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Wow a sheets grand slam

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He’s an interesting guy. Just keeps producing, hard to know what to make of it. keep doing your thing kubat

Zangari homer. not an exciting night so far

You can't offer a QO twice so no.

I do think getting a respected vet like Dallas Keuchel would be good for rest of rotation to learn what it takes to be an MLB pitcher but you could get other dudes for that.

Manny INABADuelos

Nice, you are missing the capitalizations though that he uses to make sure that we got it BADly RUSHED'em

The only downside to Adley is I an already picture ron coming with the worst nickname.

from BA Defensively, Rutschman has all the tools to be a plus defender at the position. He has a strong arm, impressive receiving and blocking ability and excellent footwork on throws to second base, with a quick exchange from his glove to his release. Some scouts would like to have seen Rutschman throw more frequently this spring, but teams have run against him infrequently—and for good reason. Like most catchers, speed is Rutschman’s weakest tool and the only tool that doesn’t project as plus, but that’s hardly a concern moving forward. Most scouts believe Rutschman has a chance to be an All-Star-level player in the majors as an impact bat in the middle of the order while also bringing plenty of defensive value. With excellent makeup and plenty of natural leadership traits, Rutschman has all the intangibles teams like to see from their backstops. He is the best catching prospect since Buster Posey in 2008 and Matt Wieters in 2007.

Texas will be a fun series, pretty similar teams.

We are only a few short days away from adding DSL games, and then just a few weeks from GFL/AZL.

i'm excited so gonna work through my Adley* mock. The adley mock assumes he may come with no savings or above slot (a la rodon) 1. Adley 2. Campbell 3. James Beard

Jirschele has consistently won with some of the weaker rosters in the org. I don't know what it means. Obviously Madrigal is underperforming a bit and now Walker, but as a whole it seems like he's gotten a lot out of his guys and I wonder if he does best at integrating the newer player dev stuff.

The sad parts is revising my 2nd round pick options. There is a college heavy version of the draft that player type wise would be annoying but player wise I still like enough: 1. Vaughn 2. Ethan Small 3. Sikkema But, otherwise I think this is interesting 1. Vaughn 2. Yordys Valdes 3. Quentin Holmes (4 lyfe) Valdes Cuban background maybe means he won't require as much to sign for a HS SS. He is a pop-up guy, and I believe may be same scout that scouted collins so he may hold a lot of sway. Draft is gonna be fun.

Gotcha. I listened to the Hostetler interview yesterday. I just have this gut feeling that he is negatively reacting to the fangraphs mock which has been putting them on Abrams. And the color commentary about KW being involved is so much like last year. So I would not be shocked at all if sox go Vaughn. As I've said, last year it was Singer. The year before it was Jeren Kendall and JB Bukauskus. The year before it was Rutherford/Ray. Now, it's a lot freakin harder mocking 10/11 than 3/4. But maybe people read too much into sox scouting preference, or bad agent info.

the chances Abrams would slide to 16 are slim to none. To 6? Possible. There is a top 6 and different preferences within it. I like all of the top 6 too.

So it went from 60-40 vaughn to 50-50 Adley, since presumably the other 50 isn't exclusively Vaughn. I wonder if its negotiation tactics or what.

Frank Thomas was probably a 99% percentile outcome for Frank Thomas. Assigning essentially 1.000 OPS outcomes as Vaughns floor is ridiculous. Exclusively for Vaughn we are supposed to assign their absolute max with certainty and go off of that? It's not that easy.

Vaughn really pulls at me. I really am not opposed to him as much as I really like the opportunity to get a player like Abrams. But the part that the article hits on for me is: yes, Goldschmidt was drafted in 7th round, but that was a huge mistake! He would quite obviously go top 5 in that redraft (I don't want to look it up but I know trout was 2009 so assuming there may be a few better from it) So the question is will the market correct itself in identifying players that will perform so well (hoskins, goldschmidt, etc) and drafting them higher, and making them as hard to acquire as an athletic shortstop in the future? He is going to just rake for the first 2 years, and it will bite at me the whole time. It's a really hard question. I mean if we walked away the first three rounds with Vaughn and could afford Hampton and then get my new hearthrob antoine kelley in the 3rd? That's an insane draft. We'll see what happens. As I said, I like pretty much all of our options.

The BA500 is obnoxiously formatted too, you have to click read more like 50 times. I would imagine this is a scout issue. They have virtually every SEC Junior/Senior. BA does a lot of legwork but is located in NC. They do great work but I'm guessing the difference between guys beyond 200 and those left off are more about contacts. It's an impossible task for a team like that. More than that, I do wonder if midwest/northern scouts may like their "hidden gem" status and try to keep guys secret.

Not in their 500

I've decided that despite it being unneccessary I don't really care anymore and if they extend him it's a nice move. His game calling is so nice. Even if his offense regresses you can easily get rid of the contract OR still pair him with a better catcher. Depends on price. Catchers that are working this well with the staff are worth keeping.

Hodges BA Writeup Also of Illinois dudes, Michael Massey has a nice college write-up. Oooh, Antoine Kelley, come on down: thanks @GenericUserName for the heads ups