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I'm not a scout standing behind a report here, all of this information is secondhand, except that I can verify the whip action in his arm that I've read about based on the small amount of video I've watched on him (it's really obvious). I've seen the mechanics questioned numerous times, everything I've read about him (except MLB Pipeline) suggests that he sits 90-93 and touches 95, and I do think part of his rank is the current pedigree of Florida pitching. I'm not saying these aren't things he can overcome, just that I could easily see him becoming something similar to Fulmer, and his negatives remind me a lot of Fulmer's negatives coming out.

When talking about a player like Moncada, yes.

If the Sox were sitting at 10, I'd be stoked to get Singer there. I do like how his FB & breaking ball (slider? curve? slurve?) movement play off of one another, and his change dives like a submarine.

Questionable mechanics with high effort delivery, pedigree of school and pitchers before him is a factor in his ranking, velocity isn't as high as you'd like. The only thing missing is the height concern.

If they can get him for the contract, sure, it can't hurt anything.

Singer has a lot of the same red flags as Fulmer to me.

Giving up a prospect for a ML player is the last thing this team needs to do right now.

When is Fangraphs going to release their scouting grades on this class? That was my favorite page in the leadup to the draft last year.

I hope that rumor is wrong, as the only good option there is Madrigal. I would hope Bohm, India, and Bart are still considerations.

The White Sox have a lot of OF prospects named Luis. If Basabe, Robert, and Gonzalez all make it and Eloy moves to DH, the Sox could field an all Luis outfield.

There's Santiago, Volstad, and a couple other AAAA fillers who could spot start if need be to avoid wasting a key player's service time.

Right @greg775?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

How about the .375/.432/.750 slash line he put up in the 10 games prior to the game in which he got injured? Return to that, right?

Can a 12-6 curve be adapted to, say, an 11-5 curve without losing effectiveness?

Considering that most of the policy he's put in place is straight out of the "How to Cause a Recession in America" economic playbook, I'm going to go with a "no" on that, Greg.

Turns out it's Grantland, and the article isn't about the FIP-ERA difference, but it is brought up as part of the discussion of his defense and holding baserunners making him an outlier. http://grantland.com/features/mark-buehrle-surprising-success/

MLB Pipeline says his velocity sits at 95-96, but that's the first time I've seen that. Everything else I've read puts him low 90s.

Mark Buehrle was a great defender as a pitcher and that was how he consistently outperformed his FIP. Someone, I think Fangraphs, wrote a whole article about how Buehrle defied logic by outperforming his FIP by a full run throughout his career. They concluded that his great defense and excellent pickoff move were the culprits for this, and said that any pitcher that had those traits moving forward would also likely outperform their FIP. You don't discount a statistical analysis because of outliers. Statistical analysis doesn't look at outliers for that exact reason: they don't come along often and will skew the data.

If he has plus defense at SS and 2B, he could always move to 3B to accommodate if need be. A similar move with Bregman worked really well for the Astros.

ERA is predictive, just less predictive than FIP or xFIP.

Or perhaps someone who was himself abused and didn't know any better. That's the most common way children become sexual offenders.

I hope there's some way the Sox can get Madrigal and Larnach. I'd also take Heimlich, but I can understand why many wouldn't want to touch him with a 10 foot pole. That said, it makes for a great value opportunity in, say, round 15 or something.

Yes, because overreaction is totally rational.

I can't see them passing on a good player because they believe they have the position filled. He can play other positions, probably well.

Even Mize?