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Post by ramireja on Dec 13, 2019 0:23:54 GMT -5
MLB Pipeline slots him in at #29 at the moment (they're updating their 2020 team preseason rankings in Feb).
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Post by jimed14 on Dec 13, 2019 9:28:58 GMT -5
Ockimey has a very limited niche he could fill given the mediocre defensive profile and his catastrophic platoon splits. There is no other word for it: www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=ockime000jos&type=bgl&year=2019That plays a very large role in how he's seen on this site and others. I have no doubt he could do damage to righthanders. The questions have to do with what he might cost you on the field and how constrained a team would be if they were ever forced to play him against lefties. He is that bad against them. I think he'd be better than Chris Davis. But that's not saying a lot.
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Post by nomar on Dec 13, 2019 10:56:42 GMT -5
Ockimey has a very limited niche he could fill given the mediocre defensive profile and his catastrophic platoon splits. There is no other word for it: www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=ockime000jos&type=bgl&year=2019That plays a very large role in how he's seen on this site and others. I have no doubt he could do damage to righthanders. The questions have to do with what he might cost you on the field and how constrained a team would be if they were ever forced to play him against lefties. He is that bad against them. I think he'd be better than Chris Davis. But that's not saying a lot. It would probably be close. I don't know if Ock could hit .200 in the majors even as a platoon player.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 2, 2020 11:30:00 GMT -5
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Post by mobaz on Jan 6, 2020 9:20:23 GMT -5
Keith Law has moved to The Athletic, where he'll still do his trade evaluations, prospect rankings and draft review, but will also report on labor issues and do longer form pieces, per his obligatory "Why I Joined The Athletic" message. So from one paywall to another.
I'd ditch ESPN+ but I like the paywall fantasy football guys; I might reconsider this year since there's little else I read there.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 6, 2020 11:40:13 GMT -5
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 7, 2020 10:09:11 GMT -5
In case anyone was wondering...
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Post by Addam603 on Jan 9, 2020 11:15:05 GMT -5
Top 20 Dominican Summer League Prospects has Brainer Bonaci at #8. 8. Brainer Bonaci, SS, Red Sox Born: July 9, 2002. B-T: B-R. Ht: 5-10. Wt: 165. Signed: Venezuela, 2018. Bonaci signed a $290,000 deal with the Red Sox when he turned 16 on July 9, 2018. He weighed around 140 pounds at the time and has since put on another 25 or so pounds, though he's still wiry and physically underdeveloped. In his pro debut, he showed advanced game skills offensively and defensively and was hitting .344/.413/.480 at the all-star break, though he ran out of gas and battled through fatigue the final month of the season. Bonaci lacks strength but still has the whip in his bat to generate sneaky power, which he showed with three home runs, though he's mostly a line-drive hitter. His approach is advanced for his age and he has good bat control from both sides of the plate. Bonaci has the ability to play with a calm, under control tempo, slowing the game down well with fundamentally sound defense for his age. He reads hops well, has secure hands, easy defensive actions and a plus arm that might still tick up in the next few years as he gets stronger. Wilkelman Gonzalez, a 17-year-old Venezuelan righthander whose velocity jumped to 95 mph this year, is another DSL Red Sox prospect to watch. www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2019-dominican-summer-league-top-20-prospects/
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Jan 9, 2020 11:52:06 GMT -5
First I've heard anything of Wilkelman Gonzalez.
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Post by borisman on Jan 9, 2020 12:27:46 GMT -5
First I've heard anything of Wilkelman Gonzalez. "Winkleman", as I call him, was one of the prospects I've followed, along with Vaughn, from the DSL. I liked their reports and someone else that had seen them prior to the DSL season had brief write-ups (one sentence) on a few of the prospects and those two I really liked what was said. If I find the post I will bump the thread.
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Post by soxin8 on Jan 10, 2020 15:36:42 GMT -5
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 10, 2020 22:07:14 GMT -5
We talked to him today! 75 minutes! Awesome conversation I can't wait to share with you all.
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Post by philsbosoxfan on Jan 11, 2020 5:36:27 GMT -5
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Post by johnsilver52 on Jan 11, 2020 6:24:56 GMT -5
First I've heard anything of Wilkelman Gonzalez. On my list to hopefully try and see at Ft myers this summer. Few this year high end kids potentially the GCL Sox could have.
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Post by borisman on Jan 11, 2020 9:25:33 GMT -5
First I've heard anything of Wilkelman Gonzalez. On my list to hopefully try and see at Ft myers this summer. Few this year high end kids potentially the GCL Sox could have. Don't "try", see the post directly above yours and "just do it".
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Post by soxin8 on Jan 11, 2020 13:02:07 GMT -5
We talked to him today! 75 minutes! Awesome conversation I can't wait to share with you all. We are all looking forward to this. Alex is such a great guy to speak with, not just for the knowledge he has, but also his demeanor. Rereading the November chat, Alex can take any question, even with a very negative tone like the one about Groome, and respond in a positive way. He answered that one by saying Groome is indeed hard to rank because of the injuries and some GM's would not be interested in him at all, but others might ask for him first. I remember at the 2018 trade deadline, the Marlins said they would not take Chavis or Groome for one of their relievers indicating they believed they were Boston's two best prospects.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 11, 2020 16:47:56 GMT -5
We asked him about ranking Groome as well and he had a very interesting answer in which he related a conversation he had with a source from another team.
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Post by bellhorndingers21 on Jan 17, 2020 9:18:45 GMT -5
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Post by James Dunne on Jan 17, 2020 10:52:06 GMT -5
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Post by Oregon Norm on Jan 17, 2020 11:32:39 GMT -5
That's a fine looking cohort of players at thre top of that list.
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Post by vermontsox1 on Jan 22, 2020 10:34:02 GMT -5
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Post by nomar on Jan 22, 2020 10:56:02 GMT -5
Wasn’t expecting to see Dalbec. That’s pretty cool for him. I don’t think I’d rank him that high, but I hope he proves me wrong.
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Post by freddysthefuture2003 on Jan 22, 2020 11:10:00 GMT -5
Yikes, we better not see any sort of draft pick punishments for being tied into the cheating scandal. Hard to build for the future when trying to save money and having scraps in the farm system.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Jan 22, 2020 12:00:09 GMT -5
Wasn’t expecting to see Dalbec. That’s pretty cool for him. I don’t think I’d rank him that high, but I hope he proves me wrong. One of the BA guys is all about Dalbec after seeing him with the Team USA Premier 12 team. I'm sure that's a big reason why he's that high.
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Post by James Dunne on Jan 22, 2020 12:18:31 GMT -5
The Premier 12 was like Peak Dalbec Experience, too. He slugged .500 for the tournament, which is on the nose. But how get got there? 1.286 slugging (not OPS - slugging), 1 K in 8 PA in his first two games; .238 slugging with 9 K in 25 PA after that. That's the Bobby Dalbec we will soon know and love. The one who everyone on the Gameday thread will be calling to bench and then will turn around and pick up 25 total bases in a three-game series.
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