kdog

The draft is a mixed bag for me. The first two picks were horrible in terms of positional value. But this is question for their judgement. They did not like the defensive ends/tackles/corners after Anderson and Weatherspoon were gone. And look at the the consensus draft boards vs how the draft went. The draft pundits were way off. Branch and LaPorta are good meat and potatoes picks. Increase the talent level and fill positions of short and long term need. The Western Kentucky Kid and the OL from William and Mary kid are the picks where you find a James Houston type. It's totally based on a workout or a conviction from a guy in your personnel department. They are exactly the kind of picks you make later in draft. Both guys could bust; one could be a contributor. At this point, it's how you develop players. And they have proved that they can develop guys they draft. And I love the fact that Holmes was willing to go up and down the board looking for opportunities to get more picks. Getting a 2025 4th is significant even if it doesn't give you value for 2 years. It can be moved in future trades. Don't forget they have a 2024 3rd for Hockenson. They want nothing to do with guys they didn't draft.

cruel world:

Orioles bullpen shut them down after the 6th. Matthew Boyd is the same guy he was in 2019.

Matthew Boyd is different!

Greene pulled a mid 80's outside changeup to right for the RBI line drive hit..it's something.

The earliest Manning could return is June 11th; Brieske news is not good.

This is certainly a collection of players playing a baseball game.

Manning to the 60 day

Pretty clear they did not like the edge players or corners after Witherspoon and Anderson were gone. I disagree strongly with the positional value of the players they took. But all you have to do is win a terrible division and establish more credibility. Nobody cares unless you fail.

We always wonder why our teams are stuck in perpetual rebuilding status. It's when they start doing dumb stuff.

Which is why you try to acquire talent outside of the draft(trades, free agency, international kids).

The #1 criticism of the Avila regime was no depth. When Greene and Tork didn't produce immediately, it exposed how little we got from the scorched earth tank job.

If you are basing the trajectory of the rebuild on Tork and Greene, then you are going to be disappointed; Or you are Al Avila and unemployed. It was already asking a lot and they were clearly not ready to carry a team into the next phase on their own.

something to keep in mind as we call for every guy from Toledo to get a chance.

I would take a .750 OPS. Right now, we are still in the low .600s for Tork after 500 Mlb at-bats.

I maintain that taking a risk on Lorenzen was a better bet than Boyd. But I'm probably wrong.

Lorenzen might need to take a beating to save the bullpen a bit.

Milwaukee is due for a good day offensively...I have low expectations today.

Greene gets a day off:

Maton cleans up Greene's mess.

They have walked 4 times in under 3 innings lol. They just can't do anything with it.

We say that...but Cabrera would have been a great pinch hitting choice last night vs Maton.

He is basically just doing a random generator to put these together. It might work better than analytics.