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  1. Orgfiller
    Gose was at least a year ahead in development though. At 20 Brown did A and a bit of A+, at the same age Gose did a full season of AA with better K and BB rates, similar/better power, and he also stole 70 bases to boot. He would then hold his own at AAA for a full year before getting a cup of coffee in the MLB at 21. Brown will likely do A+ again and if he progresses well will end the year at AA.
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    Cole Irving is gonna make a career out of eating cromulent innings in huge parks that favour him.
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    Jesus Christ those late 90s/early 2000s players were f***ing yolked. Steroids really is a hell of a drug.
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    Springs was great last year but there’s too much Nestor Cortes there for my liking. That is to say, it’s a lot of deception + smoke and mirrors but he’s probably still quite good, I just would be constantly afraid that he would get figured out and be a junk baller from there onwards. It’s Tampa though, they’ll find a way to perfectly hide him and squeeze out multiple 3 WAR seasons before flipping him for another prospect who turns into an ace with a year left to go in his deal before he finally becomes a pumpkin.
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    If you do end up moving him I have a couple of cheaper 1B options to plug the hole he would leave behind.
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    He’s kind of a headcase these days (even ignoring the previous DV incident) and too wild to make up for being a diva I guess. Smart deal by the Royals, nobody cares about your team so the PR hit or whatever is small, and if Chapman rediscovers his control you trade him at the deadline for a legit prospect, otherwise you only paid him to be barely above replacement and the sunk cost is little.
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    Options are king for the fringe roster guys. Yeah Thornton, Hatch and Gage blow, but at least you can juggle them between AAA and the MLB as much as you want for another year. Merryweather has a s*** Spring or makes the MLB team and blows? Welp, you have to lose him anyway as he can't go down anyway. Mayza literally throws from the left side so you more or less need to keep him around. Richards has big time K numbers so if he stops walking every other hitter he could be a very valuable middle relief option. Mitch White is probably too good for AAA so you wanna see what he has. And then you have some young guys that could contribute later in the season/out of the bullpen that you can't get rid of in Pop, Pearson, Hagen Danner, etc.
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    At this point I feel like I’d rather have Junior Fernandez in AAA over Merryweather and his lack of options. At least one of them is 25 and threw over 50 pro ball innings last season, something that Merryweather barely accomplished in his entire tenure combined with the Jays since 2017. Junior is relatively young and there’s a bit more time to figure out if you can unlock him, Merryweather has been bad since 2020 and can’t stay off the IL. It was honestly time to cut bait or hope he could pass waivers so you could stash him until we needed 3 more innings from him before he got injured again.
  9. Orgfiller
    TIL Elvis Andrus has 35 career fWAR. That's more than, say, player who you probably believe is better: Starling Marte (and they're the same age!). He also just put up 3.5 WAR in his best hitting season since 2017, and posted a career second-best 17 homers. Despite all of this, he's somehow still a free agent.
  10. Orgfiller
    You just listed a bunch of busts on the position player side with a puzzling Alex Rios addition. Only Devon Travis was a victim to injuries, the rest just sucked outright. I guess for Brett Lawrie you could say coke addiction as an illness/injury.
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    Nah Drabek is a good one. He was the headliner of the Halladay deal after all. On that same note, Drew Hutchison. Not quite as hyped industry wise but he carved up A+ and AA (SSS) as a 20 year old, then got a cup of coffee at 21 and held his own before getting TJS in 2012 literally a week after it was announced Drabek needed his. Pretty sure Morrow also got injured around the same time in 2012, to put an end to one of the more depressing weeks in the 2010s as a Jays fan that I can remember. Our young promising rotation just decimated in a week.
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    Also not to be that guy, and there’s at least some hope we can yet squeeze some value out of him, but Nate Pearson is the obvious present day example.
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    Going a little bit against the spirit in that he wasn’t hyped or a particularly toolsy player, but Devon Travis is a good one. Came relatively out of nowhere blowing up for 4.9 WAR over a 163 game span in 15-16 at ages 24 and 25, but he was completely made of glass. I’m pretty sure one of his injuries occurred due to the team plane having a rougher than usual landing, and he hurt his knee in the process. Can’t make this stuff up. Travis looked like a sure bet to be the 2BOTF but instead was fully out of baseball by 2018 where the injuries made him a shell of the rising star he looked like only a couple of seasons earlier.
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    They really put an emphasis on the “international” part of the IFA. Every guy signed this far from a different country, pretty cool.
  15. Orgfiller
    It's definitely that the Braves are blocking him. No country would willingly not call up a player of his calibre (barring Bauer like baggage). But he's just settling in from his major injury, so not surprising the Braves want him to take it easy, albeit disappointing. It's not like he doesn't run similar risks in Spring Training.
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    I think given what Stripling ended up signing for, he would've taken the QO which would have been a massive overpay. The difference between the QO and the AAV he got is like 2/3s of one KK or Belt contract. As for the pen, I really think it's entering the season in a very good state. Swanson's addition really shouldn't be understated, even if you regress his 2022 (which was elite) the projections still see some strong K numbers coming from him.
  17. Orgfiller
    McCutchen isn’t an OF anymore. I think if we wanted an actual OF at this point it would probably be someone like Profar but he won’t come that cheap and could get a starting deal somewhere.
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    This post is gonna get buried but pretty underrated meme you dropped here.
  19. Orgfiller
    I thought you were writing the lineup orders and almost puked at Biggio/Merrifield 3rd with Springer 8th against RHP.
  20. Orgfiller
    Merrifield has like double the amount of innings in CF than Biggio has TOTAL in the OF lol. Merrifield is legitimately an outfielder who can back up at CF and not do so horribly, we don’t even know if Biggio can hang in the outfield for long stretches without embarrassing himself (he’d probably be fine in a corner so exaggerating a bit).
  21. Orgfiller
    Basically yeah, and as a homer I’ll say Biggio has already demonstrated a higher floor and upside than any of the guys the Tigers got, albeit with a lot less team control.
  22. Orgfiller
    Because half the league made the playoffs and in 60 games you’re more likely to see more variance in outcomes due to the smaller sample size, not to mention all the rest of the baggage the players, league and world were dealing with at the time. There were some guys who had excellent 2020 seasons that haven’t replicated that success, and same for those that had brutal ones that have bounced back. It was a really strange season in general.
  23. Orgfiller
    In the past 5-6 years the Dodgers have traded Yordan Alvarez for Josh Fields and Oneil Cruz for Tony Watson. If Detroit wants to turn their s*** around they need to capitalize on the only guys they have of some value and move them for those sorts of pieces and hope one of them breaks out.
  24. Orgfiller
    I don’t hate the trade in a vacuum for them from a pure value standpoint, but I feel like for how bad Detroit is, trading Jose Alvarado lite for three entirely unsexy guys without any ceiling seems like a waste. Like, the Phillies couldn’t have given them some 18 year old likely bust in the DSL with 70 raw power or some other young fireballer that they would need to develop from scratch? I just don’t see what long term value Detroit gets out of Maton and Vierling who are basically replacement level quad A guys when they should be trying to luck into a Shields for Tatis Jr. type of trade to turn their franchise around. I guess it’s two warm bodies that replace some of their legitimately below replacement level guys but if you’re as bad as them already you might as well just tank with those guys.
  25. Orgfiller
    I’d like to consolidate some pieces for a 3B, SP depth, RP depth or a more established/less old 1B. Available are my superfluous guys at 3B and 1B, some of my prospect catching depth, and Conforto.
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