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QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 11:22 AM) Cubs just took an offensive guard with their second-round pick: He looks more like the 1B on my softball team

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 11:14 AM) Arizona takes Meo. Having an excellent draft. Kevin Goldstein just tweeted he might be a reliever at the major league level.

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Pirates on the clock.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 09:50 AM) Balta, not sure why you're quoting me about the board's response to our first round picks, and then what the Walker pick means about Mitchell. I wasn't terribly upset about Mitchell, as there were a lot of other people a lot more upset. I liked what I saw from him in the College World Series, and had high hopes for him. However, when you draft someone with the same skill set two years after drafting Mitchell (while he's struggling in the minors), then you start to think the organization has little confidence in him. He had a pretty devastating fluke injury. I'm sure that the team isn't going to hold his start against him and draft his replacement because of that. Honestly I am better this is a combination of liking a guys skillset and signablility.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 10:04 AM) Mostly because the Tigers have proven in the past to be second half duds (though of course, that was without Victor Martinez) and the Indians are already starting to feel some regression. I still worry about the Twins. Just when you stick a knife in them, they win 5 straight against opponents in the Central. It should be literally impossible for that team, as currently constructed, to win 5 straight games. I think a good college team could beat them. They will get healthy, and it could all be at the same time. I'm glad I am not the only one who still has that reflex.

I feel a lot better chasing the Tigers and Indians of this year, than the Twins of last year.

QUOTE (Soxfest @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 09:55 AM) I compare Walker to Betty White. When did you see him play?

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 09:42 AM) I will say, regardless of my actual feelings for the pick, that he better develop defensively. Naturally, the predictions/projections to players come from coaches within the system, but White was a .263/.319/.419/.739 and 98 OPS+ player. B-R has him at 4 years with a WAR at or above 5, which makes him among the best players in the league that year. That was, for the most part, predicated upon the fact that he played a great CF and was average to good offensively. Let's hope he cuts down on the strikeouts! /not sure if referring to Danks, Flowers, Viciedo, Short, Thompson, or name-a-minor-league Devon White was a great defensive CF in his day.

QUOTE (MattZakrowski @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 09:28 AM) I see your point, but you can't have guys like that be the greatest successes in your system. We have two guys in our starting line up that are draft products from recent years in addition to Sale.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 08:25 AM) I hear you. I think I may have the talk with the wife and say this is it. We're an older couple too. We are both receptive to adoption though. Maybe adopting a toddler is the route we take. Trust me when I say get them both out of diapers before you think about another, in any form.

FutureSox story http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/future-sox...h-1st-pick.html

QUOTE (T R U @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 02:25 AM) So you want to complain when they looked dead in the water, and now you STILL wanna complain about it when we are making ground and catching up to Cleveland?? You would figure that when they started turning it around people would be more inclined to actually start seeing a positive to the season, but it appears some people just want to b**** for the hell of it.. I can think of about 4 of you guys off the top of my head.. give it a rest already they've cut their deficit in HALF in what, a 4 week stretch? First it was there's no way they are gonna contend for the division after their start.. oops.. and then it was Cleveland got off to way too good of a start.. oops again.. Whats the point of being a debbie downer when they are actually playing good baseball lately? I don't get it. Here is me agreeing with TRU>

BTW, the Lilli-Catch was as good as it gets. He didn't have a chance at that ball, and he came fullspeed out of no where to go full extension and make it.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jun 7, 2011 -> 07:26 AM) Considering most first-round picks do nothing as major leaguers, even a relieving Chris Sale will be a fine pick. Obviously his value is higher as a starter, and I think he will be made a starter next year, but he was a terrific pick regardless where he ends up. If he is a reliever, he is gonna be a late-inning reliever of some sort and that still has tremendous value. That is what I don't get. He is already here, in the major leagues, and contributing. How many players drafted can ever say that? I don't care if they are a DH, if they are doing a job in the majors, they were a good pick.

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 11:51 PM) We've already got raw, speedy, boom or bust clones in Mitchell and Thompson. Why do we need another? Thompson especially profiles as much more of a power hitter.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 08:41 PM) That would be a compelling question if it actually meant anything. But since it doesn't, it's reflexive defense. So Balta is actually claiming that the 17 FRB governors over the last two years have been essentially worthless, because without the two Obama appointees, they haven't been able to find their way to tackle any of the issues that are out there. But, somehow, if these 2 people had been on the FRB, they would have solved unemployment, the employment gap, economic turmoil, inflation, AIDS, cancer, and Adam Dunn's swing. Yet I am the partisan shill asking questions that don't mean anything? Yeah, speaking of reflexive partisan postings...

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 08:50 PM) Here's the official summary version with quotes & stuff. I get hard just thinking about Robin teaching Morel the finer points of 3B.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 08:35 PM) So your position then is that these posts are meaningless? Or are you reflexively making excuses for Republicans? Where would a difference have been made by these two people?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 08:34 PM) Wow, Boston got top 20-30 talent at pick 26? I can't believe that. What a steal! By most's standard anyways.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 06:11 PM) Yeah, just selective outrage. s***, just abolish the whole Fed board, or at least cut down these two seats, they aren't even necessary according to ss2k5! No one has been able to give a single real reason that it would have made a single bit of difference. Its been all hyperbole.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 6, 2011 -> 04:33 PM) Whatever the wife wants to do. You know how that goes. And thanks again to everyone. Think about it for a couple of years first.