Jose Abreu

It's awful

Of course Leury and Moncada hit liners right at guys to start the game

The Crawford Boxes should be scared of all the baseballs he's gonna hit out there.

Same. Not sure why I waited so long!

Right. I'm just speaking to the hypothetical where they both got Alonso and Jay and were the high bidder

It can't hurt, in that case. Take every advantage you can get for a generational talent.

It was received that way because it was (wrongly) assumed that we would also be the high bidder

How is he gonna be a full time catcher when Tim Anderson already has it locked down?

I was about to complain about whoever reopened this thread of pain but this is actually useful info, thanks. Confirms my suspicions as well. We probably offered him something like 10/280

Maybe, but it's less of a reach than expecting 0!

4-3. This is baseball, not football

ELOY JIMENEZ

The Fangraphs update just gave Moncada a huge bump defensively. He is now at a -0.1 defensive rating, way up from ~ -3, and 14th in baseball (among 3B). As a result, he is currently sitting at 1.6 fWAR and is on pace for about 5.8 fWAR. I was against moving him to 3B originally, but I want him to stay there now.

Disappointed but not surprised that that's the only move. I was starting to buy into the idea that Mendick was out today because he too was getting the call.

Yup. Pretty much the reason we lost right here.

He was injured (ankle I think), missed a game, came back, realized it wasn't fully healthy, and now is taking a few days off to fully recover

TA7

I genuinely don't know if he could put up a .700 OPS in the Southern League this year.

That I agree with. There are just so many qualifiers and things that need to go right, which is why I'm still not a huge fan of them. They certainly are exciting when they work though.

It all depends on exactly how much he "mashes". A 180 wRC+ in AA (his current mark)? Sure, I guess I could see them keeping him there until mid-July. But if he raises that OPS above 1.1 and the wRC+ into the deep 200s? At that point, you're dealing with a guy who you almost have to promote to AAA, at least. The situation isn't even that unlikely, IMO.

If the bolded were the case, then every single MLB team would squeeze bunt nearly every time there's a runner on 3rd. Suicide squeezes are extremely risky.

Wouldn't mind seeing him in MLB soon. He now has 13 total starts in AA with great numbers at age 24, and there's a need at the MLB level. I would like to see him promoted to AAA after this start and, if he does well enough, join the MLB rotation in the second half of the year

Funny because I pronounce rout and route the same way, although I get what you were going for. To answer your question, I believe it's sk-OWg (so like rout in your analogy).

A decision working out doesn't mean it was the most favorable strategy

Agreed. This is probably their only chance to have an extended shot as starters in this organization unless they absolutely dominate AAA. I'd rather see them than someone we already know is a garbage, fringe MLBer