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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.

This is disgusting, they're not even remotely trying to hide it.

DeMarcus Cousins is flopping all over the place.

Jesus Christ, you really have to guard Curry at full court, that was way too close.

This refereeing is a disgrace.

So the refs came to play tonight, cool cool cool.

Okay so we're getting this Klay Thompson, unfortunately. Everyone is gonna have to be on their A-game tonight.

Cousins looks god awful and he's resorting to flopping badly to save some face lol.

Cousins starting for the Warriors, I actually think that's a good thing for us.

When it looks like every other one of your posts it's not great sarcasm/trolling.

You should be moderately worried about Draymond Green, not that he's a scoring option per se but his playmaking and illegal screens really open up the other two threats for good looks. Obviously with him getting shitted on by Pascal Siakam last game he was less of a factor overall, but still had 10/10/10 last game, albeit with 6 turnovers and 5 fouls.

Probably the team that used 6 pitchers two days before and 4 the day prior.

Lol Sanchez

Ianneta with the total slap job on a slider that fully crossed the plate.

Vlad's single came off the bat at 111.5 mph for those keeping score.

My favourite part of the draft is us always taking a player nobody's ever heard of when X and Y are still on the board, and the gloom and doom that comes when the Red Sox grab someone that is known.

Shut the f*** up omg. You don't say that a home game in the NBA Finals is important to win?

We already kind of use Fred as the second pitcher of an opener since when he's playing we he'll start out on the bench and often close out the game later on when he's playing well. He's such a pest on defense despite his diminutive stature, just gets up all over you. I think initially it's fine to stay with Danny Green in the starting lineup, as you don't want Golden State to specifically target the height mismatch of Fred and Lowry vs. Curry and Thompson from the get-go.

f*** man, the Jays now only have just one top 10 prospect and 4-5 other top 100 prospects. I don't know how the farm will recover, might as well just start the organization over from scratch.

So the Astros are currently getting below replacement level production at first base, meanwhile Yordan Alvarez is making a mockery of AAA as a 21 year old and projects as their best bat at the position (by a lot). What's the hold up here?