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I guess AZL starts today. DSL had a rough one, the legend of jose rodriguez goes 0-4, and they are 4-hit shutout. AZL/GFL/DSL only games today with the ASBs http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?cid=&lid=&org=145&sc=&sid=milb&t=affiliate&ymd=20180618

https://youtu.be/VibS_MbyLnw Miguel Tejada video

From Sanchez https://www.mlb.com/news/best-of-the-rest-international-prospects/c-273927932

Just posting some stuff on these guys I can find.

Honestly if it's in the badler preview it's pretty much a done deal.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/al-central-2018-international-signing-forecasts/ Names Still tied to Miguel Tejada Jr (SS likely Corner) Still tied to Anthony Espinoza (true SS) Bryan Ramos (Cuba) (3b) Alberta Lemay Brenal (Cuba) Catcher

Players sorta interested in seeing what happens: Mendick - may be a bit premature but he handled AA well so far Remillard - Old for W-S, mostly fodder, but has performed well at High-A, though his lack of power could be rough in birmingham.

Moved discussion on promotions into its own thread.

Pulling out discussion from the megathread.

No Jose in DSL make jack a dull boy

Nice thanks. Was hoping they were off liners and not grounders down the line.

What did Sosa’s doubles sound like?

Glad there was a thread for this. At the game it was so incredibly confusing the whole 8th inning. Going through three bullpen arms in the seventh only to leave Minaya in WITH NO OTHERS warming up was maddening.

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Anxious to see if Lenyn Sosa can improve power this year while keeping good contact.

Yeah I would put it pretty close to 50/50. I believe that AA is the real "big test" for Eloy. That's a stadium and level that has sucked up and spit out our hitters for years. But AAA is a good test for kopech, in that it's both a bandbox, and with more experienced hitters it's the place to really modify his control. Eloy in Charlotte to me is just finding the right series to promote him again.

And a bit of me is like, you don't want to play for the spurs? Who knows if he's on the verge of becoming a complete primadonna.

Fun while it lasted https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1007676505562984450

And Chisoxfns dream begins: kawhi demanding a trade. just hope it doesn’t begin a Lebrun to LA/Kawhi to LA trade sitch

True but Parsons is so expensive you lose basically all of that flexibility you gain losing Lavine, and then the 4/7/22 is quite a bit of salary too.

Man I must not have been paying attention much, when did the bulls get a Faried (is that Kenneth?) Is this a weird 3 way trade with Denver?

It's really hard because I don't know if I"m being unfair to Lavine because of his struggles after an ACL. But I just don't believe in him being more than a JR Smith/Jamal Crawford type contributor to a winner and he'll be getting paid like he's a main guy. That said, if you don't get Doncic you will be building the weirdest team ever if you trade out Lavine. Basically a team of power forwards/centers in every position.

And TBH I'd be fine this winter spending on starting pitching (not dumpster diving) and if it pans out trading SP prospects for position players than relying on this group of SP to be the mets 2015 rotation.

It's just this always tends to work itself out, and worst case scenario you leave a bunch of guys in AAA for a while. That has worked out fine for the Tampa Bay rays, who get basically finished pitchers with control for essentially all of their prime years. And quite frankly, nobody deserves a promotion right now in AAA. And pitchers like Guerrero, he's a name we know but not a particularly good prospect at this point.

Yeah, shame they don't need frontcourt players, as that's where most of our win now guys are.