 Bernardo Flores 28 Jose Ruiz 29 Luis Curbelo 30 Jose Rodriguez

Two trends I'm seeing consistently that make no sense to me, especially in concert with the other: 1) Alec Hansen dropped 4 spots essentially due to injury. 2) Jake Burger ahead of Seby Zavala despite progress by Zavala and Burger being injured. Can someone explain? I'm not criticizing, just trying to understand the thought process. To me, Burger missing this year in High A puts him behind the development curve, where Hansen is IMO still basically on track. Neither player has done much of anything this year, but Burger essentially maintains his position (he was around 11 on preseason lists, and around 11 on every list on here) while Hansen drops 4 spots (Interestingly 8th on every list).

Progressive isn't needed anymore? We're on the verge of a fascist ruling class with income and wealth inequality worse than the gilded age, so named for how ridiculous income and wealth inequality was at the time, and you think progressives aren't needed? Progressives are needed now more than ever. The only path out of this death spiral the country is in is progressive policy.

Jose Altuve signed for $15K. Trust the scouts, hope they're right and you get lucky.

If they're both 24 hour news networks with no time to cover the rampant poverty problem in our country, then that says a lot about their priorities as news networks and ours as a society.

Well, yes, they were upholding issues that weren't on the conservative agenda. Hence, "activism", because everything that doesn't go their way is somehow inherently bad and wrong.

Hey, @Reddy, thoughts on Ocasio-Cortez?

Great, so the umps screwed him up by blowing so many calls.

It's not a double standard, Greg, no more than being required to register your car but not your gun is a double standard, at least. One has legal protection/requirement, the other does not. Neither political alignment nor employment status are legally protected from discrimination, while sexuality is. 1) You first, Ben. 2) I thought Shapiro was a lawyer? He should understand the clear legal difference between an attribute protected from discrimination by the law and an attribute not afforded such protections. Yet another crime of the Trump administration that will go unpunished.

You're asking for Republicans to make a sacrifice for the betterment of anything that isn't their personal short term situation? That's less realistic than the 2018 White Sox winning the World Series.

No one predicts stardom for a draft pick outside of a rare few. Think Bryce Harper. Even Mike Trout was the 25th pick of his draft and had scouts questioning his hit tool. Most people think Madrigal's floor is a major league player, the debate is over his ceiling. I see a higher ceiling than most, and that ceiling would make him an MVP candidate. He may never reach that potential, but getting him is a lot better than having won 10 more games and getting Connor Scott or Logan Gilbert.

Lency Delgado as well, though scouts think he'll move to 3B.

When will they call up Jordan Stephens?

The only thing more consistent than your irrational Abreu hate is Abreu proving you wrong each and every time.

At this point I think it might just be better to get a bunch of Tatis Jr. types (what he was before the Shields trade) than any substantial prospect. Just get five lottery tickets and hope two of them pan out.

Re: Bolded: The investigation isn't completed and nothing of consequence has been released regarding Trump while more and more people and things connected to Trump are subpoenaed, indicted, agreeing to pleas, etc. Nothing of consequence has come out about Trump because the investigation is still in the information gathering phase.

Nah, just your standard switch hitting catcher with solid defense and a good arm who hits near .400 as a sophomore and has serious pop in his bat. Those come along pretty much every year, right?

4 RBI of 6. If they win tonight, he's the reason.

He's singlehandedly keeping them in the CWS right now. 3-4 HR 2 2B 4 RBI.

It's great for ratings and TV drama, but if you want GMs to actually value a Wild Card spot, it's not the way to go. No GM in their right mind would value getting into that game enough to give up anything of value in pursuit of it. If you want the second wild card to matter, it has to come with a minimum guaranteed home playoff game.

He's done nothing but produce in the CWS. Hopefully that carries over to Team USA.

Sounds like next year is a good year to get a college bat. I know who I want right now, obviously subject to change over the next 11+ months.

Yes, so now Red Sox fans want to dump him for something valuable like Abreu. But, as has already been pointed out, no way the White Sox should make that deal.

You flatter yourself. Also, I'd rather be known as the guy who's just too overly optimistic about the team's future pitching outcomes than the guy who hates Jose Abreu for no reason other than Abreu has proven him wrong through his performance too many times to count.