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QUOTE (BobDylan @ Jun 9, 2009 -> 01:17 AM) Language NSFW That. was. awesome.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jun 11, 2009 -> 03:01 PM) It is that way out here too. We've had very few summer days and its been cloudy and very Seattlish all of June. Hmm, it has been pretty mild in Memphis too. I mean, it's still in the upper 80s mostly, but that's low for here this time of year. And it has been unusually rainy/cloudy here a lot. I work at a golf course so it sucks b/c we've been getting on and off rain so much and it keeps golfers away.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jun 11, 2009 -> 02:01 PM) Question for everyone who doesn’t have a horse (college) in the World Series race. Are you now rooting for LSU, because of Jared Mitchell? Last year, I was definitely rooting for Georgia, because of Beckham, and I imagine I’ll be doing the same again this year. I just have that mentality where I want to see our kids succeed. Definitely rooting for Virginia b/c I have a buddy that pitches for them. He actually plays too (got in all 3 games vs Ole Miss last weekend), so it's I definitely want to see him do well. But, I want Mitchell to play awesome and still have LSU lose to UVA. That would be the best of both worlds for me.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 04:01 PM) Since I'm relatively new here (didn't start posting until the offseason before this one), having you pop up is like having a great poster appear out of nowhere. It's always nice to see him post here, even if it's a rarity. I remember when there was a group of about 10 of us around the summers of '03 and '04 that would be the same posters from like 2-5am, and qwerty was a part of that group. Always good times on Soxtalk since we'd all pretty much be replying to each others posts all night and then let the normal people have the board to themselves during the day, lol.

QUOTE (SoxAce @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 10:45 PM) The Whole List. Dasox, or any other mod feel free to edit my post, or just paste this at the beginning of the page as the complete list please. 1. Jared Mitchell, of, LSU 1a. Josh Phegley, c, Indiana Univ. 2. Trayce Thompson, of, Santa Margarita HS (CA) 2a. David Holmberg, lhp, Port Charlotte HS (FL) 3. Bryan Morgado, lhp, Univ. of Tennessee 4. Matthew Heidenreich, rhp, Temescal Canyon HS (CA) 5. Kyle Bellamy, rhp, Univ. of Miami 6. Justin Collop, rhp, Toledo Univ. 7. Junstin Jones, lhp, Oakdale HS (CA) 8. Ryan Buch, rhp, Monmouth Univ. (NJ) 9. Matthew Hopps, rhp, Cal ST Dominguez 10. Nick Ciolli, OF, Indiana St. Univ. 11. Jimmy Ballinger, rhp, Univ. of So. Miss 12. Kyle Colligan, of, Texas A&M 13. Cameron Bayne, rhp, Concordia Univ. 14. Daniel Black, 1B, Purdue 15. Dane Williams, rhp, Archbishop McCarthy HS (FL) 16. Daniel Wagner, 2B. Belmont Univ. 17. Brian Goodwin, of, Rocky Mt. HS (NC) 18. Philip Negus, rhp, Wake Forest 19. Brady Shoemaker, of, Indiana St. Univ. 20. Nathan Reed, lhp, Univ. of Pittsburgh 21. Jared McDonald, SS, Arizona St. Univ. 22. Zach Kayne, SS, Davidson College 23. Goldy Simmons, rhp, San Diego St. 24. Jeffery Tezak, 2B, Univ. of Nebraska 25. Michael Strong, lhp, Iowa Western CC 26. Matthew Harughty, 2B, Univ. of Oklahoma 27. Kyle Davis, 2B, Univ. of Delaware 28. Robert Cummings, 3B, UC Santa Barbara 29. Charles Delk, rhp, Clemson 30. Robert Vaughn, c, Kansas State Thanks. Done.

Well, not much to look for tonight, huh? Great to see Hudson have another very good outing, though.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 09:11 PM) I was told tonight we're confident we can sign Thompson, but Goodwin is about a 10% likely signee. No surprise there. Goodwin will be an extremely tough sign, but if we can develop a solid relationship with him and his family, who knows how that could play in our favor 3 years down the road - just look at Jordan Danks.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 09:01 PM) I just want to quickly thank everyone whose contributed to both the days leading up to the draft and the draft itself. This board has been a tremendous resource and it makes me very proud to be a part of it. Well said. I love the FutureSox board more than any other on Soxtalk, and it's a real pleasure to get all sorts of great insight from a lot of knowledgeable posters on here. We even had a Cerb sighting or two, which was nice to see him still lurking around occasionally. He adds some great stuff to the conversation.

QUOTE (bighurt4life @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 05:39 PM) If we do some slight overdrafts in certain places we put ourselves in position to guarantee signing them and addimg depth to our system instead of taking guys that would want a bunch of money. We just can't go and sign every player that we want, it costs too much money. By drafting guys who are cheap signs we get an opportunity to spend big bucks on a player like Thompson who probably will command a signing bonus in the area of a million, he is a big time prospect. As far as us not spending any money this past offseason, what about Viciedo, we dropped 10 million on him. That is essentially the same as a signing bonus on a draft pick except we didn't draft him. He's no proven veteran and I don't there was one team that spent 10 mil signing their draft picks last year, we spent the 10 on him plus another 4 mil or so on the guys we drafted. I don't think Thompson will get close to a million. If he signs, it's in the $500,000 range. Even if he doesn't need the money, there's no reason to give him more than that. He's not at a talent level that deserves that much. But, I could be wrong. You can add depth to the system in rounds 6-20. You take chances on potential 1st rounders that fall to, say, the 4th or 5th round. We didn't. Look, I'm happy with our draft. I'm very happy the took a flier on Goodwin and Williams after the 10th round. I'm just saying that guys similar to Matthew Heidenreich, Kyle Bellamy, or Justin Collop could have been had in the 7th, 8th, 9th round range, and we could have taken a chance on someone like Luke Bailey with our 4th rounder or Sam Dyson in the 5th or 6th round. Meanwhile, we could easily still fill the system with the type of solid (not spectacular) players I mentioned earlier. I'm not complaining about our draft. I think if we sign a couple of the guys that fell, we'll be in fantastic shape. Just critiquing the strategy a little. I think that's fair.

QUOTE (maggsmaggs @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 04:23 PM) I don't care about Sauer starting as a reliever then becoming a starter, 50 to 1 K to BB, how the hell doesn't he get a all-star nod? That is whack, plus more than one K per 9 inn. WTF Good call. Sauer absolutely deserves to be in the All-Star game. Can't believe a guy that has been as dominating as a SP as he has been wouldn't be selected. I guess he's only started 6 games (seems like more), but those peripherals are phenomenal.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 04:32 PM) Goldy B. Simmons...awesome. Haha, I know... I love that name.

Eric Decker was just drafted. I'd have to imagine he has a better chance of making the NFL as a WR than MLB. He's a stud for the Gophers.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 03:10 PM) Okay, then, followup question: Which do you feel is more of an organizational need given the current farm system, draft picks, and ML team? Well, that's a bit trickier because pitching is always a need. But, CF's with Goodwin's athleticism and skill set are more rare than the type of Pitcher Williams could become. So, I'd have to go with Goodwin again, even if we already drafted 2 athletic OF types in the 1st 2 rounds and have Danks already raking in the minors. I think Goodwin is a potential big impact offensively and defensively at a premium postion (CF), so he'd be more important to sign. That said, he's going to be very difficult to sign and will probably end up at UNC.

QUOTE (Dam8610 @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 02:26 PM) Directed at someone with a lot of knowledge of the farm and such: if you had to choose one of Williams and Goodwin to sign, which would you pick? Goodwin easily.

And the Sox redeem themselves with Goodwin. Now, chances are he's not going to sign, but if we make a good offer and develop a solid relationship (e.g. what we did with Jordan Danks), chances are very likely we'd try to redraft him in 3 years if he develops like we hope.

QUOTE (bighurt4life @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 01:03 PM) Lots of people have been ranting against this draft but I think that we need to remember 2 things 1. The draft needs to be considered as a whole body of work not just a pick by pick basis. We may take a couple guys who will easily sign so we can roll the dice on guys like Buch, Jones or Thompson who may want big money. You can't just take the best guy on the board every round unless you have an unlimited budget which we don't. This isn't like the NBA or NFL draft where you get selected and don't really have any other choice but to play for the team who drafts you. 2. You never really know how some of these picks will turn out. There's a good chance that there was some stud signability player that the Cardinals passed on when they too Pujols in the 13th round back in the day. There were probably some cards guys yelling at the monitor because they passed on their guy. You never know how things will turn out so our excitement and judgment needs to be tempered until we first see who actually signs and then see who among these players can be coached up to their potential. my 2 cents Yeah, I get that. But at this point (after the 10th round), nobody cares who we draft. I sure as hell won't be yelling at the computer screen b/c of who we draft in the 13th round b/c I don't know who anyone is that's left in the draft. That passed long ago. I'd say people have a legitimate reason to be disappointed if we overdrafted guys in the early rounds (e.g. Anything before round 10). No, we don't have unlimited funds, but Thompson isn't a guy that's gonna get a $1M signing bonus. That's the kind of guy I wanted to see us take in the 4th-7th rounds. We didn't spend s*** this past offseason and are about to unload a ton of money this coming offseason. I think we could have afforded taking a guy like Scheppers, Bailey, etc and given them the money they want to sign. That's how you build a legit minor league system; not by overdrafting guys and taking average players. That's what the Red Sox, Angels, Dodgers, Yankees do and that's why they always have highly ranked systems and even if they don't seem like they're gonna fit in, then you can trade them b/c of their pedigree and usually can something pretty good in return. While we don't dominate a big market like those teams, I don't believe for 1 second we don't have the money to spend on these young guys. We may be Chicago's 2nd team, but we're still in better shape than a lot of teams like the Royals, who did go out and take some big money signs in Crow and Myers. Those two players' signing bonuses combined will be more than we spend on our first 5 picks. If they can do it, so can we.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 01:03 PM) Can someone update Post 1 of this thread, or the other one, with the picks so far? Done

Well, I just got home from work, but my first thoughts are that the 2nd day has been a bit disappointing so far. I like the Buch pick a lot, but other than that it seemed like we reached a lot, and didn't take a chance on any of the big guys that fell b/c of signability issues. On second glance, this Jones kid could be a good get if he signs.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jun 10, 2009 -> 08:20 AM) Nice writeups, guys. Morgado seems like a throwaway pick. Why is that? Were Hudson and Carter "throwaway" picks last year? B/c they're essentially the same type of pitchers as Morgado. And Morgado is a lefty.

Here's BA's list of best available players going into tomorrow: http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/draft/?p=1140

http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2009/jun/09...cted-milwaukee/ http://www.utsports.com/sports/m-basebl/sp.../060909aaa.html

QUOTE (BearSox @ Jun 9, 2009 -> 10:04 PM) Should we make a new thread for tomorrow? It'll make day two easier to follow, IMO. Yeah, definitely.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jun 9, 2009 -> 09:27 PM) That is ridiculous how similar he still looks. Not to mention, kudos to him for actually agreeing to do that. I'm sure most wouldn't have. Sorry, the embed code is messed up, but scroll to the 2nd video to see a short clip with Gosselaar on his appearance. http://www.seattlepi.com/tvguide/407011_tvgif9.html

QUOTE (fathom @ Jun 9, 2009 -> 07:14 PM) What in the hell is wrong with Ozzie? Is it too much to give these kids some encouragement? We absolutely need a new manager if we go into rebuilding mode. This is how I feel. Thank god we didn't have the #1 pick b/c I have a feeling that he'd hate absolutely Strasburg already.