OT: Other Sports 82

[TLEH]

Can’t wait for the cubs to take another low ceiling college hitter.

 

[Ben Grimm]

MLB Draft is officially here. Sox are picking #5. Cubs picking #14.

Hitting major league pitching is the hardest task in sports. Holliday may be a HoFer someday but he struggled this year. I wouldn't mind the Sox taking a pitcher. Yes, they took a LHP!

 

[Mrfenn92]

White Sox select lefty pitcher hagen smith from Arkansas

 

[clydesdale line]

Love Hagen Smith. This likely means bye bye Crochet as well. I trust the Sox development staff to develop pitching WAY more than hitting.

 

[TLEH]

There’s the college hitter in first round again for the cubs. So boring and limits the ceiling.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

I swear, the MLB draft is the most unhyped thing in all of sports.

 

[Mrfenn92]

 

[clydesdale line]

I swear, the MLB draft is the most unhyped thing in all of sports.

They need to stop making it a thing being a live event. Noone knows who any of these kids are sans a couple of them and 90% of them likely won't make it to the big leagues anyways in 4-5 years.

 

[TLEH]

Well a friend who does VP of scouting somewhere said that Cam Smith is really raw and has crazy potential so maybe I should shut up.

99th percentile exit velos and can play above average third and is a great athlete. Just needs swing tweaks to lift ball.

 

[Sarava]

If there's one thing the Sox have a great track record on - it's taking a left starter in the first round. I'm good with this.

 

[Mrfenn92]

 

[Mrfenn92]

 

[2024CubsAreReallyBad]

Hagen Smith is the best pitching prospect from this draft and its not even close. This guy should not have been there past first overall.

White Sox fans should be hyped. This guy will be in Chicago next year. A notch below Skenes in terms of talent ( a small notch at that).

As for Cam Smith, a better fielding Morel.

 

[plasmonresonance]

Take any little excitement in the Bulls as possible. Summer League, Matas has shown a bit of everything offensively. Also out of control at times but mistakes due to over aggression isn't necessarily a bad thing as a youngster.

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[Ben Grimm]

Hagen Smith is the best pitching prospect from this draft and its not even close. This guy should not have been there past first overall. ...

"2) Reds: Chase Burns, RHP, Wake Forest
The Reds were looking at many options and it may have come down to Charlie Condon vs. Chase Burns. In the end, they went for one of the best arms in the entire class, giving them their second straight Wake Forest pitcher taken in the first round (Rhett Lowder in 2023). Burns transferred to Wake Forest and its pitching lab and it had a tremendous effect as he took a step forward with all of his stuff. He has a fastball that touches 100 mph, but it’s his easily plus slider that misses a ridiculous number of bats". https://www.mlb.com/news/2024-mlb-draft-day-1-complete-coverage

Nope. It's Chase Burns who went 2nd.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Sox having the worst record at the All Star Break since.... *checks notes* .... ever is a pretty dumbfounding stat.

How the heck are the Sox so bad that you have to go back to prior to 1933 for a team having a worst first half of a season?

 

[IU Hawks fan]

Sox having the worst record at the All Star Break since.... *checks notes* .... ever is a pretty dumbfounding stat.

How the heck are the Sox so bad that you have to go back to prior to 1933 for a team having a worst first half of a season?

They have the most losses, because there are now more games before the break than ever.

The '79 A's had a worse record, 25-69 for .266, SOX are 27-71 for .276.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Percentages? Nerd math!

No really, fair point.

 

[clydesdale line]

https://www.mlb.com/news/lyle-miller-green-journey-from-russia-to-mlb-draft

Unbelievable story about Sox 17th round draft pick Lyle Miller-Green.

 

[Ben Grimm]

Is Garrett Crochet worth a haul? Here's what one insider is hearing

With the MLB trade deadline exactly two weeks from this writing, it’s curious how the White Sox will operate as expected sellers. More specifically, how will GM Chris Getz approach trading Garrett Crochet? Multiple reports have indicated the South Side is likely to shop the left-handed ace...

sports.yahoo.com

 

[Ben Grimm]

https://www.mlb.com/news/lyle-miller-green-journey-from-russia-to-mlb-draft

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Is Garrett Crochet worth a haul? Here's what one insider is hearing

With the MLB trade deadline exactly two weeks from this writing, it’s curious how the White Sox will operate as expected sellers. More specifically, how will GM Chris Getz approach trading Garrett Crochet? Multiple reports have indicated the South Side is likely to shop the left-handed ace...

sports.yahoo.com

If someone truly offers a real actual "Haul" you pull trigger IMO

Yes he is 25 but Sox are years away from contending

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Yeah, this iteration of the Sox is fundamentally broken and the rebuild clearly failed. If they have anything of value that could fetch them potential pieces for 3+ years from now, they should do it.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

Not good when the Onion notices you.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

At least Sox are starting to clear some of the crap off roster

https://x.com/i/web/status/1813703816614908250

https://x.com/i/web/status/1813677117999292615

Nice to see a kid getting look and playing time now

https://x.com/i/web/status/1814467439792394691

I would rather see more kids even if they are longshots to have ML careers or limited upside on roster rather than crap vets who are beyond washed