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Post by geostorm on Oct 12, 2020 11:54:05 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Sept 27, 2020 13:35:45 GMT -5
Can’t be Cora. Thumb in the eye to the league. And that's bad ... why? Agree...if he is the best candidate for this team; I'm not against a perceived "thumb to the eye", when imo the Red Sox penalties had MLBfred's thumb on the scale, a bit too much
(fwiw, on last pregame interview, Cora was one guy RR mentioned he'd consider staying on, in a lesser role, if not offered the Mgr gig here, but was offered another role)
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Post by geostorm on Sept 27, 2020 13:12:27 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Sept 26, 2020 20:53:41 GMT -5
You don’t draft for need in baseball. You pick the BPA. Also I see talk about how volatile this hitting class could be since “Benintendi would be the best hitter in the class”.......you should see how volatile EVERY pitching class is. If you look around the league most of the elite pitchers were found somewhere outside the top 5-10 of the first round. for giggles pulled up the MLB Draft wiki, for the 10 yr period, 2009-2018, just for a quick looksee at the top 5 picks or so, each year, and how they're tracking, so far, and, to also quickly eyeball other places in those drafts, where better than average tracking talent has been found > 1st round en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Major_League_Baseball_draft
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Post by geostorm on Sept 26, 2020 20:15:02 GMT -5
so, the sweep by Nats, today, assures at least a 5th?...along w DET winning, tonight?
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Post by geostorm on Sept 25, 2020 7:54:09 GMT -5
The upside of losing out on picks #1-2 is it decreases Manfred's temptation to put his thumb on the scale. Feeling cautiously optimistic we'll draft according to the 2020 standings. ...and, here I am, feeling like Manfred already put his thumb on the scale, impacting this draft, RE the forfeiture of the Sox' 2nd round pick
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Post by geostorm on Sept 1, 2020 21:10:06 GMT -5
Have the Sox ever gotten a PTBNL who became an average MLB player? Seems like just a haul of org guys yesterday, and not even players who they'll be able to package and flip in the off-season for a more valuable player. If they want pitching, they are likely going to have to buy it either by trading perceived studs (Casas, Downs) or on the open market, and there's not a lot out there this winter. Bauer (who says he wants 1-year deals, so he'll be looking for sure playoff contenders), Odorizzi and then a step down to Stroman and then a cliff to a lot of dreck, which the Sox have in abundance. Not any of note, necessarily, though you may find this an interesting read, not to mention, find a few PTBNL within 6 degrees of Boston Red Sox!
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Post by geostorm on Aug 31, 2020 14:57:22 GMT -5
Osich to Cubs (for PTBNL's twin brother)
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Post by geostorm on Aug 31, 2020 10:24:24 GMT -5
Quantrill & Naylor in the Clevinger plus "more" r- eportedly SS Gabriel Arias, too - in deal being reported by Passan & Heyman
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Post by geostorm on Aug 30, 2020 18:08:23 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind Allan along with someone like Vientos/Greene Allan would be great but I'm assuming the Mets won't deal him or Peterson. I mean Wolf is cool but thats an underwhelming return. Seeing 3 potential catchers in the NYM MLB top 30...I'd be surprised if one of them wasn't coming back, in any deal involving CV to NYM...
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Post by geostorm on Aug 21, 2020 21:03:10 GMT -5
from redsox Twitter account The #RedSox today traded RHPs Brandon Workman and Heath Hembree and cash considerations, along with a player to be named later or cash considerations, to the Phillies, in exchange for RHP Nick Pivetta and minor league RHP Connor Seabold.
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Post by geostorm on Aug 21, 2020 20:26:43 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Jun 12, 2020 18:40:13 GMT -5
Thx ramireja and, apologies for missing that (as well as also seeing this c&p on another soxprospects thread, so, you're welcome to remove this "repeat")
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Post by geostorm on Jun 12, 2020 18:28:00 GMT -5
Is anyone else concerned about his swing at all? I keep cringing when I see the back foot leave the dirt when he swings. One of the telltale signs elite power weight transfer, as seen with Harper, Moncada, etc. fwiw, here's what Keith Law had to say about his swing -
"Boston went way off the highway with Nick Yorke (1), the only player taken in round one who wasn’t ranked on my Top 100. Yorke has a good swing, geared more for average than power, but he doesn’t have the range or arm for shortstop after a shoulder injury and is probably limited to second base in the long term. Even if the Red Sox really believe in his bat, he would almost certainly have been available at their next pick; I spoke to multiple teams who said they either didn’t have him in the top three rounds or deemed him unsignable for worth due to his commitment to Arizona.
The Red Sox didn’t have a second-round pick, and in the third round they took one of the most famous players in the draft in Blaze Jordan (3), a 17-year-old high school first baseman from Mississippi who puts on a great BP but has little game power because of a swing that is all hands, making no use of his lower half. He’s limited to first base, so he has to get to that power to be a prospect. The history of high school position players from Mississippi is also pretty dismal, so I think Jordan is a prospect, but a longshot. They followed it up with Hawai’i reliever Jeremy Wu-Yelland (4), who has walked 55 guys in 88 career innings, almost all in relief; and Florida State lefty Shane Drohan (5), a fastball/changeup guy who went backward after going to Tallahassee and has walked 69 in 73.2 career innings."
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Post by geostorm on Jun 12, 2020 11:26:44 GMT -5
theathletic.com/1868464/2020/06/12/jj-altobelli-red-sox-pick-jeremy-wu-yelland/?source=dailyemail"Their first-round pick caught the industry by surprise, their second-round pick was lost to a sign-stealing scandal and their third-round pick was something of an internet celebrity — at least by high school baseball standards. But it was the fourth-round pick who seemed to mean a little extra to the Red Sox on Thursday. His name was Jeremy Wu-Yelland. He’s a big, left-handed pitcher out of the University of Hawaii. He throws hard, made a strong impression in the Cape Cod League and might work best as a reliever in pro ball. Pretty standard stuff for a fourth-round pick. Except the scout who found him was J.J. Altobelli, and in this year of all years, it meant a little more for the Red Sox to choose one of Altobelli’s guys. His father, John; stepmother, Keri; and 13-year-old sister, Alyssa, were killed in the January helicopter crash that also took the life of Kobe Bryant and five others. “It was very meaningful to me,” Altobelli said via text message from his home in Newport Beach, Calif. “There is no doubt it has been an extremely difficult year so far. All the credit goes to Jeremy and the talent he has and the work he has put in to put himself in the position to be selected. But to be able to have a player selected this year, especially with what has gone on in my life, I will never forget that moment. Means everything to me, and I’m thankful to (scouting director Paul Toboni) and the staff for making that selection. Jeremy has a bright future, and I’m excited to see what he does with the opportunity.”"
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Post by geostorm on Jun 12, 2020 11:23:11 GMT -5
behind a paywall, but, if you have access, a nice read on 4th rounder
a snippet
"Their first-round pick caught the industry by surprise, their second-round pick was lost to a sign-stealing scandal and their third-round pick was something of an internet celebrity — at least by high school baseball standards.
But it was the fourth-round pick who seemed to mean a little extra to the Red Sox on Thursday.
His name was Jeremy Wu-Yelland. He’s a big, left-handed pitcher out of the University of Hawaii. He throws hard, made a strong impression in the Cape Cod League and might work best as a reliever in pro ball. Pretty standard stuff for a fourth-round pick.
Except the scout who found him was J.J. Altobelli, and in this year of all years, it meant a little more for the Red Sox to choose one of Altobelli’s guys.
His father, John; stepmother, Keri; and 13-year-old sister, Alyssa, were killed in the January helicopter crash that also took the life of Kobe Bryant and five others.
“It was very meaningful to me,” Altobelli said via text message from his home in Newport Beach, Calif. “There is no doubt it has been an extremely difficult year so far. All the credit goes to Jeremy and the talent he has and the work he has put in to put himself in the position to be selected. But to be able to have a player selected this year, especially with what has gone on in my life, I will never forget that moment. Means everything to me, and I’m thankful to (scouting director Paul Toboni) and the staff for making that selection. Jeremy has a bright future, and I’m excited to see what he does with the opportunity.”"
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Post by geostorm on Jun 12, 2020 11:20:42 GMT -5
a snippet, from The Athletic
"Their first-round pick caught the industry by surprise, their second-round pick was lost to a sign-stealing scandal and their third-round pick was something of an internet celebrity — at least by high school baseball standards.
But it was the fourth-round pick who seemed to mean a little extra to the Red Sox on Thursday.
His name was Jeremy Wu-Yelland. He’s a big, left-handed pitcher out of the University of Hawaii. He throws hard, made a strong impression in the Cape Cod League and might work best as a reliever in pro ball. Pretty standard stuff for a fourth-round pick.
Except the scout who found him was J.J. Altobelli, and in this year of all years, it meant a little more for the Red Sox to choose one of Altobelli’s guys.
His father, John; stepmother, Keri; and 13-year-old sister, Alyssa, were killed in the January helicopter crash that also took the life of Kobe Bryant and five others.
“It was very meaningful to me,” Altobelli said via text message from his home in Newport Beach, Calif. “There is no doubt it has been an extremely difficult year so far. All the credit goes to Jeremy and the talent he has and the work he has put in to put himself in the position to be selected. But to be able to have a player selected this year, especially with what has gone on in my life, I will never forget that moment. Means everything to me, and I’m thankful to (scouting director Paul Toboni) and the staff for making that selection. Jeremy has a bright future, and I’m excited to see what he does with the opportunity.”"
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Post by geostorm on Jun 10, 2020 20:01:48 GMT -5
from Fangraphs Eric Longenhagen
Nick Yorke is ranked 165th on my board. I mentioned in my mock that they were a threat to cut really deep and go with high schoolers and tough signs throughout the entire draft, and that's what they're set up to do now.
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Post by geostorm on Jun 10, 2020 19:58:13 GMT -5
Dan O'Dowd speculating possibility of Red Sox intentionally drafting a "tough sign", w/ worst case them not being able to sign this player, rolling it into 2021 DRAFT, when they've more time to assess players....
....or, that they really like the player enough, to go outside the consensus the top 100, with the 17th pick.
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Post by geostorm on Jun 10, 2020 19:53:42 GMT -5
Nick Yorke?!
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Post by geostorm on Mar 13, 2020 20:30:05 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Feb 9, 2020 19:55:07 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Feb 9, 2020 19:39:30 GMT -5
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Post by geostorm on Feb 9, 2020 18:41:16 GMT -5
L.A. gets: 1/$27M of Mookie Betts ("1") 3/$48M of David Price Brusdar Graterol 67rd overall pick in MLB Draft
Minnesota gets: 4/$12M of Maeda $10M from L.A.
Boston gets: 5 years of Alex Verdugo Jeter Downs Connor Wong Tax Reset/Flex
2021 - Mookie returns, 10 year deal
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Post by geostorm on Feb 9, 2020 18:05:58 GMT -5
catcher Connor Wong included
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