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Round Pick Ov Pick Pos Player 1 1 1 SP Roki Sasaki 1 2 2 SS Kristian Campbell 1 3 3 2B Travis Bazzana 1 4 4 SS JJ Wetherholt 1 5 5 1B Nick Kurtz 1 6 6 3B Cam Smith 1 7 7 2B Christian Moore 1 8 8 SS Jesus Made 1 9 9 OF Zyhir Hope 1 10 10 1B Jac Caglianone 1 11 11 SP Chase Burns 1 12 12 OF Braden Montgomery 1 13 13 OF Charlie Condon 1 14 14 SP Quinn Mathews 1 15 15 SS Konnor Griffin 1 16 16 SP Brandon Sproat 1 17 17 SP Hagen Smith 1 18 18 SS Emil Morales 1 19 19 SP Alejandro Rosario 1 20 20 SS Franklin Arias 2 1 21 2B Luke Keaschall 2 2 22 SS Bryce Rainer 2 3 23 2B Demetrio Crisantes 2 4 24 SS Cooper Pratt 2 5 25 SS Angel Genao 2 6 26 OF Robert Calaz 2 7 27 CF Carson Benge 2 8 28 SP Trey Yesavage 2 9 29 OF Griffin Burkholder 2 10 30 2B Michael Arroyo 2 11 31 1B Deyvison De Los Santos 2 12 32 SS Welbyn Francisca 2 13 33 SS Alex Freeland 2 14 34 C Agustin Ramirez 2 15 35 2B Payton Eeles 2 16 36 OF Ryan Waldschmidt 2 17 37 SP Moises Chace 2 18 38 OF Colby Thomas 2 19 39 CF Aidan Smith 2 20 40 C Drake Baldwin 3 1 41 SP George Klassen 3 2 42 SS Elian Pena 3 3 43 OF Eduardo Beltre 3 4 44 3B Eric Bitonti 3 5 45 SS Yairo Padilla 3 6 46 1B Tre' Morgan 3 7 47 SS Josuar De Jesus Gonzalez 3 8 48 SP Cam Caminiti 3 9 49 1B C.J. Kayfus 3 10 50 SP Braxton Ashcraft 3 11 51 SP Jonah Tong 3 12 52 SP Brody Hopkins 3 13 53 SS Yoeilin Cespedes 3 14 54 SP Tomoyuki Sugano 3 15 55 SP Winston Santos 3 16 56 SP Jackson Baumeister 3 17 57 SP Logan Henderson 3 18 58 CF Brandon Winokur 3 19 59 SS Seaver King 3 20 60 CF Braylon Payne 4 1 61 C Blake Mitchell 4 2 62 SS Jefferson Rojas 4 3 63 OF Brailer Guerrero 4 4 64 2B Hyeseong Kim 4 5 65 SS Luis Pena 4 6 66 C Rainiel Rodriguez 4 7 67 SP Brandon Young 4 8 68 SP Braylon Doughty 4 9 69 SP Yoniel Curet 4 10 70 2B Caleb Durbin 4 11 71 SP Drue Hackenberg 4 12 72 SP Nolan McLean 4 13 73 SP Matt Wilkinson 4 14 74 CF Theo Gillen 4 15 75 SS Caleb Bonemer 4 16 76 CF Chandler Simpson 4 17 77 C Eduardo Tait 4 18 78 SP Luis Perales 4 19 79 CF Jhostynxon Garcia 4 20 80 SS Tyson Lewis 5 1 81 SP Gary Gill Hill 5 2 82 SP Ryan Sloan 5 3 83 CF Cris Rodriguez 5 4 84 OF Henry Bolte 5 5 85 SS Jesus Baez 5 6 86 SP Michael Forret 5 7 87 SP K.C. Hunt 5 8 88 SP Charlee Soto 5 9 89 3B Eddie Rynders 5 10 90 SP Trevor Harrison 5 11 91 SP Emiliano Teodo 5 12 92 C Carter Jensen 5 13 93 RP Craig Yoho 5 14 94 SP Noah Cameron 5 15 95 SP Parker Messick 5 16 96 SP Andrew Morris 5 17 97 5 18 98 SS Chase Meidroth 5 19 99 UT Dustin Harris 5 20 100 CF Yorger Bautista 6 1 101 SP Jaden Hamm 6 2 102 OF James Tibbs 6 3 103 SS JD Dix 6 4 104 2B Ryan Bliss 6 5 105 6 6 106 SP Jurrangelo Cijntje 6 7 107 6 8 108 SS Josh Adamczewski 6 9 109 3B Kale Fountain 6 10 110 OF Alan Roden 6 11 111 SP Logan Evans 6 12 112 OF Tirso Ornelas 6 13 113 1B Jack Costello 6 14 114 1B Will Simpson 6 15 115 SP Owen Wild 6 16 116 3B Kyle Karros 6 17 117 CF Dante Nori 6 18 118 6 19 119 1B Jonathon Long 6 20 120 CF Slade Caldwell

It would be very bold to ask two players to change positions. Probably more trouble than it's worth for 2025.

Kirk looks a bit better

Damn, that sucks. I was wondering why the whiffs were gone when the velo was 100% back. The bright side is that this might be fixable. It does look like it's just arm slot. Arm slot is one of those weird little injury nuances. A guy can be healthy, able to pitch, have his old velocity, but for some reason he can't come out of quite the same arm slot.

He can't even say one normal sentence. Anybody else: "Alan Roden. He's put himself in a position to contribute at the major league level" Boss Atkins “I’ll single out and put some pressure on Alan Roden. He’s done so much to put himself in a position to move through the system quickly and has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look”

Jim is right but my assumption would be that he gets $40M in salary and some portion of it is deferred and paid out on a schedule. So even if he opts out after 2025, Boston pays him $40M for 2025 eventually. I doubt the opt outs change the deferred money already earned.

Probably park preference.

To trade Bassitt for anything then get a deal like that on Pivetta later on, Atkins would have needed a crystal ball. Like, he would have needed to deal Bassitt back in November when the market was on fire then wait it out until now to replace him. Tough.

Fine. Good job Boston. You did it. Now what? Trading Casas? Benching Yoshida? Benching their elite defensive CF and making Durran the CF?

His comment provided about the same level of insight as your two, in much fewer words. I know the childish back and forth between posters is ugly and unattractive but when you come in and essentially just say "I don't like projection systems" in way more words, people are going to roll their eyes at you. This message board has never had a ton of patience for people who are aggressively anti-sabermetric and I don't think that is going to all of a sudden change.

Gross. That changes the calculus

My guess is that he doesn't opt out. He was the only viable 3B on the market this offseason. What is going to change in one year? Maybe if he is solid in 2025 and 2026 he can threaten to opt out so that Boston extends him. Taking 3/$120 is kind of a no-brainer if you have any confidence in yourself though, if the top alternative was something like 6/$170. If he is mediocre after this deal he can probably still get some $10M or $15M AAVs, and if he is good in 2027 he can probably tack a three year deal onto his career. Christian Walker just got one at 34.

I remember reading that he does not have the arm for the left side of the infield. Perhaps he is a 2B/LF/1B/DH this year and then in 2026, assuming he sticks, he is the 2B when Gimenez slides over to SS.

Yes. And the short term deal thing worked out for Matt Chapman (played well and got his extension) probably because the under the hood stats love him (he crushes the ball).

They are very optimistic but it's easy to see why. People love to throw Jeff McNeil comps in every lefty 2B prospect with quiet tools but Will Wagner might literally be Jeff McNeil if WW can actually play 2B. Willy in the minors .297 .402 .441 McNeil in the minors .312 .380 .444

lol Rendon

The temporary CF will be a wide open competition. Not sure it goes to Loperfido. I think backup CF on the bench is also wide open. Lukes - older, still has 1 option but at at 30 years old the organization might give him a "make or break" chance to man the position for a month. He actually has the best offensive projections of all competitors. Clase - the most prospect pedigree. one option year left. generally okay projections. switch hitter. sucked in AAA last year. Loperfido - two options, so less urgency to get a look at him this year. struggled in his rookie season. Straw - the best defensive option, with the worst offensive projections, but he's not on the 40 man so they have to punt somebody to put him on the team. Berroa - the dark horse. two options left. switch hitter. Realistically it will be a platoon. I kind of think they go with Lukes and someone else in a platoon. Also, I think your projected bench needs someone with actual SS chops. FGDC has Leo Jimenez on it.

Horwitz will miss 6 - 8 weeks. The surgery on his right wrist was to fix "chronic symptoms." Kinda weird. Makes one feel mildly better about the Gimenez trade.

Good news for dynasty/keeper owners

Say what you want about Atkins and Shapiro but other than the depressing farm system, if they were fired today the Jays would still be in a good long term position. By which I mean, a healthy long term financial position. Mr. New GM would have most of the budget to play with, soon.

Jays are golden. Santander's deal is moderate and backloaded so it can't be an obstacle. Gimenez is so young it won't be an issue. The only other money committed past 2026 is to Hoffman (one year) YRod (one year) and Berrios. Berrios is really the only one that seems like it could be an ugly contract from here on. But something funny is going on with him. His Stuff+ and K rate are down in the last three years so his FIP and fWAR are lagging... but he is giving up runs much like his whole career. 4.17 ERA in the AL East in the last 3 years vs. 4.04 ERA for his entire career before 2022. 4.6 fWAR across the last three seasons but 7.2 RA9WAR. Has he become an ugly FIP beater somehow? Probably not but this isn't a tiny sample size. #6 in MLB in IP across the last two years with a 3.63 ERA. I am not buying what fWAR as selling here at least not entirely - it says he is worse than Mikolas, Kyle Gibson, and Brady Singer and we are talking about a nearly 400 IP sample.

Padres are a mess Machado 11/$350M beginning age 30. 32 now and 9 years left. Boogers 9 years left and 32. Darvish 38 still owed 4/$67M. Doesn't like baseball anymore, just took half the year off due to anhedonia. Musgrove 3/$60M left and broken Cronenworth, 31, 6 years left and is a mediocre slap 1B/2B

Yeah no s*** they are open to trading Boogers. That's an ugly ass contract. 2 WAR in 2024 and projects for just 3 now. 9 years and $225M remaining on the deal. It's like if George Springer got 11 / $280M instead of 6 / $150M

That's exactly it.

I mean, special assistant / roving instructor. Apparently he pitched himself to Toronto