2022 MLB Draft

Ale Xander

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Stylistically, I would rather have a team of guys who bat .290, don't get themselves out by chasing balls in the dirt and who hit 20 HR and 50 doubles a year than a team of guys who hit like Dalbec and Cordero. So I'm good with the pick
I'd rather have Judges and Deverses
 

Ganthem

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Apr 7, 2022
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Stylistically, I would rather have a team of guys who bat .290, don't get themselves out by chasing balls in the dirt and who hit 20 HR and 50 doubles a year than a team of guys who hit like Dalbec and Cordero. So I'm good with the pick
All snarkiness aside I feel like that is what has been missing from the offense the last couple seasons. Last season Cora wanted everyone to be aggressive and they responded, but that meant nobody was taking pitches or working the count, which lead to a hot and cold offense with no middle ground. This year the offense seems similar. I wonder if Bloom wants to remake this team, starting either at the trade deadline or next off season, to be a bunch of grinders. To get back to players who will take pitches work the count and not let the starter get deep into games. In addition to doing that on the MLB level he is also trying to instill that in the minors.
 

StuckOnYouk

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If they allowed trades in the draft it would have been nice to trade our next two picks to go back up and get Gilbert. But god forbid MLB ever allow the trading of draft picks.
you wouldn’t want to add that bit of excitement.
 

SemperFidelisSox

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May 25, 2008
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If they allowed trades in the draft it would have been nice to trade our next two picks to go back up and get Gilbert. But god forbid MLB ever allow the trading of draft picks.
you wouldn’t want to add that bit of excitement.
MLB has tried really hard to make this a major event like the NFL and NBA drafts. Besides the biggest difference being baseball players take longer to get to the pros, the lack of trades really keeps this from being an exciting event.
 

TimScribble

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Could see Sox go big at 41 and then under slot for a more advanced college arm like a Parker Messick at 79.
 

Jed Zeppelin

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MLB has tried really hard to make this a major event like the NFL and NBA drafts. Besides the biggest difference being baseball players take longer to get to the pros, the lack of trades really keeps this from being an exciting event.
I think it’s really just the first part. NBA/NFL draftees can play their whole rookie contract in the time it takes a baseball draftee to debut.

Plus there is just not the same culture of interest in the college game. The first time the average fan hears about these players is on draft night if they are paying attention, if/when they are traded, or their MLB debut. There’s only so much the league could to do manufacture interest.