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I was totally against this but Bannister did a great job elaborating on their plan. It makes sense.

He was on their Area Codes Team in high school. Threy know him well as a Wisconsin prep. I'm not a fan of taking a second baseman though and he hasn't done well with wood bats.

Which college?

I’m just not sure they’ll take a non shortstop here. Hopefully Carlson falls to them.

Yep. I’m pretty surprised by this but it’s fun. Yes. It’s basically 13 pitchers and 13 position players for everyone now.

He wasn’t promoted too quickly

There’s no truth to any of that. Post reputable sources.

Not anywhere close to what they’d make as a first rounder.

That’s who I mocked. A legit shortstop who can hit and really run. Not many of those guys in this class.

Here’s my mock draft 1.0 for FutureSox: https://www.futuresox.net/2025/06/02/2025-major-league-baseball-mock-draft/

That was the best offer they had for Cease by a lot too. Should they have waited on that one?

It wasn't what was right though. Waiting made sense. It hasn't worked out.

Chris Getz would've been eviscerated if he traded Robert in his first winter on the job. They wouldn't have gotten close to enough. It made sense to wait. It hasn't worked out.

Disagree. What do you think someone gives up for 4 years of Luis Robert after a 5 WAR season? More than they'd give up now for sure but I doubt it would've been enough to not wait.

Houston is too imo. I'd still prefer a shortstop.

I have Daniel Pierce in my mock draft this week. Billy Carlson would be a dream scenario. I wonder if they’d go overslot to float him down.

Not possible. He has no options. This was just never realistic unfortunately. Chris Getz in his first offseason as GM wasn’t going to be able to get value for 4 years of Luis Robert coming off a career year. It is unfortunate though.

He’s a first baseman imo and hits right handed. He needs to absolutely mash or he’s probably just nothing unfortunately.

I don’t trust any hitters from Wake Forest. Houston will stay at shortstop but I just don’t think he’ll impactful offensively. They did this in 2023 already. Take a prep hitter unless someone falls.

Barring someone falling, I wouldn’t be surprised to see $11 million spent on top 3 picks. $6 million at 11, $3 million at 44 and $2 million at 76.

I meant that he can really hit but can't play shortstop

Can he really hit but won’t play shortstop

McDaniel had Rays taking him at 37 in his mock today.

The only money that can be traded is from current period. They had $543K left and traded $500K to Houston. They needed the cash for the player they signed a couple weeks back.

Odds get reconfigured. So the bottom two teams, Sox and Pirates right now have 22% odds at #1 pick and 3rd team is Baltimore with 17%. Rockies will pick 10th no matter what and Angels and Nats likely 11-12.