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RatkoVarda

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  1. Ben Jacobs LHP, Arizona State Scouting grades: Fastball: 50 | Slider: 55 | Changeup: 55 | Control: 45 | Overall: 45

    Hailing from renowned California high school Huntington Beach, Jacobs began his college career close to home at UCLA. After getting just five innings on the mound as a freshman in 2023, he transferred to Arizona State and began his sophomore season pitching out of the Sun Devils bullpen, then eventually evolved into becoming their Friday night starter. He resumed that role in 2025 after a summer in which he made a few solid appearances in the Cape Cod League and for USA Baseball’s Collegiate National Team.

    When he’s clicking like he was at the end of 2024, Jacobs looks every bit like a prototypical college lefty with a starting pitcher’s repertoire and solid feel for what he’s doing on the mound. None of his individual offerings jump off the page, but he misses bats with all three of his pitches. It starts with a fastball that typically sits in the 92-94 mph range, touching 95-96 at times. It was not missing as many bats as it did in 2024, when it had decent life up in the zone to go along with solid deception. He has a traditional slider he throws in the 78-83 mph range and his low-80s changeup features good fade.

    Jacobs has struggled with his command at times during his college career, but he repeats his delivery well and is competitive in and around the zone, so there’s some confidence he’ll get to more consistent strikes as he advances. His ceiling might be a little limited because of the lack of a true out pitch, but he’s the kind of back-end starter who has the chance to land in the top three rounds.

  2. 23 minutes ago, IdahoBert said:

    So 18 days until the trading deadline. I don’t know if the chances of getting a good deal depends on waiting until the last moment or not. 

    sellers holdout for best deal, so unless you are offering 1 of the big 5 now, sellers will wait to see if you blink

  3. I hope the Dems don't screw this up and decide to move on to more important things than Epstein.

    Millions of Americans don't care about the government at all, but are deep into conspiracy theories and the performative nonsense of "just asking questions"

    With his panicked denials, Trump has already revealed that he is all over the Epstein files.

    Dems need to sell this crap to the morons who want it. There is no downside. Maybe they don't get a lot of votes from this, but they can dampen MAGA's turnout.

  4. 5 minutes ago, romad1 said:

    It would be easy enough to get the client list by talking to Ghislane Maxwell

    If Maxwell dies in prison while Trump is POTUS, after Epstein died in prison while Trump was POTUS, it will be obvious to all that Hillary is hiding something truly dark and evil.

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  5. 20 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

    Where was this during the election? I could never understand why Democrats didn't go around and call Trump a pedophile and bring up his connections and friendships to Epstein. It is low hanging fruit that could have and should have been exploited. I

    I think the answer is that Democrats tried to run on normalcy and decency - that aligns with what most Democratic voters want, but it does not exactly energize the electorate. But Trump was able to reach just enough of the infrequent/disinterested voters to win. Some loved the racism, others loved the sexism, still others just liked that politics was interesting under Trump, unlike boring Biden. Trump said he would reduce egg prices. Biden/Harris tried to explain to competing market forces that worked against a more rigid elasticity in egg prices.

    I have totally come around on this issue that you must be 100% media literate - in all forms of media - to reach large portions of possible voters, and constantly bullsh|t everyone. Trump promised everything to every group on every platform he could find.

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  6. 1 hour ago, monkeytargets39 said:

    I can’t believe anyone takes that skenes offer idea seriously.  Talk about setting our franchise back another 15 years…..

    there's a universe where the Tigers get Skenes, make the playoffs the next 5 years, winning 4 pennants and 3 World Series.

  7. 26 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

    Trade an unknown A ball pitcher to bring back a pitcher who would go 9-0 down the stretch? 😅

    while it would have been nice if the Tigers choose Steve Searcy instead of Smoltz, but all that would have done is delayed the Smoltz trade. even if he become a dominant pitcher with the Tigers (not a given), they were so talentless that Smoltz would have been traded in a few years anyhow.

  8. 1 minute ago, RandyMarsh said:

    ts just a total roll of the dice trading for a young pitcher like that. You could get 6+ yrs of prime Verlander or Kershaw, or you could get 6 years of Stephen Strasburg.

    There just isn't a reliable way to predict their health to my knowledge and for that it's too risky to empty the farm for. 

    bingo. Skenes could be Nolan Ryan and give you 8 WAR a season for 4.5 years; or he could have TJ 18 months from now

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