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That’s interesting to me cuz clearly Law has Kopech>>>Cease. BP obviously disagrees. Cease of last year with more fastball command was at least Kopech’s equal. Hopefully he gets it straightened out the way Kopech did the second half of last year.

My bad. Cease not eligible cuz currently in the bigs. Law has an unusual criterion there.

Robert is 9, Vaughn is 12, Kopech 25, no Madrigal, no Cease. Very, very high on Kopech, just waiting out the injury. Believes Robert’s ability to handle inside heat is going to be deciding factor between tantalizing regular and star.

Neither Thomas nor Ventura played in low A. I believe both started at Sarasota in the FSL.

Zangari also stinging the ball lately. Still, hard to imagine Sheets, Burger, or Zangari beating out Vaughn.

Geez Ruiz!

Walked a guy hitting.120. Boy, the Tigers have a lot of guys having bad years.

A hit to a guy hitting .184. Sigh.

He is a right handed hitter who is horrific defensively. Might as well just put Andrew Vaughn out there. At least he would hit. Not to sound like Lillian, but Sox need a LH hitter out there, which is why I suggested a flyer on Polanco.

Ha ha. The difference isn’t the sport or the responsibilities. The difference is that the MLBPA has decided in concert with MLB to absolutely screw over young players to give that money to 35 year old DHs. Now that the steroid era is over, that might be changing. Owners know how lucrative this arrangement is and it will take a strike to change it. For the life of me, I can’t understand why people would rather see JR get the money than Michael Kopech.

I don’t like service time manipulation. Compare baseball to even rookie contracts in basketball and it is so unfair. Check out what Cody Bellinger is making this year v. Yonder Alonso. I hope that Kopech is ready to go next year from the jump because he is fun to watch. The only good reason to send him down is if he has issues ala Burdi.

Enjoy. I went last night, which was a mistake. Happy Cease Day, everyone.

“The money will be spent.” - Rick Hahn

I wonder what this means for Lenyn Sosa. Move to W-S? Or move to 2b? Probably the latter. With Zangari hitting better and Vaughn on his way, it is going to get crowded at Kanny.

I love that it’s not just Tatis’ brother, it is also his cousin. Salt meet wounds.

I am not disagreeing with you. I love Moncada. But for a longtime baseball fan, Chapman is super fun to watch over there.

Yeah, Chapman’s defense is insane. Worth the price of the mlb app.

It wasn’t a ranking, it was an article. You may recall that the trad was rumored for over a week before it happened. In that period he warned that it would be a huge mistake. Turns out, he undersold that.

I get that. I could see giving him ABs in AAA to sharpen his eye on outside breaking balls cuz that is how he’s going to be attacked, but fundamentally, I agree with you.

I am not convinced Robert is ready, but if you want to contend in 2020, isn’t better to let him adjust to the league now when the games don’t matter?

So what you are saying is that me, my brother, and Keith Law are from the future?

This implies that scouting is meaningless. According to Keith Law at the time of the trade, scouts from other orgs thought Tatis was good enough to go 1-1 in the following draft. Verlander was throwing way better than Shields at the time each was traded. It's not luck. The White Sox were dumb at the time of the trade, a lot of people said so. I thought it was a disaster at the rumor stage. My brother almost quit being a fan because of it at the time. This is not 20-20 hindsight.

You mean in Birmingham, right? Overall, Robert has the edge by a wide margin.

Congrats to Gio. Even last year he was one of my favorite people on the team, glad he's been rewarded for all his hard work. Described himself as a cool nerd and not that athletic. I can get behind a guy like that. As far as I'm concerned he's the anti-Jake Arrieta (my least favorite human to ever put on a baseball uniform.)

Hey, what did Skokie ever do to you?