Also worth noting the Lebron slide.

Lebron is sliding. He has the physical tools, athleticism and defensive upside to be a top-five overall pick in this class, but there have been too many questions. After a strong start to the season, he struggled to hit consistently in conference play. He’s also been more error-prone this season than any of his previous years with Alabama. Someone will take a shot at the upside potential Lebron provides, but that could wind up happening later than we expected at the start of the season.

43 minutes ago, DirtySox said:

Also worth noting the Lebron slide.

This could be an interesting guy to try to push down and pay to play, depending on how far down he goes, and how much they save with Roch.

1 hour ago, southsider2k5 said:

This could be an interesting guy to try to push down and pay to play, depending on how far down he goes, and how much they save with Roch.

Would they be able to? He doesn’t have the leverage a high school kid does.

2 minutes ago, Lukakke Appling said:

Would they be able to? He doesn’t have the leverage a high school kid does.

No shot. There's no way a guy with his upside who was a 1.1 consideration is floated all the way to 41.

2 minutes ago, Lukakke Appling said:

Would they be able to? He doesn’t have the leverage a high school kid does.

It totally depends on how much they save on Roch, and how much LeBron is looking for. If the Sox can save a couple of million on the Roch deal, plus they have about another million in their 5% overage, they could push their #41 pick somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.5 million if they committed all of those dollars to one guy. That's about the slot value of the 14th pick. Does he fall far enough to where that is more than he could get in slot value from his drafting team?

Well, that is the question.

1 hour ago, southsider2k5 said:

It totally depends on how much they save on Roch, and how much LeBron is looking for. If the Sox can save a couple of million on the Roch deal, plus they have about another million in their 5% overage, they could push their #41 pick somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.5 million if they committed all of those dollars to one guy. That's about the slot value of the 14th pick. Does he fall far enough to where that is more than he could get in slot value from his drafting team?

Well, that is the question.

Someone will draft him ahead of the Sox and he doesn’t have much leverage to turn down a slot deal.

5 minutes ago, Lukakke Appling said:

Someone will draft him ahead of the Sox and he doesn’t have much leverage to turn down a slot deal.

That's fair. I mean he can throw out a crazy number and try to scare teams off, threaten not to sign with them etc, but yeah, they have to believe he will go back for his senior year.

On 4/12/2026 at 11:55 AM, DirtySox said:

Holy schit - Best defensive play I’ve seen from Roch. More of this on the SS please. That Lachey kid is electric too.

Our team really deserves the top three picks in this fucking draft. That should be our competitive balance handicap. 🤣