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The Georgia Supreme Court is probably about as un-Biden a judicial body as you'll find. So probably not the best example.

Jarvy being traded is galaxy brain stuff.... that's not gonna happen, he will opt in, and we have to hope for the best going forward. Or at least hope that the team getting better around him with the addition of some of the younger talent in Toledo or through free agency maybe helps in some way. The situation sucks, but at least Miguel comes off the books this offseason.... they can handle carrying his contract even if the production isn't ideal.

I could be wrong, but the NoLabels thing has big "Howard Schultz" energy. I dont see it happening

Guys like Anderson, who would have projected lower under other circumstances, dont have the leverage in that situation either to demand slot. There's a good chance he makes more even going underslot than he would made otherwise. Which is why teams do it lol

Schrodinger's Joe: Senile and addled, yet engaged enough to push back on his advisors when he thinks they made mistakes.

Lee, Sears and Minton strike me as being underslot guys.... the Day 3 High Schoolers, like Andrew Dunford or Ethan Farris, seem like the challenge to me. Can they cover all those guys plus McGonigle with the money leftover? Ed is probably right that they probably have a good idea of that answer already based on having contracts in place that we don't know about.

They may just be expectation setting in the event that something doesn't work out. I just think if they bring in Anderson for closer to $1 mil versus $1.9 (his slot value), along with the fact that there are probably a couple of other underslot candidates mixed in, they can make up some decent ground in all likelihood. Some of it will depend on what McGonigle gets as well.

I think Max Anderson is probably the key guy.... if he goes a decent amount underslot, I think they can get them all, or nearly all of them anyway.

I would guess that picks 1-2 were both money savers (Clark for 4-slot value, Anderson TBD), so it's definitely possible they freed up enough money to go overslot for Cerkownyk and still have a good shot of signing the rest. Not to mention that they probably will go underslot on a couple other of their picks from Rounds 1-10. Like LG though, it's really fascinating that he got that kinda haul as a 15th Rounder.

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Random observation to add, although it doesn't answer your question: I thought Metzler / Conner were very convincing in their explanations to the press when asked about certain players in their media availability. Which is a bit of a change from Scott Pleis / old regime, which often felt like a used car sales pitch a lot of the time. Some of that may be new regime / recency bias, though it was nice to see this organization try a different approach in the draft. Now we just have to see whether it bears any results.

Having Grapes in his profile picture is a nice touch, eh?

Not knowledgable enough, but I wonder if McGonigle's hit tool (at least as advertised) gives him enough juice to be considered in the Top 5

I know there's been a lot of notice on the glut of high schoolers drafted this year, but one thing that is striking is comparing it to 2022, which was an all-college draft for the Detroit Tigers system. They really kinda needed to get a little younger to prop up the lower levels of the farm system, it stands to reason.

Right... I know they gave Dom Johnson 180K last year, but 300K over for a sub-Round 10 guy seems high to me

Gotta consider the source... it may not be

Not sure if this is accurate, but quite a haul of true

There's a few things going on here: By nature of the discussion surrounding the draft going into it, the fan base was primed for the Tigers picking one of Crews or Langford going into it (both Tiger and national reporters were involved here) Langford is much more high profile given an appearance in the CWS more recently, Clark doesn't have the public tape / record to match. Langford is a college player, Clark is a prep player, which leads to assumptions (not ungrounded, fwiw) that it will take longer to see him if things go well than it does for Langford, who has more experience. The fanbase is separated by two years from the selection of Jackson Jobe over Marcelo Meyer, and there's a segment that seems to have reacted by treating this situation as being the same, when it really isn't (ie. had the Tigers taken Langford at 3, Clark would have gone in the very next pick) Overall, these guys are both extremely talented players.... Clark isn't a Jobe who would have went 15 picks later had the Tigers not taken him, he's a guy who could have easily gone 1-1 in a different draft. And Clark, if he's as talented as advertised, will move fairly quickly one imagines. Either way, I would have taken Langford, but I get the Clark pick, and just the general disposition of trying to take more younger, high school bats in this draft. The bottom of the Tigers system is fairly empty at the moment, and this is a good way to add talent and give the player development staff (many of whom are fairly new to the org) some talent that they can work with and put their stamp on.

Yeah, that was my interpretation as well.

If Greene performs, it'd be hard to believe they wouldn't at least attempt to extend him fairly soon either. The system just needs some talent. If Max Clark was the highest on their board, and I'm guessing he was, take him...

I get it, but the resume (ie. stat sheet) doesn't always tell the story in baseball... drafting and development is more holistic than that. With pitchers, a lot of it comes down to raw stuff and velocity. And if a guy does have some command issues but has plus stuff and velocity, what the player development staff can do to help guys reach their full potential. The flip side is true as well: there are guys who don't have much issue getting college hitters out who don't have the characters to make it at the next level too.

JV was also picked in the first round. Not in the 5th.

And they did... Bennett Lee

I wonder if they look catcher next

5th Round - Jaden Hamm @RandomTigerFan2038452750 on Twitter will probably not love the 5.31 ERA