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Okay, but he also traded for Crochet & Fitts, as well as some far away pitching prospects.

That was nice. '96-'99: 30.2 Griffey Jr 26.1 ARod 22.8 Edgar The Big Sox trio (pick any 3) did not overlap perfectly: 27.6 Nomar '97-'00 21.1 ORTIZ '04-'07 20.8 Pedroia '08-'11 20.4 Youkilis '07-'10 19.9 Manny '01-'04 14.7 Ellsbury '10-'13 13.8 Nixon '00-'03 13.7 VTek '02-'05 (27.3 Betts '16-'19/ 17.6 Bogaerts '16-'19/ 12.6 JBJ '16-'19/ 11.8 JD '18'21)

He's real close to being MLB ready... LOL!

Trevah Novella is seeing some rising action in the plot curve. Maybe it's just taken some time to shake all those cobwebs off.

I like soxprospects.com, and I don't get to watch as many games as you do. I appreciate your insights. I'm really pumped up over our farm, and maybe because I'm channeling my disappointment with the Sox towards the one plus we have. I think we are deeper than many feel we are. They see 6 or 7 in the top 100 and thinks that's it. I know we lack bonafide pitching prospects, but many good ones never amount to squat, anyway, so I like the fact that we have 20-25 pitchers with some sort of promise or hope. I'm figuring 2-3 might work out real well and another 3-4 pretty good to okay. I'm supre high on the Garcia brothers and Cespedes, and now with Bleis mashing and Arias doing his thing, we have a nice second class coming in after soon graduating or past trading away Anthony, Mayer, Campbell, Teel and Montgomery. How many teams have a second everyday 5 like ours does? Arias, Jh Garcia, Bleis, Cespedes and Romero or Soto. Couple that with deep yet not spectacular pitching, and I think are well set up.

He'll be exactly MLB ready in 22.57 days. LOL!

Can you believe a manager would move a guy with 50 RBis out of the 2 slot?

Trevor Novella thickening the plot.

Yes, #10 for Roman. Noda is looking good, too, but Romy and Toro are noy playing themselves out of their ML slots. Jh Garcia goes 0-5 and is still over 1.000. Jordan with 2 more hits. Fitts struggling. You gotta wonder, if he may not get another ML look, this year. Yuten 3 for 4 w Salem,

Romy for Mayor!

This was probably the rotation depth chart before the Priester trade: 1. Crochet 2. Houck- sucked and now on IL 3. Buehler- pretty much sucked 4. Bello- done OK (missed 3 starts) 5/6. Crawford- out all year 5/6. Giolito- sucked/ missed 5 starts 7A. Sandoval- expected to be out until August (doesn't really count) 7B. Fitts- has 5 starts (not so good) 8. Priester- traded away 9. Criswell- used in pen, instead (is that on Cora or Brez?) 10. Dobbins- has 7 starts 11/12. Newcomb- has 5 GS (might have been below #11) 11/12. Whitlock or Wink

There is still a lot to be proven with Bloom's prospects. I remember Ben's prospects looked a lot better than they proved to be, in a general sense. That being said, year by year... 2020's w abbreviated draft: Rule 5: Whitlock Yorke>Priester> Y Rod & Holobetz Jordan starting to come to life Drohan making a second move up. 2021: Mayer Elmer Rodriguez> Narvaez Dobbins, Guerrero, Z Ehrhard, Hickey, Ubertsine Winckowski (Beni Trade) DHam (Renfroe trade) Paez & Liendo IFA 2022: Anthony Romero Bleis IFA Jo Garcia, Encarnacion, Yuten IFA Meidroth> part of Crochet deal Abreu (Vaz trade) Coffey> Danny Jansen Rogers, Dean, Brannon, Mullins, Hoppe 2023: Campbell Teel> Major piece of Crochet deal Arias IFA Cespedes, Valera, Nunez, K Salazar IFA Early Taylor A Anderson, Wehunt, Carlson, Ingrassia, Riemer, Zanetello

You keep glossing over the word "maybe." As a SP'er in '25- both with 7 GS: Priester: 2.83 & .695 OPS Against Dobbins: 4.21 & .765 OPSA I think "Maybe" is legit.

Facing the lefty: L Duran L Devers R Refsnyder R Narvaez R Romy 1B S Toro 3B R Story R Rafaela R Campbell 2B

It does seem weird that they include the "O" of of, but not the "T" for the.

Priester has 7 starts and a 3.88 ERA and 1.311 WHIP, and has looked better than Fitts and maybe Dobbins. It's weird how Brez traded to get him, then traded him away for an OF prospect- like we need more of those. We don't know his reasoning, but overall his winter moves: Plus: Bregman (until the injury) Narvaez- wow! Chapman- wow! Wilson- wow! Meh/TBD: Y Rodriquez and P for Priester Sandoval You have a new notification Hitch quoted you in a topic: Article: Kristian Campbell Could Use Some Time In Worcester Bad (so far) Buehler Hendriks ('24 signing) All-in-all, this looks good. Kinda reminds me how Bloom did better with Wacha, Strahm & Hill in '22 than his '21 signings, but we saw how those two seasons worked out.

Too funny.

I thought Brez did a nice job over the winter, and the beefed up rotation depth has helped. His biggest weak area for the winter looked like the pen, and it's done better than expected. The Bregman signing looked great, but I guess Brez should not have body-slammed him onto the IL. The Narvaez trade was awesome, and the Abreu non trade looks okay. Lack of 1B depth and the Campbell experiment look pretty bad, but I'm pretty sure Cora was okay with Campbell, although he did want Bregman at 2B, early on. Brez did not tie Cora's hands on Devers playing 1B. That being said, Buehler has been bad, and the results are horrible. I find it hard to bash the GM, when I liked his winter moves.

Some opinions on our everyday player prospects: Campbell (22) is now a recent grad and was highly ranked, nationally. Anthony (21) is #1 nationally and Mayer (22) is highly rated, as well and in MLB, now. I think enough has been said about all three, that nothing can be added, The next tier deserves to be a seperate tier, but some could soon be joining the top 20-50 rankings, nationally: #3 Arias (19) A for real defensive SS who is showing he cana hit, too. #7 Jh Garcia (22) LF/ 1B? He's been high on my rankings list for a while. #13 Bleis (21) OF Was talked up as a 5 tool player, years ago. Heating up, now. That's a very nice top 6, when you combine the tier 1 and tier 2's. The next 6: #14 Cespedes (19) DH/ ?? I've always been high on this kid's bat. #9 Romero (21) 2B/3B/SS Was ranked 7th '22-'23- back from injury. #17 D Soto (17) SS Given a $1.4M bonus as an IFA in '25. #19 N Taylor (22) OF 11th rounder '23 with an overslot $300K bonus. #28 Zach Ehrhard (22) OF- 4th rounder in '24 and looking good. #44 Yophery Rodriguez (19) OF could have been in the next tier, but I think this guy has high hopes. Acquired in Priester deal. The next tier are the younger ones. I almost included Soto, but he belongs in Tier 2, IMO. #20 Enddy Azocar (18) Catcher- was ranked 51st to start '25. #21 Conrad Cason (18) SS/P- probably stick with pitching. #20 Jo. Garcia (20) Catcher who has missed time with injury. #32 Harold Rivas (17) OF is an IFA signing ('25). #33 Hector Ramos (17) SS is a 2025 IFA signing #45 Antonio Anderson (19) 1B/3B The next 6: #46 Starlyn Nunez (19) IF #49 Freili Encarnacion (20) 1B/3B #53 Justin Riemer (23) IF #56 Kleyver Salazar (19) C #57 Avinson Pinto (18) SS #60 Anderson Fermin (18) OF The next tier are players I have serious doubts on: #23 Blaze Jordan (22) DH/1B- heating up, but for real? #27 Allan Castro (22) Not in my top 50. #42 Brooks Brannon (21) Catcher- had early higher hopes. #55 Nazzan Zanetello (20) ??? 2B/SS Talk about high K rate. 28 names listed here. Pretty solid 18-24 prospects.

I figured you see it that way. So much less dramatic than "Clean house of all of them."

I figured you'd see it that way.

So would not calling out someone's spelling ability.

Equating someone's spelling ability to baseball knowledge is worse than childish.

A loss would be a huge gut punch, with Crochet being our best hope. Yes, no game in June, July and usually August is "do or die."