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This is pretty much my prediction, I think it's more probable that Anthony stays at #1, I think it's obvious from statements Soxprospects have made + how impressed they've been with Perales that he's moving to #6. I would have moved Campbell as high as #9-10 but Chris Hatfield dropped a little easter egg in a chat forum yesterday effectively saying he's not top ten, so I really believe he has to be in the 11-12 range. Pure guess here, but I don't think they're that high on Meidroth. But I've heard the word "complete chaos" being thrown around after the top 8. So I feel that has to mean a few new guys entering the top 10???? and if not Campbell then who?!?!?!?!?
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Pivetta is going to reach free agency for the first time ever at his age 32 season. This might be his only chance for a payday, Someone will probably give him 4 years. It will take more than that to extend him.
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Soxprospects comes out with their updated top 60 soon probably any hour now. Some predictions. I think there's a small chance Mayer and Anthony flip positions and same thing with Cespedes/Bleis, but the top 5 is the same guys, I think Perales jumps over Wikelman and Fitts. Kristian Campbell, Matthew Lugo, and Zach Penrod I think are all slated to take big jumps forward on the rankings too. I think Jordan and Yorke start to fall.
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My gripe with DD is largely what he did to Noah Song, that was vindictive and possibly detrimental to his career. he did his job here, and even if he "stripped the farm" well many of his draft picks are heping the team now Duran, Houck, Casas, Crawford etc etc. The irony is, younger in DD's career he had a reputation building up good farm systems, if he was mandated to do that in Boston he could have, but I suspect he wouldn't take a gig like that where he is at in his career, but he has that under his belt. DD might of been fired, but I'd bet he would have quit if he wasn't fired if John Henry gave him the same mandate he game Bloom, because Dave knew he'd probably end up with a few last place finishes himself. The writing was on the wall when Henry wanted to close the spigot.
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Yeah, well everyone is going to have a stinker here and there. I wouldn't be concerned about his health being the cause unless his velo was down, I only saw the read out of a few pitches but it doesn't look like it was. Even the best of the best have bad days.
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Hmmmm, 1921 and 2021 don’t seem too similar to me.
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Phillies have had the easiest record in the MLB to date. They’ve played something like a weeks worth of games vs teams with a winning record. I think they’re good, but they’re not the best team in MLB.
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I think you can be against someone without being ANTI that person. I appreciate what Henry has done in the past and think he has it in him to get back to being an owner that at least acts like he cares, but that doesn't have to be mutually exclusive from him being absent from this team and unwilling to invest in the big time splashes that fans want. I think he's recognized this to an extent by hiring guys like Theo to come in, but not showing up to Dustin Pedroia's HOF introduction is inexcusable. In the absence of a death in the family he has no good excuse for skipping out. He did skip out right?????
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Well we suck, time to dream on the farm. We got some young arms popping. http://redirect.viglink.com/?key=71fe2139a887ad501313cd8cce3053c5&subId=3458890&u=http%3A//news.soxprospects.com/2024/05/scouting-scratch-changes-that-have.html Just kidding, I’m not giving up on the season just yet, but I ain’t betting on anything
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Not much of a home game when almost none of the players on your team have been here long term.
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There have been others in here who have been voicing the same concern for years. As far back as Mookie being traded, Bloom caught a lot of the blame for that and still does but I had been saying since day one that was a front office move. Henry has gone rogue, and not in the good way.
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I think these promotion predictions are going to end up being pretty close to spot on baring any injury
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Exactly my point, people aren't being called up to the majors if teams don't think they're ready or very close to it. Doesn't mean guys aren't rushed either. It also doesn't mean that just because a guy has very little to learn in the minors that he's going to have instantaneous success in the majors. I'm very glad the Sox didn't give up on Duran, I was hopeful but I certainly stopped betting on him at the beginning of last year.
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While I agree with the overall narrative, I certainly wouldn't want to fire a guy because he got one thing wrong. You can do everything rigth and end up wrong and vis versa. Can anyone name any of the other players scouted and recomeneded by Danny Watkins? FYI he is the agent who signed Mookie Betts. Was he good? or did he just get lucky??? I'd be willing to bet no one in here can name one without doint some research. Now again, I'm all for eliminating deadwood, trimming the fat, getting rid of under performers etc. etc. etc. As a matter of fact I've been one of the BIGGEST proponents of this over the last several years. But what I don't want to do is just indiscriminatenly eliminate people and there's value in continuity. Give me a surgical knife and not the machete
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Before he was traded, this is how I was looking at it, I was hopeful he could stay healthy, optmistic but I certianly wasn't better on it. I hope he stays healthy all year, I hope Grissom puts it together and this trade ends up working out for both teams. Unless we meet the Braves in the world series in which case I hope Sale sucks.
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Lots of prospects not getting called up when guys get injured too. How come Kavadas and Jordan aren't here? heck people wanted Mayer here last year before even wanting him here this year when Story went down. OBVIOUSLY injury starts the clock sooner for guys, and opens the door to opportunitey but largely guys get called up around the time they're ready. There's a reason why teams hoard depth at the back end of the 40 man, all teams do it. Looks bad when the Red Sox suck because they do a s*** job building up the top of the roster.
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Honest question. Because I think theres nothing wrong with your prediction. But what made you think he would stay healthy this year for the Braves, when he was unable to stay healthy here for 1/2 a decade?
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I also don't think we have a relevant sample size to really judge Sandlin, at least not by his stat line
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Perales has been better than ok, his whif % on his pitches are elite, I forget the exact number but his change up was insane, it was above 60%. Ian Cundall talked about him on the last podcast and I believe he said he thinks he's going to be in some peoples top 100 lists this summer if he keeps it up. I think he's going to be the #1 pitching prospect in the system when the new rankings come out.
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Wikelman has been dissapointing, but the Sox system as a whole has been very impressive this year. I think they will be in everyones top 10 mid season, and they may even be making some top 5's. The biggest knock on our system by those ranking us the lowest had been the lack of pitching talent and while I still think the pitching depth lacks in this system and isn't it's strength it has taken a noticable big step forward.
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Well that's why I didn't put him in first Tier (Brannon), I think he's a long shot too BUT he was a top 100 draft prospect who was given a bonus that was $550K over slot, hasn't played a lot yet and just turned 20. If he can stick behind the plate and his hit tool develops he could be a top 100 prospect in all of the game, although I agree that not even getting to the high minors is a real possibility as well. And I was actually talking about Johanfran Garcia, who I'm pretty high on, but Jhostynxon is very intriguing as welll. It would be pretty cool if we could develop two MLBers who are brothers.
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Out of all those names the only guys I'm really excited about are Bleis, and Cespedes. Although I bet someone from the Garcia, Zanetello, Campbell, Brannon, Castro pop. Some of these guys are going to bust, the ones closer to the majors trending down are very strong candidates to do so (Jordan/Yorke), others will be traded too. All the real exciting prospects are RHH, aside from Bleis and Cespedes who are the furthest away are LHH.
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https://www.soxprospects.com/payroll.htm SOxprospects announces new partnership with Soxpayroll. New page is pretty awesome and looks like a great resource.
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I never said otherwise either, rather I understood the point Max was trying to make that seems to elude Randy. Yes the correlation is real, but as been proven around here it's not as strong as some would make you think either.
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Do you actually believe that's what he's saying? I took it as there's not as strong a correlation between spending money and success as people think. You can't just throw money at the best players available and expect to get better. The Mets are a prime example of that now. This doesn't mean how the Sox have spent their money isn't open to critque either.