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That was beautiful, lol @ Gary Sanchez.

Ouch, right off the hand. Hope he's okay.

f*** off Angel Hernandez. There's no way he can even see that, *******.

He wasn't called up, he was activated from the IL.

Uh Spanky, that was the continuation of a previously postponed game from April 20 lol. Biggio and LGJ obviously did not play in Buffalo last night, and Bichette did not play either as he wasn't in the night game.

This sentence confused the s*** out of me. His team would be called the Blue Jays.

Already changed his Twitter bio to include Toronto Blue Jays lol. That would be fantastic.

So was Anthony Gose. Point being, scouts probably don't know what they're talking about anyway so their profiles are similar enough.

In all seriousness, the profile reads like Cristian Pache trading some arm strength for more velocity.

Anthony Alford without the football, Todd should love this pick.

We should be ecstatic if Manoah turns into pre-pumpkin Mat Latos, which was all throughout his controllable years.

Seeing fastball, changeup, slider and curve in this clip.

I'm glad they mentioned he's the brother of Mike Siani, wasn't quite sure who he was to that point but that really clarified things for me.

Yo this guy just dropped a "The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are on the clock". That's an OG right there.

f*** yeah not last in the PRs! Get f***ed Spanky!

Lmao, this is perfect. Literally took out the minimal substance in that short quote and just left the generic cliche fluff as the headline.

For as well run of an organization as the Rays are, they honestly don't have that amazing of a track record picking in the first round. Since 2010 their best pick by far was Blake Snell in 2011 who went 52nd in the supplemental round, then you have Ryne Stanek in 2013 at 29, with Brendan McKay looking like a solid option but the book is still out on him, Liberatore, McClanahan and their most recent ones.

This is the board's immediate reaction to the Jordan Groshans pick last year. This post isn't meant to throw anyone under the bus, as there are a lot of good posters among that group. I get it, the draft is fun and you get attached to some of these guys because you've been reading some promising reports over the last few weeks/months, it's all in the heat of the moment. But let this post serve as a reminder that every team has been scouting these kids for years, they've held private workouts, they know substantially more than we do. We do this every single year, despite not being surprised by the overreactions, maybe we can learn to accept that we truly know nothing about these guys and trust the professionals who have built an excellent farm system top to bottom. Every single year someone goes apeshit by the Jays not picking their guy, not knowing if there are health issues, signability concerns, or if the guy that was picked by the team is truly what they consider BPA.

Got 'em!

MLB.com's Stream: https://www.mlb.com/video/2019-mlb-draft-day-1-c2525313683 Shamelessly stealing TwistedLogic's format from last year, and there's no way in hell I'm putting in nearly the same amount of effort with the draft starting in like 3 minutes.

It's not that hard. Tell him Wash.

Also sorry Olerud for completely stealing the post that you made earlier which I didn't see. I didn't figure anything of substance would come from the Smoak extension thread but I see I basically reiterated your point from there, pretty much player by player.

It's also just the fact that like, pretty much everything has gone wrong, and I don't know how much blame there is to pass, who to blame and which parts are just straight up terrible luck. Did anyone actually expect this team to be one of the worst hitting clubs in the league? If you look in terms of projections: - Vladimir Guerrero Jr., hitting extraordinaire, is sitting at a 105 wRC+ through 30 games with expectedly below average defense and baserunning. He's shown that he can be a monster, literally no one should be worried about him, but that's your top player performing substantially below his expected/true talent level. - Danny Jansen, projected top 5 catcher in baseball is one of the worst hitters in the game. The power is gone, but he's also sitting at an xWOBA which is 70 points higher than his actual, so you take already poor performance and combine it with bad luck and you get someone that doesn't look like they could hit in A+. - Randal Grichuk, "safe" 2 WAR player has stopped hitting the ball hard. His PD stats are all exactly around career averages, with him even sporting a higher BB rate. He's not barreling the ball at all, so his EV is down, as is his xWOBA and his xWOBA on contact. Randal Grichuk was supposed to be someone with poor plate discipline who when he connects would crush the ball, and he's not doing the latter right now. - Teoscar Hernandez actually improved his defense and walk rate and somehow became a worse player. Again, he simply stopped hitting the ball hard, and we know if there's thing he had going for him from before it's that. - Billy McKinney + Brandon Drury, both awful. Both had been around average hitters or better in the big leagues and their minor league careers, what gives? - Socrates Brito, is apparently the definition of a AAAA hitter, he could not have possibly been any worse. - Alford is garbage On the pitching side: - Aaron Sanchez sucks a lot and is constantly hurt - Matt Shoemaker died in a f***ing rundown - Borucki died before he even made a pitch - SRF took a massive step back in AAA So now the question becomes, how much of this can we attribute to poor player evaluation? How much to bad coaching? How much to bad luck? Is it fixable, or are we in a hole too deep to dig out of, at least with our current group of young players at the MLB level and immediate AAA group?

Our offense is just dead and the defense is lagging right behind.

That was an inhuman rebound.