Jocko87

Surely you're joking, Mr Arko.

He can field enough to get on the field with an .900 OPS. He's not great. I've watched him quite a few times live in Wichita, playing either 2nd or 3rd with Lee at short. He makes the plays on the balls hit to him but not much more. He's a bit better than Julien in my estimation and might actually be decent at 1st. Long term he's a trade guy, don't get too attached. The better he hits at AAA the better for the org.

Ahem, the new pass code to the game thread is "as expected" please pass it on.

Laz.

Gallo in the leadoff hole where he belongs.

Goffense is the new game thread passcode. Welcome.

This is the real metric for today.

Las Diaz has the over. 🤣

Great play by Kuechel.

Possible, E-Rod is quite the longshot though. Do they all have to be on the same team? These prospect list rankings are interesting and they can be as varied as every evaluator will be slightly different in what they value. The end game is the same though, how many can you develop to the big club and there are only so many slots. Like everything else in baseball, the hindsight is the only true evaluation but these discussions are fun. Obviously the Orioles are going to be close to the top because so many of their prospects look like they will be impact players in the majors. That adds up, but if the Twins get the same number of impact players out of their system which was was better? Julien wasn't exactly a hot prospect until last week, but he can be an impact player. A Julien gets no attention in the Orioles system and probably doesn't get the same development chance being behind so many guys. The Twins and their good drafting fortune the last two years could have 7-8 major contributors from the farm system in no time. There won't be room for everyone but 2026 could easily feature Lee, Lewis, Jenkins, E-Rod, Kirilloff, Ober, Varland and Buxton as drafted successes. Insert one of Wallner, Larnach, Miranda, Julien etc as you see fit. I would also count Duran, Martin, SWR etc if they make it as farm system successes as they were prospect trades. These ranks are interesting but ultimately mean very little. The money is made on picking the right ones to keep and developing them once you have them in the building. Developing an 18th round pick into something that can be traded for a legit starting pitcher is a huge win.

I mean, the number of wins matters though?

These guys. No quit. B uilt for OCtober.

In orchestra parlance is that 2nd mop? 2nd chair mop?

Cutch wasn't available outside of Pittsburgh.

Wut.

Cole Sands is unavailable to pitch as he is cashing his ML check.

But what if 90% of the hitters don't produce? Daily reminder we have no idea what goes on behind closed doors as far as punishment or compensation. Angel Hernandez could be paying to work for all we know. Again, we have no idea what goes on behind closed doors.

It was still interference.

I'll wait for the third article of the week to comment.

Prolly, it doesn't matter how good the pizza is I'll eat it.

It's a pretty private club. You'll need the secret code word and knock.