Excellent summary in part 2, which raises a few issues in my mind:

(1) If there is a potential logjam at Greenville next year, then the idea of signing reasonably well developed college players is a problem, because such players would most logically be playing in Greenville in 2010 (otherwise, you're wasting your staff's time, with 22 and 23 year olds playing in short season ball). Seems like another good reason to continue to load up on prep high-impact type players.

(2) In opposition to the potential logjam in Greenville, there may be a bit of a shortage of appropriately prepared players for Salem in 2010. Salem has a fairly weak team this year, it seems, and the problem could continue or get worse next year, unless we see some major improvement out of, especially, some of the position player prospects at Greenville later this summer. That's sort of ironic considering the recent discussion about ADDING an A+ team to the Sox system. Now if the Sox were in a 2005 situation, where they had lots of high picks, they might be able to get some help for Salem in 2010 by selecting college players, the highest of whom might help in A+ by sometime in 2010. But they aren't, so the org. is going to have to get by the best it can.

(3) If there are limits on room at Lowell and Greenville levels, , maybe the Sox aren't going to sign as many players this year as they have in recent drafts. That might seem to make more money available for the high-upside signability picks that everybody likes. But if other organizations decide to draft and spend on signability players out of a sense that farm development is the best way to go in tighter economic times, then we might get rights to fewer of them, and/or we might have to try to draft more over-slot players earlier in the draft.