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And just to put my two cents in for historical reference, I think this is a great discussion. I think Crochet has the higher ceiling, being a lefty who has recently reached another gear. I think there is no doubt Kelley has the higher floor. Don't forget that Crochet was a pretty mediocre pitcher as of just one season ago. I know some are saying "reliever floor" or risk, but if he loses whatever he gained before this year, he won't get into the middle minors, let alone the majors. Kelley seems to be almost maxed out, but his max is still a pretty darned good pitcher. As of today, I would place Crochet SLIGHTLY ahead of Kelley because his ceiling is so high, but it is really close.

Is that an ARod shot? Did they have issues with each other? I don't know that I heard that one before.

I just wanted to point out with this line: The Sox couldn't get Crochet to slide to the second round, but because Kelley was a HS kid in the craziest draft in MLB history, he could legitimately use his draft status and bonus demands to push himself out of the other teams ranges and safety factors. The Sox may well have thought Kelley was the better pick, but there is no way that Crochet had the same leverage to push his status the same way that Kelley did. If the feelings were reversed there is no way Crochet falls more than 5 to 10 picks because he would come back as a college senior, and couldn't demand money the same way that Kelley did. In this way they got both of them. If they pick Kelley first, they don't get Crochet. They get a lesser second round pick. They played the system to get two first round picks effectively. I wouldn't use that as a definite way of rating how they feel about both players.

Wait, did YOU just tell people not to assume and jump to conclusions?

Another UDFA signing https://goseattleu.com/news/2020/6/20/baseball-jenkins-inks-deal-with-white-sox.aspx

Is $2 million enough for Cespedes?

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2020-21-mlb-international-bonus-pools/

Perfect.

Based on Sox history, notice they don't seem to sign many pitchers to these kind of deals. If they do, it is early and for a lot less money.

Honestly if information came out that showed Trump was a Russian agent it would make more sense than how he currently acts now.

The information is here. It's just a significant portion of the country has chosen to ignore it because The Dear Leader told them to.

It just amazes me that safety and health has been so far politicized.

The US has decided that economy is more important than people, even inventing take tropes like suicide from not working to try to justify it.

After we got the mini-van as a family vehicle, I traded down from my Impala to a Jetta for my work car. I love the savings for sure. The crazy thing is we are about two years from kids starting to drive so we have to start thinking about that.

Coop loves both of these kids. https://www.mlb.com/amp/news/don-cooper-talks-white-sox-pitching-2020.html?__twitter_impression=true

Is it April 1st yet?

Yes sir. Yes sir. No sir.

Call it an educated guess.

[STARES SCIENCELY AT PRESIDENT]

For accuracy's sake, they will settle on something divisible by 3.

Why though? Who would be spending resources for a rookie one dimensional DH? Maybe as a piece of a bigger deal, but I don't see anyone knocking down the door for either of these guys as a DH.,