Jose Abreu

Ha, exactly. By that logic, Zack Collins is going to be one of the most disciplined hitters in MLB history over an illustrious career

Thanks for sharing this. These are actual reasons to promote him, unlike "he doesn't strike out much so obviously he's ready"

Between Beard and Robert, we might have the two fastest players in professional baseball now. Robert has timed as faster than Hamilton before too. We'll see what his statcast numbers look like once's he's up in MLB

I'm definitely one of the few who still downloads music from iTunes on a regular basis so I'm unclear as to what this news means for me. I see "Music" will become its own app but am hoping that it is not exclusively for streaming

I have Vaughn underslot (very slightly) because if we did not draft him, he likely would have gone at 5, not 4, therefore we have a bit of leverage. For Thompson, I'm banking on his rough spring leading to him agreeing to take less. Since his stock was trending downwards, not upwards, we have some leverage there too. I like both picks a lot though, even if they sign for closer to slot value than I project. And yes, by my count (and it's really hard to find accurate data on this), he's the 4th player of Indian descent to ever be drafted by a MLB team (the two guys you mentioned were technically international signings IIRC. Their movie wasn't half bad by the way). As an Indian fan, it's just really cool to see. I'll always be irrationally pulling for him to rise up through our system.

After going 3-4 tonight, he's hitting .352 with a .972 OPS in AA. He's doing even better than Eloy by a significant margin now.

Yeah I don't know what DJ was thinking. That pitch was low. Quality AB

I do think that Gonzalez, the catcher from the 8th round, is at least a little intriguing. Patel also had great numbers this year, unlike some of the other senior sign pitchers, but there's not really any video of him

The people expecting Keuchel to be good after not pitching against pro hitters for 10 months are bound to be disappointed. I would honestly rather stick with Dylan Covey.

Vaughn and Thompson collectively will save us about $1,000,000 IMO.

Waiting until mid-June 2020 to call up Robert at this rate makes no sense. The absolute latest we should see him is late-April

Totally agree, it's just better than the alternatives IMO, aside from debuting him on the road or waiting until July (please no)

Yes we are out of the Super 2 range I believe, since the season started so early.

If they give him one more start in AAA, he'd have to debut against the Yankees or Cubs, which would go against their usual philosophy for pitching debuts

Patel is now my favorite draft pick solely because he's Indian

It isn't confirmed, as it's not something the team can really announce while he still has a scheduled start for Charlotte, but they also have done a pretty bad job at keeping it a secret

Dalquist is definitely overslot, and Beard most likely is as well. Every other pick we've made is probably underslot IMO.

Andrew Vaughn

How is Osmond still out there? Especially with the 2 way player craze

Ha, sure. If healthy though, Robert is gonna be a primary CFer for basically his whole career. Sort of like LoCain.

Unless Beard takes 15 years to develop, I don't think this will come to fruition

@bmags you've been killing it with the draft analysis and profiles (and moderation, I would assume), thank you

Jimenez

Last AAA start for Cease!