Jack Parkman

We don't know, but out of HS they were giving him a 55 power grade, now they're down to 45 I don't see anything different that could have been happening other than wood bats, and I think that scouts take that into account already. The guy just doesn't get the ball up in the air it seems. Seems a lot like Avi.

Rutherford seems like a prime candidate for the Launch Angle Revolution. Too bad this is the same organization that continues to employ a pitching coach that thinks that throwing sinkers and keeping the ball down in the zone is the best way to get hitters out and induce weak contact.

As much as I like Coop, I think the game has passed him by. You can't throw low in the zone anymore. He still seems to like that. That is a recipe for giving up tons of HRs now, especially at GRF. Sinkers overall were hit the hardest in MLB over the last three seasons, and he still likes them. Cooper has to adjust or go bye bye. The launch angle revolution has also made it nearly impossible to miss bats without velocity. Pitchers who used to get by with diminished stuff by keeping the ball down and changing speeds are getting killed. They can still miss bats, but when they throw that 88-92 mph fastball they get destroyed on that pitch. Hitters have to wait for a fastball and it is basically BP for them.

You win. I can't argue that. Just proves my point about throwing the changeup with 2 strikes.

I question whether or not Buehrle could even be an effective MLB pitcher anymore. These guys are so used to high velocity that anything 90-92 looks like a meatball to these hitters.

I disagree that was on the inside corner and a strike. They throw a changeup there he probably swings and misses, and Gio has a chance to get out of that inning with no runs allowed. That was in no way a meatball.

I don't understand the game calling with Giolito on the mound. They go to the fastball way too often with 2 strikes and he gets it fouled off. Whatever the opposing hitters are having trouble picking up that day, they should go to with 2 strikes. It is baffling to me that I can see this and it is game calling 101, but for some reason the pros continue to waste pitches by continuing to throw pitches that the hitters are picking up well with two strikes. EDIT: there they go again. Dumb dumb dumb pitch selection. I swear to god this entire organization is baseball stupid during the games. Why go to the fastball there?

Bo Jackson, but that is because the Raiders didn't know what was wrong with him either.

This is the next point I was going to make. He's actually missing bats and getting nickeled and dimed with singles. Umps are doing him no favors too. I thought it was a clear swing the pitch before Martin homered off him. They didn't even appeal to the 1B umpire. That new straight change Giolito's throwing is nasty. The Jays are swinging and missing on it like crazy, yet they haven't even tried it once with two strikes.

That's by design. He's throwing high fastballs on purpose.

Giolito getting nickel and dimed with singles. Nothing hit hard, just finding holes.

No. Those were not hit hard at all and cheap hits. Bad BABIP luck. Every ball he's allowed in play has been weak contact. They hit em where they ain't.

Ok I'll defer to you then. Why would they not disclose his injury? Why would they be so secretive? Why would they not let the public know what it is? The only reason I can think of is that they want to keep butts in seats and they know it is bad. When weird things happen, in any public matter, follow the money.

I first realized that he isn't the same guy today. I chalked his poor start this year up to crappy weather. Maybe he couldn't grip the ball all that well, etc. He's clearly not the borderline ace he was with the Sox from 2014-16. Just goes to show that Theo is not infallible, contrary to what most clowns that are fans of the Chicago National League Ballclub think.

I really miss him too. Loved watching him pitch, and it is going to be sad to see him win his first Cy Young with Boston. If you're Dombrowski, you kind of have to tear up the last season of Sale's deal and give that man his money, don't you? And if he spends the majority of the remainder of his career there, you know he's going to the HOF with a Sawx hat on. Part of my frustration with the Sox FO is that they wasted Chris Sale and peak Quintana, and quite possibly they're wasting Rodon too. the fact that they really didn't spend to go all in again with Sale/Q/Rodon in 2015 makes me skeptical that they will spend when the time is right in the rebuild. They're so deep that they might not have to spend, but the complete ineptitude from 2014-16 makes me think they'll cry poor again.

This one might go down as the Cubs getting the short end of the stick on a trade similar to Bell for Sosa, but makes it even worse for the Cubs is the inclusion of Cease. Hahn dealt Quintana right before he completely fell apart, and even though he was in the process of doing so last season, Q had enough of a track record of being a really good pitcher that Hahn could sell teams on that he just had a bad start to the season. All the meanwhile, Quintana has lost it and has gone from a solid #2 to a #4-5. They should be glad they aren't paying him that much, and I could see the Cubs just declining his option in 2020 if his performance continues to go south.

If Crawford doesn't want it to be public knowledge, he's protected under HIPAA laws. As long as he doesn't want it out there it won't be, and fans will be frustrated. It is what it is.

Does anyone know when Medeiros is scheduled for his first start with Birmingham?

The point that I was making is that stats are more objective that scouting, which is one guy's opinion based on the eye test. Amateur scouting and pro scouting are different. You have way more data in the pros than you do at the amateur level. At the amateur level the eye test is way more important than when you have Trackman, pitch fx and other quantitative tools. Those things give you so much more info that you don't have otherwise. I'm a pretty analytical guy. I like numbers and they always make sense. Subjective stuff drives me nuts and I don't understand it well due to my autism. Though logically it makes sense to use all information, quantitative data is more comfortable for me personally. It only makes sense that more information. Honestly it makes zero sense to me that anyone anywhere can look the same data and come up with two wildly different opinions. One person is dealing with reality and the other is delusional. I fail to grasp the concept of subjectivity.

Of course I know development isnt linear. Is the player getting better or worse is all I'm asking. When I watch Sox games I couldn't care less about results it's all about the progress of the guys who could be a part of the next contender

I agree with this. You get the most information that is reasonable to acquire and build a profile on a player based on that. I'd actually argue that scouting is much more important when the numbers are not statistically significant. My point with Torres, Albies, and others though was to take everything that happens in a player's 1st 1000 PA or 300 IP with an incredibly massive grain of salt. They have to be through the league 3-4 times and prove they can make adjustments before I trust anything. This is the point in player development where scouts are most important.

I trust numbers more than I trust someone's opinion. To each his own. Not to say that scouting is completely useless, because it isn't. I'd only trust it when the numbers back up the scouts.

Actually I'm not sure his he fired Scheuler or not. I don't remember it was 20 years ago and I was 11. Renteria is a joke and should have been fired yesterday.

There should be, but there isn't. I didn't trust this FO to pull this off. This is what we have. JR hasn't fired a GM in nearly 2 decades. Short of winning a billion dollar lottery and buying into the Sox none of us have any say in the matter. It is what it is.

He's not coming here. It is a pipedream. Get it out of your heads people.