Harold's Leg Lift

God damn right.

It was a crime to put Crochet in the bullpen. Idiots

He knows he's a goner.

He was a starter in college and a pretty good one but he has a couple things to work on to become a big league starting pitcher. He needs to repeat his delivery better and develop a consistent third pitch (change). The problem is his bat will be ready way before his arm so if he's going to continue to pitch it will have to be as a reliever which is fine because his plus fastball/slider will get big league hitters out in short stints.

I don't know. He's gonna be one of the most interesting guys to see who takes him and where. There are quetions about his fastball. He sits 95-98 but it gets hit. He should be able to consistently throw it past HS hitters but he doesn't. It's straight w/zero deception. On the other hand his secondaries are hellacious. It's probably the best combo of slider and change I've ever seen. I'm very interested to see who thinks they can fix his fastball shape without fucking up his secondaries.

No doubt. I think Cags is the only guy they go full freight on. Anyone else they would be looking to cut a deal.

Not neccessarily. The 2nd round slots are $2.2M and $1.2M. They can easily sign a couple really good HS arms with that kind of money.

I think it fits well where they are as an organization. The vast majority of their top pitchers are in the upper minors so it will be good to get some HS arms to start filling up the lower minors. I don't know how many but I think they're gonna use at least a few of their top picks (2-7) on pitching and likely HS pitching.

He throws plenty hard but I don't think the Sox are gonna take a pitcher. I hope they take Cags but if not they're gonna get a good player at 1-5.

They took pitchers the last two years (though the Hughes pick looks awful) so you can definitely see them keeping that trend going. Personally I would take Smith over Burns but either one would be benificial for the Sox.

That's what I'm afraid of. Really need Colorado to take a pitcher that way they only need 3 teams to be really dumb.

Gee I wonder how they plan on doing that, Bob.

Drew Thorpe is an absolute joy to watch pitch.

Jeez Big George is hotter than a rolling ball of butcher knives. Good for him.

I think they have Montgomery over Griffin.

I disagree. You might be able to argue 3B

There have been a lot of college 2B overdrafted recently and none have come close to justifing their draft position. Will Bazzana and Wetherholt buck that trend. I have serious doubts.

She's a cutie but holy smokes she has an annoying voice.

Holy smokes Gonzalez has really fallen off. Wow

Sosa just doesn't have an approach to be a consistent big league hitter.

I don't think they can wait a month. They have him on a pitch count so he's winding down. If they don't sign him to an extension which seems unlikely they have to move him soon. The clock is ticking.

They don't have to be god awful the next few years and the way to do that is to get rid of the god awful players. They will still get a good return and will have money to spend on free agents. They could also get creative in trades like the Michael Busch trade they weren't in position to make last off season. I get you want the shiney new things but getting rid of the shitty old things is the way to get better faster.

If there was a trade on the table right now for Crochet and Benintendi you wouldn't do it?

It's fun to say but there is no way Reinsdorf is gonna eat $50M. Maybe he'll eat some to get a better player back. I mean he has to have a little skin in the game for letting Hahn/Haber completely destroy his organization but it's just not realistic to think he's gonna eat it all.

Why not? They'll have money to spend with Moncada, Eloy and maybe Robert (among others) off the books and if they don't get Benintendi's money off the books now they'll just keep playing him to the bitter end just like they did with Grandal. He's not going to sit making that kind of money. They have to do it now.