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I don't like Vaughn. I think taking a 1B only prospect and a bad body guy that high is mistake and would be a terrible pick. He would have to hit out of his mind to make it worthwhile.

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I hope the pick is between Abrams and Bleday, who I think will make the bigs quickly.

The Braves are a good trade partner for the Sox

Keuchel wouldn’t be a number 5 starter for the Sox, he would be a TOR option for the team. I hope the Sox look at other avenues to improve their staff that don’t involve Keuchel, who looks like a terrible contract waiting to happen. ******* I know the team’s run differential is absurd but the Sox were blown out a lot in April and they are over performing their expected win/loss record. If they’re able to get average pitching from the staff for the rest of the season, a .500 isn’t out of the question. But if the Sox aren’t making the playoffs, they should seriously consider trading some veterans on the team like Colome to bolster the farm one more time (Braves are a great trade for).

I bet the under on Seattle. They were at 71.5 iirc

Why not Bartolo Colon?

Looking at another top ten pick this draft seems to be strong in pitching. I like: C Bailey RHP Hancock CF Veen RHP Wilcox LHP Fisher LHP Crochet 3B T. Witt 3B Morales

I know Hostetler said that the Sox have one of the biggest groups of amateur scouts but I wish they would make a similar commitment to their analytics department and pro scouting, which always seems to be a problem for them as of late.

Why does no one talk about Bobby Witt the same way they do about Abrams? Abrams has the better hit tool than Witt and projects to stay up the middle. Witt would be a project just like Hawkins, Abrams and other athletic prep players. There’s one difference that I can think of.

The Sox should hook him up with the guys from Driveline this offseason regardless of how the rest of his season plays out.

Yeah the Sox really need guys like that in the system. They’re devoid of athletes and up the middle players.

For what it’s worth, the Sox are currently slightly outperforming their Pythagorean Win-Loss project which has the Sox at 21-30 as of this post they are 23-28. The Pythagorean projection puts the Sox on pace for 66 wins and another top five draft pick.

For a guy who’s a been applauded for his ability to develop young players, I’m shocked at how bad the Sox are on defense. They ranked 28 in Ricky’s first year, 27th last year and they’re ranked 29th so far this season in terms of fielding percentage and errors. Would you say that the Sox are a better fundamental team since he took over? Do you see any improvement? What’s the last fundamentally sound White Sox team? 2012? I’m also not a fan of his lineup construction and he’s not a good in game strategist. Alonso and Castillo have no business batting cleanup. Tim Anderson needs to be batting higher up in the order, I’ve been a proponent of batting him lead off, he could bat fifth or sixth too. Yeah, Ill give Ricky some credit for Anderson’s success and Moncada’s emergence (fingers crossed) but I think the Sox should bring in a new manager and conduct a search for someone outside of the organization. Even if they do hire someone from the inside, they should interview as many people as possible to get a feel on how other organization’s do thing and apply what they learn to the org.

A big failure of this rebuild has the Sox inability to acquire veterans and flip them for meaningful prospects/assets. I know they’ve trade some relievers for some decent players but the players who came back to the Sox were marginal prospects.

He needs to learn how to spin the ball and how to induce more grounders

That was masterful. All the young guys showed up this series.

Really like Cashner for the Sox. Probably wouldn’t cost much prospects wise.

Big homestand coming up for the Sox. Hopefully they can go 4-2 before they play Houston and Minnesota

Yes, I think they’re doing better at the position player front then they have been previously. Not a high bar though.

I might get too inside baseball here but the cinematography and production design of the original Avengers film are horrendous. The movie cost over $200M and it looks a really bland tv show. An episode of Game of Thrones cost anywhere between $8M-$12M and looks way better. The DC/CW shows are way cheaper than that and look better considering their budget. The lighting in the film is very flat and unmotivated, every shot begins with a establishing long shot and is filled with medium shots for most of the movie. There’s no motivated camera work either in the film, the only interesting things that come to mind are the shot in NYC when the Avengers band together and when Banner picks up the scepter and the camera does that slow barrel roll. The colors in the film are also very dull, not quite as bad as Civil War but still bland. I know Whedon came from a TV background but it seems like he was so focused on getting the characters to work that he completely forgot about the visual language/storytelling of the film but the script and performances are so good that you’re able to forgive these huge flaws. Whedon was smart to ditch the DP of the original film and go in a different direction for Ultron, which looks like it actually cost its budget, has richer color, motivated lighting and better costumes, which is another problem I have with the original Avengers film. I know Ultron was shot on film, that helped tremendously. The best looking Marvel films are Guardians 1 & 2, Iron Man 1, Cap 1, Captain Marvel, and Black Panther (although the CGI was bad) Color grading is something I do a lot, it’s really fun but here’s a good video on the look of the MCU and it’s blandness.

If the Sox hit on Abrams, they could have a superstar on their hands. His ceiling as an up the middle player (SS/CF) is as high as anyone in the class. It all comes down to the Sox player development staff. While they certainly have taken a step back with pitchers, I would say they’re better with hitters than in years past but they also have been drafting better.

Does Moncada need to play every game? Not many days off for the regulars so far.

That’s true but an up the middle player, a catcher (maybe play some OF too) at that, a positive defender, who can switch hit, projects to be an 55+ hitter and have 55+ power is extremely valuable. I don’t think it’s crazy to project that Rutschman can hit around 20+ homers in a season regularly. A player like that is very valuable and rare.

It was cool to see Giolito overcome that shit lineup. I’m not going to hold a team’s win/loss record against a manager of a rebuilding club but if that manager is mismanaging his bullpen, deploying horrible lineups that don’t put this best players in good position to succeed or limit their PAs or is bad at the strategy aspect of the game, they shouldn’t be managing the team.