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That’s true, but also why Lackey was being rumored as an option until the very end.

He’s really good at both spots. Candidly, I think he’s not as good of a defensive SS as OAA suggests (but still really good). As such, I much more open with moving him to 3B. I do hate moving Vargas off of 3B though, but ultimately a great problem to have.

Go hog wild outside of Sox picks!

As has been discussed for months, there was a clear top three in this draft and those guys go chalk to kick things off. It appears that all the talk of underslot deals at the top proved to be nothing but plays to drive prices down. And based on these bonus amounts, the agents for Roch, Emerson, & Lackey knew teams were unlikely to pass on the handful of special talents and had the leverage.

He’s incredible at 3B

All the leaks saying otherwise was noise to help build leverage…unfortunately for us it doesn’t seem like it worked.

The Sox have five picks today

Ugh that really sucks. Bummer they couldn’t negotiate something south of $10M here.

I think that makes more sense than Thome. College juniors are obviously much harder to float to a specific pick, so makes more sense if there is a college arm they love and were aggressive in increasing their chances in getting him.

Let’s fucking go!!!

Here are today’s slot values: 01) #001 - $11.4M 01) #034 - $2.9M 02) #041 - $2.4M 03) #077 - $1.1M 04) #105 - $0.7M I’d expect at least $1.7M of savings on our first pick. We have $1M from the 5% overage and roughly $0.4M of potential savings if we go seniors with our 9th & 10th round selections. That’s $3.1M of additional dollars to work with. Theoretically, we could allocate $1.4M to our 3rd pick and bump it up to $2.5M and take a very special talent. We could then bump our 4th & 5th round picks to the $1.5M range and get two more additional preps. That’s a six player class plus we’d still have full slot value in the 6th through 8th rounds that could go to college pitching.

Bold prediction, but Sox take Volchko with their second or third pick.

God why did they have to show a 2024 draft recap

It’s the dream. Shirley needs to make the most of this though, because we have an opportunity to take a bunch of preps and build a future wave of talent.

100%

Nope, I think this first hour and a half is just the first 10 picks, so NBC is going to drag this s%*# out

Would be a shocker if it’s Emerson at this point.

I wish they let the prospect table do the heavy lifting.

With the extra pick, I’m hoping that five guys are displaced from this list after today.

For the Sox? Roch & Rocco would be quite the pair

So fucking awesome!! Kid totally deserves it!

@DirtySox - Great stuff as always!

Zero concerns with taking Thome…I’d love to grab him. But if the cost to get him is effectively Jacob Gonzalez, then I think it’s a highly questionable move.

This is only selling high if you don’t believe in the player. As I mentioned in my last post, two years of mediocre Gavin Lux returned a Comp A prospect and a decent prospect. With any extended stretch of productive major league play and Jacob’s value exponentially increases. And while he’s blocked right now, any injury to an infielder or Benintendi and he’s a regular once again. If Getz & Fuller don’t think Jacob can sustain what he’s showed in Charlotte and the majors over the past couple of weeks, then I agree this is selling high. But to me, this feels like we’re overpaying for an asset he had to have for reasons unknown vs. not believing in the player. If we were really trying to sell high, we’d have waited until after the draft when more teams are engaged.

This website is pure garbage. This is suggesting Jacob for Woods would be a fair trade…lol.