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  1. sk7326
    Kiley McDaniel at ESPN: https://www.espn.com/mlb/insider/story/_/id/34276506/did-your-team-ace-2022-mlb-draft-kiley-mcdaniel-recap-all-30-teams#bos
  2. sk7326
    Either Romero or Anthony will crack the list ... usually you expect a team's first rounder to crack the org top 10. And one of Lugo or Groome could crack the back end of the Top 10. Solid results at premium positions.
  3. sk7326
    Oh all the public prospect guys would tell you that ... every year some team drafts a guy in the top 30 who does not appear on one of the big public scouts (Law, McDaniel, Logenhagen, Sickels) boards. The public facing guys do the best they can, but they are just not going to have the information and coverage clubs have (particularly medical information which is such a big part of the operation). There are just so many baseball players out there.
  4. sk7326
    The thing with Dombrowski is that was not incompetent at drafting or anything - the man has been in baseball a billion years, he knows HOW to build a farm system. But the teams that hire him want him to turbocharge the major league club. Dombrowski's biggest strength is being able to look at the prospects, identify the "keep vs deal" and largely be right. What has happened with Bloom though is that the team has the most pitching in the system it has had in years. You wish there was a guy with more than #3 starter upside - but with how baseball pitching staffs are trending, that might not matter all that much.
  5. sk7326
    He worked for the Blue Jays and lived in Boston and has largely the Sox FO and business practices. The one thing about prospect guys is that you don't know exactly what they mark for. If one site gives prospects more credit for floor vs ceiling then you are going to have different evals. Mayer is an easy choice for the org's #1 player tho.
  6. sk7326
    Given what the Dodgers have been able to produce, I look at that very skeptically. One of the interesting things Law noted was that the Red Sox organizationally think they can teach the hitters to drive the ball more and get into their power - and thus seem okay drafting more of these high contact middle infielders who have not shown power at the amateur level.
  7. sk7326
    Law's writeup in the Athletic - he doesn't do grades https://theathletic.com/3433211/2022/07/20/mlb-draft-report-cards-american-league/
  8. sk7326
    Yeah - I'm curious. Now, they gave a big deal to Anthony ... so that seems to lead to them not forfeiting any pool money. But we'll see.
  9. sk7326
    or pitching
  10. sk7326
    Roman Anthony signs for $2.5M, well above slot. Expect a bunch of cheap seniors rounds 3-10.
  11. sk7326
    This year is a very poor year for college pitching ... and prep arms have such high attrition rates that the team might wait on diving in there
  12. sk7326
    And famous from sad news of recent years ...
  13. sk7326
    Mikey Romero ESPN's #56 ... Kiley McDaniel Athletic #40 ... Keith Law Fun fact: Roman Anthony went to Stoneman Douglas HS in Florida ... wow
  14. sk7326
    one country can implement banal public health standards and the other won't. Seeing the team have this many cranks is kind of gross.
  15. sk7326
    2 months + the playoffs of him!
  16. sk7326
    I think it's possible - but you don't waive NTCs for nothing, and no reason for Bogaerts to be the first. It's going to be to go somewhere he wants to be - or it's going to require giving Bogaerts more money. Either way, the Red Sox are on a 90-win pace and in a position to make the tournament and nobody is/should be dealing Bogaerts under those circumstances.
  17. sk7326
    People don't hire Boras because they dislike his advice.
  18. sk7326
    Yes ... a no-trade clause is really a "don't trade me without paying for it"
  19. sk7326
    If pitching staffs are going to allow for anti-public health cranks, it seems inevitable.
  20. sk7326
    That said, one of the effects could also be the evolution of more people like Whitlock - who could be true 100 inning relievers, which itself is kind of old school.
  21. sk7326
    What has been interesting in the negotiations is that we see reports of MLB coming down off of its maximum asks ... but we don't see MLB making deals that are responsive in any way to player interests. (the two big ones, more money for younger players and incentivizing/forcing competitive behavior by teams.
  22. sk7326
    The frustrating thing about the spin of some of the reporting is that we get stories about "MLB is proposing ______" or "The union is discussing ____________" ... and reporting it in a way that the issue is actually settled or it is the one thing separating us from a deal. A good though exercise is - suppose there was a report "The Red Sox have added Kike Hernandez into negotiations with the Angels". This is all fun to know - but it's leaving out a LOT of details about the negotiation. After all, if the Angels offer Mike Trout that means one thing, and if the Angels offer a trout named Mike, it means something else entirely. If it turned out the Angels offered the latter, reporting that "The Red Sox offered Kike to the Angels but then went back on it" is pretty dishonest spin.
  23. sk7326
    The Seadogs make below minimum wage
  24. sk7326
    Your points are fair ... but for that reason the NFLPA has always chosen "more money now" when there have been negotiations (including the most recent round). They have not serious contested the guaranteed contract thing - and to be fair, the use of signing bonuses in the NFL creates some level of guarantee anyway.
  25. sk7326
    I don't think they care about the fan per se ... but I know they love baseball at least as much as I do - indeed more.
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