The Red Sox make a huge splash with a potential fringe power hitter

The MLB draft was last night and although I have renounced my fandom to the sport as a whole due to the impending labor war between owners and players poorly masked in the Covid 19 Pandemic, I find myself reluctantly intrigued.

So I go to read up on Nick Yorke, the Red Sox 1st round pick. In a year where you trade Mookie Betts, dump Chris Sale on the DL in disastrous fashion, and are still eating half of David Price’s money not to mention the whole league has yet to decide on when to actually play if at all, it would have been nice to have some excitement about Something.

Instead it looks as if we are looking at a long shot project. Middling power with a shoulder injury. Who knows, maybe he is a stud. Could be a bust? But, isn’t that basically all baseball prospects? Isn’t one of the many problems baseball has? The MLB draft is fodder. There are a billion rounds and every pick is a crap shoot. Even the guys that make to the bigs, it takes 2, 3, 4 years. There is no buzz about a 1st round pick because we may never see him in uniform. We can’t get to know these guys and follow their careers the way we do in other sports. There is very rarely a splash from a rookie baseball player out of Rice, or Texas, or where ever. It’s generally a slug like process for these guys to get in the mix. It’s a microcosm for the whole fucking game. Slug status.

Great, now I’m sweating with angst. Look, Chaim Bloom was brought into the organization to re stock this farm system. His track record with Tampa is great. Lets hope he know what he’s doing, or not, who cares, Baseball is dead to me. Put em on the list.