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  1. notin
    Agreed. A while back it was postulated out here that the Trey Ball pick set the Sox franchise back years. (The entire 2013 draft turned out to be a waste of signing bonuses for the Sox.) We’ve seen the Astros flub back to back #1 picks (Appel/Aiken) and not get derailed. Not to mention forecasting the future of an 18yo through age 30+ all while hoping he doesn’t have too many surgeries is a little bit of a challenging prediction…
  2. notin
    Exactly. He’s the BUC. He seems to get a bit too much ire for a guy in that role…
  3. notin
    So his whole career gets summed up by one season in which he played less than 50% of the time?
  4. notin
    It’s not like every draft has a future Hall of Famer in it. And you’re talking about only one draft slot per draft, which isn’t the only position eligible for the Hall of Fame. What about later picks? Paul Molitor was selected two picks after Baines. ( While Ozzie Smith and Tim Raines lingered for several rounds.) Obviously both Baines and Molitor couldn’t go number one overall. Also what you left out is that up until the last decade or so, players often fell from the #1 overall slot due to signability concerns. It’s impossible to identify how many players this impacted, but certainly many players those scouts identified dropped to later in the draft for this reason…
  5. notin
    Three Hall of Famers (and counting) in 58 years seems like the proper amount…
  6. notin
    To you too…
  7. notin
    I wouldn’t mind bringing Vaz back. He’s a good catcher with up-and-down offense. But Vaz/Wong is likely an upgrade over Wong/McGuire. But it comes down to money. Vaz has an AAV in the neighborhood of $10mil. Can the Sox fit that into their budget?
  8. notin
    You just have to acquire him first. The days of teams granting a 72 hour window for an extension as a condition of the trade are long gone…
  9. notin
    Everyone is better as a RP than a starter. As the starter void is harder to fill, it makes sense to keep Crawford there. The Sox are extremely unlikely to sign 3 SPs who are better, and possibly won’t even add two. If there is already talk of using Houck as a starter, there is zero chance the Sox are pushing Crawford back into the bullpen …
  10. notin
    Luis Urias isn’t a fringe player, at definitely not in the same class as anyone you or I mentioned. He was a 3 bWAR starter on multiple playoff teams. He was dealt to save the arb cost on a player whose best position is 3b. What we got back was a player we hope isn’t a fringe player. The Sox have a lot of deadweight, but they need players with options on the 40 man roster. Some of those guys will possibly get moved, but I don’t anticipate much coming back. But the 4 I mentioned should have been DFAd already. They serve no real purpose and no one will give you anything for them except another player likely equally worthy of being DFAd. Not everyone is tradable and certainly not in trades that are worthwhile…
  11. notin
    If the White Sox would do that Rafaela/Bleis trade, I’d add Cease to the staff today…
  12. notin
    No one likes any fringe player on our roster, let alone multiple of them. Every team has a Zack Weiss and a Joe Jacques already. And they all passed on Mauricio Llovera when the Giants DFAd him. And every GM has turned down the opportunity to trade for Dalbec. Those days are all passed. Release these players. Set them free to pursue contractual deals in Asian leagues! Let Dalbec be the Ham Fighter we all know he can be!
  13. notin
    But you think Crawford is a relief pitcher…
  14. notin
    It’s kind of silly, especially since the goal is to upgrade the rotation and it’s not like you’re only allowed one of each. The more annoying comments are always “but X is a #4 and we don’t need one of those”. Well, we do if we have three #5’s. If the #4 is an upgrade and the best you can afford, or doesn’t prevent getting better players, why not do it? Because you were held back by some arbitrary ranking systems with absolutely no definition of difference between classes?
  15. notin
    But this has nothing to do with whether or not you categorize a pitcher as a #1,#2,etc. Not like a team fills its rotation with one pitcher from each ranking. They get the best pitchers they can regardless of the whole #1/#2/ace system and then they pitch from best to worst…
  16. notin
    It’s just easier sometimes. Fangraphs isn’t always phone friendly. I wish I had better logic for my preference than that…
  17. notin
    Blake Snell (6.0 bWAR) should top any such list. Gray (5.3 bWAR), Montgomery (4.2 bWAR), Clevinger (3.3 bWAR) come in next…
  18. notin
    Agreed. In fact I can go a step further and say people make way too big a deal out of these rankings. It’s not like when the Braves were trotting out Maddux-Glavine-Smoltz, anyone ever referred to Smoltz as a #3 starter. I’m not overly high on Montgomery, but one thing no one can argue is that he is an upgrade for this current rotation…
  19. notin
    I didn’t disagree, unless you count the obvious Travis Shaw joke. Not like I said Dante - a fairly underrated player - was better than Bo. I just pointed out the disadvantage Cavan and Vlad Jr. are at being sons of Hall of Famers…
  20. notin
    Travis Shaw was a better hitter than Jeff. Does that count? Also, a tad unfair given the other two have dads in Cooperstown…
  21. notin
    No love for Hideki Okajima or Tomo Ohka?
  22. notin
    I’d say yes. Poor timing to ask this after a season in which fungible starter Kyle Gibson (15-9) had a better record Cy Young winner Blake Snell (14-9). I could find samples like this all day long…
  23. notin
    Players plural. Sox need to sign Imanaga or Maeda quick, before the Mets, Cubs, Orioles, or Blue Jays do…
  24. notin
    But saying good pitchers have better W-L records becomes circular logic if you’re saying they’re good because of their W-L records. And plenty of good pitchers have bad W-L records. What about them?
  25. notin
    What!?!? And compromise the academic integrity of the entire institution?!? There are dollars …. errr … degrees at stake here!!!
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