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We just finished our top 25 prospects list at FutureSox.com, which you can read here.
My personal top 10 was: 1. Dan Hudson 2. Chris Sale 3. Dayan Viciedo 4. Tyler Flowers 5. Trayce Thompson 6. Jared Mitchell 7. Brent Morel 8. Jacob Petricka 9. Jordan Danks 10. Ryan Buch Some may see Buch at 10 as a surprise but I'm a big fan of his, he's my big sleeper pick. I could see Chris Sale at #1, but Hudson's performance at AAA gave him the edge for me and Petricka slides comfortably into the top 10. The other '10 draftees in my top 25 are Addison Reed (#12), Matthew Grimes (#21) and Andy Wilkins (#24). So who does everyone else have in their top 10? |
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Hmm, interesting top 10 you have there. I'm surprised to see Thompson ahead of Mitchell. Thompson's too raw for my liking and his long swing doesn't inspire much confidence in me. Danks has disappointed yet again and with his age I expected better. Flowers is struggling as well but he was never this bad so I'm willing to cut him some slack. So yeah, just throwing in my two cents.
My totally unbiased top 10: 1. Hudson 2. Viciedo 3. Sale 4. Morel 5. Flowers 6. Mitchell 7. Holmberg 8. Bellamy 9. Thompson 10. Petricka |
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Our system is so thin that there really isnt a whole lot of room for debate here. Although, I have a few different guys towards the bottom of my list.
1. Hudson 2. Dayan 3. Sale 4. Flowers 5. Morel 6. Mitchel 7. Santos Rodriguez (future closer?) 8. Petricka 9. Jose Martinez 10. Eduardo Escobar |
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Why can't the Sox have a better farm system? I guess that's half rhetorical.
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1. Dan Hudson
2. Chris Sale 3. Jared Mitchell 4. Trayce Thompson 5. Brent Morel 6.Tyler Flowers 7. Dayan Viciedo 8. Jacob Petricka 9. Addison Reed 10. Ryan Buch |
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What's everybodys deal with Thompson? He has yet to show any ability to hit whatsoever. I know he's still young but from what I've read he's nothing but an athlete that needs to learn how to hit completely as a big leaguer. Not saying that can't happen but I don't see how he's in our top 10 until he learns how to hit at least a little bit.
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When you make a habit out of making big trades, it will cost you depth and talent. Likewise, if you aren't going to spend big money and take fliers on guys with huge demands who slip in the draft or demand above-slot money you are going to miss out on better talent...
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Last edited by tm1119; 07-23-2010 at 01:34 PM. |
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As long as we have a competitive team at the major league level though I have no problem with KW's strategy to use minor league depth to acquire ML players. I just hope they identify the correct guys to keep (Beckham, Sale etc) that will be good long term. |
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We produce more talent than people realize. lately we've squandered a lot of it for pretty much nill in return....bad veterans, utility infielders, etc.
We had no farm system...but somehow we had 4 pitchers to send to San Diego for Peavy. We had no farm system, but we'll meet too of the prospects this weekend that we gave for, Marquez I suppose, as things turned out. When we trade a solid veteran starter Javy, we get ONE legitimate prospect out of the deal. ONE. (Swisher yielded the As 3). And we don't seem to work the draft very well, nor take risks for high ceiling, nor spend money over slot. |
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This. The Sox are notorious for avoiding high ceiling guys that are tough signs. Even when they do draft tough signs, they pick the lower ceiling ones and go after them in the lower rounds to sign them for moderate amount (E.g. Steven Upchurch). The Sox may have drafted riskier picks like Mitchell and Sale but they still managed to sign them near slot and fairly quickly too. It also doesn't help we are horrible at developing prospects. |
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