Look at Ray Ray Run

That's not really a skill.

Uh collins is 3 years younger and catches and this is his first ever taste of the majors. Palka is the worst defensive player in MLB baseball and cant hit and has had like 600 mlb at bats. Weird that you cant seperate the two.

Rutherfked will really benefit from a juiced baseball.

Sheets a 950 OPS his last 90 ab's. In that park that's great.

1 hour until Robert time.

Arent we about due for a guy coming out of nowhere and being an impact guy? Everyone gets em and it's been a while for us. Maybe he made an adjustment - all his numbers support his outcomes. He's old but not that old. Plenty of guys in the past two decades have figured it out at 25 and 26. Odds are he sucks but theres a chance he's a legit talent with the bat and catchability.

Adolfo and Basebe would still be 2-3 for me. Adolfo with a HUGE asterisk as I require his arm to still be a 70-80 grade arm because if he's 70 raw and 70/80 arm he has two elite tools. At one point his velocity from right field was second to no one. Injuries are a lot of "luck" as much as anything. He could never get hurt again for all we know.

Yeah, I'm not worried at all. In his lost year he needs to work on approach and strike zone command. He'll be fine next year and still will only be 23 so its not like he's old. Sucks it happened as it delays development a year but hopefully he learns some things this year.

Rutherford has been on an absolute tear for like 7 weeks now so I'd say he adjusted and I'd put him near the second spot - basebe had a lost year because of the injury but he'll be back and fine next year and I think he'll be solid. Edit: he has a .782 OPS in his last month and his OPS is about 825 vs righties in that stretch. In that ballpark that's pretty good. He had an .871 ops in June Basebe is even further proof, in addition to madrigal, that wrist and hand injuries destroy your power even after healing for up to 16 months. 1 HR this year.

Especially with this team where AA is a much harder hitting environment than AAA.

The Ray's and the Yankees are significantly better than Cleveland and Minnesots imo. Minny pitching just isnt enough imo.

There is much chance you'll be forced to purchase the cub network as a part of basic cable sports packages. They will not bundle that network with the key networks in its first year. It'll be a seperate add.

Yes

What am I arguing about? My goodness.

You said he had to make all these improvements but even if he made zero improvements after this year (assuming he duplicates his first half production) this is a 6 WAR player.

Hes literally on pace for 6 WAR right now so this is what it looks like.

wRC+ is factoring in league play. The league was better last year offensively than this year so Robert's production is more outside the leagur average. Stolen bases are not a part of wRC+.

Nice start from cease. Way too much adrenaline in the first leaving everything high. That change up k he got late was disgusting.

Thinking speed is defined by SB is a bit much. Speed actually has more added value elsewhere.

I think they're all exciting, absolutely, but Gladney had that limited rep question being local and I always go in assuming those kids will take a little extra time to adjust and get comfortable because they're not used to seeing good competition every night and havent seen a lot of it consistently enough to have been acclimated prior to draft.

Gladneys start is really exciting I think. More so than the rest imo.

Guy should probably be at W-S tomorrow. AZL is like BP to the guy - just something to warm him up before the real competition.

It would be kind of fun to see Vaughn play a year in the AZL to see the absurdity that would be his EOY numbers. It's like sending him back to high school showcases.

Would be shocking if they moved his first start the night before. Much more likely they move or skip detweiler.

Yeah hot and disgustingly muggy. Summer is here.