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Nice night. They have to bring up Gibson now. He's been consistent enough. Really nice to see that start from Baxendale. I'd love for him to turn into a real pitcher for us.

Mayo's added to his list but he doesn't update his write ups. That write up was written before the season and was a pretty fair industry opinion. I agree he should (and on the draft board as well)...

Might depend on what we mean by pretty rare but I don't think it's so rare as to be a surprise. Obviously, players will wash out at every level even after dominating the one below it.

Just...

I hope you're right. I have my doubts - they don't draft Boras guys at all - but we'll see. I'd be interested to know if they had a guy like Stewart ranked ahead of Appel.

I'm not sure if this has been posted elsewhere but Mayo at mlb.com updates his top 100 throughout the year and removes players when they lose their prospect status, so Hicks (for example) is no...

I wonder what happens if they have a couple Boras clients sitting there at #4? I sure don't want them to pass on Bryant or Appel b/c of him.

On the current 2013 pecking order, he was easily behind Willingham, Parmelee, Hicks, Doumit, Arcia, Maestro, Thomas, Ramirez, Herrmann and Colabello. Probably Richardson, too. Keep in mind that this...

You use big words in your libations. :)

The reality is, most teams have AAAA/journey men at the end of their 40 man rosters. There isn't that much talent around baseball. The Orioles made the playoffs with Lew Ford on their active roster....

Oh, a lot of people would probably say that the defensive component isn't useless, rather it's hard to accurately measure. A real difference. Things like pitch framing, for instance, are just...

My guess is that, in other threads, some are still griping that the Twins didn't take Gausman who is already in the majors. I think birdwatcher is having a little fun with their position.

I mostly agree with you but ... 1) other students (Appel, Shipley) managed to do fine without it or were smart enough to know how not to get caught. 2) Coming into the year, Gray wasn't this good, as...

We could put that information in. We could mention that the OF was, once upon a time ranked the #99 and #100 best prospect by BA. We could mention his best minor league season, he finished 10th in...

Well, that'll knock him down a few lists, maybe even ours.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/draft/2013/story/_/id/9338983/top-draft-prospect-jonathan-gray-had-positive-test-adderall

Adderall. Used for...

Digging this back up, but did anyone watch the Red Wedding episode last night? My wife was not happy. Poor dead Robb.

From what I've read about Gray the question is whether he can develop a 3rd pitch. If he ends up just a high velocity bullpen arm, it's a bad pick. I would prefer Appel and Bryant to him so if he's...

Bummer. In some ways, it's more interesting how not-so-great players finish up their careers. Bouncing around the country (or world) hoping to get another shot. At least he got a WS ring.

Astros tried to trade for him a few years ago. Not sure if he's changed much since then - everyone knew he was a no hit, good defense catcher. I think he has marginal trade value, at least more...

That is optimistic but I don't think, except for Gibson, there is much starting pitching help coming this year. I think the team still needs a bit more talent infusion, either in the draft or...

Well, first off, he's 29.

If you didn't know the names but you were told you could have a 29 year old catcher who put up a .550 OPS in the majors last year and managed about .2 WAR (mostly b/c of...

They have a ton of potential LOOGYs - Thielbar (26), Thompson (26), Hernandez (24) - who are all pitching better than him at AAA.

As bad as Thomas is, he's a lot better than Benson.

I think fangraphs had an article on this. Toronto was sorta breaking the spirit of the rules with all their waiver claims. The idea was that if you claimed someone, they were supposed to have a...

I'm honestly not sure but isn't he on a ML contract this year? So even if the Twins release him, they still have to pay him his 1m salary? And he isn't the worst player on the 40 man roster.

I think this is more of a 2013 move. Thomas is the only viable backup CF we might have right now. Hicks will have more rope but if they need to send him to AAA they needed Thomas, who otherwise...

I'd be very surprised if Morales was on our 40 man roster next year. He's had over 2000 milb PA, 1000 of them at A+ where he's hit .255/.332/.378 while striking out over a quarter of the time. I...