Terminator

Woops I misread what Laika said. Alfaro isn't very good. He's put up decent stats so far in 500 career ABs but it's been fueled by a .405 BABIP. When that normalizes his number are going to crash big time. Strikeout rate of 35%. He doesn't appear to be a good pitch framer either. Steamer projects a 77 wRC+ for him. He's a backup which means in this market he's worth next to nothing and I don't think he's much better than Andrew Knapp anyway. Sanchez is a solid prospect but he's a 20 year old pitcher. Good prospect but I'd give him up to acquire two years of 3.5 to 5 WAR play from the C spot any day.

Leaving Danny Jansen off your top 100 might be the dumbest ranking of the year.

Keith Law's 2019 Top 100 Prospects RANK NAME POSITION TEAM 1 Fernando Tatis Jr. SS San Diego Padres 2 Vladimir Guerrero Jr. 3B Toronto Blue Jays 3 Wander Franco SS Tampa Bay Rays 4 Forrest Whitley RHP Houston Astros 5 Eloy Jimenez OF Chicago White Sox 6 Nick Senzel 3B Cincinnati Reds 7 Mackenzie Gore LHP San Diego Padres 8 Jo Adell OF Los Angeles Angels 9 Royce Lewis SS Minnesota Twins 10 Victor Robles OF Washington Nationals 11 Alex Kirilloff OF Minnesota Twins 12 Taylor Trammell OF Cincinnati Reds 13 Bo Bichette SS Toronto Blue Jays 14 Brendan McKay LHP/1B Tampa Bay Rays 15 Casey Mize RHP Detroit Tigers 16 Hunter Greene RHP Cincinnati Reds 17 Kyle Tucker OF Houston Astros 18 Ke'Bryan Hayes 3B Pittsburgh Pirates 19 Brent Honeywell RHP Tampa Bay Rays 20 Michael Kopech RHP Chicago White Sox 21 Keston Hiura 2B Milwaukee Brewers 22 Kyle Wright RHP Atlanta Braves 23 Triston McKenzie RHP Cleveland Indians 24 Mitch Keller RHP Pittsburgh Pirates 25 Dylan Cease RHP Chicago White Sox 26 Touki Toussaint RHP Atlanta Braves 27 Keibert Ruiz C Los Angeles Dodgers 28 Brendan Rodgers SS Colorado Rockies 29 Francisco Mejia C San Diego Padres 30 Ian Anderson RHP Atlanta Braves 31 Jesus Luzardo LHP Oakland A's 32 Jazz Chisholm SS Arizona Diamondbacks 33 AJ Puk LHP Oakland A's 34 Justus Sheffield LHP Seattle Mariners 35 Sixto Sanchez RHP Philadelphia Phillies 36 Matt Liberatore LHP Tampa Bay Rays 37 Alex Verdugo OF Los Angeles Dodgers 38 Jarred Kelenic OF Seattle Mariners 39 Nolan Gorman 3B St. Louis Cardinals 40 Jon Duplantier RHP Arizona Diamondbacks 41 Gavin Lux SS Los Angeles Dodgers 42 Alex Reyes RHP St. Louis Cardinals 43 Nolan Jones 3B Cleveland Indians 44 Chris Paddack RHP San Diego Padres 45 Cristian Pache OF Atlanta Braves 46 Adrian Morejon LHP San Diego Padres 47 Travis Swaggerty OF Pittsburgh Pirates 48 Corbin Martin RHP Houston Astros 49 Dustin May RHP Los Angeles Dodgers 50 Luis Patino RHP San Diego Padres 51 Bryse Wilson RHP Atlanta Braves 52 Spencer Howard RHP Philadelphia Phillies 53 Daniel Lynch LHP Kansas City Royals 54 Luis Robert OF Chicago White Sox 55 Khalil Lee OF Kansas City Royals 56 Luis Urias 2B San Diego Padres 57 Mike Soroka RHP Atlanta Braves 58 Justin Dunn RHP Seattle Mariners 59 Vidal Brujan 2B Tampa Bay Rays 60 Mark Vientos 3B New York Mets 61 Deivi Garcia RHP New York Yankees 62 Leody Taveras OF Texas Rangers 63 DL Hall LHP Baltimore Orioles 64 Eli Montero 3B St. Louis Cardinals 65 Matt Manning RHP Detroit Tigers 66 JoJo Romero LHP Philadelphia Phillies 67 JB Bukauskas RHP Houston Astros 68 Daz Cameron OF Detroit Tigers 69 Luis Garcia SS Philadelphia Phillies 70 Josh James RHP Houston Astros 71 Jesus Sanchez OF Tampa Bay Rays 72 Cole Winn RHP Texas Rangers 73 Brandon Marsh OF Los Angeles Angels 74 Noah Naylor C/3B Cleveland Indians 75 Drew Waters OF Atlanta Braves 76 Jonathan India 3B Cincinnati Reds 77 Nate Pearson RHP Toronto Blue Jays 78 Oneil Cruz 3B Pittsburgh Pirates 79 Will Smith C Los Angeles Dodgers 80 Logan Allen LHP San Diego Padres 81 William Contreras C Atlanta Braves 82 Joey Bart C San Francisco Giants 83 Antonio Santillan RHP Cincinnati Reds 84 Ronaldo Hernandez C Tampa Bay Rays 85 Zack Brown RHP Milwaukee Brewers 86 Griffin Canning RHP Los Angeles Angels 87 Austin Riley 3B Atlanta Braves 88 Sean Murphy C Oakland A's 89 Daulton Varsho C Arizona Diamondbacks 90 Peter Alonso 1B New York Mets 91 Miguel Amaya C Chicago Cubs 92 Peter Lambert RHP Colorado Rockies 93 Kristian Robinson OF Arizona Diamondbacks 94 Shane Baz RHP Tampa Bay Rays 95 Hans Crouse RHP Texas Rangers 96 Mason Denaburg RHP Washington Nationals 97 Andres Gimenez SS New York Mets 98 Carter Kieboom SS/2B Washington Nationals 99 Ronny Mauricio SS New York Mets 100 Lucius Fox SS Tampa Bay Rays

Yeah that's a good trade for Philly. Improves Alfaro to Realmuto which changes their Catcher situation from one of the worst in MLB to the best for 2 seasons. All it costs is Sixto Sanchez? No brainer.

Wasn't a criticism I'm just working my way through it all and am commenting on things that stand out. I thought it was pretty fitting for him. Seems like McGuire could be one of those Cs that's a black hole in the lineup but he finds himself playing in the big leagues for a decade anyway. Batting left handed and playing mostly against Righties could help keep his wRC+ floating above 80 as well which is going to help him stick around. Hard to rank someone like that.

Lol you guys broke the 4th wall on the Reese McGuire write up. Seems like you know he should be higher but just didn't bother with him because he's so unexciting. If you had to objectively rank him somewhere, how high would you put him?

You guys make good points. I guess a hole in my theory is that Hiraldo performed well in the Dominic Summer League as a 17 year old. Still impressive but he's only a year younger than average for that league. The Gulf Coast League is where he would need to make noise in order for it to truly be impressive. Fangraphs doesn't properly delineate the two leagues on the profile page, they simply refer to both as ® so you have to click on each ® to gain an understanding on which is which.

I knew about Bonilla but I did not know about those other guys. Johan Santana and David Wright also making big chunks of change coming up as well. Unreal.

I really liked the Martinez/Hiraldo debate. You guys obviously put a lot of time into thinking about that. But we actually have some pro ball data for Hiraldo and he did pretty well in Rookie ball last year as a 17 year old. We don't have any data for Martinez yet. How much credit should Hidalgo get for putting up a solid year like that? Seems like you didn't give him much since he's ranked so much lower than Martinez.

This is really really good. The percentiles are good but I love the write ups too. This article is something worthy to be published on Fangraphs or ESPN or something.

Diaz is barely acceptable at SS but he can hit so overall hes okay. Galvis is pretty good defensively which allows him to be useful because his bat kinda sux.

Exactly. I was tooting this guy's horn more than anyone but he was supposed to be a good RF who could play some CF too. Instead he's a piss poor LF. What the hell happened there? Really tanked his value.

Same here I love those late West Coast games.

Marwin would be awesome. He plays a lot of the positions where we have question marks including LF. He also helps out a lot in case of injury. So many scenarios where he could be useful. On scenario is start him at 2B and then late in the game move him to LF (where he's really good) to replace the crap defense of Hernandez/McKinney and put Galvis in.

Yeah they did it with Tulo so why not with Morales? I'd try and grab Moose on a longer deal, something like 3 for 24 mil deal or something and then punt Morales would be awesome. Trading Smoak and keeping Morales would be another option.

If Morales wasn't on the team Moose would make a ton of sense. Could play 3B, 1B and DH. Even with Morales on the team you could make it work but someone's ABs would be getting pinched. Smoak and Morales are both gone after this year though so Moose still wouldn't be a bad signing if it was a 2 or 3 year deal.

ESPN sucks but I don't know that I totally blame them. Baseball is a weird sport to cover right now. It's really geographical in that fans care mostly about their own teams and that's it. Most NBA fans will tune in to a big Lebron game but I don't know that MLB fans care to tune into an Angels game just to watch Mike Trout unless he's playing their favorite team. Then you have a huge split in the fanbase where statheads find it painful to watch dinosaurs talk about BA on a nightly basis and vice versa. It's hard to make a show the caters to all the fans right now. Maybe they should split the show in two and do half the show for casual fans and the other half for sabremetric favvy fans?

Was thinking about this a little bit more and while the Drury trade looks worse in light of the FA market, the Diaz trade looks a lot better. Diaz's replacement is Galvis and I don't think Galvis is much worse, he's simply just a glove first player. Galvis probably even compliments the team better anyway because he provides a different set of skills than what Gurriel provides. Gurriel and Diaz are pretty similar players. So we traded 4 years of Diaz for 6 years of an interesting big league ready pitcher. And we replaced Diaz for cheap with an equally talented guy who is a better fit. I hated it at the time but it was actually a nice trade!

ESPN has canceled Baseball Tonight.

I tried posting the archive earlier but I couldn't access it. I'll try and get Law's Top 100 up tonight or tomorrow.

Lmao I knew something like this was coming

I've been before lol. Not a gay bar. It's a s***** and trendy bro bar in the frat boy part of Houston.

Gurriel obviously has red flags but I was encouraged by his year and career trajectory. Age 21 he mashed in Cuba. Age 22 he didn't play as he defected. Age 23 he was horrible in High A and AA, seemingly he was getting back into the swing of things. That's two years where he didn't play or looked like s*** because of the time off. Age 24 he turned it all around by hitting in AA, AAA and then the majors. Defense and plate discipline are definitely concerns entering his age 25 season but if he shows improvement again he's a position-flexible 2 WAR player. Steamer has him pegged for 1.6 in 403 ABs. I'm probably higher on him than most on this board.

KL lists him 107, BP lists him 89, and MLB 65. To their credit, BA has him 42 and PL has him 26. Who is PL again though?

Well Law had him ranked like #107 or something which spurred on the conversation to begin with. Most lists include him from what I've seen.