ChiliIrishHammock24

If Jim Thome said it saps power, then I believe him. Said it took about 8 months for him to get full strength back.

This is some of the meanest shit you've ever said.

Wrist injury. Jim Thome, an authority on power, said it took about 8 months after his wrist surgery to regain his power. Wrists are pretty important for bat speed.

Awesome! So stoked that Madrigal gets to end his career as a Champ, but also, please sign tomorrow and get this thing started.

And it's apparently been very fruitful for them.

That's a tremendous point. Hadn't even considered that.

No I didn't, but thanks for the heads up. If nothing else, dreaming on him being anything like his father, or taking advice from his father, is pretty cool. We've seen a handful of big league sons recently make huge leaps in the last couple of years.

I'm not asking if Tejada Jr will ever be good, I was just more-or-less asking if it's safe to assume he's not very highly touted, if a team like us with restrictions is able to sign him. Obviously most of these guys are complete lottery tickets, and there are many cases of random low signings turning out good, but if he's signing for $300K, he's probably not near the top of his class right now. Just tempering my enthusiasm.

Players are running all over Cease. He's pretty slow to home. Kopech is working really fast, as the announcers have pointed out. He's getting it and throwing it, probably 12-15 seconds between pitches.

Kopech surviving completely off of his fastball, and he's commanding it well. When he's missing, he's mostly missing high with it and the hitters are swinging at it. Escaped a lucky double (Chest high fastball inside that the batter tomahawked down the line for a double), and a walk in which he was very close on a couple of pitches to Hazelbaker. 2 more strikeouts. He's got 5 through 3 IP.

What game are you watching? Durham gun has him at 95-99 for every pitch, and he had 0-2 counts on at least 2 of those 4 batters in the 2nd inning, getting both on strikeouts in the zone. His command just just fine to me, as his only walk was from nibbling.

Damnit Quin, you stole my comment.

Sox are 2.5 GB of the 1st pick

That and the reports that Robert used to be chunky, and scouts weren't a fan of his as a teenager because of it. He changed his body to become the huge prospect he is now.

Where is the down-vote button? Asking for a friend.

Dunning speculation has dominated this thread, but in other news... Eloy - 1/3, BB Stephens - 6 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 3 BB, 9 K Collins - 0/2, 3 BB Luis Gonzalez - 1/3, BB Lambert - 8 IP, 5 H, 3 ER, 0 BB, 11 K Luis Mieses - 3/4, BB Lency Delgado - 1/4, HR, 2 RBI, BB Varnell - 4 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 1 BB, 7 K

Personally, I love it, because I would likely never be watching any of these games unless I suspected the Sox were going to draft a certain player. But if the Sox were picking in the mid-late 1st RD, I wouldn't have even bothered. Because they were picking so high, I would have likely watched Oregon St and Florida anyway, due to Madrigal and Singer.

I understand the sentiment, but I would also love this kid to end his college career as a winner and team captain of the National Champ team.

And the steal of 3B was without a throw. He was dancing and hopping around at 2B and then took a walking lead, ended up just coasting in to 3B without a slide.

No one has mentioned it yet, but Dunning took the biggest jump of any Sox player, possibly anyone on this entire top 100 board. He went from 92 to 56.

I remember a trailer for that and it looked real badass. Kind of like John Wick, but with Tom Hardy's lookalike.

Clearly it's the Zavala effect.

Well, I got to go to volleyball. You guys are on your own for updates.

Sac fly for Robert. He hit one to the warning track in RCF. Actually took a couple of pitches too. 4-1 Dash.