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Yeah, but maybe their internal projections and philosophies aren't great. Some of the prospect analysts have been saying for a while now how Pit is one of the last teams telling pitchers to use more two seamers and sinkers while the rest of the league is going away from that. It was even reported that Glasnow threw a bunch more four seamers and higher in the zone in his first start with the Rays and was much more effective. I think the same thing happened with Gerrit Cole too. As for hitters, it looks like they have trouble helping guys tap into power and it looks like it might have effected Meadows as well.

Meadows and Glasnow have been really good with the Rays so far. If they can keep it up, this could be absolute robbery.

I think I saw a tweet saying he was supposed to pitch but the game got rained out. He is supposed to pitch tomorrow I believe.

Also maybe why he didn't trade Avilan and Cedeno. If we are competing next year it will be nice to have two lefty relievers in the pen that will probably be at least decent and we don't have to trade anything to get them. If we suck again at the deadline next year, then we can deal them and depending on what the market is like the difference of the extra year of control vs being a rental might not even be that big.

I hope they push him to Great Falls before the season is over. If they do there would probably be a good chance he could be in full season ball next year.

An .833 OPS in a pitchers park isn't too bad

Also going back to the Sheets power conversation, they have a current 70 on his raw while a current 40 (future 55) on his game power. It really seems like he is the type that will come back after working on his swing plane for one offseason and will be hitting tons of homers.

I think both the FG think he is a reliever and they put collins as a 1B, so I'm just assuming that in their minds a 1B with good power and OBP is better than a late inning reliever.

FG updated their BOARD today with two big surprise to me with Collins being at #67 and Basabe at #84. Collins was listed as a 1B, but that is still a pretty high ranking for him and I think this is the first list I've seen with Basabe in the top 100. They are lower on Cease and Dunning, but with 9 guys in the top 100, I'm pretty happy with the list. https://www.fangraphs.com/scoutboard.aspx?draft=&type=&pos=&team=chw

Doesn't look like any are coming through. I feel like Hahn thinks this team can (or JR wants this team to) compete next year so we kept Avilan and Cedeno who are both still under control for next year. If we suck, we trade them then, but if we are competing then we probably have two good relievers at cheap prices that we don't have to trade anyone for.

The Yankees are about to have Stanton Judge and Harper on the same team, aren't they?

The Yankees probably have another trade lined up because they pulled Tyler Austin from a game and he wasn't in that trade. They also saved a little over 1 million towards the luxury tax.

About time. He has destroyed the DSL this year and did pretty good last year too. I can't wait to see how he does in the AZL.

Yep, which is why I am less worried about them having such a good farm system and kind of hoping they overpay for Archer.

They have such a good farm system that they could trade themselves into playoff contention in one year.

Avilan - a reliever so good we'll trade him twice!

According to Cubs fans its Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, Jacob deGrom, Babe Ruth, Jesus, and international pool money for one of Giambrone or Ayala but definitely not both because that would be an overpay.

Yeah, after looking at his actual stats my reaction was "meh". Its a potential good pitcher for 6 years vs a replacement level one for the remainder of one year. Seems like 6 times the value is about right.

The Orioles just traded Brad Brach for $250K in international slot money. I don't know how that makes me feel about our trade.

This seems like a guy who's stuff is good, not great, but his numbers play so far above his stuff that there must be something that isn't reflected in the stuff grades that makes him better. It sounds like the deception of his delivery really helps him and I have to wonder if there is something about his pitch tunneling that makes him so good.

Looks like he has some killer stats as a closer in AA, but he is also 25, so IDK. This seems like a weird trade especially because he is another guy that will have to be on the 40 man, is a bullpen piece at best, and it seems like a lot of the international slot compared to what we got for it last year.

No idea. He hasn't been as active on twitter. Also, Victor Victor has been liking stuff about the Orioles and the Marlins going after him (as well as one Cardinals post), so I guess it doesn't really tell as much as I thought it did.

Victor Victor liked this tweet, so this is probably the current state of things.

Wilber Perez pitched for the DSL team today. Went 2 innings, 3 K, 1 BB, 1 H