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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.

Mike Trout was the best high school player in the country, it wasn't close, but scouts back then definitely over thought his competition level and discrediting his tools and production because of that. You could easily argue that Trout and Josh Hamilton were the two best high school baseball players in the past 30+ years - in my lifetime. J Up was pretty unreal too.

Great but he cited his ceiling as billy butler. If he hit like butler did his first 5 years and played third base he'd be a 4 WAR+ player. He cited Butler because Butler is fat and he wanted to rip burger but Butler had hands of stone and Burger has very good hands. The comparison was poor and as ignorant as when people just compare black baseball players to each other because they're both black. Oh and Butler played 1400 MLB games which is significantly more than 97% of guys drafted after the 10th pick.

Not Sox related, but that man Tre Fletcher has a homer and 2 doubles in his first 4 professional games despite a k rate around 40%. 1120 ops. Kid is going to be fun to follow.

No, bad first round draft picks happen every single year to good and bad teams. In fact, once you get past the 5th pick youd be happy to get a guy that contributes 8 WAR for his MLB career.

Pretty comical to compare a kid who won the award for college baseballs best defensive 3rd baseman to a guy who couldnt even play 1st base at an 8th grade level.

These things really kill me. Celebrity deaths typically don't have much impact on me. I always try to save my emotional attachments for those around me but something about teammate deaths destroys me. The bond. The brotherhood. The love you have for even the guys you don't share the same views, political opinions, and moral compass with is immense. The reality and absolutness of death has always shook me. Its uncontrollable. The bond you make being around your guys 150 days a year in college and even high school+travel is amazing. I go almost an entire year without seeing my old teammates from college and high school - sometimes longer - as I've gotten older but every year we host all the guys at my parents home over the 4th of July - where I'm headed now. Everytime we see each other, it's like we never missed a beat or an at bat. This year it's only going to be 11 of us as families grow and commitments cause us to go a year or two without making the time, but it'll be a great time and is one of my favorite times of year. Even losing one of those guys now would be like losing a piece of myself as I grew up. I cant even imagine losing one of the pieces of the clubhouse while you're playing. Everyone had their roll and their impact and not having that person around leaves such a massive hole. Trout's tweet summed it up so well. I know their mothers and fathers... brothers and sisters... and now their wives and kids. The loss for me, selfishly, would be hard enough but you've bonded with their loved ones and imaging the loss for them just destroys me. It's no different than celebrity deaths and I wish I could seperate my emotions from it like I do theres but something about being in a clubhouse for so long makes it so much more personal even though rationally that makes no sense because it's not my clubhouse in regards to skaggs. Life is so fragile and unpredictable. Sometimes you can lose track of that along the way... until something that feels so personal despite being so distant, slaps you upside the face and reminds you to cherish your time with those who helped you grow because their impacts are infinite despite their life being uncertain. RIP Tyler. You were far too young.