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Post by vermontsox1 on Dec 10, 2020 12:18:54 GMT -5
Red Sox passes on the second round of the MLB level of the draft.
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Post by kman22 on Dec 10, 2020 12:21:20 GMT -5
For all the talk about Kasowski on here, it's somewhat surprising that he's still there heading towards round 3.
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Post by ericmvan on Dec 10, 2020 12:27:25 GMT -5
If folks haven't checked out his Instagram video (link in Speier's tweet), do so now. It will make you happy.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Dec 10, 2020 12:30:45 GMT -5
In the minor league portion of the draft, the Red Sox select Tyreque Reed from the Rangers org.
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Post by Costigan on Dec 10, 2020 12:31:08 GMT -5
Boston selects Tyreque Reed a 1B/LF from the Rangers system in the AAA phase.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Dec 10, 2020 12:32:02 GMT -5
I like the pick. Probably would have preferred the other two Dodgers pitchers first, (and Texas took De Geus) but they are relievers. Perhaps Whitlock can start if need be, so that may well be the best choice.
I'm surprised they didn't go after Kasowski. I know his control is not good, but his stuff....I guess they weren't overly impressed. They didn't make it a mandate to include him in the Betts deal so maybe they just weren't that high on him, but they had the chance to take him in the 2nd round and didn't.
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Post by borisman on Dec 10, 2020 12:35:16 GMT -5
Tyreque Reed is a big boy. 6'1 250, 18 HR in 2019
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Post by ericmvan on Dec 10, 2020 12:38:30 GMT -5
Dodgers first team to lose a player in this phase, first team to lose 2, first team to lose 3, and only team to lose 4 (so far) ... so the WS champ has the deepest farm system in MLB.
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Post by julyanmorley on Dec 10, 2020 12:41:16 GMT -5
Whitlock before he got hurt seems like a comparable prospect to Connor Seabold to me.
I think it's a good pick. If he looks good in spring training, then it costs them very little to keep him on the 40 man roster and in the major league bullpen. If the Sox at any point in the new few years are happy to have him in the starting rotation, then they will have profited tremendously from this pick.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Dec 10, 2020 12:41:56 GMT -5
With their second pick of the AAA phase, the Red Sox select Kaleb Ort, RHP from the Yankees org.
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Post by Costigan on Dec 10, 2020 12:42:17 GMT -5
Sox select Kaleb Ort a righty reliever from the Yankees AAA group in the second round of the AAA selection
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Post by soxfanatic on Dec 10, 2020 12:45:53 GMT -5
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Post by vermontsox1 on Dec 10, 2020 12:50:07 GMT -5
Red Sox pass on a third pick in the AAA phase.
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Post by ericmvan on Dec 10, 2020 12:50:24 GMT -5
I still have 7 clubs that haven't lost a pick in this phase.
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Post by chrisfromnc on Dec 10, 2020 12:52:00 GMT -5
Whitlock before he got hurt seems like a comparable prospect to Connor Seabold to me. I think it's a good pick. If he looks good in spring training, then it costs them very little to keep him on the 40 man roster and in the major league bullpen. If the Sox at any point in the new few years are happy to have him in the starting rotation, then they will have profited tremendously from this pick. Apart from whatever role he can play, there is the nice little benefit of poaching from your rival. Take that Yankees! What a nice little bonus if Whitlock actually produces on the mound. He can't be any worse than at least five guys that pitched last year.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Dec 10, 2020 12:59:09 GMT -5
Red Sox did not have any players taken in the minor league portion either.
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Post by longgone24 on Dec 10, 2020 12:59:44 GMT -5
Only one trade reported in the MLB portion so far-
10. York Mets: Luis Oviedo (Indians), traded to Pirates for cash considerations, tweets MLB.com’s Anthony DiComohttps ://www.mlbtraderumors.com/
Seems low.
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Post by ericmvan on Dec 10, 2020 13:03:32 GMT -5
Red Sox did not have any players taken in the minor league portion either. Mariners, Braves, Brewers, and Pirates also lost no one. Orioles, Indians, and Tigers lost players only in the MLB phase.
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Post by ericmvan on Dec 10, 2020 13:34:23 GMT -5
In the minor league portion of the draft, the Red Sox select Tyreque Reed from the Rangers org. Reed was a 2017 8th round pick out of Itawamba Community College in MS (where he led that college division in BA, OBP, and SA), and put up a 183 wRC+ in the Arizona league, albeit at age 20. BA had him as the Rangers' #15 prospect (in the #22 system). The scouting report is really glowing -- 70 raw power for some scouts, can go the other way, good plate discipline. He played a little OF that year.,
He followed it with a 140 in low-A. I can't find my 2019 Handbook!
In 2019 he had a 95 in high-A (126 PA) before missing a month, rehabbed, and then went back to low-A and put up a 156. He was just a depth-chart guy in the 2020 book.
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Post by redsox04071318champs on Dec 10, 2020 13:47:27 GMT -5
Upon further review, the Red Sox did very well with the Whitlock pick. He was the best pick out there, looking at it again. He could wind up in the rotation, which wasn't going to happen with the Dodgers relievers, one of whom was taken before the Sox selected anyways.
I would have liked to have seen them take Kasowski as well, but I guess the Red Sox didn't want to have two Rule 5 picks to have to keep on their roster and Kasowski's control is not good in the minors, so it might be atrocious at the major league level.
But Whitlock doesn't have those issues. If the Sox use the piggyback starter thing, Whitlock is the guy to be a big part of that, sort of what the Rays do with Jalen Beeks.
Hopefully Whitlock is completely healthy and if he can be a #4 starter down the road the Sox did very well with this pick.
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Post by congusgambler33 on Dec 10, 2020 13:52:35 GMT -5
I noticed that the highly touted Buddy Reed wasn't even selected. Wonder why?
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Post by vermontsox1 on Dec 10, 2020 13:54:41 GMT -5
I know Quattlebaum said they hope Whitlock is ready for Spring Training, but I could also see them trying to stash him on the 60 day IL to limit the amount he'll have to be on the active roster.
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Post by ericmvan on Dec 10, 2020 14:10:27 GMT -5
Both Ian and James Dunne on Twitter have Reed's 2019 backwards.
He started 2019 in high-A and had a .416 OPS in his first 9 games, but a .922 in his next 14. He struggled again for 8 more (.343), then went on the IL after going 1/2, HR, 2 BB in his last game. He was out a month, went 6/10, 2B, HR, 6 BB in his rehab ... and they sent him back to low-A, which he destroyed again. It's hard to see with they lost faith in him after 17 awful games in high-A, when he also had 15 very good ones.
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Post by soxaddict on Dec 10, 2020 14:26:09 GMT -5
Good day for the Sox with the additions of Whitlock, Reed and Ort. Also happy to see the Sox didn’t lose Michael Gettys. I thought he could have been taken.
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Post by James Dunne on Dec 10, 2020 14:29:05 GMT -5
Indeed, should've peeped the game log before posting. Good catch.
I wonder if it's less a case that they lost faith in Reed and more that Curtis Terry (also a 1B-only profile with a thick frame) just passed him in their eyes and became the priority. Terry got promoted to High A right about when Reed got sent back to Hickory. Terry is older and wasn't necessarily better at Hickory in '19 than Reed was in '18. Terry delivered after the promotion though, so if they did see something it's tough to question it.
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As far as Whitlock: I tweeted something along these lines, but I think the Rule 5-to-starter role is a little easier than it used to be. For quite awhile it was hard throwing relievers who hadn't quite put harnessed their control or starter-to-reliever conversions because R5 guys generally weren't MLB starter-ready. But with long relief swingmen and 3-4 inning types to follow an opener back in vogue, it's a path that a guy like Whitlock could take to being a starter by late '21.
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