Eminor3rd

I'm still high on Lopez. The stuff is unbelievable, and I think his command of it will improve.

Right -- this is "the process."

Have fun at the ballpark, mang.

Leadership. Intangibles. Even when his performance is off, he finds a way to get the L.

Tank Commander James Shields on the top of his game yet again. When will this guy decline?

You can add any type of talent in free agency. You can trade any type of player for any other type of player. It makes zero sense to draft for need in baseball. You take the best talent you see and figure out how he fits in later.

Again, literally the the point of the entire thread. Strange thing, to get angry at people for discussing the topic of a thread.

Taking a step back, I don't see how you can say no to a current plus hit tool with above average athleticism and work ethic.

The worst part of this post is that Chris Volstad is currently on our team.

This may be the single tankiest moment of this entire rebuild.

Wait, are you serious? No one, in this thread that is titled "Eloy Jimenez," where in the original post, the poster says "Why not bring Eloy Jimenez up now?" is suggesting that Eloy should be called up now?

What I've read is that the only thing holding back from being a SS is his arm, but that he'd probably be playing there anyway except that OSU has some other younger future draft prospect with a slick glove.

And those coaches are saying he isn't ready yet. That's the whole point. We don't want to disrupt the process just because this team is hard to watch on TV right now.

Nope -- great analogy. Problem is your kitchen remodel wasn't ambitious enough!

So the solution is to sabotage them?

While that is certainly a difference between the situation and the analogy, I don't think it's related at all to the point he's making. I don't think anyone in this thread is saying "we should rush Eloy/Kopech because the rebuild might end up failing anyway." They're saying "we should rush Eloy/Kopech because this is rebuild is excruciating."

In Japanese, Palka translates to パルカ

Of course yes -- in that our fanbase will overrate him vastly. Lol, sorry.

POTY

I wouldn't say Swaggerty is underwhelming as much as he's risky. The Sox don't seem to have had any luck at all developing guys who lack the hit tool.

Eminor3rd 1:57 Given that picks 2-6 or so look like they'll have players of the same "tier," is it valid, at all, to say that it makes sense to go with a college position player in order to reduce risk? Keith Law 1:58 I'm a little lost on this one. I think those picks will all be college position players. However, I think there are a couple of HS players who might make sense up there - Carter Stewart in particular - but who, for various reasons, aren't likely to go that high.

I'm on the Madrigal/Bohm train. I'm not worried about the amount of pitching talent in the system. These assets are fungible. All else equal, high-hit tool position players are the safest picks, and can be traded for mid-rotation arms later if it comes to that.

I didn't like the pick at the time because I've never thought he was going to stay at third. Watch the grounders from about :30 - 1:15

It was a bad pick at the time, even before all this.

Delmonico has no business playing the field at all.