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Urena has been low-key a half decent glove at shortstop. Are we going with 3 OF roster + Drury?

Nate Pearson is nowhere near a finished product, but most people can see the tremendous upside. His slider and changeup plays up when batters are always looking at triple digit fastballs. You have to remember he’s only had 9 professional starts coming into this season (not counting AFL). He’s working back from an injury and doesn’t even have the arm strength right now to pitch deep every 5 days, hence the 5IP/2IP rehab starts. SRF had much more time to brew in our system and showed mediocre results repeatedly, 177 IP in double-A and 116.1 IP in triple-A. We can’t compare apples to oranges.

That’s reassuring. Maybe Vladdy sporting an 80 hit / 80 power tool is not a pipe dream. And when he hits foul balls at 120 mph and that rocket 118.9 mph off Anderson’s glove we see glimpses of what could be in the not so distant future.

I’m not sure Sean Reid-Foley has an above average breaking ball or off-speed pitch. When his FB isn’t clicking he doesn’t have much going for him, not to mention his command has been inconsistent throughout the minors. Murphy has more velocity (95-98, top 100 vs 93-95) and a wicked slurvey curveball to boot. If they both end up in the bullpen, I’d still have Murphy over SRF for high leverage.

Would not be apposed to calling Gurriel and Biggio up in the process. The OF needs some serious help. I think Biggio in RF might actually work. He seems to be able to track balls pretty well and takes good routes, granted there’s only been like one challenging play so far and he made the catch. He’s handled all the routine plays, and even showed off his range a bit tracking a ball to deep RF foul territory which is pretty good for a guy just starting OF. He also came close to catching a homerun ball that bounced on top of the wall, followed it all the way to the wall until it was out of reach. His arm was strong enough for the ball to reach third on just one hop with fair accuracy. Gurriel’s had what, 6 games in LF? Calling him fluid is a bit of a stretch, but he hasn’t embarassed himself yet. It’s going to take time for him to develop but his bat has been good and our OF bats on the big club have been atrocious.

Baseball America has some serious praises for Corbin Carroll when they say stuff like this. He’s right up there in terms of the prep class after Witt jr, Abrams, and Greene. If he’s equip with the tools like Moniak, but better strikeout/walk numbers and plate discipline, that can be an exciting blue chip prospect. The power tool is still a question mark and all projection at this point, but it seems like he’s impressed at every prospects event this year. And with rumors that Texas will take Baty as an underslot, I think Corbin Carroll might be best talent available unless we’re dead set on targeting a pitcher.

202 Last: 262 Jaxx Groshans Kansas C/OF Notes: Ht: 6-1 | Wt: 190 | B-T: R-R Commit/Drafted: Never Drafted Scouting Report:N/A

A great debut from the young padawan

Y’all got anymore of them catching prospects?

Unreal How has his exit velo numbers compared to Eloy Jimenez? Some said their power is comparable, but I have slight doubt another kid could hit it this hard, this often

Did that Vladdy foul ball before the walk to load the bases really reach 120mph?

I like what Vladdy provided today.

From Fangraphs 2.0 Interesting, this is the highest we’ve seen Baty mocked.

Recent updated mock drafts https://www.mlb.com/news/mock-draft-beginning-to-take-shape Jonathan Mayo has us picking “The Big Unit” Alek Manoah https://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=16352 PerfectGame.org also has us with Manoah http://baseballprospectjournal.com/2019-mlb-draft-mock-draft-3/ These guys have us taking Jackson Rutledge Interesting they all have us leaning towards pitching

It’s doubtful.. 20th round picks don’t generally turn into anything. He’d have to be hot all season to change people’s minds, and has already started to cool off from his great start. This makes sense. They have like six starters in NH and no good ones in Buffalo. And Sopko is a bit older than the other guys, unless you count Murphy but he’s been on the DL so much, they probably want a bigger sample size and another healthy season in AA. Sopko also debuted in double-A back in 2016 so it’s probably time for him to move up.

Does Boxy get something if you get one or both? Also for JPA, maybe ask him about his time with the Rangers & Rays, if there are any differences compared to his time in Toronto.

I can understand if they want to take a gamble on a guy like Rutledge or Malone, but they’d have to really love what they see there.. prep righties are a high risk pick that bust more often than not. Because of the health risks with young arms, and not a lot of data on these 17/18 year olds (mostly beating up on other teenagers), it could be tough to commit 3-4 Million on that young arm. They tend to be expensive as they’ve got leverage of declining your offer and going to college. There’s enormous volatility there as you can get anything from an Aaron Sanchez to a Daniel Norris. A MacKenzie Gore or Forrest Whitley to a Brady Aiken. There’s hundreds of examples of failed high pick pitching prospects or ones that never come close to reaching their ceiling. We’ve been linked to Bryson Stott on several occasions, including an earlier version of BA’s mock draft. It’s easy to see why as the Blue Jays seem to really like middle infield guys that can hit. The college SS pool isn’t particularly amazing this year but Stott would be the best one. I think I would be more excited for this pick if we didn’t already have Bichette, Biggio, Smith, Warmoth, Groshans already brewing in the system. Not that you draft for need, you always get best talent available—but the bar for middle infield has been set pretty high in this farm system. It’s possible Stott could be better than both Smith and Warmoth. But aside from Groshans we also have guys like Miguel Hiraldo, Orelviz Martinez, and Leonardo Jimenez down in rookieball that could be something. You don’t ever want to draft for position but it’s worth considering when you’ve got a goldmine of shortstops and lacking everywhere else. I personally would gravitate towards taking a flyer on Corbin Carroll, unless they really like Brett Baty’s bat. The age thing concerns me a little, but if he’s really that elite of a hitter it won’t matter. The only risk is Baty’s great numbers have been a byproduct of him beating up on younger kids and he would struggle when he plays against college kids in A ball. All you can do is evaluate the tools, the makeup, and see if it’s worth betting on. Now just remember someone always falls every year. If a guy like Hunter Bishop fell on our lap it could be a hard pass. There’s a bit of risk there so it’s possible he falls. But there’s only a handful of guys with those tools in the draft class and mashing in the college scene during his draft year.

Baseball America just updated their mock draft, ver 6.0 https://www.baseballamerica.com/rankings/mlb-mock-draft/ New top 32: 1. Adley Rutschman 2. Bobby Witt jr 3. C.J. Abrams 4. Andrew Vaughn 5. Riley Greene 6. JJ Bleday 7. Nick Lodolo 8. Hunter Bishop 9. Shea Langeliers 10. Alek Manoah 11. Bryson Stott 12. Jackson Rutledge 13. Zach Thompson 14. Brennan Malone 15. Keoni Cavaco 16. Corbin Carroll 17. Quinn Priester 18. Logan Davidson 19. Brett Baty 20. Josh Jung 21. Matthew Allan 22. George Kirby 23. Will Wilson 24. Michael Busch 25. Gunnar Henderson 26. JJ Goss 27. Kameron Misner 28. Tommy Henry 29. Seth Johnson 30. Anthony Volpe 31. Brooks Lee 32. Drey Jameson

And wow that little girl made it out okay

I’ll take a homer and 2 walks any day. Wish he did that more. Smoaky’s four walks is wowsers. Good pitching all around.

That’s also some solid contact on a breaking ball, haven’t seen that much since his call up. Someone’s definitely leaving with a bruise from that foul ball.

really close play by Galvis

So that was Sam Gaviglio’s 3rd walk this season and 29th strikeout in 27.2 IP. He’s been really good.

His usual launch angle in the minors was somewhere between 10-13’, so far in the majors it’s been a lot of negative angles hitting straight to the ground. It should return once he gets comfortable and finds his timing.