WestEddy

Well, yeah. Any roster math leads to the conclusion that Vaughn is holding Elko's spot. I really think they're giving Vaughn to Memorial Day to get on a heater of some sort.

While Maton doesn't play any position "exceptionally well", he still plays them. Elko is a 1B. Korey Lee's going to be back, maybe as soon as after the weekend, it seems. They're not going to bring up Elko for 3 games then option him back to AAA, and I wouldn't think they want to burn Lee's last option. I'd guess that when Lee comes off the IL, they DFA Maton, again, and carry 3 catchers. Or they're working on a trade of Thaiss.

Horrible news. RIP. In the middle of the normal back and forth, here, it was always nice and calming to see a heart, or "love" emoji on a post from him. Condolences to everyone here, really. He seems like a guy who made every area he interacted in better.

Booser induced two pop-ups and a weak grounder. He should have a save.

Murfee Outrighted, Dalbec elects Free Agency

Drury's not hitting right now at AAA, but does he complicate any of this? He probably resigned on the promise they'd fast track him to a roster spot, and Vaughn's probably keeping that one warm.

They'll lose tonight 4-2, bullpen blowing the game open. Tomorrow will be a 10-4 blowout against Burke, they'll win the Cannon game 7-3 (no save), and lose the Martin game in extras 3-2.

I seem to remember that part of the reason the Brewers were ready to move on from Jose Valentin were his errors. He led the league twice with them. Turns out all the advanced models credited his range, and he got to a lot more to make those errors.

Then he's not. Odds are he registers negative WAR, and goes away to coach HS baseball, or something. Dude still has power, fields well, and knows the strike zone. Miguel Vargas isn't killing it at 3B, but his meager output could have him around 3 bWAR at year's end. Sure, he can't thread that .5 WAR career needle you've set, and he either falls above or below that mark. My point is that if he's an average major leaguer (2 WAR per season, on average), that's a big win for his draft slot. Go on and worry about whether people who read a listicle 2 years ago will be disappointed if he holds down SS or 3B for 6-7 years.

He is not. He's AAA depth, at this point.

Batters expecting a kick change getting some weird knuckleball.

I'm not sure what any of this is supposed to be about.

Proof of employment for easy apartment rental?

He has a nice history of low walk rates with the Rays. The Brewers traded former top 30 (in the game) catching prospect Alex Jackson for him at the 2023 TDL. (Jackson was no more than minor league depth at that point in his career.)

Figure I'd just get this up, now.

Pretty much all of this is wrong. I'm not "reframing" Montgomery as a lower first round pick. He *is* a lower first round pick. 1-1.5 WAR isn't an average major leaguer. That's slightly below average. I'm not sure which "both" ways I'm trying to have ... something.

No, taking a sober look at Montgomery isn't "moving goalposts". The reevaluations of him by ranking services aren't calling out weird developmental changes that have "ruined" him. They're saying they overreacted to his strong first season, and what they're seeing now is the athlete that he probably is. Your own fascination with listicles has no bearing on whether he "fails" or "succeeds". How would I know what Sox fans should realistically expect going forward? I'm not a scout. I don't run a prospect ranking service. You keep trying to twist Montgomery's development into a weird narrative where everyday he's not raking like a top ten prospect, he's constantly failing, therefore, the organization is constantly failing. Montgomery doesn't need to "move the needle". He's just one prospect. It's silly to pin all the hopes of an organization rebuild on one player. The goal is to amass multiple prospects, because these guys fail at up to a 70% rate. A player putting up 2 WAR in a season is an "average major leaguer". If the Sox played service time games, and controlled Montgomery for most of 7 seasons, him putting up 2-3 WAR a year gets him anywhere between 14-21 WAR. You're all over the place in your posts. I've tried to answer most of the subject changes you keep throwing out there.

I mentioned starts to seasons and that's what you responded to. It's great that you're complaining about something completely different, now. Nope. You just know the game you all play. Get exposed as wrong, then move the goalposts to something else.

Yeah, that's what I said in the first place. He was productive, offensively, in his first 3 seasons.

Most of the guys they're going to trade aren't even off the IL, yet. Robert's the only one playing right now, and I'll bet we can either replicate or replace the .493 OPS out of CF he was putting up 10 days ago.

The actual people who rank prospects are explaining that they overrated Montgomery a couple of years ago, and are adjusting their scouting reports accordingly. That's not spin. The actual spin is you looking for some imaginary measure of "Saviorhood" to proclaim Montgomery a "failed" pick or development story. If he turns into an average major leaguer, that would still be a win. Only eight #22 picks in the 60 years of the draft have put up 20+ bWAR in their careers. I have no idea where you're going with that AJ Preller bit.