bmags

In terms of refocusing to "just gettin stuff", I really don't think I'd have issue at 7 with many guys. Even if they took Reddish I'd get it, and it'd probably be worth shooting your shot (sorta like Malik Monk albeit it didn't work out) with a guy with that skillset. But assuming the absolute locks that Williamson, Morant and Barrett are all gone, in order of my preference its 1) Jarrett Culver 2) Darius Garland 3) Coby White 4) Deandre Hunter (more for fit, he is likely above white otherwise) 5) Reddish 6) Hayes 7) Clarke Trade back guys Nickeil Alexander Walker, Bol Bol, Grant Williams If we picked up a future lotto protected first, traded back and got NA-W? I wouldn't hate it! If we got Culver I'd deem that really successful, Garland really nice, White pretty normal, and I seriously could buy into any of the guys behind even though some fit questionably as our health and rotation is so thin.

The bigger takeaway from tampa, as ever, is getting that direct comparison in an organization that commits to player development and squeezing value out of every asset, and the white sox.

I think the vandy commits are ones that you could get in play for with that, depending on how you feel about leiter, jones, and ss volpe. Walston and Espino would be in play too.

The Rutschman falling stuff makes me so happy.

Rooting for Walker, but still, strange choices to me. Alek Thomas is doing really well in A ball, also with great BB:K numbers. Signed for 900k less. Instead of pilkington could have gone after one of the many high school arms in round 3 with 1.5 million. Just not a fan of the draft strategy recently. Milwaukees was beautiful.

When I was unhappy with them, it was not "oh no we may not be able to trade for Andrew Cashner to replace Manny Banuelos"

I suppose worst case scenario would be robert/cease failing. But it's hard at this point to say the sox have any more than two top 100 players active (i.e. kopech/dunning injured). Luis Gonzalez, with a 16% k rate, is having a more acceptable form of failure. Numbers like Forbes as well, are when you can say "well birmingham". Basabe is 60 pas into a injured wrist rehab, sure. Adolfo's injuries make him hard to ever rely on. Rutherford is hopefully starting digging himself out of the hole, but again this is where Luis Gonzalez type failure is more acceptable than this. Krate skyrockets, walk rate plummets, power still not there. He is maybe 10% of the value he had when we acquired him. Sheets, I'm starting to think he may not be anthony rendon. Again, no growth, has proved to not be a prospect. For whatever hope that Nunez found a bat last year, that's gone. Curbelo repeating and healthy, and is terrible. Sosa, sweet sosa, is perfectly acceptable to repeat in low a, and is starting to dig back out. You wait until the year end, but not a fast mover anymore. The collection of arms is just a series of low stuff, low control up and down. The college relievers have been injured or lack control. The depth is non-existent. The box scores the last 2 years have always had something interesting. This feels like 2015 all over. However, there is AAA, where guys have founds some life. Collins is showing how that profile can succeed. Mendick is absolutely showing he can be a Saladino level guy. Zevala fighting out of that early hole. And of course, Alcides escobar is amazing. Can't wait for pioneer/azl, where we can feel positive thoughts watching our too old draft picks destroy the league and think we've found a diamond in the rough.

I doubt it was any team that high. Someone probably just guaranteed him a floor. If a top ten team asks for a private workout he’s taking it, but no need to go through combine if a team saw what it needed.

Mendick On pace for a 20/20 season

That’s not true. 2013-2016 is 4 seasons. 2017-2019 is 3 seasons.

Hmm, that doesn't match up with old Mikey asking around the league if Gar and Pax are good and being told they are stupendous.

Was. One of the things about copy/pasting the career numbers into your expectations for a player in their age 34 year after a steep second half decline is a) those players get injured and b) they tend to start declining.

The defense would be so hilarious. I have a hard time believing kemba would take a 20 mill deal to the bulls, because Charlotte should absolutely be able to pull him for more money at that point.

This was when I thought they'd be getting Brantley and I questioned whether that was a wise use of resources - pre Jon Jay/Yonder lol

I don't think so. Process is important. And also he's one of the longer tenured GMs at this point, had he come on in 2017 I don't think there is as much discussion.

Right, that's my point. We shouldn't take the sox having a large presence and media rumors of being big on Abrams as being a tell on having him higher than Witt/Rutschmann in the same way we take it that they are higher on Abrams or Vaughn. It's a dog bites man thing. Vaughn was expected to be above Abrams for sox because of how college heavy they've been. But Witt has also been a consensus top player for a while, and we don't specifically know that being on Abrams means sox have him above Witt in the same way we can now assume they have him ranked higher than Vaughn.

He'll get TJ. So will everyone else.

Seth Johnson is probably a huge pipe dream as that seems like the prototypical comp round pick but man I would loooove it.

lol

pretty sure if Madrigal had a 60 raw power grade on him you would not be as nervous. Much more likely a 6'1 180 string bean likely to get up to 195 taps into power through physical growth than the 5'8 165 lb guy. But hey, Urias is suddenly a 25 hr guy in AAA in PCL. The juiced ball thing is kinda real.

Dayton Moore put together a team that made World Series twice yet if KW was fired and Moore hired the next day I would not be jumping for joy. Given the position, division, length of tenure, obvious deficiencies in player development, scouting and strategy, making playoffs twice in a decade is not enough for me to say Hahn is a success.

One thing I'm sure of, no way they can sneak Priester to 45. He's too obviously open to signing and talented for teams to not just draft him and dare him to go juco/college. And I'm sure dude looks at carter stewart and would take the money.

We don't hear of sox in on Rutschmann though either. I think it's just a matter of witt being so likely to KC. If Sox are convinced of Rutschman/Witt as 1-2, their big decision would be Abrams/Vaughn. But if Rutschman is I don't believe for a second sox pass despite being all over Abrams.

Another Braves Fan 2:02 In reference to the NL teams that already have top tier first basemen, if Vaughn falls to them, why not take him anyway? A bat of that caliber would surely be a very valuable trade chip, even if those NL teams won't use Vaughn themselves. Kiley McDaniel 2:04 Have you seen the FA market for 1B? What if he ends up being CJ Cron instead of Pete Alonso or Goldschmidt? You took a guy with a small margin for error that you can't use and everyone knows you have to trade him. I'd still take him, but that's the argument on the other side. +++ oh hey

Beautiful write-ups, can't believe they still have stott top ten though.