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Very good comp. Scouts will probably argue that Madrigal has a (much) better hit tool, something like a 55 for Fletcher vs. a 70 for Madrigal, better speed as well, and although his defense might be solid Fletcher has elite positional flexibility to the point where it's probably a wash if not being in the latter's favour.

Man Juan Soto was just born to hit, what a f***ing stud. It has to be recognized up though that Orelvis is playing 2/3 of his games at SS thus far.

He's played all of 6 minor league innings at SS so I wouldn't say he is. Prime Pedroia was a monster defensively so I'd put extreme reservations on Madrigal being as good as that, although he'll probably need to be along with adding a bunch of value on the bases if he's going to be a valuable player whose ISO is close to .100. I don't really see the Kinsler comp, he showed way more power in his best seasons as evidenced by a career ISO of .170, and for the most part hasn't been a really high average player. Pedroia is a better comp offensively although again, he'll really need to hit his power ceiling to come close to being that good.

Contrary to popular belief, Ross Atkins doesn't just receive a call from an opposing GM, take a short walk to think it through and then trade away three pieces for one. There's a whole team advising him, running models on the players involved, scouts writing reports, and calls being made all over the place. The Blue Jays front office decided that it was worth moving Sanchez, Biagini and Cal Stevenson for Derek Fisher, just as it was the entire front office that decided it was worth to trade Stroman for Kay and Woods Richardson, Loup for Waguespack, Osuna for Giles, Hector Perez and Paulino, etc. This same front office has built one of the best farm systems in baseball and continue to acquire pieces to bolster that, prioritizing the future and sustained success over short term gains.

Sanchez has all of 59 innings as a reliever, coming back in 2014 and 2015 which is when he was debuting in the MLB, you're making it seem like he's been bouncing between the rotation and the bullpen for years and it's been demonstrated that he immediately always gets better in the latter role. Relievers have good single season performances all the time, and then they turn into pumpkins immediately following that. Sanchez was good as a starting pitcher in 2016 and hasn't touched the bullpen since the 2015 postseason. Back then, when his velocity was at its peak, he still was only striking out ~21% of batters with a non-elite walk rate, both his K% and K-BB% from those seasons would be below the average for an MLB reliever in 2019. He's unlikely to continue his unsustainable .182 BABIP out of the bullpen, and his groundball rate which has gone down as the fastball has gotten worse will also suffer. It's 2019, not 2015 or 2016, we have years of data of Aaron Sanchez being a terrible pitcher. A move to the bullpen won't magically fix him. The Jays essentially sold high on a two start sample where he struck out a good number of batters and then moved him for a guy with decent potential.

I have a feeling you're unlikely to find a scouting report on a 34th rounder, you'll probably have to wait until he makes his way to Lansing or even Dunedin and he gains a little bit of hype from his performance.

I was gonna ask where you got the extra strikeouts from before going and checking myself that he had 4 IP, 9 K to 1 BB performance today, only allowing a run on 3 hits. Good stuff.

Aaron Sanchez is a terrible pitcher. The odds are absolutely not in his favour that he's put into the bullpen and he suddenly turns good. His fastball velocity has been declining and he has some of the worst command in baseball. If he were such a valuable piece the Blue Jays wouldn't have had to add on two other mediocre pieces to acquire Fisher, unless you think Fisher is actually valuable which would contradict what you're saying.

Lol elite CF defense my ass, is that why he played more games in LF than in CF at Dunedin? He's 22 in high A with zero power, that's a total non asset.

Three garbage assets for what you believe to be one garbage asset? Not at all, if anything it's good asset management as he opens up a 40-man spot and saves Sanchez's arb salary.

You're a true idiot if you believe the last sentence is true.

Ah yes, because he gave up elite assets Aaron Sanchez, Joe Biagini and Cal Stevenson. How's Aaron and his electric arm been btw?

He was rightfully being conservative and wanted to stay at second but Luis Rivera was over aggressive with the send. He should have been out because there was no reason to risk it with his speed.

Lol I like how Fisher was making the right play by staying at second to not risk the close play at third and Luis f***ing Rivera told him to go for it anyway. Luckily for him Fisher's speed is electric when he really gets going and the Mariners botched the play.

I hope THANOS can stop questioning the AAA pitching coach now lol. Big Nate is good.

A bit hard to really recognize due to the video quality, but the second breaking ball was nasty and even more so when the hitter has to be preparing for high 90s heat.

Nice play Biggio, the kids with some excellent defense that inning.

Bo you f***ing stud.

Bo is something else.

Talk about rewarding poor framing, Narvaez did everything he could to turn that strike into a ball.

That was a pretty terrible tag from Bo but at the same time a super athletic and crafty slide from Seager who continues to dominate us.

Danny Jansen strikes again.

One could say Bo's seeing the ball well out of Felix's hand.

Hernandez on Hernandez crime.

For the lower levels of the minors, pitch counts on box scores can't be trusted. They assume 4 balls for every walk and 3 strikes for every strikeout. Lebron most likely had far more pitches than that.