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Hahn should have known as soon as Vaughn was moved he'd turn to crap.

Really. It seemed like he cared that baseball was increasingly becoming a money driven sport and realized without lots of money teams would struggle to compete. At least publicly he seemed to care about money and how to be competitive without it. To not care about money would make someone a disaster as an owner in the age of free agency. If "all he cared about is money" is a lie, then he wasn't a very good owner.

Just for fun I found the 2018 draft thread. The board was 100% behind Madrigal. It's in the former sox drawer thread. The board was really upset that Kenny wanted Singer over Nick. @southsider2k5 predicted the future for Nicky as a bust.

If anyone wants to take a trip down memory lane. There are a couple threads. By the way in a thread I didn't link @caulfield12exposed concern about Nicky before the draft. Page 13 starts the cheering.

Nick Madrigal, Oregon State In a sense, the Reds have the easiest decision in the draft. Bart, Bohm, Madrigal, Mize, and Singer are the top five players on the board, and they're all expected to be taken within the first five picks. The Reds will simply take whichever one of those players is still available, and in our mock draft, that's Madrigal, an undersized hitting machine and one of the "safest" players in the draft class.

Before and after the draft baseball experts loved the guy. He was a safe pick that didn't pan out.

From just after the draft 2B Nick Madrigal, Oregon State University Madrigal is the best player in college baseball, and he's the best pure hitter in this Draft, hitting a cool .406 this year for the Beavers with 13 walks and just five strikeouts. He may be only 5-foot-8, but size isn't an issue because he can hit, he can really run and he can really play second base. The Jose Altuve comparisons are a bit much because Madrigal doesn't have that kind of power, but he's not a slap-hitter, either

Anyone want to look at a draft projection from that year? https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2779285-2018-mlb-mock-draft-brs-final-round-1-picks

We need to take more chances on guys with histories of never playing a full season because of injuries.

Occam's Razor Injuries

What a shame. Such a great college player.

Jim Brown.

Wait, were still playing? I thought the season was over.

I'm trying to project the next few years for the Spurs and when Pops will retire. Seems like you'll want a guy here for the next six to eight years of rebuilding and competing. I don't see him sticking around that long.

When I think of Frank I remember being in bars all over the region and when he came to the plate the bar got quiet and people watched. I never saw that before it since. Baines was beautiful at the plate. I remember watching a batting practice session and he just effortlessly crushed ten balls that all landed deep in the seats, same section, within three or four rows of each other. I remember an interview with a Sox coach who claimed Baines hit the same seat three times in a row. Probably hyperbole, but not totally far fetched.

There's a little bit of excitement here.

Garrett must be so pissed.

Spurs.

What a day of golf. One of my current players was in the first round of the state finals. Struggled a lot but gained a ton of experience. Highlight was holing out an eagle shot from 125 yards. A former player won a sudden death playoff to advance with her partner to the match play portion of the USGA Women's Four Ball. Another shot -2 in the NCAA D1 Regionals with his team now in first place with a great chance of advancing. Live scoring is my favorite bit of technology. I can keep up with them all.

Always just shut up and quietly close the door on the way out.

The hubris, arrogance, entitlement, or whatever adjective you want to use, really hits a nerve with me. I know it's more so than other people's reaction. @SoxAcemakes a great point that everyone else is gone and my guess is the culture has been improved. Thirteen years is about the sentence that most offenders would have served in prison. Maybe it's time to put them on probation and jump back on the bandwagon.

It's another reason I've stepped back further away.

I believe there are two very different groups of players at work here. AAA prospects that don't have any MLB experience and guys who have MLB experience but their talents have diminished. We've seen guys get called up for the first time and struggle. A veteran like Hamilton who has been there is a better bet to not s%*# the bed at Yankee Stadium than some 21 year old without experience. Of course you also need to be developing talent, either to trade for MLB ready players or eventually promote them to the club. Great franchises manage to do both.

Possibilities Ignore AAA and make no moves in their roster. Rick Make brilliant moves that add depth and create a system that produces MLB players annually.

Rocky is still around and seems like an asshole. But your point is very fair. I regret posting earlier in a thread that should be all positive. I just read The Athletic article that made that point and it was fresh in my mind. I don't fault anyone for cheering them on. It's different for me being so far out of market and coaching my own team from September to May. The Hawks, and by extension the NHL, are easy to ignore for me.