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Hickman has been playing first for a while.

Monster day for Curbelo so far, 2-3 with a 2b and a HR

Adolfo just hit a 3 run homer

As we saw with Curbelo, key for these more raw HS kids is to keep them healthy so they can take advantage of the additional pro development.

For all the talk of hit tool, I’ve been impressed seeing Cabera Weaver taking some walks early on.

I hope Sosa wasn’t injured last night.

It feels like Friday nights are usually big offensive nights.

Mendick with his 9th homer in SL. pretty surprising power from him.

Great start to the day! (If you exclude the horribly depressing majors)

Yeah, though you could say he just lost his legs and he'll be much better conditioned for basketball, something that conditioning for is hard to recreate. I wouldn't say that, because I have very little confidence in Lavine being good.

The weird thing to me is there feels like a huge disconnect between how their top 100 lists play out and their interviews about players. I like their interviews, but pipeline basically hedges by saying like 90% of prospect are between 45 and 55 FV, and they are so slow to drop players clearly having difficulty at higher levels.

PIpeline is so conservative with dropping players down. Curious how many would take Rutherford over Adolfo at the moment

http://www.milb.com/scoreboard/index.jsp?cid=&lid=&org=145&sc=&sid=milb&t=affiliate&ymd=20180622 In DSL news, Jose Rodriguez was 0-3 with a K.

I'm surprised Callis didn't drop Robert from the way he was talking about him. Nothing negative, he just sounded like he felt they placed him too aggressively early.

Not really getting Ricky's strategy here.

The only positive sounding thing you could spin about Trayce's offense is he would have been in the top 15 of best offensive pitchers, except he also got about 10x the at bats of most of those people.

The exit velos of balls hitting off Palka's glove are insane.

Interesting lineup possibilities now LF - Sanchez CF - Palka RF - A Garcia 3b - Davidson SS - L Garcia 2b - Moncada 1b - Abreu C - Anderson DH - Engel

I do think Lavine will be valuable when he realizes his limitations, but I don't want to pay a max deal for a jr smith/jamal crawford type.

You guys don't know how to enjoy a good thing. Leury is maybe the best example sox have had in developing a position player recently. Leuryforever.

LEURY IS BACK!

Also relevant to this all:

I think this also is why I support what the Mavs did. A lot of drafts have these "Well they are the best player this year" guys, if you think Doncic is a different level go get him. It's NOT like trading a draft pick for a veteran, they'll get Doncic on rookie level pricing and will get all of the advantages of that.

I'm also wondering at what point they give Hoiberg a roster that isn't fighting against the basic elements of his system.

The benefit to trading future value for current is the certainty of who you get, but it requires certainty Doncic becomes a star and not a mediocre guard. I believe Doncic is better than what the typical years top 3 draft pick offers, and so getting him is better than the potential get next year.