Bertz

I'm starting to suspect some sort of Space Jam magic-basketball situation

I would guess that at least 27 other teams could not turn that same double play even if you gave them a dozen tries

If what I saw is current the cubs are 5th in baseball in runs scored. Even better. Third in the baseball in runs per game even after today. 1st in the NL, and only the Braves are within a quarter of a run of them.

Sounds like he was available if necessary but Joe was really hoping to avoid using him. Kind of like during last weekend's marathon against the Mets.

As a 19 year old shortstop in High A, the offensive bar could not be lower. So in that sense, his ~.650 OPS is actually pretty encouraging. For example, Gleyber Torres when we traded him was a 19 year old in High A slashing 275/.359/.433 and was pretty universally considered a Top 50 prospect.

Justin Wilson has worked his way...maybe not into my good graces, but definitely off of my horsefeathers list. With the exception of his meltdown against the Reds he's been money since the start of May.

Hey! A Ball in play!

Philies just gave up a go ahead grand slam to the Brewers *sigh*

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That's an improvement, though. Usually when he misreads and/or gets a bad jump it goes sailing over his head or drops in front of him. Absolutely. Mostly just saying that catch #2 was more of an Edmonds job and less impressive than the other two.

I do have to say though, Happ's second catch was not that great. He took a terrible jump and had to dive at the end. But #1 and especially #3 were legitimately great.

Wow!!!!

Weird, Heyward was not standing a mile away from the plate on that hit.

I think he's already the org's #1 prospect but if he's going to be around a .900 OPS all season with his defensive reputation and age related to league, he's on his way to being a top 50 prospect in baseball. Maybe top 25. Yeah, I think that if he keeps this up he will be will compare pretty favorable to Francisco Mejia at a similar point in his development. That's an elite guy. I would say that we have a pretty clear top 3 of Amaya/Alzolay/Lange. After that I think is where you can go in different directions.

No offense, but I think you have unrealistic expectations. The thing to keep in mind is how tough the draft is for everyone. Getting, say, a quality starting player, a bench player, and a bullpen arm is actually a great outcome from a given draft. Getting two starting caliber players is fantastic. Getting three is franchise altering. Also no one really does well after the first round. That's why people will not shut up about, for example, Mookie Betts being a fifth round pick. This FO has probably done a little worse than the average after the first round, but they've also done incredibly well in the first round, which given how talent is distributed is way more important. Complaining about their later round drafting is like complaining that Bryant doesn't hit more dongs. Yeah I agree it'd be cooler if he did but like he's already one of the best. I don't love this draft, let's say Hoerner turns into fast DJ Lemahieu, they hit on a prep outfielder, and we end up with a Justin Grimm type along the line somewhere. This draft will go down as a success. Drafting is horsefeathers is HARD. That's why the end of the Hendry era was so fallow. It wasn't his moves at the major league level (though to be sure, those could have used some work), it was that the drafts from 2004-2010 were mostly duds. (Darwin Barney is like the 5th best player we drafted over that period).

Greatest thing I've ever seen

I'm with you on the first part. Not with you on the second. Aaron Nola is REALLY good, and they got three runs off of him (and could have been a fourth if not for that flukey Almora DP).

We're still obviously really early. But Kingery looks like he might be a guy who was smart to take the guaranteed money. Kind of like that guy on the Astros a few years ago.

WTF was Almora thinking right there?

Yup, he's done for the year [tweet] [/tweet]

Wilcox is going to school. Probably for the best. now I don't have to force a "Poet Laureate of the West" joke. [tweet] [/tweet]

I think I like Davis. I love high end athletes, especially with our player development system there to make sure they learn how to hit. That said, I don't like that it appears that we punted pick #78 to sign him. I'm not even sure if I would have been okay with that for one of the guys that were expected to go in the 1st.

I would love if we end up with Alek Thomas here. He was one of the half dozen guys I was really eyeing at #24

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