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Eh this doesn't phase me at all. His babip will be lower. He had an amazing year last year, but he's a great player. He can mitigate the loss of babip by cutting Krate even more, which is reasonable. But yeah, I quibble with the "didn't improve at all". His approach meant putting 9% more balls in play (reduced k/reduced BB), but those balls weren't just weak contact he was throwing on the ball. He found more pitches he could hit hard, and it may have been a flukey babip, but he hits the shit out of the ball so good things happen.

Shields is a FA still. We could still tilt this out way.

What should we argue about?

I couldn’t stop laughing reading the Cowley piece. Forman being reassigned lololol

Yeah that is some opening weekend

Eh, astros would definitely be fine with cheating their way to best record ever with no shame.

Just thinking of this makes me remember how much 2018 sucked. Giolito was the worst pitcher in baseball. Moncada was underperforming. Then Kopech comes up and all of baseball media is watching. We get two innings. Then the next start he’s blown out, his fastball is weirdly low and suddenly he’s gone for TJS. Eloy was the thing keeping it all afloat. 2019 everything just flipped on it’s head in the best way. But I think I still have worst case scenario 2018 thoughts around kopech, fun to think about how he could come up and shove.

I feel like “local prep position player” is something they have ignored a lot recently

love that bit about the change

Perfect game has him at Arkansas so I’ll hold out hope. Seems like an Indians guy though, he’s not the youngest but pretty young.

So if writeups (pretty much how I judge people) Masyn Winn is one of my favorites to maybe have budget for in round 2. Any big positives negatives around him? Guessing his bat is more raw.

yeah was implying college anything. Each draft is different though. Had we drafted last years draft at 11 I wouldn't have profiled any specific type, though I guess Manoah was fine. I think sox may have gone Priester then.

I'd be fine always going advanced college first round if they always experimented with preps in 2nd/3rd/4th like last year

would buy a book of just passan articles on this : https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/28693762/what-make-houston-astros-owner-jim-crane-public-non-apology

Naturally. That sucks. The previews certainly made the tone look heavily slapstick/american vs the slow burn embarrassment of Force Majeure. But was hoping it would be int he line of "in the loop" and veep type comedies.

@Harold's Leg Lift mentioned from that Rutherford's exit velos were high last year so ideally he finds the swing that works for him.

Ugh...yeah the excitement of baseball is always tempered by UCL season. Hope it truly is just he worked too hard and is fatigued.

It infuriates me that Manfred let Crane get off so easy without pushing him to admit this helped his team.

Here's my hope: No UCL tears, no shoulders

It’s a good list but he sticks out like a sore thumb to me. He’d be in my 25-35 range. There are a number of guys above him that get more points from me for proximity/likelihood to majors and more promise. It is just very hard to square his production in Cuba, very bland production in DSL whole way older than the pitchers, with a guy who will find enough offense for me to care about his defense. Thats about where Beard would be for me, so 27/28.

Find it hard to believe head to head anyone would take Seattle’s over Tampa’s but yeah, Sox have a pretty filled diamond after selecting Vaughn.

I don’t want to hate on Yolbert forever but yeah I’d put a small bet that he doesn’t offensively outproduce Mendick at any full season level

This was a great post.

Yeah, if it shortened the regular season though that'd be great. It's a slog in september.

Right...can you imagine how demoralizing it would be if the 103-win yankees specifically picked the 101 win twins instead of some wildcard (granted, since astros would have picked first the yanks would have gotten twins anyway but hypothetically!) It would be a lot of fun.