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Jays looking not too bad with three in the top 50, and Guerrero at 2!
FYI him and Bo Bichette just got moved from lo-A to hi-A yesterday. (don't expect them in the bigs for a couple of years yet, they're just 18 & 19)It certainly feels that way. But I'm distrustful of that feeling and am curious about evidence.
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Originally posted by revo View PostI guess a 2.10 WHIP at AAA will do that to you!I'm just here for the baseball.
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The golden age for shortstops continues with 3 more in the top 7. It's almost becoming useless to offer a shortstop in a fantasy trade these days because everyone has one or two good ones now.“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
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We can keep a player for 2 years from the time we pick him up, and if he's a waiver/free agent add he's a 23rd rounder in the following year's draft.
So, of the top guys on this list, aside from Moncada/Rosario who are already owned in my league, which bat would you grab & stash for hopeful production in 2018, or even a September 2017 cup of coffee? The latter seems unlikely, most of these guys seem like they're mid-end of 2018/not until 2019 contributors...e.g. Rogers, Robles, Devers, Jiminez. And JP Crawford sure seems like an "all glove, no bat" kinda guy...which might be why he's ranked #4 on MLB and #92 here!12-team mixed keeper. 6x6 (OBP, QS the extra categories).
C- J.McCann
1B-Cron
2B- Villar
SS- Andrus
3B-Baez
MI-L. Gurriel
CI- Y.Gurriel
OF- Blackmon, Judge, Betts, Dom.Santana
UTIL- Benintendi
BENCH: Pence, Dyson
SP: Verlander, Scherzer, M. Boyd, JA Happ, Ponce de Leon
RP: Yates, Greene, C.Martinez, Oberg, Bummer, N.Anderson
IL: Buxton
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Originally posted by Msaint View Postwhich bat would you grab & stash for hopeful production in 2018, or even a September 2017 cup of coffee? The latter seems unlikely, most of these guys seem like they're mid-end of 2018/not until 2019 contributors...e.g. Rogers, Robles, Devers, Jiminez.In the best of times, our days are numbered, anyway. And it would be a crime against Nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were presumably designed in the first place, and which the gravest statesmen and the hoarsest politicians hope to make available to all men in the end: I mean the opportunity to do good work, to fall in love, to enjoy friends, to sit under trees, to read, to hit a ball and bounce the baby.
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It was a really strange list, it was like they tossed 50 names in a hat and just picked them out randomly. And then ranked the other 50 like they should have been ranked.
I know that Giolito is still trying to find his groove, but dropped down to 76? WAY too severe. Luis Urias at 37? Vladdy Jr. at #2???"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Your shitty future continues to offend me."
-Warren Ellis
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Originally posted by Hornsby View PostIt was a really strange list, it was like they tossed 50 names in a hat and just picked them out randomly. And then ranked the other 50 like they should have been ranked.
I know that Giolito is still trying to find his groove, but dropped down to 76? WAY too severe. Luis Urias at 37? Vladdy Jr. at #2???
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Looks like they penalized players who have been called up and are on ML rosters as well.If I whisper my wicked marching orders into the ether with no regard to where or how they may bear fruit, I am blameless should a broken spirit carry those orders out upon the innocent, for it was not my hand that took the action merely my lips which let slip their darkest wish. ~Daniel Devereaux 2011
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Originally posted by Sour Masher View PostI agree that there are some head scratchers, but I get the Giolito drop. He has always been more promise than performance, and his ceiling looks lower than it once was. I don't know enough about Urias, but Vladdy sure looks good. #2 might be a bit high, but not only are his numbers great, scouts are gushing about him--to the point that they think he could be as good as his dad, and that is pretty freaking good.
And Hunter Greene at #30? The kid has yet to put a glove on in a game..."Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Your shitty future continues to offend me."
-Warren Ellis
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Originally posted by Hornsby View PostI tend to believe in Keith Law's evaluation of talent...
All that is not to say I am defending an 18 year old in single A at #2. If he didn't have the bloodlines he did, I doubt he'd crack anyone's top 10 (although, again, he does look really great). In most sports, I wouldn't buy into the bloodlines, but in baseball, for whatever reason, it works out more often that kids can live up to or even exceed their prop pops. Bo Bichette is another bloodline guy who is all bat, and looks great at the plate.
Also, Baseball America seems to have shifted in recent years a little bit to favoring shiny new toys more than more established guys who maybe haven't taken a big enough step forward in the current year. But I get that too--you tend to see the warts on a guy who has been around awhile, where as the new up and comer is all potential and day dreams. They also seem to be weighing offensive potential a bit more than they used to in relation to defense, and upside above closeness to the majors. That is just speculation, but it is the only way I can see them ranking Vlad at #2 above Torres and Rosario.Last edited by Sour Masher; 07-07-2017, 10:27 PM.
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