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One site's best picks: 2024 MLB Draft mock WWW.MLB.COM Sure, the dust has barely settled from the 2023 Draft, but there’s no rest for the weary. It’s time to start digging into the Class of 2024. If the scouting industry can do it, so can we! After all, many of these players are already out and being seen by One site has this for best college players: https://razzball.com/way-too-early-top-25-college-prospects-for-the-2024-mlb-draft/ 1. Jac Caglianone | 1B/LHP | Florida 2. Brody Brecht | RHP | Iowa 3. JJ Weatherholt | INF | West Virginia 4. Chase Burns | RHP | Tennessee 5. Charlie Condon | 1B/OF | Georgia 6. Vance Honeycutt | OF | North Carolina 7. Nick Kurtz | 1B | Wake Forest 8. Tommy White | 1B/3B | LSU 9. Travis Bazzana | 2B | Oregon State 10. Hagen Smith | LHP | Arkansas 11. Braden Montgomery | OF/RHP | Stanford 12. Carter Holton | LHP | Vanderbilt 13. Michael Massey | RHP | Wake Forest 14. Drew Beam | RHP | Tennessee

Our school mantra is, "We own what we do, and grit gets us through."

BINGO! These guys all know their weaknesses. They have been worked with for years to try and fix their weak areas. There is not much a manager can do in a few short months. Is there an expert manager or coach that gets all his players to improve focus and attention for every (needed) minute of every game? I will guess that some might do better than others, but these players need to start taking responsibility for their short-comings. I'm in the education business, and the shirking of responsibility and blaming everyone and everything but themselves is a major problem with recent generations. Where do you think they get this from? This board, obviously! (LOL)

Funny how you see this as me starting the name-calling, and you so gracefully and vallantly not escalating it. I guess calling us "old farts" is better than me calling you "pompous."

It's hard to know, for sure, his bat cannot improve enough to be a DH. He put up some pretty good numbers on the farm. Of course, not all farm numbers transfer over to the bigs, but he does have some good batting skills. In 2022, only 2 players, in all of minor league baseball , had more PAs and an OPS higher than his .918 OPS. (Both were at lower levels.) Soxprospects.com, basically says he's an "up and down," platoon utility guy. Not a resounding endorsement, but his bat could improve. I do think an EValdez/Refsnyder platoon would yield an .800+ OPS, but we can't afford to use 2 of the 26 roster slots on DHs, when we already have Yoshi. Refsnyder is marginally better in LF as a back-up than Yoshi, and EValdez could be an emergency 2Bman, but their "depth added" would be limited. This just doesn't look right: DH: Yoshi LF: Duran v RHPs/ Ref v LHP 2B: EValdez v RHPs/ Reyes v LHPs The D at 2B would be awful.

It seemed like some turned on him after that, maybe not so much because of it. That was "that other site," so maybe it was different, here.

You are a fine comedian, I will say.

Wake took a lot of grief over the last few year and for allowing that home run, but he was a great competitor and got the job done, more often than not. 140+ IP for 14 straight seasons and 16 out of 17 (130 the other year.)

I'm far from sure, too, but his D is so bad, his best slot might be DH. That was my point. It is rare for a team to platoon DH, unless bot can play other positions, as back-up well enough to not be a drain of 2 roster slots. That being said, an EValdez/Refsnyder platoon rates to hit better than Yoshi, IMO.

He's not great anymore, but he should not have been paying CF.

...anyway, I think there is a bigger chance Cora gets promoted than fired.

Not blaming Randy for anything, but I haven't said anything insulting in a while.

There are worse curses than this. One starts with an "M" for me, me, me and ends with a "P" for pompous.

True. Many did say Abreu was the better of the two we got for Vaz. I'm still short of saying "I'm impressed." Happy? Yes. Hopeful? Hell YES!

So, why stir it back up to the top?

Yoshida did have a pretty long stretch, where people were thinking, Hmmm, maybe he was a good signing, then... POOF! Maybe, he can get that back and keep it going for a full season, while relaxing on the bench as a DH.

What I have said is not an insult.

They all look promising, but I'm not sure I'd say "impressed." The sample sizes are way too small.

They are better at DH than at a position. I count 5. Yoshida Casas Devers Refsnyder platoon (top 30 batter vs LHPs over last 2 yrs) Duran, maybe I did not say they would be great DHs.

Further proof. Again, thanks for finally giving up hiding.

Maybe Bloom was just a Rays plant, all along!

I hope you are wrong, but nothing seems encouraging about his first season in MLB.

Thanks for continuing to show your true colors. No more hiding it. At least I was right about you.

That is a crazy start to the season. If we can somehow go 5-5, we’ll know there will be no summer trip to those parks left on the schedule.

He did not deserve the treatment he got when leaving the Sox. Enjoy your retirement, Tito!