Dr. Dinger

Boxy gave me my choice of Drew Pomeranz or Jimmy Nelson for Allan Craig. Either one would have been great in retrospect.

At least one of the three is bound to not collapse, right?

IMO he's the best hitting prospect right now. Comps I'd throw on his bat: Jose Abreu, Aramis Ramirez, Adrian Beltre. No other high minors prospect has his power/hit combo.

Cause unions.

The Yankees aren't giving us Gleyber or Frazier for him, and anything less would be inadequate.

I agree with all of this. We probably won't trade Donaldson, simply because at this point he isn't going to return the kind of prospects that would make the deal worthwhile. And in addition to the poor market for 3Bs, we're also seeing significant, recurring soft tissue injuries for Donaldson, and a decline across the board in offensive indicators that may or may not be injury related. Even if he's a 4+ WAR player next year, given his expected salary, we aren't going to get a Top 20 prospect for him.

Yeah well he just lost Kershaw for 6 weeks, so good luck with that.

Don't only 8 teams make it? He's in 10th currently.

Geez, I just realized FTD has fallen out of a playoff spot and now Kershaw is out until September. Time to panic and make some rash decisions.

Why hasn't MLB.com updated their Top Prospects for the midseason yet? Lazy slackers.

There's pretty much no such thing as a RH batter with bad reverse splits. Probably just SSS noise. I only worry about LH batters who can't hit LHP, that's a real fantasy problem.

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At least Will Contreras is a stud again.

My fat little Dominican prince has finally arrived! Ooooh this is exciting.

He whipped it out and you got rattled. That's my reading.

I'm not sure Donaldson is that much of an upgrade on Longoria, plus Machado is 3B only next season. Quite the collection of 3Bs!

I could move Godley or Porcello. Are those good pitchers?

He would have been gone wayyyy earlier lol

That was hilariously retarded.

They're both fringe major leaguers, I dunno what M's fans are getting worked up about.

Slim chance. I wish.

Yous guys are reaaaaaal dumn homers.

[TABLE] [TR] [TD=class: chat_time, bgcolor: #CECECE]12:46[/TD] [TD=class: chat_desc]Richard: Devers and Donaldson both received honorable mention on your trade value list. Could that be a reasonable swap for both sides?[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD=class: chat_time, bgcolor: #CECECE]12:46[/TD] [TD=class: chat_desc]Dave Cameron: Nah, BOS isn’t doing that.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD=class: chat_time, bgcolor: #CECECE]12:48[/TD] [TD=class: chat_desc]Ryan: Would Devers for Machado or Donaldson make sense if the teams involved weren’t in the same division? [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [TABLE] [TR] [TD=class: chat_time, bgcolor: #CECECE]12:48[/TD] [TD=class: chat_desc]Dave Cameron: No. Devers is too valuable to give up for a 1.5 year guy.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE]

Can we do like Estrada for Candelario?