Tryptamine
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Unranked HS player, I have no idea what to make of that.
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Guardians draft is crazy, I know they had the money, but damn.
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I feel like the Angels have had a really really good draft so far.
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There goes Bazzell, I had some interest in him.
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Jed Hoyer and the French Radical
Tryptamine replied to Matthew Trueblood's topic in North Side Baseball Front Page News
Not that I think they'll spend to do it, but I think if you add Jansen/Bregman to that line up it becomes a super deep 90+ win lineup. No elite mega mashers, but that's like half a dozen guys who will finish in the 115-130 wRC+ range and 3 others that will hover around 100. -
Jed Hoyer and the French Radical
Tryptamine replied to Matthew Trueblood's topic in North Side Baseball Front Page News
Honestly the best option in FA, if you can deal with having a full time DH and have come to terms with no Soto, is probably JD Martinez. 135 wRC+ last year, 133 this year. In FA at 3B/C your best bat is Bregman who is coming off a 125 wRC+ and is sitting at a 107 wRC+ this year. -
Joey Oakie is the name that sticks out to me, but again, where is the money going to come from?
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As I said, he's probably not a starter because of the control issues, but the stuff absolutely plays where he could be a high leverage reliever right now. I also think you could go out and get a guy like Kikuchi for money similar to the 2/36 left on Taillon's contract this offseason.
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I have no issues selling Taillon, I'm just not selling him for farm filler, especially when eating money. If Baltimore wants to send back Chayce McDermott then we talk. He's probably not going to remain a starter, but he should be a very good pen arm. If Baltimore wants the Cubs to eat a chunk then it probably has to be Cade Povich.
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I'm expecting slot for Cam Smith and maybe a few hundred K savings on Mathis, if that. So there's really not enough money to do anything particularly crazy at this point. I would expect primarily arms from here on out though.
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Yet another reason to never take Fansided seriously. Eat half of Taillon's contract to net a lead piece that wouldn't be in Chicago's top 20 and a secondary piece that might not be top 30. Good god that's bad. https://fansided.com/posts/orioles-cubs-trade-for-rotation-enhancement For those who don't want to read Taillon+half his contract worth of cash for FV 40 Mac Horvath and FV 35+ Trace Bright
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Yeah, I'm not really getting this one at all.
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They must be really confident he can play 3B
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Cortez is gone
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Brecht's career just died.
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Here's the run on prep arms
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So who are the names for the 2nd round pick? Carson Wiggins was one, wasn't Gage Miller another?
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What is going on with Walschmidt?
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I have Hernandez closer to Wiggins/Smith than Rosario/Birdsell, but yeah I'm pretty firm on Smith at 8
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Louder tools, but yes potentially same fatal flaw
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Honeycutt could not go to a better team to fix him
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Imagine Yesavage falling into Baltimore's hands
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Thank god, I did not want them to have Yesavage
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Miami massive underslot.