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Jose Rondon Clean-up Crew

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Caulfield, the way you format your posts is some kind of abstract modern art.

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I saw most of his last start in person. He threw 86 pitches, I believe, over 5 innings. He was absolutely cruising through 3 2/3, with 7 K's and no hits, and then threw a really wild pitch and looked like he might have pulled something. Stayed in after a mound visit, but walked a couple and gave up 3 or 4 hits before he left the game. I definitely think giving him another rehab start is justifiable.

Greg this isn't a matter of opinion. Media market is defined by target, demographic, and literal media reach. Cubs have a larger footprint and compete with the Sox in bulk of the Sox footprint. They live in a major city, but their media market is mid-sized.

Great post, much more detailed and accurate than anything I could describe.

There are way too many good reasons to take a hitter, given our position in this rebuild. And since we're all but guaranteed that one of Bohm or Madrigal is available at 4, choosing Singer will be extremely disappointing.

I'm not sure how much you know about Chicago, but uh -- it was still that way BEFORE the Cubs got good. You know, when it was 100+ years since they won a World Series? When they were on the longest, most famously pathetic championship drought in sports history? They still outdrew the White Sox, and they very much enjoyed a larger media market. They still do, and it's got absolutely nothing to do with winning.

Right, but you and Steve Stone are ignoring how marketing works. Every shopping mall has a Sephora make-up store, but Sephora's market doesn't consist of everyone in the mall. That store could achieve 100% market saturation without selling to half the people that walk by it.

That the Sox reside in the city of Chicago does NOT mean that their market is the entire city of Chicago.

No -- but those are the guys you're trying to get if you go underslot early, especially in this class. I don't think the Sox would do this. It's too dumb. I think this is another example of a lack of Mayo's understanding of scouting that's causing bad info to float around.

Just gave the article a quick re-read. If that was her point, she buried the lede quite deep.

Taking Schnell at #4 in hopes that a decent HS player slips past the Rays/Royals to round 2 would be pure nonsense.

The Sox organization might be different, but: As someone who works in marketing/promotions for a minor league team, I can tell you for certain that the MLB player dev team (at least for the two organizations I've worked with) could not possibly care less about accommodating our promotional schedule.

If you want to argue that Eloy should be up because he's ready for the Majors, and that the player's development path is more important than Super Two -- that's fine and I'm 100% with you. But that's not the premise of the article.

When will he stop and wonder why, when he's been running all these years, the finish line has yet to appear?

Calling for bringing up a player for the sole purpose of "mitigating the suffering" of the fans, despite the fact that it goers against the development of the player and/or the meta-game strategy of the team's plans is being soft. We're all embarrassed about how bad this team is -- that's why we're pushing so hard for them to do this correctly. Suck it up. Have the discipline to be one of the big boys, like the Astros and the Cubs did. You're right that there's no guarantee, which is why it's so important NOT to b**** out and rush it just so your nightly TV is easier to watch this year.

Ozzie's was Marty34, confirmed.

I just can't imagine how any fan who has been paying attention still cannot see the forest for the trees here. Do you seriously, SERIOUSLY want to do ANYTHING with the prospects that isn't in their best long-term interest? Do you really think we should call our best prospect up simply to "mitigate the suffering"? Guys I want to fucking WIN A WORLD SERIES. You may not not like that we're rebuilding, but we are, and at this point there's no reason not to do it fully and correctly. Eloy moves up when it's the right time for his development, period. If you gotta do something else with your summer this year, then do it. Stop being soft. Let's fucking DO THIS.

That's not how WAR works, my friend. It's a counting stat -- so if a pitcher and a position player end up with 4 WAR, they are equally valuable. The pitcher gets more WAR per game than the position player.

The team was always going to suck. What we need is to see a legitimate step forward from Moncada and one of Lopez/Giolito, and for a couple other randoms to look like they might be regulars for a few years (hopefully this is Davidson, Sanchez). Bonus would be a successful cup of coffee from Kopech and perhaps Jimenez. So far, it's not looking great, but there's plenty of time to make it okay.

Which, it seems, every writer except Mayo understood. But since Mayo somehow has one of the widest platforms, fans all over are talking about rumors of second rounders going in the top ten. If you look at that last mock, nearly every pick in the top ten has some random names thrown into the paragraph that no one else is talking about at those picks -- and I'm willing to bet those are similar to Schnell in that they're really second rounders that Mayo has heard executives have seen.

I (and others) have typed thousands upon thousands of words trying to explain concepts to you. You never even read them. The only place people are "towering over you" with stats is in your imagination. We are constantly trying to include you in discussion and you just ignore everything and type the same thing as if no one ever replied otherwise.

I mean I think there a lot of guys that are consistently successful at lower levels. To say a guy is "polished," though, you are saying that his repertoire/command/maturity/etc. have reached or nearly reached their ceiling, which can be good or bad thing depending upon context.