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Hatch partially tore his UCL two years ago, but opted against surgery. He sat out all of 2015 and came back this past year. And you are definitely high on Hatch's velocity, as are many of the pre-draft scouting reports. Maybe it was just because it was at the end of the season, but Hatch sat 89-92 with his fastball, touching 93 and maybe 94 a handful of times between the last 2 starts. I don't feel comfortable listing Hatch's velo as anything higher than that, given that he won't have the luxury of pitching once every 7 days in the minors. I really get a Trevor Cahill vibe from him. Hatch velocity: Which is why I specifically said "And you are definitely high on Hatch's velocity, as are many of the pre-draft scouting reports". He maybe reached back for 96 once in his 3rd start of the year or something, but I personally watched his last 2 starts and he was 89-92.

Hatch partially tore his UCL two years ago, but opted against surgery. He sat out all of 2015 and came back this past year. And you are definitely high on Hatch's velocity, as are many of the pre-draft scouting reports. Maybe it was just because it was at the end of the season, but Hatch sat 89-92 with his fastball, touching 93 and maybe 94 a handful of times between the last 2 starts. I don't feel comfortable listing Hatch's velo as anything higher than that, given that he won't have the luxury of pitching once every 7 days in the minors. I really get a Trevor Cahill vibe from him.

I've seen that framework a few places now. And I agree. Just horsefeathering terrible.

This is damn lunacy.

Dammit. AZPhil confirmed that Jose Albertos has been shut down for the rest of the year. I hate pitchers.

It would be fantastic if Jose Albertos were to start tonight for the AZL team. It will be 2 weeks tomorrow since the last time he pitched.

I posted the blurb a few posts up. Nothing of meat in terms of names. My mistake. I was reading Badler's twitter account, and he said that BA had a new J2 post for all 30 teams. I didn't realize it was the one from a day or two before. Thanks.

Outstanding! I didn't think we'd have a chance at him. Back a dump truck full of steaks to this kid's house. Love adding another exciting athlete, though.

Decided to not get the BA subscription this year. They just put out a J2 article for all 30 teams. Any of you have BA and are willing to share a blurb about what they said about the Cubs?

No Albertos again. That's an entire week without an appearance. Hopefully it's just the FO being really conservative with him, rather than an injury already.

Loving the combination of strikeouts and groundballs from Cease. And of course, most importantly, no walks.

He also continued the theme set by Cease and Hudson by inducing a bunch of grounders (6:1 GO/FO). 3 of the 5 hits he gave up were of the infield variety, and 1 other one was a grounder that made it through. No XBHs. Definitely a good start, but as a 21 year old repeating the level, this should probably be expected.

Skylar Szynski seems like a guy we may be interested in, if he's available. Fairly local prep arm from Indiana.

What are everyone's thoughts on taking either Kyle Funkhouser or Kyle Cody if they are there in the 3rd? Neither have improved much over their junior years, but both have some nice raw stuff. As seniors without elite production, they shouldn't be expected monster bonuses.

Has there been any recent news on the TJS recoveries of Wil Crowe or Cal Quantrill? Not sure either would make it to our pick, or that they would be affordable even if they did, but I certainly wouldn't hate to roll the dice on either.

McKinney has been terrible but Candelario hasn't really even been that disappointing, tbh. Power numbers are low, but it happens early in the season for some players. Other than that, it's just him getting BABIP'd. He's walking at a fantastic rate and is keeping his K's in check. McKinney, though, looks to be feeling the effects of the knee injury, or at least that is my hope. I've probably said this elsewhere, but with prospects I think you have to be careful about BABIP variation in both directions. It is less of an equal playing field than MLB, the prospects with promise should be creating a bit of their own luck, and those with horrific BABIPs are less likely to have the hitting ability to raise it significantly. In the case of Candelario we're at over 150 PA of him with a .635 OPS. Even if we can expect BABIP progression from him, the fact that he's had this stretch reflects just as poorly as the optimism does in the other direction. Because in this instance, Candelario getting neutral BABIP still isn't lighting AA on fire, and in order to be truly useful he needs to be good at that level, AAA, and then the MLB level, all escalating in difficulty(and chipping away at the expected BABIP he should have). A neutral BABIP wouldn't make his current line otherworldly, but it puts him in a great position for a good year once the power comes around. Candelario's power has routinely gotten significantly better in his minor league career as the season progressed. With that said, I completely agree with the gist of your post and I wasn't trying to say that Candelario's start has been amazing or that we should be truly happy with it. It was merely a response to TomtheBombadil's post which seemed to be overly pessimistic, IMO.

McKinney has been terrible but Candelario hasn't really even been that disappointing, tbh. Power numbers are low, but it happens early in the season for some players. Other than that, it's just him getting BABIP'd. He's walking at a fantastic rate and is keeping his K's in check. McKinney, though, looks to be feeling the effects of the knee injury, or at least that is my hope.

I was hoping Zobrist's poor defense in 2015 was more knee-related than age-related. That doesn't appear to be the case. He doesn't even try to go after balls that Javy would easily get to.

Gleyber with the golden sombrero. Ugly start for him early on.

I feel partly responsible for bringing notice to the fact he hadn't struck out in his first 8 PAs.

It was an exhibition game on Wednesday, but that makes 8 PAs without a K for Ian Happ to begin the season. No hits or BBs, either, but I'll take the no K's at this point.

Is this still the case? Last I saw from AZPhil had Baez getting plunked in the head down in EXST and that he hasn't seen the field since.

That may have been recently updated. AZPhil posted that INF Aramis Ademan, INF Jhonny Bethencourt, RHP Hector Garcia, OF Jose Gonzalez, RHP Jose Leidenz, 3B Rafael Mejia, SS Rafael Narea, LHP Pablo Ochoa, LHP Eugenio Palma, SS-2B Yeiler Peguero, SSF Yonathan Perlaza, OF Ruben Reyes, OF Abraham Rodriguez, RHP Andri Rondon, and OF Jonathan Sierra have been called up to participate in ExST. It was originally reported that there'd be a total of 18 so there may be 3 more to come. Yeah, I jumped the gun with my whining. Looks like the only big 2015-16 IFA signings still in the DSL are Henderson Perez, Brailyn Marquez, Yunior Perez, Jose Gutierrez and Christopher Morel, who is rehabbing some injury. And as you mentioned, 3 more are expected which could easily be one or more of these names.

A little surprised that more of the big money IFA signings aren't in EXST. Ademan, Sierra, Perlaza, Marquez, Henderson Perez, Yunior Perez, Morel and Gutierrez are all still currently slated for the DSL, per AZPhil.

No nothing from BA, Fangraphs or anywhere else for that matter. The following 4 were left with no team "favoured" to sign between either MLB and Kiley McDaniel. Keeping an eye on these 4. Name Pos Rank Alvaro Seijas P 6 Albert Guaimaro OF 11 Miguel Aparicio OF 22 Simon Muzziotti OF 24 MLB has Seijas likely signing with the Cardinals. :banghead: They also have the Red Sox in the lead for Guaimaro and Muzziotti, but other teams (including the Cubs on Muzziotti) are in the mix. Yeah they seem to have updated the list. Looks like we will have to be happy signing 6 of the Top 30. Did nobody else find it odd that he would list the Red Sox as the lead team for 2 top 30 prospects, yet they are subject to spending restrictions of $350K after signing Moncada? I just highly doubt that they are legit contenders for any top 30 types.