August 25, 20232 yr 3 hours ago, ThirdGen said: The point is that 5 of 6 prospect lists didn't even mention Tatis in 2018, and this was the first mention Law had given him. And the writer of this thought it to be odd that Law ranked him this high. Some of the posts in this thread imply that Tatis was highly regarded by many at the time of the trade, and that is simply not true. He was probably roughly the same player in Feb 2018 as he was in July 2017, so it stands to reason that he if wasn't that highly regarded in Feb 2018 there is no chance he was six months earlier. The Padres apparently saw something the Sox didn't, but no one else did either. Kudos to the Pads, but not a major shame to the other 99.9% of the baseball world that apparently missed it, including the Sox. It doesn’t matter what some scouting lists said. Law was right that he was a top 50 prospect at that point and everyone immediately followed suit by mid year. And his reports were based on the period immediately after the Sox traded him. So yes the Sox traded a top 50 prospect, this isn’t like Semien growing into an MVP 4 years later.
August 25, 20232 yr 6 minutes ago, bmags said: It doesn’t matter what some scouting lists said. Law was right that he was a top 50 prospect at that point and everyone immediately followed suit by mid year. And his reports were based on the period immediately after the Sox traded him. So yes the Sox traded a top 50 prospect, this isn’t like Semien growing into an MVP 4 years later. And that would require a coach actually taking a personal interest in Semien's potential and convincing him he wasn't the utility guy the Sox were projecting. Ron Washington
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