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6 minutes ago, YourWhatHurts said:

Danny Mendick is a better baseball player than Nick Madrigal is.  Once you're in the Majors, draft position doesn't matter anymore.

That’s why he’s never made a major league roster as a starter? He’s really not. Madrigal played less 60  games and sure as hell has a higher ceiling than mendick. Real meatball takes on madrigal this season. 

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1 minute ago, Moncada said:

Let me know when mendick hits .340 for a season.   

Lots of players hit .340 for 34 games. Stop acting like it's some kind of accomplishment. It was a hot streak, nothing more. 

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16 minutes ago, Greydawgfan1 said:

That’s why he’s never made a major league roster as a starter? He’s really not. Madrigal played less 60  games and sure as hell has a higher ceiling than mendick. Real meatball takes on madrigal this season. 

The reason Madrigal is just handed the starting 2B instead of having to "battle" Danny Mendick for it in ST, is the same reason Yermin sat in AAA while the Sox ran AJ Reed out there, and also the same reason the Sox ran Nomore Mazzara out there over Adam Engel: draft position-based "pedigree."

IMO, Danny Mendick is a more versatile defender with a better arm who is overall a smarter player, with substantially more power than Madrigal.  Madrigal has contact on him, that's really it.  If you just looked at both of these players for the first time knowing nothing about either of them beforehand, you would be shocked to learn both of these two things: 1) one of these players was drafted 652nd overall; and 2) one of these players was drafted 4th overall.

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1 minute ago, YourWhatHurts said:

The reason Madrigal is just handed the starting 2B instead of having to "battle" Danny Mendick for it in ST, is the same reason Yermin sat in AAA while the Sox ran AJ Reed out there, and also the same reason the Sox ran Nomore Mazzara out there over Adam Engel: draft position-based "pedigree."

IMO, Danny Mendick is a more versatile defender with a better arm who is overall a smarter player, with substantially more power than Madrigal.  Madrigal has contact on him, that's really it.  If you just looked at both of these players for the first time knowing nothing about either of them beforehand, you would be shocked to learn both of these two things: 1) one of these players was drafted 652nd overall; and 2) one of these players was drafted 4th overall.

I’m glad that you know more than people who actually work in baseball.

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1 minute ago, Greydawgfan1 said:

I’m glad that you know more than people who actually work in baseball.

Baseball people make mistakes constantly. And not all "baseball people" love Madrigal, he has plenty of detractors in the scouting community. Not everyone is enamored with a player who's only real plus tool is single hitting.

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6 minutes ago, Kalapse said:

Baseball people make mistakes constantly. And not all "baseball people" love Madrigal, he has plenty of detractors in the scouting community. Not everyone is enamored with a player who's only real plus tool is single hitting.

Not everyone is negative all the time about everything, every player and the world.

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20 minutes ago, Greydawgfan1 said:

Not everyone is negative all the time about everything, every player and the world.

The Sox have earned the skepticism from their fanbase. 

Trust in the front office and scouting is earned. They have not earned our trust. 

Blind optimism is just as annoying, if not more so, as eternal pessimism. 

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3 minutes ago, Jack Parkman said:

The Sox have earned the skepticism from their fanbase. 

Trust in the front office and scouting is earned. They have not earned our trust. 

Blind optimism is just as annoying, if not more so, than eternal pessimism. 

100% truth. 

 

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