WestEddy

I gave it a B. A thing we complained about with Hahn was he was mesmerized by rankings. If you're trading for a top 10 guy, you're buying high. The good deals come from being able to scout the "just missed top 100" guys who will ascend with a bullet by July. I think they got a solid rotation guy, this year's closer or late innings guy they could trade at the break, future CF and another Berroa type arm to work with. Could start, could close. The market's changed. Cease wasn't consistent enough to get 2 top 20 guys.

The Padre podcast guys kind of got close on this. Thorpe, Zavala, Irierte instead of Mazur, and wilson instead of the utility guy.

I think it's the only Dylan Cease he could be. He's a pitcher who will give you production within a range. Ceiling is a Cy Young pedigree. Floor is a slightly better than average MLB starter. It's more about moving him and not chancing an injury.

Once they outright Pedro Grifol to Winston-Salem as 1st base coach, he'll fix Zavala's @ss.

That development system turned a high school shortstop into a top ten in the game prospect. Ramos came out of no where. Pallette and the highly lauded (here) Mena were also developed from the ground up. I've got no problem with our development.

Maybe in the coming weeks, we'll get a taste of what the Giants and Yankees were offering, if at all.

Yeah, but like Baltimore prospects, you have to divide San Diego's rankings by 10. A #85 prospect is really like a #8.5 prospect because they're developed so well.

I think you and Balta were both saying the league would have to see Cease pitch to know if he was 2022 or 2023 Dylan Cease. They did, and we got a haul. Everybody's right.

Unless Getz is so damn crafty, he made the call, knowing the agent would contact his mouthpiece in the press, and get the whole league in a tizzy.

...And now the feed is gone. No GameCast.

They couldn't have gone into '24 with Lee as the 26-man back-up. He looked seriously exposed last year. Not Adrian Nieto exposed, but exposed, nonetheless.

Okay, so now he'll be Nicky Three-Hundred.

Maybe tomorrow.

Since they seem to want to go with all these ex-White Sox guys, why not bring in Adam Engel and Kevan Smith, too.

Probably names that came up in different conversations.

Cole out 1-2 months. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/gerrit-cole-injury-update-yankees-ace-could-miss-up-to-two-months-with-elbow-issue-per-report/

This game may become known to history as the Shaw/Toussaint game. I still believe that 16-1 whoopings in the Sox's favor are the new normal until they prove different.

Understood. Point being, dude backs into guess-timating a package that has one of their top 3 pitching prospects, one of their top OF prospects, their 2nd round RHP pick from 2022, and potential utility infielder filler.

I don't suggest anybody listen to this. I did while working late last night. It's interesting listening to idiot fanbois from other teams gush over Dylan Cease. One dope thinks Cease won a Cy Young, and the main guy literally had to look up the word "droves" to understand the volume of White Sox scouts watching the Rangers that day. But I think it's a respectful take, not the "I'd maybe trade Anthony Rizzo straight up, but nothing more" level of disdain. They kind of gush over Jack Leiter, and compare him to Thorpe (#5), Snelling (#3) and Lesko (#4). The guy who believes Cease won a Cy Young compares Brock Porter to the level of prospect that Graham Pauly (#11) or Eguy Rosario (#16) are. They come up with a "similar" package of one of (thorpe, snelling, lesko), one of (pauly, rosario), Sam Zavala (#7) and maybe Adam Mazur (#10). The numbers are MLB's Padres' system rankings. I don't endorse. Just thought it was interesting to get bro-dude Padre-fan take on what they think Cease would cost them. They get into talking about a possible trade after 11:00.

All this reporting is moments in time. They're reporting on rumors. So maybe Baltimore is on the phone with Getz for a couple of days, and they're discussing names. To say a trade is possible isn't wrong. Then it falls apart. Nobody lied. I agree with the guys complaining about the eyeballs. But when multiple reporters are bringing names and teams, that's a lot of smoke. It could all go caput.

I was wondering when they were going to find a replacement for Scholtens.

Maybe the 2024 draft class looks to be thick on college position players.