Tenacious D

looks like an asshole. But he's our little asshole now.

If the Dodgers have true interest in Juan Soto, they won’t use any good prospect capital to get Gregory.

I think we’re a bit limited in what we can do. The AS break has sometimes served as a line of demarcation, where players who had a bad first half, turn it on in the second (and vice versa). I think we’re better off giving Schoop, Grossman, Candy and Barnhart a month to see if the break helped them. By that time, Rogers might be ready to come back. Kreidler could be an option at 3B if he can get some reps in Toledo. Could also bring back Cameron or Hill, too.

Cubs just cut Norris this past week—never understood why he wasn’t better.

Cubs got Nick Madrigal for Craig Kimbrel. Of course, that hasn’t worked out for either team (yet).

Dude traded for Brad Ausmus seven different times.

If Avisail Garcia would have kept it in his pants, Miggy would have finished with a top 10 of all-time career easily.

Perhaps they are hoping to save enough with all of these college kids that they can do an over slot with a HS player tomorrow?

Couldn’t find much on Michael, except that he’s 24 and gives up dingers. Any special pitches?

maybe not considered late round, but both Brant Hurter (7th round) and RJ Petit (14th round) have both pitched very impressively at High A.

Jake Miller, LHP, Valparaiso in the 8th round.

yep. but I think we'd agree that his performance is unusual for someone drafted in that round. plus, one of our resident prospect experts already said he's just an organizational guy.

would they do that with the high pick, college position players? I know they coddle the pitchers and high schoolers, but don't recall what happened last year.

They've already said that Jung will play 2B. Gold is possible. They might move Keith there, too, when he gets healthy. I suspect Jose King and Corey Joyce, both in WM, are probably leaving the organization soon. And Trei Cruz is probably on notice. They won't move the young guys in Lakeland up yet (I think), so Jung and Graham could start in WM.

Glad we're addressing our dearth of OF prospects in the org.

I'm just negative today. Got spoiled getting top of the draft picks the last few drafts. Last year, Madden slipped to us, and Pacheco seemed like a nice consolation for all of the HS shortstops we passed on in the draft. I'm not seeing any interesting picks--probably losing the 3rd hurt, along with our much smaller draft budget this year. I'd be OK with that if the MLB team was having a good season, but we're awful and have to wait another draft to "reap" the benefits of our ineptitude.

this draft is pretty uninspiring. I'm even losing my enthusiasm for Jung and Graham. The good news is that we'll be able to draft in the top 5 next year, and likely many more seasons. So at least we have that to look forward to.

he can platoon at DH with Jung. I read a different report that his arm was strong enough to play both positions. I guess that can be technically correct, while being erratic.

Gold was ranked #87 in pre-draft on MLB.com. Went with the 147th pick.

Tigers draft Luke Gold, 3B, Boston College in the 5th round

The other issue with losing the 3rd round pick (ERod signing) is not only the loss of player opportunity, that pick was worth about $700K that the Tigers could have had in their pool to get creative in order to try and sign a HS player they like that would sign over-slot to forego his college commitment.

Melton was a 4-yr Senior, which means he likely will not get full slot. Zero leverage.

probably--not sure how much they are saving with the Rocker pick that they can apply. I doubt they would draft him in the 4th if they didn't have an indication or inclination that we would sign.

That was the benefit of saving $$ by drafting Kumar at #3. Rangers get two studs--assume they would not have drafted Porter if they didn't think they could sign him.