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I’m actually shocked that Bruce Levine still has a job. He’s horrible. I don’t mind him being featured on the Score but I wish that Spiegel would replace him as the full time baseball guy.

My family lost our little Pomeranian Misty today. Had her for three years now. My older sister was taking the dogs out for a walk and a local dog, a mastiff who’s always loose and never on a leash, attacked her and the Pomeranians. She was able to save the boy but not Misty. Very much in shock. Here’s my favorite picture of her.

The arrangement is a travesty. The union needs to really consider amateur players and always keep them in mind. If they continue not to include them, the health of the game will be in grave danger.

I’m glad that local government here in Illinois is trying to be overtly cautious in regards to Covid-19. I read last night that Trump tried to buy exclusive right to a potential vaccine that’s being developed by German scientist. Exclusive as in it will be used for Americans only. He’s going to get us all killed.

Lots of good relievers are going to be on the market this winter.

In addition to Giles, I’ll be watch Brad Hand and Liam Hendricks. If the Indians are out of it, they could very well trade Hand and start their rebuild early at the deadline. News came out that the org and Lindor suspended contract talks. The A’s could sell off some rental guys if they fall behind early to Astros and Angels. And Keone Kela could be interesting but he’s not a closer.

You don’t think he’s a worth a pick in the top five rounds?

He’s the face of black baseball. I checked out him on the CC Sabathia podcast on the Undisputed and they were talking about “clubhouse culture”, we need to stop calling it that and calling it what it is. It’s a form of institutionalized, cultural racism, calling it what it is will only help solve the problem. And it’s good to see the White Sox position themselves as that team, the team who’s leading the battle against institutional racism in MLB. Looking at the team, they have a lot of dark skinned players, a lot of whom are from Latin America. So it’s good that they’re celebrating the African American presence and the Latin culture in their locker room.

Ken Giles

Joe Boyle is a reliever from ND, he does have experience starting but he projects to be a reliever in the bigs. He was very loud stuff and I wouldn’t be mad if the Sox nabbed him in the first few rounds.

You’re killing my optimism

Austin Martin may be out 6 weeks with his hamstring injury, that could cause him to fall out of the top ten

I’m all for lineup optimization but their best OBP guy is Grandal and I want him sandwiched in between the middle of the lineup. And Moncada said that he hates batting leadoff, so why is he there?

Who cares, he’s probably never going to walk a ton but he can still work as a leadoff hitter as long as his pitch selection keeps improving. He’s also the best base stealing threat on the team. I’d rather have Moncada driving in Anderson than vice versa.

Why is Moncada leading off?

A friend of the MLB Draft subreddit, who we’re doing an AMA with later this year said that Garrett Mitchell is the fav to go 1-1.

Yeah, he’s both those things but if he were taller he’d probably be labeled a better athlete and would give off the perception to some people that he could maybe play another position. He’d might be ranked higher. Short, stocky white guys aren’t really looked at as being good, physical athletes.

If Andrew Vaughn were at least two inches taller, he’d be held in a higher regard.

Who’s calling the webcast games?

Anderson Moncada Abreu EE Grandal Eloy Mazara Robert Madrigal

I’d rather keep McCann since he’s a better defensive option than Mercedes and Collins.

What are the Sox biggest needs in terms of the system as a whole? Athletes, up the middle talent, lefties and starting pitching depth? Some influx of youth won’t be a bad idea either. Im really like Detmers, Soderstrom and Howard but I’d prefer it if the Sox add a high impact prep bat in the first round. Howard naturally plays a premium position, while Soderstom has the better bat but might have to be moved from behind the plate.

There’s literally zero downside to this extension. Not counting the option years his AAV is $3.2M. That’s a drop in the pan

OBP skills and where a player bats in the order have nothing to do with each other. I like Grandal batting fourth or fifth so he can break up Abreu, EE and Eloy. Anderson Moncada Abreu Grandal/EE EE/Grandal Eloy Mazara Madrigal Robert (I still think he’s ideally the Sox’s own George Springer batting leadoff)