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That guy seems like a wannabe reporter But every team who can afford it is offering Ohtani max money...

Well, huge gap between Yamamoto/Langford and Skenes. If those are truly the top 3 and you can trade up a spot to ensure you get Yamamoto or Langford you should definitely do it

Houston and SFG are interesting takes I'm not quite sold on any of your sneaky smart teams but I see the angle. Still prefer MIL and CLE to them. What CLE did recently through the draft was f***ing nuts. I think Bibee, Williams, and Logan Allen were all like... 2020-2021 draft picks lmao.

The Blue Jays have the..... 8th best front office? Insert ranking here

yeah they were a borderline playoff team they ended up experiencing slightly less postseason luck than another borderline playoff team, being the Minnesota Twins everyone agrees it would be better to go into the postseason as a really good team! an elite team! a team with less problems! no debate there

bruh, whit merrifield had like a .250 OBP in August, Sept, Oct

Not convinced you actually watch baseball anymore yeah Whit Merrifield was pretty good... BEFORE THEY LOCKED YOU UP

Okay, saying they got "unlucky" is actually not accurate. They were likely going nowhere, they just went nowhere immediately. They made the playoffs and then failed to get lucky. That is more accurate.

the Blue Jays made the playoffs and then just got unlucky over a few games

This is a f***ing dumb comparison for two reasons. 1. AA is on his own level when it comes to robbing players on extensions. Literally the best there is. 2. Atkins has been pretty f***ing good in free agency.

It would be shocking to see the Cards trade Walker for Bo. Hyper-aggressive and short-sighted. They've done something similar before for Goldschmidt, but it was much more muted. Weaver and Kelly were top 10 internal prospects who had not became MLB stars in a few chances. Walker is a former top 5 MLB prospect with one mediocre season. I would love it but Cards would probably never do it. Good idea though, Connor.

f*** yes

Frenchy I might need to call the orderlies

He sucks though. He will stay healthy for maybe 300 PA and hit like, .180 while playing softball defense.

They haven't failed until they've failed. At this point the worst you can say is that the team has flopped in the playoffs and the farm system is mediocre at best. It's not like the team has missed the playoffs in consecutive seasons or finished under .500 because their farm is dead. Four winning seasons in a row here... lots of time to position the 2026 roster and beyond for success.

RE: Horwitz Here is a sample 2010 through 2023, seasons with 300+ PA at AAA, 1B players, and BB/K of 1.00 or more 1 2009 Wes Timmons ATL AAA 30 412 14.8% 8.7% 1.69 .280 .412 .363 .775 .084 5.4 .307 -0.1 60 12.5 .364 126 2 2011 David Cooper TOR AAA 24 545 12.3% 7.9% 1.56 .364 .439 .535 .974 .171 2.3 .380 -1.3 110 33.6 .425 144 3 2013 Daric Barton OAK AAA 27 488 17.8% 11.7% 1.53 .297 .423 .430 .853 .133 2.6 .327 -0.9 82 21.1 .392 134 4 2018 Daniel Vogelbach SEA AAA 25 378 20.4% 15.6% 1.31 .290 .434 .545 .979 .256 1.2 .299 -0.6 77 28.1 .426 157 5 2019 John Nogowski STL AAA 26 463 14.9% 11.7% 1.28 .295 .413 .476 .889 .182 2.7 .308 -0.7 85 15.5 .387 122 6 2010 Kila Ka'aihue KCR AAA 26 416 21.2% 16.6% 1.28 .319 .463 .598 1.060 .279 3.1 .339 0.4 96 39.6 .454 171 7 2014 Daric Barton OAK AAA 28 375 13.6% 10.7% 1.28 .261 .371 .411 .781 .150 2.1 .271 -0.5 52 3.3 .352 107 8 2012 Daric Barton OAK AAA 26 336 19.6% 15.8% 1.25 .255 .411 .425 .835 .170 5.8 .286 0.9 55 10.8 .380 124 9 2023 Phillip Evans ARI AAA 30 590 15.6% 12.7% 1.23 .312 .424 .439 .862 .127 3.5 .344 -1.5 105 15.2 .395 117 10 2015 Casey Kotchman KCR AAA 32 361 10.8% 8.9% 1.22 .290 .374 .426 .800 .136 2.5 .305 0.0 52 6.8 .359 115 11 2012 Clint Robinson KCR AAA 27 570 13.9% 11.4% 1.22 .292 .393 .452 .845 .160 2.4 .315 0.1 92 16.8 .377 122 12 2009 Kila Ka'aihue KCR AAA 25 555 18.4% 15.3% 1.20 .252 .392 .433 .825 .181 2.3 .272 -1.0 85 14.9 .370 121 13 2013 Dan Johnson NYY AAA 33 560 16.6% 14.6% 1.13 .253 .379 .447 .826 .194 1.4 .264 -0.5 84 21.4 .376 134 14 2007 Daric Barton OAK AAA 21 604 12.9% 11.4% 1.13 .293 .389 .438 .827 .145 3.9 .321 -1.2 94 13.8 .370 117 15 2006 Chris Carter ARI AAA 23 588 13.3% 11.7% 1.13 .301 .395 .483 .878 .183 4.5 .318 0.3 99 25.3 .391 134 16 2016 Casey Kotchman TOR AAA 33 376 9.6% 8.5% 1.13 .256 .343 .383 .726 .127 2.0 .264 0.0 45 4.8 .334 112 17 2011 Josh Kroeger FLA AAA 28 326 11.0% 9.8% 1.13 .284 .372 .465 .837 .181 3.8 .286 -0.9 49 2.6 .366 106 18 2008 Brian Myrow SDP AAA 31 417 19.4% 17.3% 1.13 .314 .451 .500 .951 .186 2.2 .367 -0.3 84 27.6 .421 149 19 2008 Dan Johnson TBR AAA 28 486 17.3% 15.4% 1.12 .307 .424 .556 .980 .249 1.7 .319 -0.9 97 38.8 .427 167 20 2021 Tyler White TOR AAA 30 443 18.1% 16.5% 1.10 .292 .424 .476 .900 .184 1.8 .331 -1.2 83 26.4 .401 146 21 2012 David Cooper TOR AAA 25 304 12.2% 11.2% 1.09 .314 .395 .540 .935 .226 2.5 .324 -0.5 55 15.0 .400 137 22 2023 Spencer Horwitz TOR AAA 25 484 16.1% 14.9% 1.08 .337 .450 .495 .945 .158 3.8 .386 -0.2 98 30.1 .425 144 23 2014 Dan Johnson TOR AAA 34 460 18.7% 17.6% 1.06 .232 .381 .434 .815 .202 1.3 .245 -0.2 68 14.9 .370 128 24 2008 Rico Washington STL AAA 30 314 16.6% 15.6% 1.06 .254 .392 .468 .860 .214 2.4 .264 -0.8 52 9.2 .379 122 25 2009 Daric Barton OAK AAA 23 313 14.4% 13.7% 1.05 .261 .386 .458 .844 .198 3.7 .278 -0.1 50 10.0 .376 125 26 2022 Vinnie Pasquantino KCR AAA 24 313 12.8% 12.5% 1.03 .277 .371 .561 .931 .284 4.7 .258 -0.4 57 16.0 .395 139 27 2013 Marc Krauss HOU AAA 25 314 16.9% 16.6% 1.02 .281 .401 .478 .880 .198 3.4 .310 -0.9 52 12.1 .387 131 28 2008 J.R. House HOU AAA 28 513 10.3% 10.1% 1.02 .306 .378 .480 .858 .174 1.5 .312 -0.6 83 13.3 .375 119 29 2012 Dan Johnson CHW AAA 32 589 16.0% 16.0% 1.00 .267 .388 .492 .880 .225 2.2 .272 0.0 96 29.0 .389 143 Not really a great list, haha. David Cooper, Kila Ka'aihue... Daric Barton has always been an obvious bullish comparison but it's funny how he shows up on this list at ages 21, 23, 26, 27, and 28 lmfao; before and at the end of his brief MLB career

This is why executives need to just never say anything at all. One throw away comment six years ago and fans will jerk off to it angrily forever. Where are the waves, bro! You promised us WAVES!!!

Toronto is almost certainly trying to hedge Vlad defensively at 1B. Need to have someone on the roster who can at least play half the games there. The Belt situation was not ideal given his age. Hoskins, Urshela, Gallo, Turner.... are some of the younger possibilities in the 1B bucket. Urshela would be a 3B/1B and might be a nice roster fit. Turner the same but a better player. Gallo is probably a plus 1B and might still be a passable OF. He would be a really interest bat to have in a platoon role, lmao. Carlos Santana is old but he graded out as an okay defender at 1B recently. Tellez and Cooper would go with Santana and probably Gallo in the "end of the offseason dumpster diving" category. But some appeal there if Toronto is desparate. Ji Mac Choi might be an MiLB candidate and he is a ninja defender isn't he? Jurickson Profar sucks but can play all over and should be free.

They can only get better But these kinda of systems take time to develop They also do get credit for hitting the sell button on guys like Martin and Hoglund at the right time. The point is to have a good MLB team, not graduate the most prospects. If you draft an asset and then trade it for several years of Matt Chapman that's a huge win.

Drafted or signed as an amateur and graduated since 2016: Bichette, Kirk, Moreno, Biggio, Manoah, Schneider, Pearson, Horwitz. I don't think that's horrendous. There is a real star in there and a couple of guys who have looked like stars for a whole season. Go compare it to say the Yankees or Red Sox. Yeah it's not in the top third of the league but it's not a hopeless track record. Finding guys like Davis Schneider out of nowhere is also an insanely good signal.

Welcome to minor league baseball where 90% of top prospects don't make it Fact is the Jays system looks much better than it did a year ago. It didn't flourish or anything but there was a big improvement in depth. For every flop there was like 2 emergences

Luis Urias, baby The small market Mariners.

Ms must think Carlos Vargas is the next Andres Munoz

I'd be trading him if his value is peaking right now given the FA context hacker with fringe defense... not exactly a comfortable guy to extend for a decade anyway

He has chronic and serious spinal issues. I don't think he's going to get back to normal. It wasn't just a string of bad luck and some soft tissue injuries... More like end of career Prince Fielder s***.