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Where’s Grady? Just curious

Not sure where to put this. It might be in another thread.

2019

In 2020, there were only five rounds. How Cade Smith ended up going as an udfa to the Guardians. Somehow the players that belong in the big leagues always find a way.

Very cool for him, and also can't hurt the Sox' growing profile in Japan.

Correct. 5 in addition to the largest bonus ever. It's 6 total.

That was a long damn four days. Kinda glad starting in Toronto where the air quality shouldn’t be a problem, especially since Chicago Fire game got postponed for it

Then these guys wouldn't be drafted and they'd be going to Indy ball most likely.

Honestly, they really should do away with the pool. All these senior signs getting nothing to manage pool space is kinda of a shitty way to bring these guys into pro baseball. They should have at least a 50% floor on slot value and maybe cap the bonus on day 2 picks so you can't go a million over on pick 11 and force a team to spend their full pool day 1.

Believe Hahn did

Roch enters Baseball America's top prospect list at #5

It's a feeling, but my guess it that Acuna is benefiting more from selective usage off of the bench than he is having any kind of a major resurgence.

Let’s see what Ken Rosenthal thinks…what

Detmers… Stink of Anaheim irrelevance/non-competitiveness, minus Trout and previously Ohtani?

There is some weird obsession fans have with guys production over small samples. You're literally talking about 46 at bats. To answer your question, he's been worth .6 fWAR. While running a 486 BABIP. Maybe you think he's going to start running 486 BABIP's for fun, but I have my doubts! If he was running a 293 BABIP (where his career has been so far), he'd be hitting around 230 over that period of time. That said, his xwOBA is at a much more respectable 343 over that period of time, but again it's small sample noise. He's very likely still a bad baseball player. He's also been a negative defender over that same period.

Fedde had bad-to-middling stuff and Detmers has very very good stuff. So they're not at all similar to me.

I was thinking Erick Fedde's breakout season, but yeah, something doesn't pass the smell test.

The Testaments was a great follow up to Handmaid. I can't wait to see the next season.

Probably a combination of everything, talent, coaching, and facilities. With the new complex opening soon, hopefully the facilities part is handled. Hope it comes with the necessary bells and whistles.

The Alex Honnel climbs Taipei 101 was a fun watch too. It is just wild watching him go.

Will Ferrell is the perfect bit part player. He knocks out of the park about 10 to 15 minutes worth of screen time in a movie. The longer he is on air, the worse it is. Back to the positives, I don't know if anyone else is watching the WWII series with Tom Hanks on History, but it's their best series in quite a while, and one of the better ones they have done on it. The other one I wanted to mention is a YouTube only TV series out of England, but Taskmaster is peak British comedy. It is a reality contest show, but OMG is it hilarious. It has 20 seasons, but my kid turned me on to season 19, because Jason Matzoukas is on it, and it was incredible. I had never heard of it, or anyone else on it, before, but I laughed out loud at least 2 to 3 times per episode.