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Post by Guidas on Jul 21, 2022 12:51:18 GMT -5
Keith Law, in his draft chat today, said next year's draft has more and better college talent available in the first round next year. FWIW.
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Post by incandenza on Jul 21, 2022 12:56:21 GMT -5
But being smart enough to fake it is something in itself. There's plenty of guys who just don't get it and can't even fake that they do. As somebody who conducts job interviews all day…can confirm I was reading someone talking about the medical school process and the function of volunteer work in that process. The point they were making is that the point of the volunteer work is not to demonstrate that you have a good and generous nature - medical school, and the medical field in general, couldn't care less about that. The point is to see if you're adept at jumping through arbitrary hoops. Because the medical field does care if you're able and willing to jump through arbitrary hoops. (See also: all the nonsense teenagers have to do to show they're "self-motivated"/willing to jump through hoops in the college application process.)
Anyway, that seems kind of relevant here.
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Post by aladaz on Jul 21, 2022 13:16:41 GMT -5
As somebody who conducts job interviews all day…can confirm I was reading someone talking about the medical school process and the function of volunteer work in that process. The point they were making is that the point of the volunteer work is not to demonstrate that you have a good and generous nature - medical school, and the medical field in general, couldn't care less about that. The point is to see if you're adept at jumping through arbitrary hoops. Because the medical field does care if you're able and willing to jump through arbitrary hoops. (See also: all the nonsense teenagers have to do to show they're "self-motivated"/willing to jump through hoops in the college application process.)
Anyway, that seems kind of relevant here. As someone who has had a firsthand view to medical school admissions (from both ends) and the life of medschool-residency for a long time, i would argue that isn't true in this particular case (teenagers and college applications seem like a more relevant analog here) - sorry for going off topic
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Post by James Dunne on Jul 21, 2022 14:52:57 GMT -5
Keith Law, in his draft chat today, said next year's draft has more and better college talent available in the first round next year. FWIW. A lot of those high school kids who couldn't get big bonuses because of the much smaller 2020 draft pool are eligible here, which accounts for a lot of the depth. Also, I'd say either Dylan Crews or Jacob Gonzalez would have been the clear-cut #1 this year.
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Post by Underwater Johnson on Jul 22, 2022 0:00:53 GMT -5
Keith Law, in his draft chat today, said next year's draft has more and better college talent available in the first round next year. FWIW. I wonder if this has anything to do with the Sox going HS heavy this year, at least on the position player side.
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Post by prospectlove on Jul 23, 2022 10:15:13 GMT -5
I’ve started to see some good reviews on Red Sox overall class ( kiley @espn). So I stand corrected from my comments on day one. I really trust kiley and fangraphs ( they usually have ears to ground in various sources within the game and don’t report via hyperbole). Will be interesting to see results over long term. Here’s hoping …
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Post by jodyreidnichols on Aug 2, 2022 20:23:27 GMT -5
Never been more fooled than by Checcini. If anyone remembers me, I wasn't. His power cratered and I knew his walk rate wouldn't hold up without the power. That was in A+ I think. I had to refresh my memory. His power didn't crater until AA but that was still above .400 SLG% AND he was 2.5 years younger than the average of the league AND it was in only 66 games so that should not have been a true sign of catering. also his OBP was .420. A year later he even made it to the majors and even had solid success albeit in only 36 PA. 258/361/452.
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Post by jimed14 on Aug 4, 2022 15:25:17 GMT -5
If anyone remembers me, I wasn't. His power cratered and I knew his walk rate wouldn't hold up without the power. That was in A+ I think. I had to refresh my memory. His power didn't crater until AA but that was still above .400 SLG% AND he was 2.5 years younger than the average of the league AND it was in only 66 games so that should not have been a true sign of catering. also his OBP was .420. A year later he even made it to the majors and even had solid success albeit in only 36 PA. 258/361/452. A .108 ISO is not going to cut it when pitchers have more control. The only hitters that can walk a lot without very good power have an elite contact rate and can foul 100 pitches off. He eventually tried to sell out for power and his k rate blew up.
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