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Another interesting one regarding Acuna

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs...s-as-braves-gm/ Wow. Resigns apparently due to impropriety regarding their LatAm program. Considering what happened with BoSox, this must have been significantly worse, will be interesting to see what happens. John Hart is still their President of baseball ops.

QUOTE (OmarComing25 @ Oct 2, 2017 -> 01:43 PM) Good list, I'd add Jones' injury to the bad. Before the season he was in our top 5 trade chips but now he has little to no value. Yikes good point.

I'm tied with another team, with tyreke hill vs. kareem hunt tonight, best fantasy performance wins. The only reason I'm in this position is we have 1 defensive player, and I had that random game where he had a pick6 and got me 20 pts.

For most of year I felt like this was going about as well as it could go, then the Rodon news. The bad: Rodon's shoulder Burdi's elbow Anderson's first half Fulmers first 4/5s of season Saladino The good: Improvement from virtually all pitching prospects (sans fulmer) Generally good health production way over expectations for AAA-Majors players that were not top prospects. (How many years did we bring up these players with not a lot of hype outwardly but decent AAA numbers and they just fell flat on their face. I expected a whole lot of Asche's and Jacob Mays, but everything after that was thrilling to me) We built up our prospects this year and basically had one flame out (fulmer) before becoming something to think about. That's good.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 2, 2017 -> 12:04 PM) It’s actually much harder to try and fix the how. But it’s worth it. That's actually Taylorst's own argument.

Bullpen is so weird. Seems like when one has a bad night they all do. All good together all bad together. And they've been mostly good. How the heck are we winning this game.

QUOTE (elrockinMT @ Sep 29, 2017 -> 07:17 PM) I think Pelfrey has sealed his fate. I doubt he will back next year. It's already 7-0 Indians He got pretty screwed in that Sox run inning.

6-0 tribe

4-0 tribe with Delmonicos impressive tank

Yeah i'd do it too. We just have so little longterm assets and frankly in 4-5 years when it would really hurt, I don't see that contract still being that insane unless tv revenues truly crash. But MLB is the one sport that I think handles it.

Demps to IR. no. more. old. safeties.

Considering upcoming drafts and the current system, do people think there is really that much risk in holding onto assets like Abreu/Garcia even if it means no return (aside from performance)? I'm really not that worried and a lot happens in 2 years. See what we were like in 2015.

Jimenez was one of my favorite prospects so I'm glad it worked out the way it did. But, I'm not writing off these guys yet as failed. Glasnow definitely looks like he may be a BP piece, however.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 29, 2017 -> 03:01 PM) Part of the issue is Albies would have had to replace either Anderson or Moncada. I think the Sanchez comparison was a way of hand-waiving away the somewhat troublesome process that would be. I heard for 2-3 years how Yolmer wouldn't stick at short because he had a weak arm, then we just put him at 3b and he's been awesome. All 3 of those guys can play "infield". Albies can play all 3. Moncada can play 2b/3b. If the cubs can make happ/zobrist/russell/baez/bryant work, we could have made them work. And while albies is not your typical power 3b, an infield of Moncada/Anderson/Albies would be unbelievably fast and athletic, and a very diverse set of hitters. It ultimately doesn't matter now. But with the draft next year we shouldn't shy away from MI because our current set-up. But more importantly, if there is a player i'd bet on to succeed, it's these 3 checkboxes: - Performs well at a young age - Good approach at plate - Plus defensive player (which likely means above average speed) Long term really don't think his power profile is that different than Anderson, who in juiced ball era is a 20 hr player.

The Collins improved at D stuff hasn't really come from anyone other than the white sox. Haven't seen a good report by any prospect source. He may be fine there, but it's still a question mark.

I was one of a few very pro Albies voices when we thought he may be here in a trade. Slashline for first 54 games .281/.354/.443 with 5 hrs, 8 doubles and 5(!) triples. 36 Ks to 21 BBs. 7 of 8 stolen bases. Soxtalk slapped a Yolmer Sanchez label on him and couldn't see past it.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 29, 2017 -> 01:15 PM) That is pretty reasonable. With three of the top guys graduating, it does open up more spots than I was thinking. I agree those are our top 4, and there is a pretty clear gulf between Hansen and whoever is #5 right now. #5 probably does make sense TBH. But still, the fact that we are going to make a top 5 pick and they will be still rated that low is pretty crazy. Yeah, and it will be interesting. This shouldn't and doesn't matter, but if you get a player like Singer it's likely a top 45 prospect right away. High schoolers slot a little farther down. But very likely we have a top-75 player right off the bat.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 29, 2017 -> 01:05 PM) How crazy is that we are going to get a top 5 pick and they might not be a top 5 prospect for us. I'd be surprised if they weren't with graduations. Jimenez, Kopech, Hansen, Robert but I'd imagine our top 5 pick slots in at 5 and possibly 4 ahead of Hansen.

I agree, that seems likely to accelerate it.

QUOTE (GermanSock @ Sep 29, 2017 -> 11:17 AM) I think the priority should the the first pick and not the over slot signing in the second round. Now if you can do both that is ideal but the over slot thing makes most sense if you have a comp pick in the 20s because the new cba likely means less players dropping due to signability issues. Definitely don't sign a mediocre top pick for a second rounder. Not advocating "mediocre" top pick. But the HS top picks recently have taken lower amounts, than what we've seen from the top college pitchers like McKay/Wright.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Sep 29, 2017 -> 10:56 AM) White Sox 2nd rounder will likely be in the 42-46 range. BUt Joe Gray was rated 26 in the prep group.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Sep 29, 2017 -> 11:30 AM) They have one more thing in common, getting majorly overhyped simply because they are white UDFA wide receivers. The entire league could have claimed Gentry off waivers recently and chose not to. Are we to believe that Ryan Pace is just that much smarter than everyone else? Well Pace thinks he is, but that's a different topic. I hope Gentry proves me wrong, but let's take a step back here. Marquis Wilson was also endlessly hyped. the fringe players that play big in preseason become fan favorites, then, ala christian jones, you realize with the starters they are just kinda okay and easily replaceable. But in this case, all of our receivers are kinda okay and easily replaceable. So I'm fine with getting someone a little different. But, because Glennon doesn't know what 15 yards down field looks like, I'm also a fan of cohen/that baltimore RB lining up as WRs more and just doing a lot of horizontal routes.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Sep 29, 2017 -> 10:38 AM) preferably at the 1st down marker or past it rather than 5 yards in front of it Don't be crazy, best not to try to get the first down and have an incompletion when you can marginally improve your field position. But then you realize Pat O'Donnell is your punter.

QUOTE (Iwritecode @ Sep 22, 2017 -> 10:56 AM) This season of American Horror Story has been horrible. Last season was a struggle to watch but this one is even worse. Most of the actors that were in most, if not all, of the previous seasons haven't come back. I've never watched the show but this is what kinda takes me out of shows like that (and black mirror, etc). WIll you pick it up again next year? I really didn't like season 3 of fargo, and I'm wondering if I'll go back for season 4, if I'll even know it occurs.