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FWIW, Collazo at BA said he’d have Roch in the top 10 and pushing for top 5 and Emerson top 15 to 20. I’d assume that would be Roch above Bonemer at minimum.

Also, nice work with the thread title! Time zone nerds be trippin right now!

Yeah, that would be fantastic. I wonder how much value those guys would put on being part of a Sox org that (unfairly or not) will provide some level of preferential treatment given their fathers being members of the front office.

Dollars wise it feels like it could be doable if we can get Contreras a bit cheaper than the $3M you referenced. Honestly, I really want us to take two high ceiling prep arms tomorrow. For me, the draft is all about upside and there is a nice group of HS arms that fit to the billing in this class. As much as college arm could help the major league team faster, I don’t want to settle for safety or proximity with our day 1 picks.

Go college pitching heavy the rest of the draft and that could be a really good draft.

If Getz wants to get crazy and take a big risk, trade Hudson for the #34 pick and replace him with Hagen in the bullpen this year.

Continue to develop him for the next three to four years like they would any first year prep player

Also, Kiley’s final mock is a two rounder. In the 2nd, he has the Sox taking HS OF Dominic Santarelli. Meanwhile, HS RHP Jack Slightom goes 15 picks later. Baseball America brought up Jack in their “what we’re hearing heading into the weekend” article this morning and said he essentially has the most amount of helium and could go in the top 40. Based on what the draft experts here have highlighted and Shirley’s comment about really liking a HS arm, it feels like he’s legit option for us at the #41. Landon Thome not mocked to go in the first two rounds, but Kiley did include in a list of guys who either get their bonus demands met in the 3rd or 4th round or go to college. He did say that Thome was a target for the White Sox with a later pick. I feel very confident he ends up a White Sox pick in one of those two spots. Joseph Contreras also not mocked to go in the first two rounds and referred to as a tough HS signing due to his Vanderbilt commit. Is he another guy the Sox could potentially scoop up in the 3rd or 4th given his dad’s role in the org? I’m normally against nepo picks, but him and Landon are legitimate talents and may come at a reasonable price relative to similar HS picks. How would people feel if our first four picks went Roch, Slightom, Thome, & Contreras?

Kiley’s final mock released this morning. He has the Sox taking Cholowsky, but said he doesn’t feel good about it. Here’s the quote from the article:

We are about 28 hours away from the MLB draft. I know there has been a lot of chatter about the Sox still deciding who they are taking, including from Shirley himself. Candidly, that’s a bunch of BS. The Sox clearly having a guy they want to select by this point based on talent alone. However, financials do come into play and it sounds like those discussions don’t really amp up until the last 24 to 72 hours, even for the top pick of the entire draft. Based on what has leaked publicly, I remain confident that Roch is the guy they want to take. The Emerson talk feels very intentional to me. I believe the Sox want it out there that their scouts prefer the HS kid to help create leverage with Cholowsky. Honestly, as talented as Emerson is, he’s not on the caliber of Witt & Holiday and I struggle seeing the Sox give him say a $9.5M signing bonus that would blow the HS record out of the water ($8.2M last year from Willits). Maybe this all changes if he’s willing to take a massive discount, but if the money is remotely close I don’t see how you don’t just take the college kid. With just one day left to go, my guess is the 1.01 should likely be locked down and the Sox are working on the rest of their day 1 strategy. Even if the Sox go with a $10M signing bonus at the 1.01, they’d have close to $2.3M to spend on overslot deals. That being said, I think their goal is to get that first pick closer to $9.5M, which would still be an all time record. Throw in another $0.4M by going with seniors in the 9th & 10th rounds and suddenly you have $3.2M to work with. That would effectively allow you to sign three guys for $2.5M (40th overall slot value) in rounds 2 to 4. It’s critical we come out of tomorrow with a haul of high upside talent. While the 1st pick is obviously most important, I’m more intrigued to see what Shirley does with the rest of his picks and excess funds. Does he ultimately land three or four overslot preps to serve as a future wave? Does he try to snag a talented college arm in the 2nd who can quickly help the big league club? How pitching heavy will he go after our excess pool has been used up. It’s going to be an exciting couple of days for sure.

Selling would be the single dumbest thing this franchisee could do. First, we don’t really have much to sell outside of Newcomb & possible Hicks. Second, it would be the ultimate gut punch to a young team that’s in the thick of a playoff race and a fan base that is finally excited about the state of the franchise.

This Gonzalez take is wild. Have you been watching the games? He looks like a plus major league hitter who can play anywhere in the infield. Multiple talent evaluators like Keith Law & Kiley McDaniel are believers. He had a rough stretch where stance got out of whack and has been insane ever since. Not sure how anyone could have watched him over the last two weeks and come to this concussion.

I’d be looking to extend Newcomb rather than trade him.

Unfortunately for your dream, you actually participate in conversation and don’t just do just drive-by s%*# posts like the goob. Despite your PCA man crush you are safe.

Out of whose price range?

Same here. Really wish I was in town or otherwise I’d be there.

Yup, this day was no doubt coming, especially with this rotation. Doesn’t help that we are currently exposed against LHP and Vargas & Grichuk both are in the midst of cold streaks. Always sucks when you get kicked to the curb like this, but Murakami will be back tomorrow and that should provide a much needed bolt of energy and more importantly provide us with the one most dangerous power hitters in the game.

Great post and spot-on. Also, this series confirmed a couple of important things: Junior Perez is not part of the solution against LHP and should be sent down when Murakami is activated (and ahead of Gonzalez IMO) A RH hitting backup catcher is now officially a need at the deadline as Teel can’t currently handle LHP and Romo is not a major league player We desperately need one of Pereira or Hays back to help against LHP as there are too many strong platoon guys on the active roster presently The bullpen outside of Eisert appears to be stronger than most realize providing 11 scoreless this series (McDougal likely will replace Eisert) The rotation is the primary weakness and will need to be addressed in several ways for the Sox to make the playoffs and compete in October An outside addition to the rotation that can knock everyone down a spot is critical even if that isn’t a true #1 starter (which we can’t really afford) We need to find a way to give Martin some rest down the stretch as he looks fatigued, whether that’s going six man or skipping a start here or there

Unfortunately many people here forgot how baseball works and think that cold streaks aren’t possible unless your teams sucks.

Goober is the only poster I have put on the ignore list in my 20+ years on this site…he’s that big of a goober

Why?

So you are white flagging it then?

Never mind

Really need a Colson bomb here

This I would also do. I am not giving up Schultz for him though.