Scholarship table
There has been some speculation that the Sox will under slot Crochet and take Jared Kelley overslot tomorrow. Which would be great.
Detroit drafted a candidate for the all-name team. Dillon Dingler. Catcher out of Ohio St. I really want him to make the majors because I really want to hear the announcers say his name.
Boomshakalaka! Love it! Sox got two top 20 talent pitchers with TOR stuff. Plenty of risk on both, but gotta love it. I like Shirley more than Hostetler already.
Fingers crossed that both sign.
Seems that the way the Sox punted on rounds 3-5 is a sign that they have a deal, or the makings of a deal.At least the optimist in me thinks so.
The rumor is they already have a deal with Kelley. Crotchet may end up being the more difficult signing.
I'd guess they had a pretty specific idea what it would take to sign both before they selected either.
I'm not going to pretend to know more than the scouts, because i only really know what articles tell me about the MLB draft after the fact. But it seems kinda insane that Clayton Beeter fell to the Dodgers at 66. Everything I read says he had the best stuff in the draft, and an elite curveball - I had seen him mentioned with teams in the middle of the first round pre-draft. I know he has a tommy john under his belt already, and I guess teams were worried he might not be able to log starters innings. But who cares? The way baseball is going, if his stuff is that good, no one goes 7 IP anymore anyway. Such a huge part of the Dodgers success has been prioritizing quality, and getting their quanitity from the number of arms rather than how deep into games those arms can go. Guys like Beeter are just going to continue to build that out.
Blake Snell is so selfish.
No, just incapable of keeping his foot out of his mouth.
Maybe he just knows he’s helping to make incredibly wealthy people even more wealthy and he doesn’t like being penny pinched by them to basically put aside his entire life during a global pandemic just to entertain people.
With all due respect , playing baseball to entertain people is his job. For which he is very well compensated. I'm all for the players getting every penny they're contractually owed, but putting aside his entire life? Please. He's not a video gamer who sacrifices his spare time to entertain us on the baseball field. It's his job. By choice. Nobody should feel sorry for him.
Did you see the guidelines the MLB has? Heck even the NBA for that matter. They didn’t sign up to risk getting covid while literally locking themselves in a hotel room for 3 straight months and play in front of nobody because it’s not even safe for people to sit in stands, let alone sweat all over each other on a field/court of competition.If I had a few million dollars in my bank account and my options were get paid less than what I signed up for to live as stated above or skip getting paid for a year I’d definitely at least consider the second option.
I have seen the guidelines. Players will be much safer playing baseball than they will going to the grocery store or have family over for a birthday celebration.Here's the thing ... nobody is making anyone play. If Blake Snell or any other player truly believes they're risking their lives by playing, they're free to sit out.But that's not happening here. If they really believed this was a life-or-death risk, they'd all refuse to play. I would, too. But I can't think of a single player who's said that. Certainly not Snell. They're not worried about their health. They're worried about getting paid. And they're worried about setting a precedent that could lead to a cap. I'm all for the players getting paid. I'm against either side lying about their motivations.