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Dinger, you should be pumping up Ryon Healy. You actually own him and he's way more gooder than Keon Broxton.

Anyway, real talk about Keon: 20/35 .225/.310 That's my prediction, and I suppose that's a pretty valuable CF in our OBP league. But his "huge spring" is so utterly irrelevant.

Jose Martinez is destroying baseballs this spring for St. Louis. Big minor league numbers in the past. Late bloomer? add add add buy buy buy

Jabari Blash has a 1.500 OPS this spring with five dingers. Post-hype rule 5 breakout and power star?

Let's be clear on this... Odor's pimp job was cool. Baseball should be fun. #MakeBaseballFunAgain. We shouldn't shame Odor for bat flipping. It's hilarious and embarrassing for him that it wasn't a HR. He turned a possible triple into a single. It paints him as a hypocrite, which is also hilarious. Nobody needs to do anything to Odor, or call him out at all. He's already shown himself up.

Milwaukee could have one of the league's best fantasy OF Braun: 30/15 with big slash Broxton: 20/30 with walks Domingo: 20 HR with walks Add in a little Thames and Villar, and you've got a stew going. Too bad they aren't playing fantasy

Yeah Vlad is untouchable for me unless the player coming back is a stud with control, a la Donaldson two years ago. Cutch is like, 25% as valuable as that hypothetical.

Bellinger is MLB ready and Eloy will be in high A. They have the same FV on the list - ranking Bellinger ahead is defensible given his proximity, even if Longerhagenbro thinks Eloy's ceiling is higher. He also has Bellinger as a present 60 defender which further smooths out the risks... theoretically a team has more leeway to let him develop in MLB because he can hold his own as a player with some defensive value. Allard you could probably argue for over Triston on the simple fact that KA is a lefty. In comparing Calhoun and Chapman, you underestimate the importance of a 55 hit tool. The hit tool alone can carry a player... Chapman hit .240 with a 30% K rate - he's probably a future 40 hit tool which makes his bust chance very high. Longenhagen also says Calhoun has 60 raw, so there's more than 50 pop to tap into and a 55/60 bat (his ceiling) plays anywhere. Luke Weaver has a decent FB and a plus CH. Scouts have long questioned him despite the numbers for two reasons: mechanics and lack of an average breaking ball. Historically, guys with plus changeups have been able to carve up minor league hitting in a way that causes stat-scouts to overrate them. Maybe one such example would be Jeremy Hellickson.

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Maybe the problem is Canadians in general...

I believe Quantrill is also a coach already too. One guy who I don't think has any involvement is Matt Stairs. I do wonder if honorary Canadians Alomar and Raines would have any interest in being involved with Baseball Canada. Doing some research and Terry Puhl could be The Guy to replace Whitt with... He's been a State University head coach for ten years now.

Help teams with the better offense? I think it helps teams with higher strikeout skill pitchers. They have to have some type of stupid rule. Can't have teams playing long games in this tournament...

Seems like he has a job for life... or until he decides to stop doing it. Whitt has no Canadian roots, correct? He's from Michigan, played for the Blue Jays for his entire career, and just decided not to leave?

The core issue is that all of the tie-breakers are f***ING AWFUL WOW.

"The organization of the event as a whole has not been good," Molina said. "We don't have good food. The first day, we didn't have good transportation. It has been mediocre organization of the event... I think since we are professional baseball players we deserve more attention." lmao, not even trying to hide the entitlement.

Well it's not like he'd necessarily even get asked by the US...

KP just fell being 1-2 before working a full count and doubling to RF off the wall. He walked in between that and the leadoff single. Hitting a decent .500 this spring (10 for 20) with an OPS up near 1.400.

awful

USA will be married to Goldy/Hosmer/Rizzo for a few tournaments so we might see Freeman again.

Absolutely. You need to get involved and change the culture. If Vlad Jr. isn't on the next WBC roster I blame you.

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Yeah Canada's long term outlook isn't awful. There is a 2017 draft SS prospect Adam Hall who could go early in the draft. 2016 - Quantrill, 2015 - Naylor, Soroka, Kellogg Other young guys who could develop include Rob Zastryzny, Yerzy, Panas (Blue Jays), Shane Dawson... I dunno. Orimoloye, Gareth Morgan? Rowan Wick looks really good in relief. Daniel Pinero I think is a strong defensive SS. We could see a WBC teams some day with both Pompey bros on it. Pompey and Tyler O'Neill (and the arms) are crucial pieces long term.

I don't blame any young pitcher, pitcher trying to get an MLB job, or pitcher with injury questions from sitting the WBC out. I guess Paxton and Taillon both get my forgiveness. I think Votto might have decided not to play so Freeman could. The announcers this game said when Votto was initially in the fold team Canada asked Atlanta if Freeman could play third base... lol.

Right, of course. It would be a gut punch to not have Canada in the next one. They are probably a top 8 country by talent if even just Paxton and Taillon participated. Certainly if they had Taillon and Paxton they vault most or all of Italy, Israel, Colombia, Chinese Taipei, China, Korea, Australia. And Votto, Lawrie, Martin, Saunders would put them in step with all the second tier teams... arguably everyone but DR and USA. Should have ridden Kellogg for multiple innings.

Today the victim on the mound was budding Ace Vince Velasquez