sk7326
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Everything posted by sk7326
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Trevor Story's 3 for 6 somehow got him UP to .190. Trevor Story somehow is above replacement level despite this. It's a tough combo to pull off.
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I meant "the analysts" as far as the "you". The team has done a lot to rebuild the lower levels with interesting pitching. But right now only Bello looks like a Top 2 starter (and he has graduated). Pitching will always have much wider error bars than position players.
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Probably. There is just not much standing in the way of him positionally ... and of course the offensive threshhold is much lower.
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Rankings are not gospel. that said - for the most part - the differences in assessment of the Red Sox system comes down to: 95% - what do you think of the Red Sox org pitching 5% - how do you rank Bleis
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very very small sample - but Teel raking in Greenville. That he raked on the complex and in Greenville is something we should expect from an accomplished collegian - he probably faced better competition in the ACC. He'd probably be no worse than 2nd in the position players in terms of "first to Boston" - excluding September callups.
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Rafael's bat is raw ... but the ability for a teeny tiny dude to drive a ball up in the strike zone is very evocative of a certain former second baseman
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How the team handled Houck under Dombrowski clearly did not work. That said, I think the scouting report they had for Houck has turned out to be mostly right.
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solid top 5, though I'd probably move Bleis down to 5 due to the shoulder.
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Rafaela at Worcester ... 2 BBs over first 92 ABs ... 5 walks in 22 ABs since ... is we learning??!!
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Are we sure about that? I saw a bunch of "Sox should go for it", particularly from the Joe Sheehan sorts nationally. Heck, once I saw the price for Scherzer - I thought the team absolutely should have made a push. I don't think the team is long term in a position to be stupid about the prospects to move. But if you knew Nick Yorke and another like-level prospect could get you a decent starter, I'd have gone for it.
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Jansen has been fine ... but nothing special. I think you count on recycling that.
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Yeah. The funny thing is I probably would have sold Jansen as well as the OFs in question.
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Once you see an 83-78 team win the World Series - you just have to throw your hands up in the air. But that's what makes it all fun too.
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Really the big whiff was the SS thing. And from Cora's perspective - the big problem ultimately became the bat with Kike. The defense was poor - but you could almost live with that - the team knew it was bad defensively. But his dropoff offensively made sustaining the rest of it impossible. Overall, the OF has been a plus considering the resources put into it. Yoshida has been a very pleasant surprise ... the ability for hitters to carry power from NPB to MLB was spotty so I understood the hesitation .. but he has delivered hard contact.
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I think the number of pure sellers is very low. But Seattle just traded its closer today and they are in the same WC position as Boston. So how the mushy middle behaves is still up in the air.
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I presume he and the club discussed the situation during the negotiations.
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I don't disagree. But Chang could have made that decision a bit easier.
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I am concerned certainly, particularly with age. But Story was on pace for a 4 win season last year. Crawford was one of the worst regulars in the league in 2011. It's not the same thing.
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One thing to remember is that the 2020 draft was the pandemic draft. It was only 5 rounds, and we were dealing with most of the high school seasons and spring showcases being severely effected or scuttled altogether. Lots of the top high school talent went to college (see the strength of this year's draft crop per evaluators). Even in normal years, picks will appear by the end of Round 1 who do not appear in public-facing Top 100 lists. Teams have way more scouts working than The Athletic or MLB.com. In 2020/21, the public had even less information than normal. Yorke was an out there pick on paper - but in a year like 2020, there was far more limited information for the public to say whether a pick "made sense" in general.
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The fun thing with Story is that is has largely been injuries. Last year was a disappointment to a degree - but there were enough flashes of the player the Sox thought they were getting to feel okay.
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it is a good run - but 2 walks in 97 PAs is not great
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With Rafaela, if anybody is waiting for him to develop Triston Casas' batting eye, prepare to be disappointed. But he does generate pretty good power for how tiny he is - and so far (
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Oh I don't want to "dump" Yorke. But where the Red Sox want to be as a franchise is to identify the prospects who are desirable but tradeable. I know it's annoying - but let's use the Dodgers example. The Dodgers were able to trade Alex Verdugo - a perfectly good starting outfielder prospect, to the Red Sox without thinking about it. Yes, they got a superstar in return ... but that is kind of the point. You'd like to be in a position to have good players to deal while keeping your true star ceiling clean as much as possible. On the Sox farm, I think you identify Mayer (struggling at AA, but also one of the youngest regulars in that league), Anthony (with the leaps he has made and his tools) and Bleis (the tools again) as the sort of star ceiling you want to hang on to. I could be wrong of course - but we are dealing in probabilities here. Ultimately I don't want to deal any of these guys unless a good player with substantial team control is coming here.
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This is a pretty good deal.
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To me Mayer is the only can't touch. Bleis, Anthony and the others are excellent - but Mayer being at AA just speaks to him having more big league probability. But this is all "it has to be the right deal", which means very good players with some substantial team control.