3 hours ago, caulfield12 said:

Public posturing to see if they can wrangle savings out of their top pick by creating the "fake out" impression they're seriously considering Emerson instead?

Any 4D chess with the Sox just scares the hell out of me thinking they will only outsmart themselves and end up with two decent players while yet another team ends up with a superstar.

Saw it happen once already with Kolek and Aiken.

Ofc in the end Houston eventually won that one in the following draft.

3 hours ago, southsider2k5 said:

My thought has always been that the tiebreaker to the Sox would be how fast they could move through the system, and then bonus asking price. I have to imagine that the Sox see Roch on a Gordon Beckham kind of timeline, and with the desire to try to rescue the fanbase, that would come into play. If people really think Emerson could be under two seasons away, I wonder if that factors in the other way if his ask is appreciably different from Roch's.

Here's another wrinkle. Casey Wasserman represents Cholowsky and Emerson so he likely breeaks the bonus record at both spots regardless. I don't see a massive savings for Emerson with the Rays slot being worth $10.5 million.

1 hour ago, Y2Jimmy0 said:

Here's another wrinkle. Casey Wasserman represents Cholowsky and Emerson so he likely breeaks the bonus record at both spots regardless. I don't see a massive savings for Emerson with the Rays slot being worth $10.5 million.

Resignation from Talent Agency

Amid the fallout from the release of the Epstein files, Wasserman resigned from his namesake talent agency, which is now being rebranded as “The Team” and is in the process of being sold. This decision followed the departure of several high-profile clients, including Chappell Roan, Abby Wambach, and Orville Peck, who severed ties due to ethical concerns. Wasserman has apologized for his past correspondence with Maxwell and emphasized that he never had a personal or business relationship with Epstein.

Whoever breaks from him first goes to the Sox....joking, but pretty sure some of his mlb clients have already jumped ship.