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Good luck, Dylan. Thanks for the video game slider, the great interviews and introducing me to disc golf.

I may be the high man on Nastrini. 96+ with a good if inconsistent breaking ball and his change has developed into a weapon. Personally, would not bump him for Thorpe.

Matter of taste. I simply do not care for rhp that throw 90-92, who's best pitch is a change. Track record in the last 30 years is terrible for the profile. I hope I'm wrong, but he seems like a better version of Jonathan Cannon. I mean we all celebrated dumping Mena over the fastball and he throws harder than Thorpe. I almost put Zavala ahead of him for upside.

I know you weren't asking me, but my top ten are 1. Montgomery 2. Schultz 3. Ramos 4. Nastrini 5. Quero 6. Thorpe 7. Eder 8. Jacob Gonzalez 9. Zavala 10 Iriarte

Thorpe feels like the Joey Ortiz of pitching prospects.

This return is not looking better.

I really like Caglianone as a lhp. I doubt anyone could DH and relieve. Maybe he is the poor man’s Ohtani?

Maybe I should be happy that at least in the last two games they've gotten some guys on base to leave them all there?

Priority is sign as many washed up middle relievers, glove-first utility guys, and former Royals as possible as a psychological experiment on Sox fans. The data will be dissected for generations, like the Stanford prison experiment.

Tough to follow a team where, in spring training, they take out the regulars and you're treated to at bats from Pillar, Mendick, Ortega. Thank goodness they've also got real prospects like Moustakas, Remillard and Chuckie Robinson. Bleah.

If Robert, Moncada, and Eloy are all top ten in MVP voting, the Sox will have a league average offense.

I have Cease fatigue. You can’t make me care about the Yankee equivalent of Coby Mayo. I’ve been hurt too many times in the past.

Ugh. Are they gonna plow through every single washed up bullpen arm on the planet? I mean, I guess it's low risk, but it reveals a mindset of trying to build a 'pen whose average age is 38. I'd really like to see more opportunity for guys like Leasure and Speas.

I really admire this 60 win team's ability to field spring line ups almost completely devoid of players under the age of 25. Explains heir new slogan: "The Kids Can Sit."

I think it is really hard to assess a bunch of the young guys, including Mogollon, Nunez, and especially Wolkow. Any one of those guys could rank high based on upside. I would understand someone putting Wolkow 8th, for instance. But there's no guarantee any of them make it to AA, let alone the majors. Truly at their ages, ranking prospects is more art than science.

I always wondered what it would be like if they played baseball at the Sydney Opera House.

How many 26th man on a roster guys do the Sox have in camp? It feels like 50. Watching Mendick, Pillar, Remillard, Ortega etc is mondo depressing.

Pillar is not someone I want to watch play baseball. I am sure he is great in the clubhouse, though.

Watching this team “hit” is like slowly watching your life bleed out.

Any chance he does both? If he finds a consistent release point, he is gonna be nasty as a pitcher. I am concerned about the K rate as a hitter, but the power is for real.

Meh. The new normal is bring young players up and give them less than 40?days so you can start them at the beginning of next year and go for the extra draft pick. That’s what the Cubs did last year with PCA. I would be shocked if the Sox don’t do the same with at least Montgomery. I think Ramos has a good shot as well. I agree Quero might be a stretch. If Gonzalez has fixed his swing, even he has a low but real possibility.

The bright spot from today’s game is that the Tigers did not draft Wyatt Langford. Kid is going to be a monster. Should have gone 1-1.

Gonzalez’s swing looks totally different. The bat looks much quicker out of this set up. I hope it works for him.

It's way to early to mock what should be a deep but not top-heavy draft to the Sox, but here are some guys who probably fall into the range for 1-5: JJ Wetherholt, 2b Travis Bazzana, 2b Nick Kurtz, 1b Charlie Condon, 1b Jac Cagliamone,1b/rf, lhp Vance Honeycutt, cf Konnor Griffin, ss/cf Seaver King, ss/cf Braden Montgomery, of Mike Sirota, ss,cf Josh Hartle, lhp PJ Morlando, 1b Hagen Smith, lhp Chase Burns, rhp Brody Brecht, rhp Tommy White, 1b/3b I am out-out on Tommy White, and don't particularly want Kurtz, Condon, or Morlando because of the first base-only profile. Harold has me more curious about Caglianone and Brecht, but both are super high risk. I like Montgomery's pedigree as he was a top guy out of high school, and I like Konnor Griffin. Should anyone else be added to this follow group? And how do other people feel?

The beauty of picking 5th is that only 4 guys can be gone. A lot of teams will not pick a pitcher in the top half of round 1 and Burns is also off to a hot start. I think they are going to have a lot of very attractive options at 1-5.