moonslav59

Great one! Neigh!

67th Pick Owen Hull OF from NC (LHB) Ranked 59th by BA.

It's almost...ALMOST...like we are becoming a HR team!

Monasterio for Mayor!

44 pitches...I'm leaning no.

We might have 5 walks if we didn't swing at bad pitches.

Just a few more picks away!

It seems that way. I do wonder if their budget was just $30-50M more, would they have a ring? That Nick Martinez signing was nice.

My second hope beyond a bat draftee is that he's a college player.

That's less than our top 5 salary players.

A walk is about the best we can expect from Narvaez. Wong should start 4 of 5 games.

Looks like Tracy was right in valuing Monasterio (6 slot) over Duran (7 slot,) but maybe Duran needs to bat 9th or ride the bench.

The first round and Comp A picks are in (picks 1-40.) The Sox next pick at #67 (Comp B pick) and #96. That's it for today, as we lost our #2 round and #4 round picks by signing QO pitcher Raner Suarez.

I meant Teel helped us get Crochet and we drafted Early in 2023, so the draft was very helpful. Sorry for wording that wrongly.

Maybe some falls into our laps at overslot money. That seems to be our M.O.

He's killed us in every slot. fangraph's projected aOPS (400+ PAs) .803 Anthony .788 Abreu .785 Contreras .762 Duran .746 Durbin (not even close to #4.) .725 Rafaela (not close) .713 Story (not close) When I said "we" I was speaking to the general feeling, and I'm not nor ever have been "big on" Duran. His speed made him a top 3-4 offensive player. He's 50 points below his projected OBP, and it made sense to see how he did batting first, once Anthony was no longer available. I do blame Cora for sticking with him for so long, but not for trying him there. Look, I wanted to trade him. I just don't see everything as black & white. The argument that we shouldn't trade one of our projected top offensive players made some sense... just as it made some sense at the time to trade away a pitcher like Sale who was hurt all the time. I suggested we trade Duran for Paredes, Janek and a RP'er, and many here felt that was an overpay. From what I hear, HOU didn't even want Duran one for one, so I'm really not sure what was offered for him last DEC-JAN. I wish we'd have traded him after 2024, but hell, I was for trading him before 2024, so I'm no fortune teller either.

You may be right, and it wouldn't be the first time a pitcher with nasty stuff had issues and was bounced from MLB. He does have nasty stuff though, but so did DHern.

Yes, I should have gone farther back, but I was trying to stick to the Brez era.

22K and 4 BB in 18.2 IP at WOO shows he may be improving in that area. BB% in MLB the last 3 seasons: 9.1% in 2024 8.4% in 2025 8.5% in 2026

It could be we are looking to draft an overslot bonus guy later. In 2024, we paid higher bonuses to Conrad Cason and slightly more for Tolle. In 2025, we paid double slot money for Eyanson & Barrett Morgan. I'm not sure this is a good plan or idea. I was hoping we drafted Ace Reese or Bo Lowrance- both 3Bmen. (LHBs too)

I actually feel worse about making that trade as I felt last winter. He seems to be declining, and the AAV is recalculated after a trade, so his budget hit is worse than I thought. In hindsight, trading for BLowe was the best move. Trading for Paredes would have been cheaper ($ and return players) and better than KMarte.

Jake Schaffner SS from NC (LHB)

Yes, and exactly 15th since 2021. Under Brez, it's 13th- just 2 wins from 12th, 3 from 11th and 5 from 10th (top tier) Hell, if we play like this for the rest of 2026, we may be ranked 8th from 2024-2026. (We are 8 GB SEA- the team in 8th place.)

Our farm has not been worst. Some of our last few picks have been... 2023: Teel got us Crochet & Early. Don't write off KC yet, either. 2024: Montgomery got us Crochet & Tolle has been solid. Clarke and Aita helped us get Gray & Contreras. Futrell, Hudson White and others look real good. 2025: Eyanson, Godbout, Witherspoon, Brown and others look very promising. We didn't trade our #2 and #5 round picks: we lost them by signing Suarez. We added a Comp pick that is not too far from where that #2 pick would have been. I'm excited about this draft.

The fact that we don't have the depth to replace Duran and improve doesn't take him off the hook. His bat has killed us, this year- not single-handedly, but more than anyone else, because he's 3rd in PAs and was so bad in the one slot for way too long. (That's more on Cora than him, but it is what it is: a .269 OBP in the one slot.) Abreu and Contreras might have 10-15 mor RBIs, had he just declined to a .325 OBP from .345>.335 the years before.