moonslav59
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Yes, and Wong, Whitlock and Houck not long ago.
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Id pass on that one
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We also graduated Bello and Casas, recently, although many other top ranked teams have graduated as much or more than us.
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Nope
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That’s the MLB success rate on FA’s. Giving the Sox a 50% ranking, which is normal, is out of character, for you.
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Watching the draft, the minors and the mid season trades we make may be the high points of this season, but I do think there are plenty of sub plots to generate enough interest in the big club games: Bello Casas Grissom Devers Story Yoshida Duran, Rafaela and Abreu Wong, McGuire and maybe Teel Crawford & Wink Houck & Whitlock Jansen & Martin Campbell, Slaten and other RPers We can still see some fun, this year, but the wins may be too few and far between for most fans to enjoy much of anything.
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I think Bleacher report had us average, too, but most had us way higher. I think fangraphs had us 2nd. I e never valued the MLB Pipeline all that much, but I’m no expert on which rankings are most accurate. I think like Bell on this. The average ranking seems to be the way to see it, and I believe that would be around 7-10.
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The average ranking seems to be top 10.
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Like I said, one ranking system has us14th, which I agree is “average.” Why do you cling to that one as being the only correct one? Most have us top 10. Do you agree top 10 is not average? Well, that’s why. I’d guess the average ranking is around7-9. Law had us 8th, and he is notorious for dinging the Sox. He even hinted that he thought we were better than 8th but he dropped us due to imbalance. I don’t think our farm is average, and I have more supporting evidence than any who say it is. Explain why you think this one ranking is king.
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We also added a couple RPers that look promising: Campbell and Slater, but Breslow’s first IFA round showed no increase in pitchers of bonuses for pitchers.
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Yes, it’s a great read and one of the most in-depth articles I’ve ever seen on do’s. The IFA route has not been much better. I will say, as bad as we have done with pitching since maybe Lester, we have had a few more decent pitchers come up in the last 2-4 years than we had in the previous 4-6 years. Bello Houck Crawford Rule 5 Whitlock Trade Winckowski We are missing an ace. I’m not trying to gloss over what has been going on. The current farm looks horrible on future SPers, but we did see a little window of near decency.
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E Valdez with a tater in the DR. Could this guy be a big surprise bat for the Sox in ‘24?
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From this one study, yes, but my hunch is this goes back much longer. Drafting pitchers highly just has not been our thing for at least a couple decades, IMO.
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It mentions pitchers from as far back as 2012, but the draft bonus study part was 2018-2023.
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Okay. Some do rank us that highly, but I’d say most of us think we are top 10 or 12.
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I thought it was from 2018-2023
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The study did include some DD years
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I would think most teams draft the best player, regardless of position.
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It was just about drafting. Go to soxprospects.com and click on news. It’s a great article.
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We’ve done horribly when we do pick pitchers highly. That does not mean we should give up, but until we have fixed the poor way we identify good pitching prospects, I do r think k picking more will work.
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I’m all for changing the set up we’ve had, but until we are confident we’ve reached the point we should be at, I’m not forpicking pitchers just for the sake of their position. Even if you did the impossible and invented a sure fire way to identify Good SPers to draft, there might still be position players worth more on the draft board.
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Our problem has been that we are terrible at drafting good pitchers, so the solution must be to draft more bad pitchers and hope we get one right. Is that the best plan?
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The thing is, a last place finish in the ALE can be mediocrity, and our farm has consistently been ranked top 10, which most feel is above mediocrity, for what that is worth. Certainly nothing to celebrate.
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Your opinion is well known, lol. Would our farm be higher ranked if we had drafted 10 Trey Balls?
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I keep the sound off for almost the whole game.
