What would you have rather seen from this draft?

[CeaseAndExist]

20 hours ago, Vulture said:

Talk about exploiting a situation to abuse the worker. Owners ought to be ashamed of themselves. Manfred has got to go, this guy is ruining baseball.

To be fair, the MLBPA signed off on that arrangement. As bad as Manfred is the Union has always been awful with how they've used the minors/amateur players as bargaining chips

[NCsoxfan]

what’s the reason we couldn’t have picked high upside guys in rounds 3-5 and offered them what we had left? If they turned it down no big loss over the guys we already picked.

[Chicago White Sox]

39 minutes ago, NCsoxfan said:

what’s the reason we couldn’t have picked high upside guys in rounds 3-5 and offered them what we had left? If they turned it down no big loss over the guys we already picked.

We would have lost all the slot money attached to them and would not been able to sign Kelley as a result.

[TomPickle]

41 minutes ago, NCsoxfan said:

what’s the reason we couldn’t have picked high upside guys in rounds 3-5 and offered them what we had left? If they turned it down no big loss over the guys we already picked.

If they turn it down you lose the full slot value and can't sign anyone to overslot deals.

I don't like the Crochet pick at all, but I like the idea of going after two top guys. I think they chickened out taking Crochet since he should at least be a reliever if he doesn't blow out his arm.

[NCsoxfan]

7 minutes ago, Chicago White Sox said:

We would have lost all the slot money attached to them and would not been able to sign Kelley as a result.

Ahhhh. Got it. So they allow you to do this loophole.

[hi8is]

Baseball being played.

[chitownsportsfan]

They grabbed two guys that are top 20 talents on paper at the weakest area of the club (pitching).  I don't really care how much they had to skimp after those guys to get it done.  They got aggressive and nailed it.

[Squirmin' for Yermin]

32 minutes ago, chitownsportsfan said:

They grabbed two guys that are top 20 talents on paper at the weakest area of the club (pitching).  I don't really care how much they had to skimp after those guys to get it done.  They got aggressive and nailed it.

Agreed.  Anyone not loving this draft is insane.  And I don't even love Crochet..

Edited June 15, 2020 by Squirmin' for Yermin