Dr. Dinger

Think he's headed towards Felixhernandezville?

I am fully expecting a Boxy/BTS bidding war for Kershaw. Can BTS land him without trading Wander Franco? Can Boxy land him without trading future elite ace Chris Paddack? Stay tuned!

Is this "week" actually 3 weeks long or am I imagining things?

Didn't you just yell at me like last week for doing this?

Yep, gimme 10 min.

Drafting Vlad 41st overall = homer You had 3 picks before my Vlad selection: Anderson Espinoza, Jason Groome, and Alex Verdugo. Perhaps you should adjust your notions of bias and project Jays prospects more rationally.

Drafting Juan Soto in LOD would be a wet dream. Almost as good as drafting Vlad in both LOD and DDL.

Holy crap that ball actually LANDED in foul territory after the Rick O'Shea. That's crazy velo.

er, for 2020

You guys should challenge trade 1st rd picks you bigmouth cucks.

DFA Travis and Solarte

Agreed with all of this. It seems to me like the FO (for whatever reason) had salary/Donaldson specific concerns that coerced them to go this route. I don't think this is a simple case of Merryweather being valued more highly than a comp pick, especially since Merryweather projects to be essentially nothing. It's pretty clear that the Jays didn't want to risk Donaldson accepting the QO. I'll just have to accept that they have good information to have made that decision, since I personally wouldn't have had a problem with Donaldson on a one year deal at all.

John who?

That's black and white thinking. Not all draft classes are equal, nor can we be certain of Merryweather's projection.

This whole "comp picks are statistically worthless" argument doesn't hold a lot of water for me. Carter Kieboom was a comp pick, Dakota Hudson was a comp pick. Nate Pearson, Mike Soroka, Christin Stewart, Ryan Mountcastle, Austin Riley, Justus Sheffield, Michael Kopech, Jack Flaherty, all of these guys were comp picks, and that's just in the last few seasons. And that doesn't even include notable prospects picked after the comp round, like Bo Bichette, Alex Verdugo, Sean Reid-Foley, Brent Honeywell, Scott Kingery, Harrison Bader, Paul DeJong, Jesus Luzardo, Bryse Wilson, Cavan Biggio, etc etc etc. Again, I'm only going back to 2015 here. There are absolutely plenty of good prospects who can be drafted in the comp round or later, especially by an astute front office such as ours. Each of those guys is considerably more valuable than Merryweather as an asset. If Atkins feels that Merryweather is a diamond in the rough, that's fine, I certainly don't know better than him. But to say that comp picks are worthless is categorically false.

I have a very strong opinion about this injured PTBNL that I never heard of before the trade deadline!!! LOUD NOISES!!!!!!! INDIGNATION! CERTAINTY! INCREDULITY!!!

Ok well, that was a lot of goals.

I waited one round too late on Petterson. Might end up regretting going for Keller instead.

The SSS reactions in this thread are very amusing.

What if he is straight to the majors?

Was Hurl's plan to take Victor Victor in the Waiver draft all along? Maybe it was a ruse.

Pretty similar to Boxy-anointed-ace Miles Mikolas, actually.

Here I thought you would applaud Hurl for trading a dead asset who may possibly never pitch again after beasting the world into flames next season as a 45 HR .900 OPS monster.

I'm giving Hurl my Kikuchi. To Hurl: Waiver #1 + Marco Gonzales To Dinger: Waiver #4 + Shohei Ohtani (Pitcher only)

Rosters have been entered. Someone needs to process the Votto trade. Not it.