Jose Abreu

The injury obviously doesn't help him out but he was my favorite minor league pitching prospect aside from the obvious Kopech/Cease/Hansen/Dunning. But a huge, 6'7 arm who induces ground balls like crazy and rarely allows home runs is very intriguing to me. I'm sure his HR rate will increase as he advances, but I like his potential. Could see him as a good reliever too

I like Delgado but he's a little high risk-high reward. I suppose so are guys like Curbelo and Sosa, but they're more advanced than Lency at this stage so I wanted to give a "safer" pick a spot. Sure, Weaver isn't exactly a low risk guy, but the dude can flat out run and I believe in his hit tool more than most. Of course this opinion is based on limited youtube scouting and draft reports so take it with a grain of salt

--Tier 1-- 01 Eloy Jimenez 02 Michael Kopech 03 Luis Robert (honestly almost put him at 1, he literally has a Trout ceiling) 04 Dylan Cease 05 Nick Madrigal 06 Dane Dunning 07 Zack Collins 08 Alec Hansen --Tier 2-- 09 Micker Adolfo (almost put him in tier 1) 10 Luis Alexander Basabe 11 Blake Rutherford 12 Jake Burger 13 Luis Gonzalez 14 Seby Zavala 15 Steele Walker --Tier 3-- 16 Ian Hamilton 17 Tyler Johnson 18 Jordan Stephens 19 Kade McClure 20 Luis Curbelo 21 Lincoln Henzman 22 Lenyn Sosa 23 Gavin Sheets --Tier 4-- 24 Konnor Pilkington 25 Laz Rivera 26 Spencer Adams 27 Craig Dedelow 28 Jonathan Stiever 29 Ryan Burr 30 Cabera Weaver

I personally would rather see Jirschele as eventual manager, instead of Vizquel

I'd argue that, at the time of the trade, had he been pitching like 12-16 Q, then he would have had more value than Sale when we traded him. That extra year helps a ton

That's probably a fair guess. I'd go with 260/310/440. Either way, that, combined with his speed and his average to above average defense at SS, is a quality starting SS and one we can absolutely win with down the road.

The thread itself is fine, that's not what I'm complaining about. It's the acting like winning one game is such a big detriment to our pick as if it were late September. It's all over, not just on Soxtalk either

Even if this isn't really your point, I do agree to an extent. I think it's a little crazy to care about exact games back in the draft standings before like, mid-August

That's exactly what they are doing/have been doing with him.

This seems petty

That'll fix things

Why is Lincoln Henzman being used as a reliever?

The owner of Windy City Limo, I think

Those weren't his comments. Part of them. sure, but only a small part

Mike Huckabee? Racism? No way!

Moncada

Not sure what to make of the video. But I also wouldn't trust the guy whose tweets you guys linked in here. I've seen him on Twitter, he's even more pessimistic than Fathom. He was tweeting about how Dylan Covey is "likely out for the season" after that minor flare-up today.

Sooo Steele Walker anyone? Is he not gonna sign?

Good to know that Farmer has no idea what he's talking about. Glad I haven't been able to catch a game on the radio this season.

He had a very, very high BABIP before the injury. Recently, it has been falling a lot. That's why it seems like it's higher than it should be

Quite the inning

One of the few bright spots of our season at the Major League level has been Tim Anderson. Coming off what was a rough 2017 for him in many ways, he has made huge strides defensively, increased his walk rate, decreased his strikeout rate, become more of a stolen base threat, more of a menace on the bases, more of a home run threat, and still has a very low BABIP (.276, was .328 last year) which suggests better looking offensive numbers by the end of the season. Defensively, he still botches a routine play here and there, but he also makes rangey, flashy plays and has gotten better as the season has progressed. It's been fun to watch him grow and I'm confident we have our shortstop of the future. That said, looking at where he was at the end of last season, it would probably have been considered a surprise to learn that he has likely been our most valuable player through 75 games. While he still has room for improvement, it is clear that he has begun to iron out irritating mistakes and has become a more complete hitter offensively. I'm sure more improvements will come. Watching him improve has given me more faith in improvements from Moncada, and even in the rebuild as a whole. Yoan is similar to Anderson in the sense that he's young, uber talented, and sometimes frustrating to watch. But seeing Anderson slowly but surely put his main concerns to rest with time has made me feel a lot better about Moncada doing the same, perhaps to an even greater extent.

Wasn't able to watch this game but glad that Giolito did well and Anderson finally got a little luck to go his way with the way he's been killing the ball this year. Anyone know why our wise manager went with Volstad with the bases loaded in the 8th rather than... literally any other reliever?

In his 6 ABs today, Moncada has hit the ball hard 6 times and struck out 0 times.