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If they get him AND Verdugo, its basically the haul you'd expect a normal team with no restrictions to have, from a talent standpoint. Maybe even slightly better.

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Bloomquist starting makes sense now. MB's ASB starts tomorrow. They probably wanted to give Alzolay a chance to pitch in it.

The Braves tried an extremely interesting draft strategy this year. Now, they've got a ridiculous amount of depth in their system and this likely played into it somewhat. But still, its extremely interesting..... Forget the rankings of the players too. Forget the amounts each individual got actually for a second.....The Braves had a draft budget this year of 9,881,200. They spent 9,945,000 on THREE players. They gave Kyle Wright 7,000,000 at pick 5. Which is 1,292,700 over the slot of that pick. In the second round, they took OF Drew Waters and actually SAVED money at that spot somehow. Slot on that pick was 1,674,600. Waters received 1,500,000. So, a savings of 174,600 on the pick.(for a guy that I honestly figured would get 2M+) Then, in the 3rd, they take a HS RHP Freddie Tarnok(ranked 170 by BA, unranked by MLB) and give him 1,445,000. Slot is 709,000, so they went over by 736,000 on the pick..... The rankings, the perceived value, that's not the real story here. They took an unknown JC guy in the 4th and senior signs in 5-10. They've got 400,000 or so to sign their 4-10th round picks. I love this strategy. You're not likely to get major leaguers out of those rounds anyway. Putting all your money on just a few guys seems like a bad idea in some ways, but you've got rounds 11-40 to spend up to 125,000 on guys again..... In our case, let's assume we still took Little and Lange at 27 and 30. Still took Estrada too, since he's easily getting the 3rd highest bonus in our class.... I'd trade the rest of our class, Abbott, Thompson, Uelman, Velazquez, Thomas, Filiere, and the two senior signs for one of Enlow or Allen. So, would you rather spread it out, as we did, or sacrifice the depth for one extra top 30ish player? For me, I'd rather grab the potential impact guy. Obviously, the draft board has to set up, and this is clearly revisionist....But, I'd love to take this type of shot at some point over the next few years.

Why is Bloomquist starting a game? Alzolay, Hatch, Steele, Rucker, Kellogg.....Promotion, just want an extra guy for a turn, or injury?

I'm guessing both. Use the Philly future pick with some assets to try to get George or Butler. I wasn't crazy about Fultz (though Jackson doesn't do a lot for me either) so unless there's crazy restrictions on the future pick I'm okayish with this With all the rumors going around, I wonder if Ainge doesn't get creative as hell. Sacramento wants to move to 3....You guys supposedly like Smith. Kings trade 5 and 10 for 3. You take Smith at 5, then trade 10, the Lakers pick, and Brown for George? Hell, it might not take that much. At any rate, my guess is you get George, because they'll be much easier to deal with than Chicago, for the same caliber of player. Probably get Blake too, if you guys want him. I'll be shocked if you guys aren't considered on a true level playing field with the Cavs next year, at worst.

You beat me, I put it in the other thread too. I bet Boston trades something for George. Brown and maybe some future picks that aren't 3 or NJ's next year. They are so loaded. I don't think they trade for George without getting a strong commitment he's re-signing. I think it's Butler they are going to target and either Heyward or sign and trade for Blake. I think they'd do it, without a commitment. He'd come cheaper and they'd have all year to get him into playing there. I honestly figure we want 3, NJ's pick next year, more picks, and Smart and Crowder. I know how ridiculous that sounds, but that's how ridiculous I think our guys are in valuing Jimmy.

Straighten her out a bit Timmy, you may have warning track bat throw pop.

You beat me, I put it in the other thread too. I bet Boston trades something for George. Brown and maybe some future picks that aren't 3 or NJ's next year. They are so loaded.

He didn't get an AB yesterday, they IBB'd him. WELL HE TRIED TO K DAMMIT

Who knows how long that would take to heal but maybe. Maybe they are waiting for Anderson to come back. Then we can have a rotation consisting of Lester, Lackey, Anderson, Montgomery and Butler! Can Lester pitch every other day?

Jake accepting the QO seems like a real possibility.

Unless they go on a Candelario-like slump... #partypooper Candelario has made contact once in his 3 AB's tonight. #glassthirdfullguy

Zagunis is 2-3 with a homer, Caratini is 2-2.....Somebody is going to be happy with the production those two are going to give.

It'd be an off season move, but I wonder how low Boston would sell on Price?

How drunk are you? Do you have other options? How pale is she? Are her teeth all fucked up?

I'm afraid the price on Gray is going to be insane, since I don't see many other options out there. I doubt Shark or Cueto are dealt personally.

I guess we should have realistically expected this? But horsefeathers, I wasn't.

I actually prefer this. horsefeathers the in shape guy that won easily, after being given a 200 foot lead. Maybe even get them fatter and give them bigger leads.

They're not going to trade Jimmy. And they're going to win 30-40 games each of the next two years. Then they'll give Jimmy his 200 mill and win 20-30 games a year watching him decline.

Thanks man. Not happy hearing he was sitting 90-91. He's been 92-94, touching 96, in 2-3 inning stints. So, either he started out at that level and couldn't hold it, he loses that much moving to the rotation, or the heat affected him last night. Could legitimately be a combo of all of it. Glad he looked good, that's obviously the most important thing, but I'll keep an eye out for more reports on him too. If he's 90-91 consistently as a starter, that's going to ding him quite a bit on my end, unless he proves he can pitch with success at the higher levels at those speeds.

Rucker with a very solid outing. 6 3 2 1 2 6, on 75 pitches. 7/3 GO/FO. That said, he gave up a single, then a steal where it looks like there were two errors and a run. Then, a walk, followed by a steal, and a single to score the other run.....I'm guessing he's got no pick off move, because I've not heard anything negative about Higgins behind the plate..... At any rate, very efficient outing.

Cease is working the rust out. 2.1 3 2 2 2 2, on 48 pitches. He'll get his innings limit, if he stays healthy. But this injury looks to have set him back a bit. Doubt he sees too many starts in MB this year.