1984Echoes

"Great range for a 1B'man, and better arm than usual for the position... Great in-game power, but highly susceptible to swing-n-miss on sliders..."

"I would give a thousand pelts..."

He actually made a truthful statement? I'm SHOCKED!!!

Probably.

We have a boatload of guys (pitchers) in MLB, or almost there, from the late rounds (for whatever reason): Brieske, 2019, 27th round. Garrett Hill, 2018, 26th round. Chance Kirby, 2018, 25th round. Brendan White, 2019, 26th round. (Fernander and Chentouf in 2018, 35th & 36th rounds if either makes it to MLB as a reliever... not out of the question...). Will Vest was a 12th in 2017, and we've also called up Drew Carlton, 2017 32nd rounder... Who knows what the staying power is of any of these guys... but it's pretty remarkable, I think, to have this many late-round pitchers all of a sudden knocking at MLB's door, or already there... in the same time frame.

"Has elite speed": https://baseballprospectjournal.com/seth-stephenson-has-elite-speed/

Seth Stephenson, OF. See...? All your prayers are answered....!

Kerry Carpenter was drafted in the 19th round.

Aren't they going to start at the Lakeland Complex first? And they might even get some FSL time (sorry for the old nomenclature... I forget the new ones...). I don't think you have to worry about moving guys up or out... just yet.

I like Jung and Graham. And Melton too. After that it looks like utility guys but I do like their first 3 selections so far...

I didn't remove MLB at all. SO FAR... my numbers are exactly correct. And to your point... if Tork comes back up here on a tear, in his next 180 PA's, he easily surpasses Kelenic. It's just... yet to be determined.

I'm good with Troy "Jacob" Melton...

Right. What would you trade Tork for....? Start from there and then add/ subtract to get to Kelenic. Even if the bloom is off the rose...

That's the guy I was hoping would fall to 117.. Suck.

PS: Makes Torks' struggles look like nothing? Wut? Kelenic broke into MLB at 21 and since then has a .173 BA/ .594 OPS in 473 PA's. Has a .294 BA/ .911 OPS in the minors in 1107 PA's. Tork broke into MLB at 21 and since then has a .197 BA/ .577 OPS in 298 PA's. Has a .267 BA/ .935 OPS in the minors in 530 PA's. These two look almost EXACTLY ALIKE in performance, especially in MLB...

Yeah... despite his struggles in MLB... Let's use Tork as an example. What would you need in a package to trade Tork to another team? Soto? More? Put together a package that gets you Tork, and then we're in the ballpark with Kelenic; although I would imagine that even that package might be just a bit short. But start from there...

Yeah... I don't think we're getting Kelenic for Soto.

Disappointed. But with still-a-huge-amount-of-upside.

Look at Harry Heilmann's name all over the place...

😉

Comp is Tim Anderson.

Want Brock Porter?

Several 1st round grade pitchers dropping to us at #51... Will we pick one, or go for another bat...?

Favorite author was huge into Jungian philosophy...

Pretty much all these minor leaguers are fingers crossed. But yeah... hope for the best here.