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If the plan is to sign high school kids overslot that you have worked out an agreement with and Round 11 allows you to not count the first $150k against the pool, wouldn't you always wait until Round 11 to do so?

FROM WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN!!!!!

We just drafted a guy that doesn't have a position listed on mlb.com. Is that good?

So its likely that anyone else exciting will be a Round 11 or later pick?

One time I had to go to Minooka/Morris to give a presentation for work. Afterwards, I walked to a pizza place with slot machines to call for an uber and charge my cell phone. The waitress laughed and said "we don't have ubers out here" and asked me where I was going and I said "downtown" and she responded "which downtown?" About two hours later, the restaurant was going to close and the waitress asked her dad to drive me to a Holiday Inn because nothing else was open. Just then, an uber showed up. They were nice people. I'm rooting for Nate George.

Do we think we are gonna get the Minooka kid? Is that this year's overslot local prep named George?

Strategically, why wouldn't you draft your money savers after drafting the high school guy you want?

Marlins just drafted a guy named Fenwick Trimble. I know nothing about him except his name but I'm willing to bet he has asked someone "Do you know who my father is?" at some point in his life.

So "selecting in defiance of MLB braintrust" means he was lower on mlb pipeline's ranking's than where he got picked? Isn't that like half of the picks in this portion of the draft?

This is probably a very stupid question but let's say you are the White Sox, you don't love any of the top players and next year, you have the 10th overall pick at best. What prevents them from drafting Hagen Smith #5 overall and then saying "We'll offer you $4,000,000 and not a penny more." If they sign him, they get him for a huge discount. If they don't, they get pick #6 in a much better draft next year. Do you need to show bad faith?

I'm always amazed at how fast these later rounds go. When I do fantasy drafts with 11 other guys and a much smaller player pool, there's a million instances of "Wait, did X get picked?" and taking more time than needed... Granted, we are talking about large staffs of serious prepared people, not a dozen drunk guys... but its still impressive.

If he's bad and the team decides they don't want him next year, can't they just easily cut him? Its not like he has a guaranteed contract and he's making a ton of money.

What's the significance of him being pre-FA, still on arb? A quick look at deals from the last year show Garret Cooper, Jiman Choi, Josh Bell, Jace Peterson, AJ Pollock, Carlos Santana all got moved and none of those guys were very good.

Guys like Dejong, Pham, and Vaughn etc. get moved all the time at the deadline.

That would be awesome.

I'm very curious about the times you have pretended to be a billionaire.

Its amazing they are as bad as they are with the starting pitching they have gotten.

Go through my post history. I have said most of the guys on the team suck. I haven't even made any statements about Eder except about a month ago I said he was lining up to debut in the majors within the next year and some of the usual suspects acted like I was making outlandish assumptions. The guy is the 27th man today and will probably go to AAA next... A normal response from WS2023 and TRU would be, "Yeah, he's probably up sooner rather than later." Not trying to argue they are still correct. You can think the team is bad and still live in reality.

So you two are digging in and still think he's two years away. Got it.

Seems like just yesterday WS2023 was saying Eder was more than a year away from the majors.

lol these Baltimore guys are so weird.

What should we expect for Pham? An ok bullpen arm or is there a chance to get a future every day player?

Elias is a p****. Crochet will go to a team with a GM that isn't.

TLR is "Special Advisor to the Executive Vice President" but they no longer have an Executive Vice President.

A group of pioneers are on the Oregon Trail heading west. The group is led by Kenneth and Richard who recruited the pioneers and obtained all the wagons, oxen, and supplies. The front left wheel keep breaking on the large wagon every month. There is an ox that seems to pull its muscles seemingly every time you cross into a new state. One of your best hunters who spent too much time at the Saloons in Northwest Indiana keeps getting dysentery. Gerald, the patriarch of the group gets embarrassed that the group is taking longer than it should to travel the trail. He tells Kenneth and Richard they are no longer allowed to lead everyone. He appoints Christopher to take their place when they reach Idaho. They stop at a little town outside Boise. Christopher would love to get rid of that faulty wagon wheel and get a new one, buy a brand new healthy ox, and find a hunter who is more dependable. Gerald tells him he doesn't have enough money left. They only have enough to get a used spare wagon wheel, a mule in case the strong ox gets hurt again, and give hunting lessons to a young kid in the travel party. It is less than ideal, but they only have to make it one more state before they get to their destination and can rid themselves of all the crappy stuff Kenneth and Richard purchased. Once they get to Oregon, they will be free to start anew. Immediately after leaving town, the ox pulls his hamstring, the hunter passes out due to illness, and the wagon wheel cracks in half. They put the reins on the mule, hand the rifle to the young hunter-in-training, and replace the wagon wheel with the makeshift spare. It is taking the group longer than most anyone has ever took to travel from Idaho to Oregon. Three guys in the back of the travel party keep blaming Christopher and saying "he should have known" about the wheel, hunter, and injury prone ox.