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It has been mentioned that AZL has been fun, it has been. AZL has often sucked while Great Falls was the fun one, where we sent older college prospects to face competition likely worse than what they just played against and laughed as they dominated. But the real progress we are seeing in AZL this year is about getting earlier production from Intl and HS prospects, though we just have not had a lot of HS prospects in general. A major caveat here is the rankings are based on qualified batters, so in some cases I fill in the gaps. I make a line in the sand in age to make a cohort 18 and younger for the rank columns, and total rank is for all players. What we see: Jose Rodriguez is producing really well! Will it matter? Well who knows. But the "suck in AZL and then be great" hasn't been a great route either. 2019 performers, wrc+, rank (total in class), rank (cohort) The noticeable thing? Jose Rodriguez and Gladney both top ten in their cohort. Ramos just after that. Lost in this is Diaz, who is only at 50 PAs, but would be basically our best by wrc+ (he's at like 195) 2018 Weaver and Comas were both respectable in being over 100, and both are doing fine in Great Falls. Mieses is performing way better this year. 2017 We were so pumped for Lenyn Sosa! He survived at 17 and dude keeps surviving. That's because this is a taste of what we looked at before 2016 Woof. And that was an improvement from 2015, when Nunez as a 17 year old had a .365 OPS, Alfaro had a .436 ops, Adolfo had a .636 ops and felix mercedes had a .625 ops. So, how does this fare against all players in AZL, from 2016-2019? Notice I included bush, who was so freakin good they moved him up right away. DJ Gladney, Ramos, Rodriguez all stick out, all top 6 in their literal ages, and top 15 in the 18 and under cohort. Bush would have led all of them had he stayed down at that same pace. So who are the league leaders 18 and under during this time? How did Tatis the Traded do? He had a 107 wrc+ as a 17 year old in AZL. Now, we know Abrams story, Ruiz is a top prospect for Royals, and the Giants have a bunch of high bonus latam players like Luciano who look awesome. Does this mean these guys will be top 10 prospects? No, but considering how few of the low production younger players we saw come through, and how Bush and Sosa who survived/thrived look like they can develop into top 20 guys, this means we may be really finding depth and improving latam scouting and drafting. And hopefully player dev. Let's see what happens next.

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But Gladney was 4-5 and now has an OPS over 900. Seems to get an Xbh every night.

So j guess this didn’t happen? Weird but the box score changed a lot from the game day box last night. Looks like the homer was Diaz and Rodriguez had a hit taken away at one point.

Being old sucks. The good news is I saw the Moncada homer the bad is I could not physically stay awake for Jose’s. but seriously holy crap Ruiz came into an inning and struck out three straight dudes?

James Beard homer number 2

Some guy saying Vaughn is actually 3-3 but I’m not sure he has the sequencing right.

DJ Gladney RBI single, Jose Rodriguez thrown out at home. Lost in this was Vaughn made an out like a bum!!!!!!!!

And then Jose Rodriguez hits a 2 run double.

This AZL team is so fun. Jose Rodriguez man.

Ujiri is a king there now.

Have him go up to 130 pitches

This is a nightmare.

atta boy ry ry

Two yolmer wall balls in last few games.

both california boys right?

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I'm quite fond with how mlb gameday handles balls in the dirt.

Man I really thought Toronto was gonna have two aces with Norris and Sanchez.

I knew mccann was gonna do it.

Reminds me so much of rodons first appearance.

breaaaathe

Exactly. A dunn that embraces his role could be very valuable, a Dunn that still tries to prove he's the dude and should be controlling the offense and holding the ball sucks and should be off the team.

Thabos probably better than I think they will get.

Yes, I think White at PG is more likely off the bench, and we may see Dunn traded to allow more wing depth. But it is much improved. It was such a drop off from every other non-knicks team.