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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Apr 29, 2015 -> 09:18 AM) The question is would they take say $2.5 million from us, or risk falling further down the draft where the slot amount doesn't allow that much to be offered. The #16 spot in the draft is the last place that could offer $2.5 million without being over slot. If you move that number to $3.0 million, that number moves up to the #12 slot. Let's say that the Sox trade for a comp pick and it fall in the 33-39 range, I would draft Aiken and offer him $1M, Kiley McDaniel said that a lot of teams consider him undraftable.

Laroche needs to be on the field more

http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2015?list=draft The list now goes to 100

It's never to early http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/20162017-ml...-early-edition/ I've been following Blake Rutherford for a while now and he is the real deal.

Kyle Tucker.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 11:36 PM) How the f*** do the Dodgers have a comp pick. I'd be all over that. I don't know but that would be a great move for the Sox.

QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 07:47 PM) McCarthy out for season now. Between him, Ryu and Anderson's consistent dl record, maybe they could use a Danks at some point. The Dodgers have a comp pick (#35 overall) and it is valued at $1,756,100.

In order to get anything decent in return, the Sox would have to eat a big chunk of Dank's remaining salary, maybe his entire 2015 salary.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 02:36 PM) What a Marlins move. Dude takes a below market deal to play for his hometown team and they drop him after a slow start to the season. Ouch. Hey, their one of the classiest organizations in the sport. I couldn't even type that with a straight face.

QUOTE (SoxPride18 @ Apr 27, 2015 -> 02:29 PM) Just got DFA'd by the Marlins today. Owed 7 million this year and 8 million next year. Would you take a chance with him? I know for one I wanted him a couple off seasons ago. Wow.

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/120265028/ji...phenson-on-rise Being comped to Matt Weiters

The past few games the Sox have shown some fight, literally and figuratively.

That was clutch (if you believe in that sort of thing)!

Come on Conor!

People still say that LaRoche is worse than Dunn.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Apr 26, 2015 -> 03:50 PM) He was pretty good today actually. If it wasn't for the wind, it would be a tied game

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Apr 26, 2015 -> 03:44 PM) Yep, he had a quality start. Saying it in the 5th wasn't true though bro. If he keeps pitching like this then the Sox are going to win some games, and for those who hate Danks its only going to help his trade value. Brah

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Apr 26, 2015 -> 03:20 PM) Hold off. Hasn't even been 5 innings yet. 3 runs in 4 innings isn't good. Now it is. Quality Start bro.

Another good outting by John Danks, definitely has pitched good enough to win today.

The Royals play Salvador Perez too much.

Kevin Gausman.

QUOTE (raBBit @ Apr 25, 2015 -> 03:38 PM) I am not ready to give the Sox a bunch of credit based on that first paragraph. They definitely hit on Anderson but Rodon was the absolute consensus BPA and Hawkins and Michalczweski have yet to make any significant value out of themselves. I am not writing them off, but they're nothing to write home about. They also had this same high ceiling approach prior to the CBA and fell flat with Mitchell/Thompson/Walker/Poreda and only hit with Sale. I think you have to look at the Sox drafting relative to the drafts of other teams rather than getting excited about every guy labeled "high ceiling" that we draft. I just don't buy this theory that you have to develop position players or draft towards need. Obviously you should develop position players, and the Sox haven't in the last decade, but the main goal of the draft is to procure as much value as possible. You mention Eaton and Avi as part of the young core and the Sox got them from trading a pitcher they developed and trading a pitcher they acquired for a bunch of pitchers they drafted. The Cubs got Addison Russell, Billy McKinney, Jake Arrieta, CJ Edwards, Mike Olt and Pedro Strop for Samardzija, Garza and Feldman. All pitchers. The Sox should take the BPA. It's cliche but that's what you do if you're a smart team. If you draft by need you're only hurting yourself. The Cubs had all these position player prospects and they didn't draft Jon Gray, like the industry expected them to because they had no pitching, they took Kris Bryant because he was the BPA. I don't remember the timeframe exactly, but from something like '08 or '09 to last year the Sox had more WAR from the draft than any team in the MLB. That's with Beckham being the only position player getting regular time. I think everyone loves the high ceiling approach, but in the end it's about taking the BPA and currency, currency, currency. I have grilled some people in this exact thread for arguing against the BPA strategy. I loved the Kris Bryant pick in 2013 and thought that Houston should've drafted him #1 overall, to pair him with Carlos Correa. I think that if the old CBA rules were in effect, the Sox would not have drafted Rodon, the price tag would have been too high for them, the Sox spent the least money in the draft under the old CBA. I am not saying that the Sox should draft position players with every draft pick that they have, I am just saying that their dearth of 'talented' position players in the system needs to be addressed going forward.

QUOTE (Stan Bahnsen @ Apr 25, 2015 -> 02:34 PM) Yeah, saw that article last year - and can't disagree with the strategy in an offense-starved environment. We'll need to trade pitching to fill one or two of the holes, and the farm will have to produce at least 1 quality bat beyond Anderson, and I'm guessing that will be an OF. I have more confidence in Hahn pulling it off with deals than I do the farm producing ANYthing - and that's kinda sad. Really hope to see the right kind of improvement from Adolfo this season. It's also sad that my biggest hope is several years away. I think that he could be one of the best prospects in all of baseball and be a Jorge Soler type player for the White Sox going forward, but remember that he would be getting drafted this year if he stayed in the US, this is his age 18 season, so he's still young.

So I guess Rodon is going to get his first ML start sooner rather than later.