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I'm fine moving Fedde and Banks right now for Kjerstad. Crochet will cost way more yes and Elias hates giving up prospects. He will prolly try insisting on Norby first before he parts with Kjerstad.

This means high ceiling HS prospect i.e. Griffin.

Seems ChiliIrish must be hearing what Harold is. I really really want LH savagery, but the 1B thing scares me because if you miss then there's no redeeming value there. I wonder if Getz is feeling heat because small ball failed miserably and he's under pressure to get some kind of legit bats that are MLB ready (Kjerstad) or kind of close to it (Cags) cheaply.

His BABIP is below .200 so I'd expect his average to roar back with a vengeance soon.

Great job Cannon.....8.2 IP shutout.

That's basically what Jimmy says. Harold.....you sure you heard Jac?

Harold, everyone knows the last part isn't true. It's highly relevant, and even Getz has alluded to the fact that "it's easier said that done" when people asked why they aren't spending. The idea that a GM isn't going to take into account how his owner operates and how he spends his money when putting together a roster is absurd. None of these decisions can be made in the abstract and indeed we see Getz ALREADY making major decisions based on Jerry. We know Jerry doesn't pay big deals for good starting pitching because he is afraid of pitchers perpetually breaking so Getz went pitcher heavy in the Cease return because how else is he going to acquire pitching? Every decision has to take into account JR.

Seems like Jimmy and Harold are hearing conflicting things. I certainly would love to add legit left handed savagery more than anyone but I also understand the risk in using a Top 5 on a 1B. Like Vaughn, if it turns out that the bat isnt special, then you've no other value there and there is a ceiling on how much WAR you can get from a 1B. Should be interesting. Perhaps Getz should focus his energy on pulling Kjerstad from BAL so we can use the draft for other purposes rather than immediate needs.

His BABIP was super high in the beginning but it's now normalizing

Fedde and Banks for Kjerstad. Also Mookie Betts broke his hand maybe we can trade DeJong to LAD.

Hopefully DeJong can get us a decent prospect....goof job Paul

Ugh....I was hoping for a Young, Farmelo and Montes package for Robert.

Nice!

I think if Getz wants Kjerstad ( and I have my doubts that he does, I think he wanted Cowser as he fits his philosophy better, right or wrong) Fedde and Banks could do it if Elias stops prospect hugging for once. Whether he is a DH or corner OF, Kjerstad would be great as the cleanup guy in a future lineup. I would be excited about a future 2-3-4 of Montgomery, Ramos and Kjerstad.

Crochet is worth 61m SV. Way more than Kjerstad most likely. Fedde is 11m SV so yeah he will not be enough for Kjerstad. But if you packaged him with maybe a good reliever and Flexen it might work.

Kyle Bradish to undergo testing for elbow pain....he had a UCL sprain earlier, got PRP injections and pitched thru it earlier. I assume he's prolly done now. I still doubt Elias will give away prime prospects.

I feel bad for Crochet. Kopech blows it again

So then it's just a BABIP issue and not a velocity issue? If it's BABIP it should normalize like it recently did with Quero.

10k's is great...wish the FB was a tick higher.

If BTV is right about his SV (61 million), and someone offers that, you have to sell high. You could get two prime 30m SV prospects or 3 20s. 61m suggests that 2 Top 100s are definitely reasonable (and not back end Top 100s either...maybe two in the 40-50 range).

He didn't have any Ks last night......1/4.

Montgomery 1-3 with a double and 2 BB Iriarte 6 IP, 5H, 3ER, 2K, 2BB Gonzalez 2-4 with a SB Quero 1-4

If they move Taylor up to A+ after the draft, I wouldn't be shocked if he got his feet wet in AA by the end of the season.

Just FYI....Baseball Trade Values is now a paid site but each week they will provide two teams player/prospect SV for free. This week it's the White Sox and Padres, so this is what they have right now for various players on the ML roster that might be trade bait (my comments in parentheses): Banks 9.5 (not bad at all) Brebbia -2.2 Clevinger 2.5 (I thought it would be zero) Colas 6.6 Crochet 61.2 (sell high ASAP!!!!!!) DeJong 2.1 Fedde 11.9 (I was hoping it would be higher than this...but maybe if u package him with Banks, you can still get a pretty good 20m SV prospect out of it) Flexen 2.2 (I'm shocked by this, with his small salary I was hoping for way more, hes pitched very well recently) T. Hill -1.1 Julks 8 Kopech -1.8 (sigh) N..Lopez 1.4 Pham 3.1 (was hoping for more) Robert 44.7 (apologies to @CaliSoxFanViaSWside, seems he was right on how much value Robert has lost, 44m SV is basically what we got back for Cease and that's very light to me, I think Robert's SV last year was something like 77m, so he's lost alot of helium. I wouldn't trade him for 44m, maybe hope he has a great second half and we can hopefully get more in the offseason). Sheets 3.9 Soroka -1.8 Vaughn -0.3 (lulz) S. Wilson 0.7 (the idea or getting him from SD to flip him was a good one,didn't work out it seems)

Baltimore is the most prospect hugging org out there, they would never agree to this. Instead, they'd try to pawn off pyrite first and hope someone else believes it's gold like they did before.