casimir

I couldn't make it as a barista.

I was pitching and got drilled by a liner off of the chest. I wasn't getting my glove up in time or swiveling out of that ball path. It bounced off of me squarely and trickled over to the 1B side of the slab. Shame of it was I had him out at 1B if I'd have not rushed the throw. But I rushed it, lost my balance, tossed it over the 1Bdude's head. Single, E1, runner on 2nd. I had a bruise for a week and the stich marks from the ball were visible for the earlier part of it, so that was fun.

Chicago & national media. It is criminal how this was swept under the rug.

Yeah, I wouldn't worry about waves. Just get the best players available into the system.

Which is what I was getting at with the rest of the paragraph which you cropped out.

I guess I struggle to see how that exists anymore, particularly at a school like Northwestern.

It does seem weird to draft a guy with those numerals. However, we’ve seen guys with good numerals (stats and/or ratings) flame out for one reason or another. I would suggest there’s an opposite realm of that spectrum. Guys that have the tools to succeed but maybe they have not had the correct coaching or there was progression during a season that started out poorly, or injuries were an issue, or scouts think a mechanical adjustment would yield significant results, something along those lines. That’s my hope, anyways.

It’s too bad Fetter wasn’t around for that one.

I like drafting up the middle if the opportunity is there.

What is the 1st wave?

The Fat Kid? That’s got serious cult hero potential. Can you imagine the merch movement if they still did players’ weekend when he’s crushing it in the bigs?

Been scanning OOTP all day for some of these dudes. Can’t find most of them. I don’t get it.

Damn. Now that I think about it, I've probably owned OOTP for almost half of my life.

Doesn’t sound like a kid that’s trying to figure out which class to enroll in for the fall. Sounds pretty well spoken for a kid a few weeks out of high school.

That snarky and subtle flip of the bird holding the baseball? You know he’s going to have his own version of the Billy Ripken bat knob baseball card.

He needs the money for eye black.

They could be birthmarks.

He’s been hitting well in Toledo, but so was Nevin. He may have gotten his eye for the strike zone readjusted, too. Maybe he has just dug himself such a hole that the only way out was cheap success in AAA? I don’t know. Hopefully he’s slated for 2B rather than 3B upon his return. I think those positions will be pretty much platoon with McKinstry & Maton vs RHPs and Ibanez & Short vs LHPs.

But the problem is he’s from Amish Indiana. So those 5 tools are butter churning, horse & buggy driving, beard growing, knitting, and barn raising. How is Hinch going to play chess with that?

I‘ll sign up for that.

I’ll still screw up a game thread somewheres in there.

Preach.

I’m no fan of Cisnero, but Lange’s wildness is too much. Can’t be confident in a 5+ BB/9. Too much like Soto.

Seems reasonable.

Just draft a future hall of famer. That’s all I’m asking with the pick.