Dick Allen

When they traded for Brett Myers, wife beater, I was sickened and hoped he failed every time he went to the mound. If they drafted this guy, I would feel sorry for the affiliate they sent him to, and would hope he would quickly fail. It doesn't have to be a team of choirboys but you have to draw the line somewhere. And this guy, for me, is on the wrong side of the line.

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I am sure they will play him at SS , and see what he can do.

Yes.

It would be even more cool if you called him by his proper first name douchebag.

Pedro did compare Singer to Mark Prior. Called him a short armer

His arm is messed up. They did maximize his value.

So everyone making this group decision wants one guy and KW wants Singer. If this is true and Singer is the pick, everyone with any pride should immediately resign. I am calling BS on this report. Another KW conspiracy theory.

The Mets seem to me to be the White Sox pre rebuild. Just won’t do enough to be a solid contender. Do enough in the offseason where there seems to be some hope, might have a hit streak or two, then it just falls apart and they get ignored.

I have wanted Madrigal since last year. Even though it may be the correct move, drafting pitchers is boring.

It’s not unfathomable if he has had 100 of them hit his way. He has a lot of catching up. Another one where the eye test matches all the numbers. Usually that only happens if you are elite, or elitely, if that is a word, awful.

If Detroit picks Mize and offers him a little more than the second slot money doesn’t he have to take it? It is still $7.5 million. If he went back to college, he would be lucky to get that next season with zero leverage. At worst it will keep him from signing until the deadline, but that shouldn’t concern the Tigers. He gets some rest and they aren’t going to need him for a while.

Yeah, that’s a tough one to live down. Reading what Law said, there is very little chance. It appears the scouting community holds a bit of a grudge too, as he not disclosing that could have cost a few of them employment. He also mentioned what do you do when you visit kids in the hospital? If my kid was in the hospital, I wouldn’t want him anywhere near her. I know now he says he is innocent, but he did plead quilty.and it doesn’t appear his entire family is convinced of his innocence. If He didn’t do it I feel bad for him, but there is no way his plea will ever get reversed unless the girl says she made it up. He wouldn’t be on my board. A total PR nightmare. A distraction for the team. He has a little protection from all of that in college. It will be a free for all if he signed with someone,

Just had some trivia on MLBN Which first overall draft pick played in the most MLB games? Harold Baines

Didn't he pitch yesterday? I would guess Charlotte to Minneapolis flights, especially non stop, are pretty limited. He probably ran into a time crunch after the game.

Speaking of Ryan Braun, is it just me or does it always look like his bat is about 2 feet longer than everyone else's? It looks fungoish to me.

He's clearly a DH. But he had enough success in the minors to think his bat isn't a fluke.

Yeh, he should probably give up hitting left handed.

I am an Iowa grad and if you read the story about Pierre Pierce, although not messing with a child it is very similar. He was originally accused of sexual assault. Thrown off the team, he eventually pled down to a lesser charge with no jail time and record expunged if he kept his nose clean. Always claimed he was innocent to is lawyer and coach, he was reinstated. Many were outraged but were told there was a lot about the case that never came out, basically saying he just had consensual sex. People were still upset but he was playing well, then one night he beat up another girl and flashed a knife. His college career was over and he went to jail. Steve Alford to this day hasn't been able to live it down, even though he did not rape or batter anyone. He believed what his player was telling him including taking the plea even though he was innocent. I just dont think it is worth finding out the hard way you have been had. And it is always going to be there.

I get it but pleading guilty to this crime if it gets out is suicide. His brother still seems to think he is guilty. Personally, I don't think anyone could possibly get to know him well enough to draft him. Even if you are 99.99999 percent sure he is innocent, he proves you wrong and does it again, there would be no excuse. There are a lot of false confessions without a doubt, I just don't see how anyone can buy that this one is. If he wasn't a prospect no one would think anything else. The only proof anyone has he didn't do it is his denial now. Let some other team deal with the distraction adding him to an organization would bring.

Pleading guilty means you re guilty. Pretty solid proof.

Also prior to August of 1988, the White Sox had a big advantage drawing people to games, as the Cubs couldn’t play home games at night.

You really don’t speak all over the partisan spectrum. What you now call stimulating conversation, you often complain about being “groupthink “ ganging up on you. You make yourself a victim, just like Trump, yet have no problem ripping anyone else. Also just like Trump. Now you are bragging about replies to your posts, just like Trump and his crowd size. The fact is people respond to your posts not for this stimulating conversation you now call it, but to call out your many inaccuracies. I really don’t keep score. I just know everything you feel necessary to accuse others of doing, you re guilty of doing yourself. Again, just like Trump. For a guy who says he doesn’t like Trump, you sure seem to defend him and his conspiracy theories often. I haven’t seen you rip him . Maybe you have, I don’t read every post. But if you have, it is not nearly as much as you have defended him which we all know would be quite different if he was doing the same thing with D after his name.

Trace rarely gets a hit. But when he does it is usually a double or homer.

So far so good.