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Are baseball players getting crazy NIL deals? I only ever hear about football.

I think its crazy that you have Tim Anderson in 2013 and then it took them all the way until 2021 before they took another toolsy up the middle player. Lots of SP and 1B/DH, 2B, and C in almost a decade.

Yeah I know what you meant, there was just no way I was going to be able to put that together while trying to pretend to be working lol

Not quite what you were asking, but I went back and looked at who we took against who we could have taken only looking at round 1 and the very first comp round and this is what we passed up for one reason or another. I think we did quite well in 2021 and 2022 2013: Tim Anderson Passed: Aaron Judge 2014: Carlos Rodon Passed: Aaron Nola, Trea Tuner, Matt Chapman 2015: Carson Fulmer Passed: Ian Happ, Walker Buehler, Mike Soroka 2016: Zack Collins, Zack Burdi Passed: Josh Lowe, Gavin Lux, Dane Dunning, Will Smith 2017: Jake Burger Passed: Trevor Rogers? 2018: Nick Madrigal Passed: Jonathan India, Jared Kelenic, Logan Gilbert, Matthew Liberatore, Brady Singer, Nolan Gorman, Shane McClanahan 2019: Andrew Vaughn Passed: Riley Greene, Josh Jung, Corbin Carroll, George Kirby, Daniel Espino, Anthony Volpe 2020: Garrett Crochet Passed: Jordan Walker, Bobby Miller, Jordan Westburg 2021: Colson Montgomery Passed: N/A 2022: Noah Schultz Passed: N/A

Really, really good for 10 years and then pretty mid for the final 9 years.

Right, I didn't expect them to be up next season but more so sacrificing long term potential to try and hurry advanced players up to the big league team.

Hopefully its not a "Were having a bad season but we can rebound next season with these guys, lets see how quickly we can get some college players up to help in the next year or two" type of draft.

Doesn't sound like 1st or 2nd round pick was much of savings, so I wouldn't expect a HS

I always think of Ichiro with that type of swing

I knew that was coming after I posted it, I almost went back in and edited it to say "unless youre the White Sox of course."

There's a difference between we have 2 really good SS one of them has to move to 2B and we drafted this guy to play SS but he just cant cut it, hes going to have to move to 2B. A first round pick is a premium pick, try to get a premium player. And this isn't aimed at Gonzalez personally, if his bat is as good as they think I would of course take it at 2B. I just wouldn't be targeting bats at lesser positions, feels like you could find that elsewhere in the draft or trade/FA.

Well, he was a SS in college so he fits what I was saying. I am not an MLB draft guru so I couldnt tell you if thought process was he couldnt stick there in MLB. I know the Astros already had Correa who had just won ROY at SS so I dont know if it means Bregman couldnt play there.

I would only ever draft high upside SP, SS, and CF in the early rounds of the draft. Swing for the fences and try to get difference makers. I wouldn't be drafting players at those positions and saying "He probably can't play there in the majors but we can just make him a 2B". That's a fail to me.

Jose Abreu last 28 days - .284/.316/.816 His June was actually pretty solid with 5 HR's and 21 RBI. He only had 1 HR and 20 RBI in March/April/May. Still a negative WAR player. Got this one totally wrong. Nick Madrigal - .278/.335/.700 but per usual has hurt his hamstring and is out again. Had 1 WAR up to this point, still think we gave up on him way too soon.

Absolutely, I would expect Colson is the starting SS sometime in 2025. Hopefully we get to see him towards the end of next season.

I would like that scenario, good bats at all positions.

They must have plans that one of Gonzalez or Montgomery will be moving off of SS otherwise it makes no sense to take another SS when you already have a top prospect at the position and their windows of arrival seem to be in the same range. I know the bat has been excellent but how has Colson been with the glove so far?

He’s not “not fast” he’s pretty damn slow to be a 30-40 grade runner.

Another unathletic player, same ol s%*#

I meant we have more talent than those teams, we’re not going to lose 100.

And it only helps if he continues to have good starts leading up to the deadline

Im gaining some more optimism for trading Lance Lynn Last 5 starts 4.40 ERA 30 IP and 47 K's and he has control beyond this season at a reasonable price if desired to keep him. Not great, but at least he doesn't look like a guy who should be released anymore.

When you factor in what we actually have available to trade and the remaining schedule, I just don't see how its possible to be 25 games under .500 the rest of the way. Were talking about Giolito and probably some bullpen arms, there's not really anything else to trade that will negatively impact the team. The Royals and A's are going to lose 100 games easy. We will still have some competent players or people who can start performing to their capabilities and the easiest SOS the rest of the season. I would peg them for 90-93 losses.

There's just no way this team loses 90+ games and no one loses their job. I don't believe it.

They will need to go 35-38 the rest of the way to have 90 losses. Seeing as how they are probably going to be 10+ out approaching the deadline, I would assume they will be trading away players. 90 losses should be a lock. 25-48 would then get them to 100 losses, which seems hard to believe even if they do trade away some players. I don't think we will see 100 losses. Unless of course they go full blown sell off and trade guys like Cease or Robert, but I don't see it.