Hugh2
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Are these the same guys reporting all the "reported mutual interest" in every free agent. Just not sure when we should or should not believe the reports. This conversation has happened time and time again, for the most part, guys are going to who pays them. I'm fully confident Montgomery would have signed here had we offered him the most money.
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It's a little bitter sweet seeing Chris Sale succeed, don't get me wrong I'm happy for him but I always wanted that here. Still, he looked like a Cy Young candidate last year for a brief period of time before he got hurt. He is still yet to stay healthy for a full season in about a 1/2 a decade and he's 35 now. His arm injury was legit, but a lot of his injuries afterwards seemed a little fluky and unlucky. Would be a little ironic for him to be dominate for Atlanta for years. Still, he was never going to be here after 2024 no matter what, so getting 6 years of team control for a young guy was the right move. Especially seeing how well our young pitchers have started to perform this year. It's entirely possible for two teams to both win the trade. Still, got to get a look at Grissom.......who deserves a long term look. I hope people don't judge him if he doesn't light the world on fire the first week or two.
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There was also reported mutual interest between Monty and the Sox, AND he was one of the only higher end free agents you could sign and NOT have to give up a draft pick.
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Houck/Crawford/Bello
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I didn't notice with how awesome this mostly homegrown rotation has performed.
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Sox are going to try and piece together a first baseman, Smith/Cooper might actually end up making a nice platoon there. Not great, but certainly light years better than Bobby bombing.
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I just realized you don't hear anyone talk about how Jordan Montgomery, Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Marchus Stroman, or Sonny Gray are doing.
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IDK, Given what Bailey has done with this staff how can we not be at least a little curious to see what he could have done with Giolito????
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4/30 SF Giants vs Red Hots @ Fenway 7:10 EDT
Hugh2 replied to vegasbob's topic in Mike Grace Memorial Game Thread Forum
Cooper is definitively better than Bobby Dalbec -
Haha I meant to write $600k, thanks for pointing that out though.
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How many pitching bonuses over 500K have we given out over the past 10 years? both in the draft and IFA, it's not many, just 1-2 I BELIEVE. saving 500K on the first pick and tossing around 4 million dollars or so with you next 3 picks is a good strategy, especially when you consider how risky pitching is. Lets put 3 eggs in the baseket not 1. Some will complain, you will always find someone to complain about something no matter what happens. I doubt the Sox care about that.
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To be fair, at one point you could be Houck in that group. And I think Kopech could be excluded as well.
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Imagine how crazy this board is going to go when they draft a position player in the first round but still spend significantly more $$$ on pitching.
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ughhh, I literally could of just scrolled down two inches.
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He's definitely a big leaguer in some capactiy, I just don't think he's an impactful player. I don't know about his speed but this is what his soxprospects.com scouting report says. Run: Below-average speed. Solid instincts, but not the most fluid runner. Has the type of body that could cause him to get slower as he matures.
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I'm still confused as to why Bobby Dalbec is still on the roster. I get emergency depth and all that but as they've clearly shown you can just go out and get a guy like Garrett Cooper easily. He's a righty, I wonder if they can throw McGuire a first basemans mit and have him hit against some Righties. Might be able to piece together some decent production out of the position.
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That's the thing about him, he doesn't have those other ancilliary tools like speed, defense, arm etc etc. If he did he might be a MLB caliber player
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I don't even see where 90% is compiled to be honest but I've heard it used before. There's a lot of data that is being used now that isn't exactly public.
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That's a good question, I'm not exactly an expert on this stuff as well. What I do know is that exit velocity data over the last few years has been a very good predictor of success. It's why they called Duran up last year even though the stat line didn't look great down in WOO and he lit the world on fire his first month, it's why they promoted Roman Anthony from Low A even though his numbers weren't great at all. The Statcast data showed those guys were hammering the ball and just getting unlukcy, and they got moved up and proved it.
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It's not just about QTY though, its largely going to be about money spent. Maybe the Sox go high school SS at 12 this year but save money and spread it around to pitchers with their 2-5th picks.
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Meidroth isn't hitting the ball hard, if a player is hitting the ball harder the majority of the time (regardless of how hard he can hit it compared to other guys) he's average exit velocity rises. Meidroth apparently has low average exit velocities.
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Oh they just started that this year didn't they? still I can't find the information online, maybe they're just posting it if you're watching milb.tv????
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They look at max exit velocity, 90% exit velocity, barrel percentage, average exit velocity. He's a small dude, he doesn't impact the ball well. That doesn't mean he won't be a useful big leaguer, he's just never going to be great. He's not first division starter quality.
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I did say I wasn't saying these guys can or can't help us now or in the future. I pretty much took guys on the top 40 who have to be added to the 40 man this december.
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There is statcast data for minor leaguers but I don't think it's public. So this is hersay from scouts, but I seriously doubt soxprospects would report him having poor exit velocities if he does not, I know they either have access to that data or talk to people extensively who do.