John_Havok

It would invalidate the bet technically, if Teoscar got demoted on May 31, because then he would not be in the majors at the end of May. Tercet is correct there. However, you don't see roster moves made on off days as a general rule. There's no reason to do so.

I think if a 19 year old in AA or even AAA leads the minor leagues in home runs, it says something grossly negative about the organization keeping him there.

This. If something falls into their lap like the Seattle/Tampa deal ... they would do it. And chances are Colome was probably talked about at the winter meetings by the GMs and just tweaked whatever they were talking about a bit to get it done. I highly doubt it was Seattle calling all the teams trying to figure out who might be available to help as a setup man in the pen as if they were desperately searching high and low for an arm since the season started.

Yup. You can't walk your way out of Cuba.

None that I am aware of, but it's hard to get a read on anyone down there. Basically any international signee from the last 2 years will be there if they haven't been moved stateside yet. Pardinho is stateside already, but the other 4 from the top 50 ranked international prospects from the 2017 signing period are: shortstop Miguel Hiraldo (No. 22 - DR), right-hander Alejandro Melean (No. 32 - Venezuela), shortstop Leonardo Jimenez (No. 36 - Panama) and outfielder Alberto Rodriguez (No. 38-DR). The following non-ranked prospects were all signed out of Venezuela: SS, Jose Rivas C, Geyber Jimenez OF, Jhon Solarte RHP, Ronald Govea RHP, Alexis Carmona RHP, Williams Morerno LHP, Erick Teran RHP, Miguel Olivo RHP, Luis Pena

Honestly it looks like Danny Jansen is the best option back there, but I don't think they can justify taking Martin out and starting Maile and only playing Jansen a few days per week as a backup, nor could they really justify starting Jansen and using Martin as a backup. The roster is kinda train-wrecked right now with under-performing high-paid guys.

Players of the day: Chavez Young, Kevin Vicuna, Josh DeGraaf, Sean Reid-Foley, Bo Bichette, Gunnar Heidt, Harold Ramirez, Andrew Guillotte, Lourdes Gurriel jr, Jason Leblebijian Honourable Mentions: Cullen Large, Maverik Buffo, Eduard Pinto, Nash Knight, Riley Adams, Max Pentecost, Juan Kelly, Anthony Alford,

Kevin Smith was moved up to Dunedin and debuted tonight. 1/4 with 2 walks, 2 Ks Played ss since Warmoth is in the DL. Hope he stays up there when Warmoth is back

Blair probably wants Pillar in his 2 hole. There's no reason to want a career below average bat getting more PAs

Yup. Bust. Swings for the fences too much

I kinda hope Teoscar has some sort of nagging injury that keeps him out of the lineup until Friday. That .801 OPS looks like a chicken dinner now but could be a chicken nugget by then.

It's probably something that, combined with recent free agency issues, will lead to the next work stoppage.

Players of the day: Juan Kelly, Vlad Jr, Jonathan Davis, Dalton Pompey, Danny Jansen honourable mentions: Chavez Young, Bo Bichette, Cavan Biggio, Max Pentecost, Ryan Borucki

MIght be later than June 1, depends on the rest of the players already up this year and last... could be mid to late June too

There's room for both of them in Dunedin. Smith has been playing 3b as well as SS, and could easily play 2nd too. Alternating Warmoth and Smith at SS/2b/3b should be easy to accomplish.

I dunno. But realistically once the super 2 window passes, calling him up then vs September makes no difference to years of control. I'd love to see Jansen, Borucki and Vlad sooner rather than later.

THis is true on the surface, but when the owners collude as much as they do... owners want to make themselves richer, not 19 year old kids.

To address your first point: It's not really the dollar amount itself the owners would have an issue with, its the fact that all teams have 6 (or 7) cost controlled seasons of a prospect, with no competition or competition from others clubs, so offering someone a guaranteed salary that large would be completely unnecessary when, even if he is an all star hitter and worth a ton of money, you get the first 3 of those years at league minimum. By paying a kid that much up front, they'd be potentially changing the precedent for young player salaries, and starting to chip away at the one part of the game that is equal for all teams, those first 6-7 years of a players playing life. Once free agency hits, of course it's a free for all and while some owners may lament they fact they cannot pay 30 million per year to a player while others can, there's nothing they can do about it. Even the big spending teams don;t want to change what young guys earn, because that's how they can afford to sign multiple top tier free agents that other clubs can't. Take the cheap players away and even big market teams would see changes. To address your second point: Pitchers have inherently more risk attached to them than hitters because all pitchers get hurt. Every single one. It's really only a matter of time. Position players still get hurt, but it's not to the same degree of pitchers. Every pitcher signed to a long term deal has more risk than hitters, no matter what age the pitcher is.

Players of the Day: Andres Sotillo, Brandon Grudzielanek, Angel Perdomo, Jonathan Davis, Andrew Guillotte, Richard Urena, Roemon Fields, Lourdes Gurriel Jr, Ian Parmley Honourable mentions: Aberto Mineo, Bo Bichette, Deck McGuire

The last pitcher to throw at least five innings and notch a save in the regular season was Joaquin Benoit, who threw seven innings for the Texas Rangers against the Orioles in a September 2002 game. This was the longest at 7 innings in relief of Todd Van Poppel, who earned the win after replacing Aaron Myette who was ejected after throwing only two pitches. In all, only four times in the past 30 regular seasons has there been a save of at least five innings. The last time anyone accomplished Pruitt's feat was the 2014 World Series. San Francisco Giants ace Madison Bumgarner came out of the bullpen in Game 7 to earn the save and lift the Giants to a championship over the Kansas City Royals.

Chatwood doing his best Nuke LaLoosh impression. Is there a mascot he can throw at?

Contreras really gave it to Chatwood in that mound visit...

I'm pity the first owner should signs a prospect to 10/100 guaranteed, assuming the current system remains in place. The other 29 owners would probably want him strung up

3 IF hits deflected off the pitcher... just... what? Wish I didn't have to listen to Vasgersian take swipes at analytics every 5th sentence though, when here he is quoting exit velocity in his commentary.

And I wouldn't blame him if he didn't take it, if it was on the table, which it likely isn't. ... but it's a nice thought exercise anyways. You're right that there are no true comparables, but it would be nice to see somethung like this get done if for no other reason than to alleviate the annual arbitration ********.