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You are still way too high on india.

Are you answering the question the OP proposed here?

I'll answer a question with a question - what do you think the Dodgers would do in that situation?

So that Blake Walston prep pitcher I've been crushing on for round 2, Law said he would be a tough sign which makes me just cross him off. Hard to compete with the multi-pick teams on guys like that.

What a disaster. This is going to like, end up getting back to Law in a chat "saw you put Vaughn ahead of Rutschmann!"

So, I accidentally flipped them. Rutschmann is still 1. My bad!

oh crap I am an idiot Everyone I screwed up 1 and 2. Rutschmann is 1. I'll edit. A note for all the quotes.

I'll take my chances. Victory laps after april tend not to last.

I received it in PDF so I have to type it out, so ranking is what you'll get but I'll summarize any questions you have. 1. Rutschmann 2. Vaughn 3. Witt 4. Carroll 5. Abrams 6. Green 7. Bleday 8. Bishop 9. Manoah 10. Lodolo Priester was at 20.

I, too, read "has not been bad" as "has been very good". Walks are in Ottavino's profile, his k's are there, he'll have variations but I would not be deterred by him back there. We'd give him more space to develop, but he'll always be valuable at deadline because he k's guys.

Uh, colome is 30. Do you think he's going to be our closer for the next generation or something? These guys purpose was to get us a stabilized back end. They will all need to be replaced when the time comes, and hopefully internally.

I mean, yeah, SSS is kinda a big part of that. And Ottavino has not been bad and has not had the light schedule we have had. Soria is fine, he had some bad luck.

Soria/Ottavino/Robertson.

These are the types of things that are oft-repeated but I'm not remotely convinced by. Colome has been traded 3 times, has less control and is more expensive now. We've seen what that type of profile nets you.

We will pay Colome probably 16 million over his 2 years here. Keep Narvaez, trade Castillo in offseason for nothing, even eat half, have an additional $12 million to commit to finding a closer in the free agent market. Sign mccann.

Also I'm just not a big josh jacobs fan, I think that Memphis rb is going to be the best RB from this draft.

I also have very little confidence that McCann will finish year above 100 wrC+ but I have loved his gamecalling, so I'm a much bigger fan than I was in offseason.

Why do people keep pitting decisions like Narvaez against McCann when it's as big of an indictment on Castillo. I know its heresy around here, but Narvaez actually improved defensively and is basically equal to what Castillo offers, but Narvaez is now a better offensive catcher and does not ditch his new team because he needed to roid to justify his contract. I still would have liked a better framer than McCann, but his gamecalling is legit and probably more important to advance our game calling from "fastball/slider through first three innings, then start throwing change" that was essentially all we did last year. But with Narvaez/McCann the sox would have the 5 and 7 best catchers this year according to fWAR, and a better DH/Catcher combo than Castillo, who is garbage.

I don't think this goes far enough. They really should just have him retire now, try to get him on the front office or managerial track. Could be a really good manager some day, and can't risk it.

A to A+ is legit, and there's no room in AA. But, yeah, he's very much on the Luis Gonzalez track - who himself could have been pushed a bit more aggressively. Another example of a reason not to get too upset about the post draft performance of players. Sucks because it gives you a "what if" with Burger too.

I need to watch this. A smaller commitment, but "I think you should leave" on netflix cracked me up over the weekend. 16 minute episodes, only I think 6 of them, all sketch comedy from Tim robinson. There's 4-5 sketches that I still think to myself and laugh, but definitely more absurd/dude humor, my wife didn't find it very funny.

https://theathletic.com/952627/2019/04/30/how-did-tim-anderson-get-here-by-listening-learning-and-believing-in-himself/ Gated - another fantastic article on Anderson. I'm not sure he should be AL player of the month, but an incredible start for him. He's such a fun player to watch.

I would be shocked if they were 10-6 in that division. I also wouldn't be so quick to call things upgraded, they added some players but i'm really not sure I believe in that coaching staff as developers. WR is better and RB is...maybe better? It depends whether their OL/DL picks/upgrades are actually good.

Raiders will be in a tough division but I kinda see them as just mediocre bad, not outright terrible this year. Sorta like a classic Dolphins team.