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Another thing to think about is having good starters makes Ricky’s job easy. Having Nova, Banuelos, Lopez & Santana consistently going 4-5 innings forces Ricky to use the whole pen at sub-optimal times. No way around it.

Yes, I feel like he’s getting the lead off guy to third, stealing second, and getting the #3 hitter a free walk to load the bases or ducks on the old pond. Robert is so fast. I’m leaning towards him being leadoff so he can easily score on a Madrigal double or easily take third on a single.

Well they aren’t prospects anymore either after a tough go of it. Done. Apparently baseball is the only profession in America where you only have one chance and can never fail. And then on top of it you get shamed and blamed on message boards by nervous-guy fans. Then when the blood on the corpse is fully consumed, they move up the chain to hostetler, KW and RH...they drafted him! Those morons! Anderson was lucky!

No, it doesn’t mean that. You are loading your opinion and presenting it as fact. Dude that’s not a fact they are rushing him or is it fact they are promoting him because of his line. Everything you said is 100% pure speculation, which is fine. I tend to think Madrigal is a guy who will have a similar line no matter what level he plays at: close to .300 BA, close to .350 OBP and a who cares slugging %. He will still be successful in most base stealing attempts. He will score tons of runs. If somebody fast bats in front of him, there will be a lot of 1st to 3rds. He will be the guy everybody loves up in the 9th because you know the ball is being put in play. He wasn’t drafted for some OPS line. People gotta come around to that. Now if he doesn’t do the shit I mentioned we’ll have problems.

Think he was BPA on the Sox board?

I don’t think he’s 24 in high school...

Good luck baseball pitching to our lineup

Lol is it crazy that I like our options at each of those positions better?

Totally. Eloy was done in the minors

In 2023 maybe? This isn’t Vlad Jr. Is Abrams who you want them to take? I can respect that even if I disagree

Cuz he’s a skinny high school kid praised for his speed and defensive transfer abilities? That’s flat out embarrassingly terrible at #3. Grab Vaughn and let’s mash some baseballs next year in the playoffs. BPA and NEED. It’s too perfect.

You really think the Sox are going to go toolsy HS guy over college mega bat? They took Burger at 11 when they had 100 toolsy kids available. Hawkins is the outlier according to the evidence.

Man I don’t think it’s possible. The Sox FO is stupid but they aren’t that stupid. They always go college. Witt miiiiight be an exception but not frickin Abrams.

Why is it so assumed KC is full steam Witt?

And the cubs. I remember Russell was an All-Star for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

LOL

This draft feels like the teams that pick 6-10 might end up having better first rounds than the teams picking 1-5. The 1-5 teams can’t pass on any of these guys it seems

Can I change my name to Pen1sB0ners?

I think worst case is Adley and Vaughn go 1 & 2. That would make me puke

Did you know his name is actually Nicholas and he’s the guy who goes around saying, “Call me Nico” “No, Call me Nico.” It’s kind of weird. Like guys who say their name is Topher instead of Chris. Just saying he he might be a total dbag if he needs to have a special name.

Masterful rebuild to this point. Absolutely masterful.

That inside the Parker was crazy!!

For real. ALL IN if I remember right. This whole Alonso thing is bad but that was waaaaaay worse

I don’t care if the tigers take abrams. But I sure as hell care if the tigers get Vaughn

I like the thought of signing Keuchel to be our #5 starter moving forward. Gio, not so much. Wouldn’t hurt to have a lefty that can pop some innings for those playoff matches coming up