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If I'm trading Colome, I'm looking for a young SP who can immediately be penciled in to the back of the rotation for the next couple years (probably unrealistic) or a guy who is either MLB ready or in MLB that can be our everyday RFer for the next 3 years. Who are some possibilities for that scenario? I took a look at LAD's mlb pipeline page because they seem to always have a ton of OFers and they could use Colome... Is a guy like DJ Peters to much or too little for Colome?

Why waste the service time? I would've waited until the June after next

Good. The new beat writer is just in time to report on season ending injuries to every player ever.

Late 90s was bad. Navarro + a guy like Jon Snyder or a bad Jason bere season is probably as bad if not worse. Although, I was like 13 so maybe it wasn’t as bad as I remember.

Is Heuer starting or a bullpen guy?

I honestly cant tell fake Rick Hahn quotes from actual Rick Hahn quotes anymore.

I was responding to a comment saying “nowadays” it doesn’t work to sign multiple good free agents who may be older... as if everything changed in the last 18 months. There’s no set rule to constructing a team. Agree. If they didn’t get hit with so many pitching injuries (Rodon, Kopech, Dunning) and if they kept Avi, this team is probably the second wild card team right now.

I wanted machado too but the Astros won a World Series two years ago after bringing in a number of free agents like Beltrán and Reddick and McCann. They didn’t sign a “big fish”

I'd do it. Still can't believe that they haven't been able to get enough back end starter types either in MLB or the AAA level.

Yes.... Real topical stuff in 2003 on WSI. I don't know why I thought I needed continuity when I signed up for SoxTalk.

PNoles is the worst account on twitter, including the fake spam accounts and lunatic political people. At least those accounts don't constantly tweet about losing Kevin Smith.

"Living into the 21st Century"

So you think he would have traded him if he thought he would have had 60 WAR in that time period?

Didn’t you just recently say you don’t care about results until they get to the Majors?

My twitter feed this offseason was full of guys who think they are brilliant wringing their hands over letting Narvaez and Smith go for McCann. So happy he is having a good season.

I have a question that may have been explained elsewhere.... I thought the general pre-daft issue with Seth Beer was that, although he could end up being a good player, it was a waste of a high pick to choose the 1B/Corner OFer. Why is Vaughn different? Is he that much better with the bat or was Seth Beer that bad in the field?

Don’t get me wrong... I’m not in the “Why don’t the Sox just decide they want him to be Juan Pierre?” camp... But one thing I’ve always thought about... If you have 500 ABs in a season, the difference in batting .200 and .250 is just an extra single a week. You’d think more guys with elite speed like Hamilton or Engel would be able to muster enough infield hits and bunt hits to be serviceable. Obviously, it’s harder than it looks. Edit: I suppose I just described Billy Hamilton’s offensive profile... I guess I’m just surprised more guys like Engel can’t become that....

Narvaez sucks. The front office deserved/deserves every ounce of criticism and mocking for their mishandling of the Machado/Harper situations, HOWEVER, the outrage over the backup catcher position since this past offseason is ridiculous.

Have you used this feature yet? I was going to get it starting in May and was going to get the group on one account but that leads to issues (If you don't show up together, you need to transfer the ticket, if I had it on my account but decided not to go, etc.)

Can someone explain to me why the Orioles can't just offer him like 3-4 million? What else are they going to do with that money if they've missed out on the other big names and they didn't have agreements in place with any of the lesser guys?

Exactly.. and in 2015, Carson Fulmer was a "stuff" guy who had issues with his command. It doesn't matter if people thought he could end up in the bullpen if he never put it together.

Ok... so without hindsight... Carson Fulmer's best case scenario/comp at the time he was drafted was who, Carlos Martinez? Is that a low ceiling pick? Just because he turned out to be bad, doesn't mean he never had a ceiling. I agree that Burdi was a floor guy in the 1st round... But when I think of SPs who are floor guys, I imagine a pitcher with lesser stuff that has a shot at the rotation but will never be very good.

Here's my take... If the Cuban has no chance to be anything more than a poor man's Yolmer Sanchez, why would he command so much money and be a top 10 guy in his class? Seems like a very inefficient way to spend the allotted money. One would think there's more potential here than people are assuming.

Carson Fulmer was drafted 8 overall. What pitcher drafted that high doesn’t have a floor of ending up in the bullpen?

Isn’t the knock on the Sox system that they have a lot of upper end guys and not as much depth of guys who project to be mlb regulars?