Laika

If Babe Ruth were transported as a 16 year old to Latin America and then signed by an MLB team, where would he reach? - MLB Superstar, Miggy/Pujols type hitter - MLB occasional All-Star / MLB regular - MLB low-end regular or bench guy WHO KNOWS

I can't see anyone in the current draft that looks better than him. Seems like an awful lot of arms, 1B, and lower upside guys this year. Maybe there are MiLB players that are better profiles than Bo though (mainly, closer to the bigs)

See, now you get it (Of course the Dante Bichette on your list is Bo's brother. Not sure what you did to assign his dad's career WAR to him. You did the same thing with Boog Powell, somehow)

two scouts this week offered the same opinion: By the end of the 2017 season, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is going to be the best prospect in baseball. *2nd best to Bo

This is demonstrably false though. The set of players who have "done what Bichette is doing" is incredibly small, and largely populated by uber-elite talents who have amounted to everything. Try keeping these benchmarks in mind: Age, 19 League, MWL PA, 192 K, 17.7% BB, 10.4% OPS, 1.077 wRC+, 205 BABIP, .453 Position, SS [infield] Set the PA minimum to 190 and go year by year for the MWL. You'll see that Bo differentiates himself even from some extraordinary players. Fangraphs will default sort by wRC+, then you can just sort by age. Look at the top 18, 19, and 20 year old performers in any given year. The only types of players who have really "done what Bo is doing", all things considered, are guys like Correa, Trout, Seager, Buxton, Wil Myers, Oscar Taveras, Javy Baez, Eloy Jimenez... Bo is even outperforming some of those talents by significant margins. Even if you want to BABIP correct Bo a bit, these are still his historical peers. If you increase the size of the net it's true that you catch some cautionary tales like Snider and Jaff Decker, etc. but you also comp some elite dudes like Justin Upton and Sano and rock-solid MLB outcomes like Bruce, Rasmus, Jose Ramirez as well as decent MLB contributors like Wong and Marisnick. And here we're talking about guys who maybe scraped a .900 OPS --- they aren't really in Bo's league in terms of production. You can't successfully normalize what Bo Bichette is doing to the MWL. It's not normal. Get hyped or forever be known as the Bo hater.

Your PA cutoff is way too low for something like BABIP. This removes most of them. A prospect appropriate age cutoff would remove others. I guess you still might get 50 Sniders if you look at the last decade

It's extremely sad. But, baseball did seem overdue for some heartbreaking busts. This year has supplied a few (Buxton, Swanson, Glasnow, Reyes, others)

Name fifty "Travis Sniders"

Spanky is just the muscle. You or thehurl or BTS can feel free to set everything in motion

And he just singled. 3/4. Insane. He's a better prospect than Vlad, don't @ me

It also cannot be overstated how significant it is that he's doing this as one of the youngest players in the league. That's a critically important fact when projecting development.

Is Bo Bichette the best pure hitter in baseball? 2/3 with another HR so far today. Average up to .377. Career average up to something like .393. The 19 year old probably leads organized minor league baseball in wRC+

You could tell when he got hurt that it was significant. He was lame af, like Donaldson, and IIRC he basically just took himself out of the game immediately. With Pompey rehabbing and on fire (3/4 with a BB, 2B, and SB yesterday) there's a very small window but a non-zero chance that Dalton might get a chance to steal Pearce's starting job. Coghlan is more or less useless to the team at this point

Wow! I read this before checking the box scores and I just knew he either had 0 K's or the game got rained out. f***ing Conner Greene.

Justin Smoak, Yonder Alonso, Logan Morrison. marry f*** kill go

Yeah, Smoak's batted ball information has always been strong. It's why the Blue Jays acquired him in the first place, and it's also why they extended him before he even had strong results. His xwOBA a couple of years ago was up over .350

It didn't seem like Harper actually tried to hit Strickland with his helmet though. I thought he was trying to distract him or something

Jesus. 23 second mark. Guy in blue backwards hat and blue shirt at top right of the picture does his hardest 100% pull-down throw at a dude 8 feet in front of him and hits him square in the thigh.

I'm not saying he definitely is better, but I would bet the vast majority of scouts still think he is. It's not about comparing MWL statlines, it's about projecting future major leaguers. Moniak probably still gets better tool grades all things considered. FWIW. I've never seen Moniak play so I don't have an opinion. Scouts and evaluators are also pretty forgiving with top prospects, and slow to change their mind about prospects in general.

Well in their May 11 top 100 update BA still had Manning, Perez, Quantrill, Puk, Garrett, Anderson, Groome, Collins, Pint, Rutherford, Ray, Lewis, Moniak, and Senzel above Bo. So at the very least he's not all of a sudden going top 10 "easy".

Honestly, not top 10. Probably top 20 though. Teams wouldn't change their minds that quickly about guys they loved a year ago like Matt Manning or Braxton Garrett (both in the top 10). Safe to say Bo has leapfrogged a guy like Gavin Lux though.

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This is as heartwarming as it is sad. Doggos are probably the best part of our society.

Important note: Someone else needs to take charge of facilitating the draft this year. I'm swamped in June and I'll likely be AFK for large chunks of days. It's not that much work now that MVP z3r0s controls the spreadsheet. The group of spreadsheet editors generally make a team effort of it anyway. You just need to: 1) set the cutdown deadline and draft start date [important] 2) email everyone through Yahoo to inform them of the important dates [important] 3) make sure everyone cuts down at the deadline (follow up with specific owners if needed) 4) delete any picks that are surplus after the deadline 5) be fairly active during the draft in case people ask for the next person to be emailed, to message someone whose clock is near expiry, etc.