26 minutes ago, Look at Ray Ray Run said:

I think you and WestEddy keep telling on yourself with the "looking for attention" comments.

That's my opinion. There are thousands of baseball scouts. If you think they all share the same opinion on those players, you my friend are the delusional one. The community as a whole absolutely hive-minds their thoughts though.

These are all projections of volatile assets. It's always safe to say one or two guys are clearly above the rest, but that's less frequent the case than more. Most scouts didn't have Zach Neto ahead of Jackson Holliday. Most scouts didn't have Bonemer, Yesavage and Griffin ahead of Hagen. The differences between these guys are an adjustment or two from relevance vs irrelevance.

Edit: Just adding I'm not saying I called the above, although clearly Bonemer been my guy forever and I was/am a huge Neto guy.

You have in this very thread underscored all of Roch’s tools and said Emerson has no carrying tools. You are 100% entitled to have differing opinions. Liking Lackey ahead of Roch or Emerson is a completely fair take. Disliking one of the two way more than consensus would be reasonable as would having one or two guys outside of the big three ahead of them. Having four guys beyond Lackey above both of them is just not an objective take IMO. Yes, scouts and talent evaluators will have different assessments on the players on this draft class, but the general consensus is there is a clear top three. I highly doubt there are many scouts who have Roch & Emerson both outside their top 5.

Again, had you not already inaccurately discredited the tools of the two players in question and had different reasons for preferring five guys over them then maybe I could take your view on this seriously. And to be clear, I usually value your opinion on things. Different is very good and should be welcomed here. I just feel for some reason you are inherently biased on this particular subject.

1 hour ago, DirtySox said:

Throwing out another name that our boy @Y2Jimmy0 mentioned with the Sox on the FutureSox Podcast. Dylan Bowen. Checks two White Sox boxes. Prep SS and Indiana. Scouting reports from BA (164) and Over-Slot (67) to get familiar below. Jimmy also reiterated that he thinks the Sox are very much on Thome which is not surprising.

You'll be interested in my five round mock draft that comes out tomorrow.