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Luis Robert has what value now exactly? And I’m not sure what they did to actually develop him other than writing his name into MiLB lineups. He’s currently worth less than Houser. He does have 2023…like Rodon’s 2021. And all the Cubans were Paddy and Hahn/KW anyway. Also, the Red Sox are/were the ones who originally identified/drafted Braden…in the same way the White Sox scouting staff gets credit for Tatis, although neither player suited up officially for those teams. The big wins for Getz right now are Vargas, Shane Smith and Meidroth. Congrats I guess??? And Houser. Or do plaudits go to WcKinven instead on former Brewers?

Orioles 5 GB of Boston for fourth White Sox 12 1/2 GB of KC A's 7 1/2 GB of Rangers Nats 2 1/2 GB of Braves Pirates 7 1/2 GB of Reds Rockies 23 GB of AZ for FOURTH Two teams playing tonight certainly have something in common...only double digital spreads between last and fourth place, respectively. That doesn't include the Angels and Marlins, who are both wildly outperforming pythagoreans, along with the Guardians. Pirates are actually a quite respectable -29 in RS/RA.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/COL/2025.shtml Goodman Beck and Moniak their three best hitters...along with Tovar and McMahon, who's likely to be traded at the deadline. Estrada and Freeman solid off the bench.

Rockies 6-8 their last 14 games...and won 10 games during June. Wouldn't be surprised to see them take 2 out of 3. That would put them on pace for exactly .250 winning percentage and 40.5-121.5.

Looks like Luis Robert…

They can’t change him to 3B right now…that would be crazy. At least not unless he makes 4-5 errors in the span of ten days. Even then, should give him at least 100-150 at bats at SS unless completely overwhelmed.

But he does have a pretty strong MiLB record in his favor…that said, right now he’s a below average regular 3B.

Make that +24 already...quite similar to 2006 White Sox first half. Already bored. And not relying on Sasaki at all.

Cubs over LAD when they get all their guys like Glasnow and Snell back and Cubs' Steele out for the year? Better add significantly at the deadline.

From Cali earlier in the thread...second page I guess. Fine, so our development success story for now largely rests on the shoulders of Colson Braden and Bonemer...but the latter two in particular. Meidroth is 25th out of 35 SS's and trending towards a 2ish fWAR. Cut off for "average" at that position is around 1.7-1.8 right now. Vargas is 23rd out of 37 3B. Only 0.7 fWAR and trending for 1.5ish when average at that spot is around 1.2 right now and McKinstry Clement and MGarcia share the top with Ramirez and Machado in the 3.0-2.5 range with Bregman sixth despite missed time at 2.4.

"It's just another safe reason for people who need to be right,more reasons to feel good about themselves based on other people's failures. If he does poorly, like most prospects, they get to feel vindicated . See it was stupid. No, it's what happens with most prospects. If he has a good series in Colorado the whiners can safely claim small sample size and lick their jobs with his 1st 0 for 10 with 6 Ks. It's as if they want him to fail. Too much good press. It's like with Vargas since he's cooled down. The safe play is to say you don't believe in him because you don't really believe in anything Sox related." Cali-what development "huge wins" on the position player side have they had since 2005-06? It's basically Carlos Quentin Alexei Ramirez Jose Abreu Luis Robert and Tim Anderson. And only one of these guys was truly homegrown. Realistically, it's only Tim Anderson, because they missed on their evaluations of Semien and Tatis Jr., even if they did successfully identify them in the first place. With that consistent lack of success...with the bottom quintile budget and bottom quintile stadium (or worse), wouldn't any objective/realistic/pragmatic Sox fan have reason to now be skeptical, especially with the recent "mistakes" on Konnor Griffin/Cags as well as Vaughn Burger (he actually looks like a "success" by recent Sox standards) and Madrigal? And now once again Braden and Teel who we didn't develop as much as Boston did that are the two biggest cornerstones for the future.

Non-expansion record...then.

https://nypost.com/2025/07/03/opinion/mom-apple-pie-and-the-savannah-bananas-america-at-its-best/

They waited until he had a GW hit in AAA...favorable hitting environment against the Rockies (headed for one of the worst seasons in history) and then three RH pitchers, including young Dollander who has been scuffling. Not sure what else they could do. Probably thought he could be overwhelmed in that racuous LA environment against Kershaw. https://www.mlb.com/rockies/roster/probable-pitchers

So patient and just make every opposing pitcher work so hard...it's relentless when Muncy is in the lineup and white hot.

At least they helped Conforto get back up over a 600 ops. Almost felt inevitable after 9th inning collapse last night.

Meidroth feeling the Colson footsteps lol. Do we still have Capra to pitch late?

Thank god they didn't sign Conforto a couple of years ago.

1/30 Capra-esque

Sosa made two outs there...

Fortunately Lawrence KS properties are not SoCal priced.

This game seems almost a sure bet for LA.

Noda is the new Capra. Or Capra's the new Amaya. Rojas sucks too. Generally hopeless bottom of the lineup.

Meidroth has hit a wall. That didn't last long. Blown away by gas Tauchman and Beni.

Starting to remind me of Joe Borchard...albeit not much in common beyond left-handedness, polite/respectful personalities and then all the prospect hype.