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Escobar is going to be up isn’t he

Omg just realized I’ll be in NC the week of July 13th but I bet that will be too early to see him in W-S

Or turn off the lights! oh wait that didn't work.

unfortunately with colome's blown save his value probably cratered.

I'm impressed winston salem hasn't absolutely cratered since Madrigal was promoted.

It's really impressive to see Rutherford and also h/t to sheets fighting back after such a brutal start. If they can sustain and finish year above a .700 ops that's a big win in my book.

just going to pin this for a bit.

I would bet Sanchez does, fangraphs already has.

KC Johnson has made sure we all know that we are still not planning to sign anyone good, as we are onto the 2022 plan.

Asik was removed from Bulls salary cap as a med exemption, adding another 3 million.

He’s going to report the signings just not evaluate them right?

There were some fascinating articles and decisions made by Baseball America today. First, BA is not going to rank this class: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/why-were-not-ranking-the-top-july-2-prospects/ And it's largely because of this: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/trainers-mlb-teams-unhappy-with-current-international-signing-system/ So if not a subscriber, teams are signing players earlier and earlier, basically indicating the class of 2021 is being worked on now. As soon as a player signs, he stops working out for other teams, so Badler cannot get up to date reports on how players that were 14 when signed have progressed (they are now 16!) excerpt: " So from a practical standpoint, it doesn't make much sense to write up our usual reports and rankings. I don't want to put my name or Baseball America's name on a list just for the sake of having a list. I don't think that's the right thing to do, especially when we're writing about kids who are 15 and 16 years old. I don't think it's fair to the players, I don't think it's fair to the teams and I don't think it's responsible for us mislead our readers by publishing surface-level information that would be heavy on uncertainty. That's why we have a new plan for how we're going to cover the top 2019 international signings that's different from what we typically do. Normally, we review each team's international signing class the following year beginning in March, with scouting reports on every player who signed for at least $125,000. Those International Reviews end up containing around 300 scouting reports on international signings. Instead, we are going to move those International Reviews earlier in the calendar to publish them later this year, after the end of the 2019 season. That gives us the opportunity to give you better information on these players. The reports will account for how players look in the Tricky League (an informal league for July 2 signings), U.S. instructional league and Dominican instructs. That means our July 2 coverage will be delayed a few months, but the end result will be more comprehensive coverage earlier and better quality information that, I hope, adds more value for our readers and is fair to everyone involved in the international baseball community." First, I respect the hell out of Cooper and BAdler for doing this, they may be losing a lot of readership for the list which I know I subscribed to get. Second, this is crazy. This is taking something that's already a crapshoot, and making it an even crazier crapshoot.

Absolutely, I mean that would be making the best of the situation, but I'm just saying if they didn't sign Dalquist (which isn't likely unless his physical was terrible), even if we sign these guys I would not feel like the situation was salvaged. I'd take 1 dalquist over 4 of these trenkle, britt, etc in a heartbeat (even though tinstaapp)

Behind each of those cores you mentioned was a substantial number of prospects beneath them that have been used to supplement the core through trades or adding to the ball club. So yes, depth behind the main pieces will be very important, or else we need to rely on free agency to constantly fill gaps.

Hey if you haven't read the mvp machine I'd really recommend it, it has a few stories on fixing the yips for players.

I am struggling with honestly evaluating their international pipeline in the face of Robert, however, I think with the penalty I wanted a restocking, and spending so much on Sanchez doesn't do that. What we are talking about is a fairly normal class, and despite maybe getting some productive players in 17/18 (jose rodriguez, bailey/already forgot the pitcher), they were light on volume.

it's just that a fully formed, actualized version of this signed for 2.5 million to play this year (Jose Iglesias). Considering the huge value that could be created from international it's a crappy use of resources to me.

I hope Glass signs, but the quality of the three you mentioned isn't really that appealing to me. This isn't trying to get Mo Hampton in the 13th round. These guys are not even in the top 500 prospects from BA, and we wouldn't even have that much savings to go after them. It's not franchise crippling but the high schoolers we are talking about getting aren't like, that great of backup plans.

This is true, and frankly I'm not sure how to square the idea of frustration that we haven't gotten enough out of our international pipeline while also it is impressive to have generated two top ten prospects out of it (Tatis Jr, Robert). But part of my issue is I just don't think it functions that well outside of older Cuban talent. Theoretically the sox will give credit to this group for Abreu, Tatis, and Robert. We, unfortunately, feel very little benefit to having had tatis. And we do benefit from Robert and Abreu, but that is a pipeline nearly dried up (older, cuban professional players). And the best successes to date we've had from the traditional market (which again, is probably not fair to exclude Tatis from) is Adolfo, who was a premier signing. I'd say our best work has been when we've tackled the top of the market, but you could also say the sox have only done so when paddy has provided a high recommendation. But why I say they do one thing and say another is that they really missed out in getting a monster signee class that has fueled some other farm systems. 2016 in total dollars is large due to Robert, and I am high on due to Sosa, Comas and Mieses. But we did not go way over as many did for a 40+ person class, and even 15 and 14 and 13 were fairly modest in terms of numbers. Robert, at this point, may very well all be worth it. But as we returned to the market I wanted to stock up on a bigger class, exactly what you mentioned, and instead they are going after an older, more secure prospect with half the budget. Paddy's scouts clearly have some eye for talent, I just wish they'd take more chances.

Everyone giving credit to Dr Chao when I was first calling it a sprain smdh

Let’s hope it’s just a sprained ankle?

Going to choose to believe Brady McConnell made 4 throwing errors...

So did I miss when Curbelo was demoted to Great falls or is this rehab?

Boring night. Needs Robert dingers.

Well, considering they took seniors for 5-10 that would be a huge screwup but regardless he’s signing