Laika

This is the type of absurd youth-humping that leads people to draft Anthony Goses in the 8th round. Tulo is a nearly bankable bet to provide a few more solid fantasy seasons. Swanson might not ever provide one solid fantasy season. Sure there's a chance he is great, but your probabilities are way out of whack.

Swanson just hit an empty .260 in AA!!!! People are massively overrating these shortstop prospects right now, in both fantasy and real life. The Francisco Lindor effect.

Dansby --> .259/.322/.395/13/65/57/9 TULO ----->.260/.329/.444/20/62/66/1 And Steamer projects 20 less games for Tulo, so if he DOES stay healthy he should crush Swanson in counting stats. I think Tulo objectively still has the significantly higher upside. Would it shock anybody if he hit .280/.350 with 30+ bombs and 100+ RBI? Would it shock anybody to see Swanson hit an empty .250? What's the appeal of Dansby anyway when you can get a fantasy SS plug like Assdribble for nothing?

Yeah it's so similar. I was at a party, everyone drinking heavily when that Umberger hit happened. All the guys just went bananas and started hooting and jumping around like a pack of black dudes who just saw street magic for the first time.

I agree that Swanson is mashed potatoes.

There are scouts that like him more than Otani - best player not in MLB. We'll see... Sometimes these Cubans pop up to so much excitement and then the shine wears off. See - Lazarito.

It's one swing, but 19 year old free agent Cuban OF Luis Robert certainly *looks* good. Not yet a free agent. Scouts love him.

I think more than anything he just looks good. And that's outside of the games too. He seems to be really fit, massive, evident tools, MLB ready, good attitude, cool name, blah blah blah

Yourtitledidthistoyou 1:20 What would you actually rate Tebow and his tools on a 20-80 scale? Eric A Longenhagen 1:21 60 raw power, 20 hit, 40 run, 30 game power, 40 defense in left field and, I swear to you, a 40 arm. seems good

appears to just be radio

And 3M is deferred! Only 1M this year. lol.

Mumps

Not reported as far as I see but you can see the available arms:

RIP in pieces Raptors.

Agree that Sickels is better than Law. Grant > Sickels > Law >> BJMB

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I'd love to see a Grant77 top 100 prospect list. We could probably include it in our aggregate rankings (P2F). For those who don't know, Grant is pretty knowledgable and he does actually scout most of these players on the radio.

ok I like Cody Bellinger now: http://m.mlb.com/video/v1226884083/ladmil-bellinger-crushes-a-solo-homer-to-right/?affiliateId=clubMEGAMENU

We already have the best rules. Nobody has better rules than us. Nobody.

He looks great. There's no reason for him to be thicker than this.

Both games televised on MLB.tv. It appears that you can watch without a subscription right now. You can watch two at same time!! Alford just swiped a bag.

Possible Waiver Draft Rule Tweak Option A - The current rule in the DDL is that owners cannot hold extra MLB assets during the waiver draft. A team keeps 20 players and is given 5 waiver picks. Any additional acquired waiver picks disappear - go poof - at cutdown (unless the owner keeps less than 20 players, which has never happened.) The other application of this rule is that if trades occur during the draft a team's waiver picks that are made superfluous similarly disappear and go poof. Why did I think this was a good rule? Waiver drafts are pretty boring and a bit of a pain to administer. When I first created the DDL rules I had outlined a trade "freeze" that ran for the duration of the waiver draft, so commissioners didn't have to deal with editing a whole whack of exchanged picks on the fly on a spreadsheet. With free-market trading it's easy to get unorganized and miss stuff. Our current rule is not a freeze, but it does but a bit of a damper on trades for the duration of the draft and I do think it makes the whole thing slightly easier to administer. Essentially, whenever there is a trade of MLB talent, I encourage the teams to balance it out with waiver picks or at least inform them that if they don't that waiver asset disappears. Option B - The other leagues don't make your extra assets disappear. You cut down to 20 players but you can have as many waiver picks as you want and trading for MLB talent during the draft does not immediately affect your waiver picks. You are allowed to use your DL and NA slots during the draft to make additional waiver picks. Your surplus picks only disappear when they come up - if your roster is stuffed and you can't use them. Why might this be worse? The draft could be a bit longer. It might be a bit less equitable - in the DDL every team leaves the waiver draft with 25 players, and then the waiver roll happens. In the other leagues a team that is lucky enough to have a few DL or NA players, and has acquired extra picks, can leave the draft with more than 25 MLB assets. There seems to be more trading of picks in the other leagues, including while teams are on the clock, which makes the thing a bit harder to facilitate for commissioners. When a pick comes up and an owner is on the clock, there is no need for anybody else to check to see if their roster is full, or wait for them to confirm - if a pick comes up you know the guy on the clock will be making that pick when he comes around. Why might this be better? Arguably there is more flexibility and would be more activity during the waiver draft. Teams could use the draft to get more specific waiver assets that they want. Commissioners wouldn't have to "police" all the trades during the draft to make sure exchanged assets are equal, etc. Other reasons? Let me know what you think about Option A and Option B. We might change the rules a bit for next year, if I am convinced. Not a big deal IMO either way though. Small thing!

That's a lot of half-decent chances at striking fantasy gold.

looks like Kevin Plawecki is already out forever:

Sens about to give up 50 shots and get shutout by Carolina in the heat of a tight playoff race, lololol.