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Post by pedroelgrande on Apr 12, 2024 0:06:24 GMT -5
Your normal 4/4, 2HR, 1 2B, 2 BB
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Post by bellhorndingers21 on Apr 12, 2024 7:49:24 GMT -5
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 12, 2024 8:45:29 GMT -5
Was listening to the D1 Baseball podcast on midseason risers, and James Tibbs was a name mentioned that was not previously on my radar. The comp they made in terms of similar profile was the Nolan Schanuel and, looking at his numbers, I get it. .421/.503/.860 with a .438 ISO yet only a 6.12 K% is pretty insane stuff in a very strong conference. If you think he's a first baseman then I can see being out on him but the D1B guys felt he could hang in a corner outfield so if the top 10 were to shake out the way the PG mock has it, I'm not married enough to Yesavage or Brecht and would be at least interested in the idea of going underslot for Tibbs, though I acknowledge Schanuel signed for exactly slot. As I've said a thousand times before and will reiterate whenever I do my personal wish list closer to the draft, I'm all about floor, and Tibbs feels like as safe a bet as it comes to be a major league hitter.
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Apr 12, 2024 14:27:38 GMT -5
Worrying about the floor is why we drafted Yorke and Romero. Draft some GD power arms early and develop them.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 12, 2024 14:45:35 GMT -5
Worrying about the floor is why we drafted Yorke and Romero. Draft some GD power arms early and develop them. Fun fact - there is more than one round of the draft!
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Apr 12, 2024 15:22:58 GMT -5
Worrying about the floor is why we drafted Yorke and Romero. Draft some GD power arms early and develop them. Fun fact - there is more than one round of the draft! Zackly. You can draft power arms 2-5 too!!
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Post by cdj on Apr 12, 2024 15:23:05 GMT -5
Worrying about the floor is why we drafted Yorke and Romero. Draft some GD power arms early and develop them. I think if they were so concerned about floor they would’ve gone college player, I think they picked them because they liked them as prospects
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Post by gregblossersbelly on Apr 12, 2024 15:48:50 GMT -5
Worrying about the floor is why we drafted Yorke and Romero. Draft some GD power arms early and develop them. I think if they were so concerned about floor they would’ve gone college player, I think they picked them because they liked them as prospects Nope. We picked them because we could sign them to under slot deals Chaim was always looking for a bargain.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 12, 2024 16:31:34 GMT -5
I think if they were so concerned about floor they would’ve gone college player, I think they picked them because they liked them as prospects Nope. We picked them because we could sign them to under slot deals Chaim was always looking for a bargain. …That’s not how the MLB draft works… Like, you do realize they still spent essentially their entire pool, right?
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Post by vermontsox1 on Apr 12, 2024 16:32:17 GMT -5
I think you're conflating two things. Going underslot doesn't mean that they're "looking for a bargain" (Teel was also underslot, btw). They just deployed their $$ strategically:
Yorke: Sox didn't have a 2nd round pick in 2020, so they were working with less draft pool $$ and obviously liked Blaze Jordan, so they moved money around so they could get two HS bats instead of one slot guy in the first round and then a much lesser prospect in the third round.
Romero: Sox went underslot with Romero so they could go significantly overslot with Anthony with their third pick (in the second round). Similar strategy to the above in a way.
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Post by cdj on Apr 12, 2024 16:42:44 GMT -5
I think if they were so concerned about floor they would’ve gone college player, I think they picked them because they liked them as prospects Nope. We picked them because we could sign them to under slot deals Chaim was always looking for a bargain. telling me “nope” then your reasoning being a fundamental lack of understanding on how the draft works is a 10/10
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Post by pedroelgrande on Apr 12, 2024 17:18:47 GMT -5
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 12, 2024 18:41:56 GMT -5
I am super biased, but he should be 1:1. Worth noting that those train tracks are FAR from the fence. I was so young and innocent when I came into the year hoping him or Condon would fall to 12.
There’s a non-zero chance (not likely, but not impossible) that A&M has the first overall pick in these next three drafts.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Apr 12, 2024 19:13:33 GMT -5
Trey Yesavage against Charlotte: 6IP 0H 0ER 3BB 12K
Warming up to him as a potential pick at 12.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 12, 2024 20:08:30 GMT -5
Another A&M note - Ryan Prager just threw a run-rule 7 inning shutout against Vandy - 10 K’s, 0 BB’s, 4 hits (none til the 5th). He’s bounced back from a bad start against Florida to stay really hot in SEC play, and has been downright excellent all year.
If a team feels like there’s a couple ticks of velo to be added there, he’s a top 3 round prospect to me.
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Post by pedroelgrande on Apr 13, 2024 14:20:15 GMT -5
This is my guy.
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Post by pedroelgrande on Apr 13, 2024 23:39:36 GMT -5
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 15, 2024 12:19:46 GMT -5
A couple days late, but I worked the broadcast for Vandy-A&M on Saturday and had a few takeaways.
I'll quickly make note of a single underclassman (though I could talk about A&M's for days), and say that while he didn't do much in the game, RJ Austin was still a standout for me. It was a little like Jared Thomas at Texas where you could tell that, even though he was playing first base, he was clearly the best athlete on the field. Vanderbilt has a ton of upperclassmen across the middle infield and the outfield and, like Texas, very few true power bats, so I take it as a positive sign that they're doing what they can to get Austin's bat into the lineup (where he hits leadoff) as opposed to sticking him there because he can't handle another position. Unlike Thomas, who I like but is probably relegated to a corner outfield spot, Austin throws righty so he is a viable middle infielder. He was a top 100 recruit in his class as a shortstop, and while I can't find where else he's played the field at Vandy, he did play at least second, left field, and center field in the Cape Cod League (for the YD Red Sox!). He's a pretty classic contact-oriented speed guy, but I liked the approach and thought the swing had enough speed behind it to generate some decent power for the profile. He's been pretty productive from the jump, including the Cape, so if he transitions to a middle infield spot or center field next year, he's going to be a real guy for sure.
The two high profile players in this game were the starters, and it was a bit of a topsy-turvy day in that regard. You had Carter Holton, Vandy's ace who hadn't gone fewer than 5 innings all year and had generally worked with good control only going 3.2 innings after a first inning in which he couldn't find the strike zone. And on the other side you had Tanner Jones who hadn't gone LONGER than 5 innings all season going a smooth 7.1 shutout innings and generally dominating a merely okay Vanderbilt lineup. Both of these guys have real question marks as starter prospects, but are interesting arms nonetheless.
Jones is a pretty classic power arm, an athletic 6'2" and good repeatability to his delivery. He was sitting 93-95 pretty much the entire game, even into the 8th inning (the stadium gun had him slower but I was next to the intern with the Trackman data), so he has a starter's fastball for sure. He also has a really good changeup that plays off of that fastball quite well. That being said, there's not much of a breaking ball present, so when hitters are picking up on the changeup, it's really reliant on overpowering hitters with the fastball, which works but obviously is not something you're going to want to rely on as a professional. There's a lot to like there, but also it's a profile that doesn't have a ton of floor, given how volatile of a pitch mix that is, imo. But there's still plenty of tools to work with.
Carter Holton is a little more of a floor guy, to me, though there are physical limitations that may cap his ceiling. Those are pretty obvious - the guy is 5'11". A lot of teams may try to put him in a box for that reasons, but I do think he has the chance to stick as a starter. To begin with, his fastball was also 93-95, much better than I expected from a small lefty. He also gets a ton of movement on his breaking ball, and even in an outing where he exited early and the box score doesn't look great, I think I had him down for 14 whiffs (a lot of those were Braden Montgomery, who had his worst day as an Aggie). He did spike a few, but for the most part it was a very legit weapon. The control and command have been good on the year just going by the numbers, but in the first inning he just couldn't find the strike zone and they made him pay for it. A leadoff homer off of what I believe was a changeup (more on this in a second), a hit batter, 3 walks, and all of a sudden you're down 5-0 to the new #1 team in the country. After that, though, he settled in for a couple innings until he ultimately got chased in the 4th. The changeup is the point of concern for me as far as a starter's arsenal, as it seemed like that was the pitching A&M was really keying in on and doing their damage off of. But, that being said, despite the size concerns, he has a really good fastball-slider combo and enough of a track record of control that I will chalk it up to sample size weirdness, so I think he's certainly worth a look as guy you can develop as a starter knowing he has the stuff to play in a relief role.
I'll probably cut it for now as I've already gotten a little long-winded, but there are some other really interesting prospects for A&M that I have yet to mention in depth (Jackson Appel, Chris Cortez, Evan Aschenbeck) that I will get to at some point, as I will see them plenty more times before the season is over. Not a ton else stood out to me from Vanderbilt's perspective, they had a bunch of solid bats but no real standouts.
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Post by jdb on Apr 16, 2024 6:07:38 GMT -5
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Post by ogshortstufff on Apr 16, 2024 9:17:57 GMT -5
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Post by nomar on Apr 16, 2024 12:02:45 GMT -5
He and Johnson look like the most logical choices at this point in that range unless Breslow is full “I can fix him” about Brecht.
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Post by julyanmorley on Apr 16, 2024 13:10:37 GMT -5
He and Johnson look like the most logical choices at this point in range. I do see a high school short stop a year young for his class ranked 11…
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Apr 16, 2024 13:25:27 GMT -5
I do like the skill set a bit but since he talks about Jacob Jenkins-Cowart I’ll note that he was easily the coolest dude I got to interact with at the UVA regional last year, so I’d be stoked if the Sox drafted him
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Post by vermontsox1 on Apr 17, 2024 8:52:56 GMT -5
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Post by ematz1423 on Apr 17, 2024 9:06:24 GMT -5
Not going to pretend to know anything about Yesavage other than the brief write-ups I've seen on him and what other folks on here have said. That being said I would be all for taking what sounds like a really good college arm in the draft at 12 if he makes it there and they like him.
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