southsider2k5

Don't worry, the feelings based crowd is here to fix it all.

Noah Owen RHP, JuCo

Sounds like Manfred is saying both of these rules will be going away after 2021.

That would be one heck of a battery.

This is a really disappointing Day 3. All older college players so far. Either they didn't save any money yesterday, or they are taking the cheap way out.

Colby Smelley JuCo Catcher

Johnny Ray RHP, college Sr

The Sox not taking a HS player in round 11 is interesting. Wonder if they are going to go cheap on the draft?

But Moncada, he's dead.

Christian Edwards RHP college Sr

At this point cheap college kids don't make a difference. You only stack savings in the first 10 rounds. As long as the signings from here are on out are under $125k, they don't matter. Anything over that counts towards the bonus pool.

Considering his history of melting down at reporters for asking the wrong questions...

Normally I would kind of laugh at this, but with Cease, Rodon, Kopech, and Crochet up against some pretty serious innings history a swing man AND a long reliever to suck up innings is a really good idea.

What's crazy is that Moncada's Line Drive percentage is actually up 8 full percentage points this year, (30.5% vs 22.5 LY, and 23.1% in 19) so he is making quality contact more often this year. This exit velocity is up this year over last year (90 vs 87.8), but decently down vs 19 (93.1). The mechanics are there for an explosive second half if he gets past the injuries nagging him.

Its probably a combination of a new baseball doing what it was meant to do, the loss of key home run hitters, and nagging injuries to the hitters who have remained sapping a bit of power. I think the all-star break, plus the infusion of a healthy Eloy and Robert will fix a lot of the problems. I am WAY more worried about the pitching holding up to the innings load than I am the power numbers.

The Sox absolutely created room for some more high school picks today, plus they still have the extra 5% overage to add to it. Between those two flows, they could have up to an extra 600 to 700,000 dollars to spend. They could in theory put together almost a million dollars to one player, depending on how the spending from Day 2 works out.

Well since asking didn't work, now Moncada hot takes has it's own thread. Please throw Moncada related feces here.

Back to the original topic, minus unrelated hot takes.

Can we keep the Moncada hot takes to one thread?

Pretty much, yes.

The last 5 are all college seniors. So is the 4th rounder