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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 20, 2023 19:12:57 GMT -5
Sox need to figure out why Drohan has reverted back to his high walk rates since his AAA promotion, after exhibiting great control in AA earlier this year. Need to get back to that low walk rate Drohan. It was a thing of beauty. you’d hope they’re having him work on something or maybe seeing if he can push for a little more velo and maintain control, but that’s wishful thinking
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 20, 2023 14:11:08 GMT -5
Yordanny Monegro promoted to Salem and Jeremy Wu-Yelland assigned to the FCL on a rehab assignment (probably pitching tonight). As a fan, the aggression this year has been awesome
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 20, 2023 10:16:37 GMT -5
Come on Drohan we could use a lefty with Paxton but Drohan is a kid. My complete dream for this team is Drohan makes that last adjustment or just tighten up whatever they told him, I m lesssaying Bloom should take that chance bring up Maher and Yorke. That would rernergize the team, fan base. Get some more chatter going for team. Plus most important shield Yorke so he can just focus on 2b and being a baseball player. The total money these moves would cost Bloom = 00, total prospects dealt for this move = 0. Viewership. = positive, ratings tv = positive. If there is no trades this move has to be considered it’s what is keeping this team from. Actually putting together and salvage the remainder of this season. It would get me going that’s for sure. I've already kind of talked about why this is a terrible idea, but one piece of specific phrasing in here I find particularly funny is that this move would "salvage the season". 1. They're three games over .500 and 1.5 games out of the wild card spot, this isn't a season that particularly needs salvaging (yet). 2. Calling up two guys that are in no way ready for the majors would cost the team wins, which would probably make the season unsalvageable and kill any excitement over the potential of the bright shiny new prospects (see the reactions from last year for Jarren Duran and this April for Triston Casas).
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 19, 2023 10:12:04 GMT -5
Am I skimming the list too quickly or is Hunter Dobbins not in the top 60? Would imagine he's due for a pretty significant jump, especially if he has a couple of good starts in between now and the July re-rank.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 19, 2023 8:32:58 GMT -5
Pirates announce there 1st rd pick in 2021 Davis is joining the team. Red Sox should follow suit , not today but eventually move up Mayer to play SS. In my idea have Yorke also come up. Tighten up the middle infield and Mayer gets all the attention from the media and Yorke can just play ball. Making promotion decisions based on media attention is just about the last thing any team should be doing. And media stuff aside this is still a bad idea considering he’s more than preoccupied with adjusting to the high minors. Everyone is excited about Mayer and wants him to be up sooner rather than later, but this is not the way.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 18, 2023 20:22:57 GMT -5
ump show on casas, but tbf bello benefited more from the zone than the yankees have He got that call what felt like a dozen times tonight, I’m fine with letting the scales balance a little in this context lol
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 18, 2023 18:53:33 GMT -5
Is it a possibility to include a link to a player's SP profile from their stats page? Would be a lot easier than having two tabs open and referring back to the roster pages while I peruse the numbers for, say, the DSL guys and try to see what a guy's bonus is.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 17, 2023 13:29:47 GMT -5
He’s higher on the Florida pitchers than most. Sproat looked good last night. Watching Sproat yesterday was super interesting. I came away a lot less impressed with the fastball (not good shape, hard contact from non-elite Virginia hitters) and more impressed with the changeup (comfortable plus, a weapon to go to against lefties or righties). The breaking ball seemed like largely a non-factor. As mentioned though, a delivery that could use some cleaning up leads to command that comes and goes. Interesting guy, though I'm not a huge fan. This level of amateur scouting is outright impossible though. If the Sox have someone on staff who sees something that they think they could add or fix very easily for Sproat, take him early. I just have no way of knowing that really. These were my exact thoughts (and I re-read my post to be sure) on Sproat when I saw him live last month. I was pretty shocked he came into the game known as a Fastball/Breaking Ball guy when the change was as sick as it was. Kendall Rogers even wrote about his changeup use after that game. I can definitely see an MLB player in there but if anything it’ll be a Pivetta-like (comp came to mind mostly because of their fastball characteristics) high variance backend starter, in my eyes.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 17, 2023 12:45:23 GMT -5
FCL game postponed due to lightning. The streets are saying Cespedes’ homer was hit so hard it altered wind patterns on the eastern seaboard
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 16, 2023 21:06:00 GMT -5
If you’re not watching Virginia-Florida, now’s a good time to start. Wyatt Langford just sent a baseball into orbit to tie the game in the 9th.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 16, 2023 13:29:46 GMT -5
Three-run HR for Brooks Brannon. His third of the year. I'll admit, with the ultra-aggressiveness of the Sox this year in their placements and promotions, I was bummed and mildly concerned that Brannon wasn't starting in Salem with Anthony and Coffey. Nice to see that those fears may have been overblown and that it likely speaks to the strength of the depth at catcher in the lower levels of the system that he's starting in complex ball.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 16, 2023 11:45:06 GMT -5
Seems weird given his value as a $1.2 mil defensive wiz. Maybe they're doing the Ceddanne Rafaela thing
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 16, 2023 11:12:58 GMT -5
You can pretty much talk me into just about any player in the draft when you're picking outside of the top 5 or so, just because of the nature of the whole deal which I've talked about before. That being said, the guys that have been mentioned or linked to the Sox in one way or another that I would pretty actively not want at 14 would be Aiden Miller, Chase Davis, and Hurston Waldrep, and I'm also a little mixed on Blake Mitchell. Waldrep is concerning for pretty obvious reasons but outside of that I'm just personally against investing that kind of capital into players with already evident hit tool questions. The only exception I'd maybe make at that spot is Brock Wilken for a way underslot deal, but that's just a guy I feel is really undervalued right now. I'm still pretty firmly in the camp that one of Wilson, Troy, Shaw, or Gonzalez would be the ideal there, and I'd hope that the likelihood these high school risers pushing some of the college bats down will increase leverage for additional slot savings should they go that route.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 15, 2023 20:24:22 GMT -5
I'm just now catching up to the Fangraphs list, and while there are certain things that are certainly head-scratching, Longenhagen saying that Bradley Blalock has two pitches that could get MLB outs right now is probably the most shocking piece of the story that I'm surprised nobody has explicitly mentioned.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 14, 2023 18:20:10 GMT -5
Anthony leads off with a massive home run to dead center Was it in the air or on the ground?
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 14, 2023 9:41:06 GMT -5
Roman Anthony with 3 errors in the outfield is a pretty difficult thing to do in one game, certainly an eventful debut at the very least lol
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 9, 2023 9:08:21 GMT -5
Pitching isn’t going to get any better until the front office makes a point to improve it. Since Houck was drafted I think the highest pick spent on one was 99. When John Hart rebuilt Atlanta he said he was going to make a point to draft and develop pitching and any trade made would get at least an interesting arm back. Makes you wonder what the overall issue is with their seeming inability to develop an above average home grown starter since Buchholz? Basically in the last 20 years it's been Lester and Buchholz unless I'm forgetting someone which I probably am. Is it an inability to scout and assess amateur pitchers? An overall inability to develop pitchers? Just piss poor luck? A recent aversion to spending high draft capital on pitchers? It does seem strange to me how they've been seemingly so successful with their ability to assess and develop hitters over the years but the complete opposite with pitching. Three of the five current members of the rotation are home grown, I'd argue all three are above average or project to be long-term (this is with the caveat that most people don't actually have a good understanding of what average actually looks like). I really don't think the Red Sox have been as bad with their pitching development lately as most people seem to make it out to be, at least relative to the level of investment in the position. The problem with how their pitching development is discussed, however, is that it's usually in relation to the teams who are elite at it (Dodgers, Rays, Guardians) and not compared to the league as a whole, where I think you'll find there really aren't many teams churning out great pitchers at a high rate like that. Could you make the argument they should be investing in pitching more heavily? You could, though I'm not sure I would. Has their hitting development been ahead of their pitching development historically? Sure! But I think this ends up being way too black and white of a discussion than it really should be, at least most of the time. Add: You can quibble with the idea of Houck being an above-average starter if you want, again I think that would be reflective of not understanding true average, but he hasn't performed very well this year and I get it. That being said, Brayan Bello was a 28K bonus guy and Kutter Crawford was a 16th round pick, those are two glaringly obvious examples of great pitching development that seem to get ignored a lot of the time, and if someone were to come back and say oh that's only two guys, I would love to see a list of the dozen or more teams who are churning out better starters than that on a consistent basis. You look at a team like the Royals who invested super heavily into college pitching a few years ago (Bubic, Kowar, Singer, etc.) and most of those guys turned out to be just as good as a Crawford at best, but in most cases are worse, relievers, or not in the majors. TLDR - The Red Sox aren't a great pitching development machine by any means, but if you take stock of the league as a whole and their level of investment into pitching, they're actually not as bad as it seems. And if Drohan is as advertised, the rotation could be mostly homegrown guys in the long-term.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 8, 2023 8:39:43 GMT -5
We’ve stunk for 4/5 years now. So, the probability of stinking is pretty high next year too. Why? We can’t develop pitching. Shohei Ohtani isn’t walking through the door. Honestly, why would he come here? Given better options. Money, team and weather in LA with Dodgers Are you really sure that 5 years is the timeframe you want to be using? Last time I checked, 5 years ago was 2018, which went pretty okay. 2020 and 2022 they stunk, but 2021 they made the ALCS and in 2019 they were 6 games over .500. If that's "stinking", then I'm sure a lot of teams would love to stink. They have certainly had years in the recent past in which they've fallen on their face, but you're incredibly spoiled if you think that it's been that bad overall.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 7, 2023 14:10:48 GMT -5
I love the dual threads: de Grom goes down, predictably. And yet after ~half dozen starts, people want to extend Paxton. What could go wrong? Hope springs eternal... until everything that can go wrong, will go wrong 😅 Well I think the very obvious difference is that no one is suggesting to pay Paxton $40 million a year.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 7, 2023 9:58:55 GMT -5
I'm curious why Bobby over JT, who is already on the major league team and is the better defender at this point? Only reason is I want Masa in LF getting reps. If Turner goes to first Masa will be at DH. Only way he’s going to get better in the OF is to work on it everyday. He's almost 30 and has been an outfielder his entire life, I think he probably is what he is as a defender at this point. Could he improve his Fenway-specific defense with more reps out in left? Sure, but I think that's a very minor portion of the issue and doesn't warrant leaving him out there if that's not the most optimal lineup construction for the team.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 7, 2023 9:25:53 GMT -5
I think the fact that he's impacting the baseball again is more important than the lack of walks. There's a happy medium that he hasn't quite reached, but with his defense I think it's more important to see he can still get to some pop. We'll see where his approach settles in. I would disagree with this. It's certainly nice to see him hitting, but we already knew he could impact the baseball when he makes contact with it. I am still pretty hesitant to fully buy in until we see him improve on his areas of weakness as opposed to having stretches where his strengths are amplified.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 7, 2023 8:05:42 GMT -5
Valdez into the top 10 surprises me some too.
Streaks to how shallow the system is after 4. After Marcelo you have a tools kid in low A, and two good AA kids but outside of the top 100. Then you enter that area where you balance a couple of low A dreams with older really low ceiling guys like Valdez. If any of the low A chips were strong they would easily displace the older flotsam. If they draft a college kid in first round I could see him fit right into that 5-10 group. It’s crying out for a real prospect who is older than 19-20. Not to just reiterate what’s already been said to you, but I really think that if you view Valdez being 10th as a sign of weakness in the system, you need to recalibrate how you view prospects. Virtually no system in baseball is ever loaded with surefire big leaguers, that’s why they’re prospects. So yeah you can take your view and poke holes in why each guy after 4 might be overvalued but I’d argue that’s an extremely limited view and ignores the entire context of the developmental process. The system is actually in a pretty good spot right now, all things considered.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 6, 2023 16:17:56 GMT -5
Here's the thing. Yorke HAS to hit. Arguably has to be a plus hitter. And while the slash line is solid, his in-zone whiff rate (among the highest in the system believe it or not) and the accompanying reports indicate some issues below the surface that I, at least, worry about moving up. Rafaela, OTOH, brings defense and speed to the table. How much does he need to hit to be, say, Harrison Bader?I think it's close and there's a big gap between them and Bleis. I wouldn't quibble with preferring Yorke (James does). Just saying the argument for Rafaela at 3. Honestly, if Anthony starts lifting the ball he probably passes both. I'd say he needs to hit .246/.316/.411, which seems roughly in line what what I'd expect out of him as like a 70th-percentile outcome (maybe a little less OBP and a little more SLG).
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 6, 2023 16:15:27 GMT -5
Alright, still getting caught back up on work stuff but had an awesome time working the Charlottesville Regional and am going to dump a ton of thoughts on guys before I forget them all. Going to go team-by-team but am not going to mention Army, mostly because I'm just not confident in the availability of any of those guys to play pro ball, and also because they looked completely awful. Their shortstop has some good offensive numbers but he also made like three errors by the third inning of the first game, and at that point I was kind of out. This is also not going to be exclusively 2023-eligible players, just kind of a general collection of thoughts.
Oklahoma
I wrote about him a little bit when I caught Oklahoma-Texas in a doubleheader a couple months ago, but I came away from this weekend really liking John Spikerman as a 2024 guy. The numbers from the regional don't jump off the page, nor are his season numbers all that sexy (though like I said before, he's experiencing a bit of over-regression with his BABIP), but he just has such an impact on the game. His defense in center is excellent, I had the opportunity to get really good angles on his jumps. But the thing that helps him the most is his speed, which is electric. He was a terror on the basepaths, and if nothing else that will be a weapon for him moving forward. But I really like the approach and some of the contact he was making, I think if he can consistently maintain that then he'll be a highly drafted guy, though the lack of power will probably keep him out of the first couple rounds.
Bryce Madron is another guy that I came away from the tournament really liking, and I think he makes a ton of sense for the Red Sox for all kinds of reasons. First of all, he is tiny, which seems to be a Red Sox thing lately. And second of all, his approach is potentially one of the best in college baseball this year. 60 walks to 39 strikeouts! I'm actually not even sure I saw him swing and miss all weekend, and when he makes contact it's not weak contact despite size concerns. He's got 15 doubles and 12 homers on the year in addition to 15 steals, so the overall athletic profile is quality, so when you combine that with the approach, you're looking at a potentially valuable offensive piece. That being said, he's a 5'8" corner outfielder. The arm is fine, but not a real strength, so similar to Chase Meidroth there's going to be pressure on the bat being advanced enough to carry him. But, like Meidroth, I think it could be. He's a guy I'd be all over in the middle of Day 2.
There wasn't a whole lot outside of those guys that was all that exciting with Oklahoma. I didn't get to see Will Carsten in relief again, which was a disappointment. And truthfully most of their other pitchers are pretty boring, some of them are good college pitchers but most of them are throwing in the high-80's and pitching to contact, so not the type of guys you really look at as draftable. Braden Carmichael would be an interesting senior sign as he has a really good control/command profile, but outside of that it's pretty meh. Dakota Harris is also a good performer at shortstop for them but he just kind of seems like a good college player who's a collection of fine tools, nothing particularly exciting. They had a freshman catcher, Easton Carmichael, who I think could be a really good prospect down the line if he matures a bit and cuts down on the swing and miss, because he was making some extremely loud contact, but a lot of his prospect equity will depend on how he progresses behind the plate. In truth, it's kind of tough to write about some of the other Oklahoma guys like Anthony McKenzie or Kendall Pettis because they may look like better prospects if they were playing more natural positions (Pettis could play a good center field, McKenzie maybe a good MIF) but since Oklahoma's team structure is just so weird they're pigeonholed into positions where they just don't have the bat to carry them as prospects.
East Carolina
All I knew about the kid was the little I'd read coming into the weekend on him, but holy crap Trey Yesavage was impressive. Probably the guy who stood out to me the most. Not a dominating stat line against Oklahoma on Friday (5.1 IP, 4 H, 1 R (O ER), 2 BB, 7 K) but he was flat-out overpowering them. His fastball is good, low 90's with good enough command and control, but his breaking ball is devastating and OU hitters had no chance against it. He's a pretty physical body already, so I don't know if there's a ton of projection left, but at 6'4", 225 I'm not sure how much left you need. He'll need to work on the development of his changeup, but with that sort of physical profile, the breaking ball characteristics, and the production this year (2.61 ERA, 105 K's to 23 BB's in 76 innings), he's going to be a comp round guy next year at a minimum.
After that, there's a bucket of interesting pitching prospects that fit a mold ECU clearly likes to go after (mainly, size) of various levels of intrigue. Danny Beal was probably the most interesting of the bunch, though he might be a relief-only guy. He hardly walks anyone and he misses a lot of bats, but I worry that a lot of his success comes from the sidearm slot that he throws out of and won't have a go-to pitch against lefties. I think he's a guy that would actually make sense for the Sox to bring in and try as a starter as they tend to do with prospects, and see if they can add that third pitch, but at worst I think you have a very interesting relief arm that can give you a different look with his arm action. Josh Grosz is a guy I know is relatively highly thought of as a prospect, and he certainly has an ideal pitcher's frame, but I didn't think the stuff was dynamic enough to justify the lack of command he displayed. He's very similar to how I feel about Nathan Dettmer where on paper they're ideal power pitchers, but without the power in reality. Garrett Saylor strikes me as an interesting senior sign, only 8 walks in 54 innings this year while missing a fair amount of bats, good size, and has experience starting. He's a fifth year senior, so would be able to be had on the cheap, but a guy that could function as a solid org arm similar to Brian Van Belle.
The last pitcher worth mentioning, who is a couple years away, was freshman Zach Root. He was a highly-regarded high school prospect, so this shouldn't come as a surprise, but he looked great despite the season numbers not being stellar. He was sitting around 92, which is excellent for a freshman lefty, and his breaking ball was extremely crisp and did the best job any pitcher had done all tournament of keeping Virginia hitters off balance. The most interesting part of his game, though, is his delivery. I really can't describe it, so I highly recommend giving it a Google. It's 80-grade funk, and I think that combined with the stuff makes for an extremely interesting pitching prospect long-term.
Frankly, though, didn't come away super high on many ECU bats. I think that Justin Wilcoxen is an interesting catching prospect, but like Dakota Harris just feels like a combination of fine tools and didn't really excite me. Jacob Starling is someone that I think has some exciting potential, with high-level athleticism and really solid line-drive power, but the defense was pretty rough. He displayed some pretty poor hands at second base and I'm not sure his future is in the infield. With his athleticism and speed, I could see giving him a shot in center, but I don't think the bat is quite good enough to justify him being a notable prospect as a second baseman. Jacob Jenkins-Cowart is a guy that I want to like, as the 6'6" 215 pound frame he has gives you a lot to dream on, but he needs to show some sort of approach before I can take him seriously at all. I kept pretty close track of it in the last game against UVA - he saw 5 pitches and and swung at them all. Just no patience whatsoever, but when he makes contact it looks pretty darn good. They also weirdly took him out after the top of the 5th inning every game, which I'm not sure what that's all about. But he's a guy who is a lump of clay to be molded and, as a sophomore, has plenty of room to break out in a big way, so he's got my attention.
The prospect I think that merits the most individual discussion is the one who I think is widely regarded as their best prospect, Josh Moylan. I came away from it understanding the appeal, but also feeling like the ceiling there is not all that high. He certainly looks the part, which is a common theme with ECU, they have a bunch of gigantic athletes on their squad, and for his size he's very athletic. I thought the swing was really compact and he made good swing decisions all weekend, especially against talented Virginia pitching. He consistently barrels the ball and is a relatively complete hitter who doesn't strike out an insane amount relative to his power numbers. That being said, his biggest flaw is that he throws left-handed. He's a good athlete, very fluid and flexible (made a couple really nice displays of flexibility with picks at first), and he actually had what looked to be the strongest arm of the entire ECU infield, at least from the way the ball came off his hands in warm-ups and such. If he threw right-handed, I think he'd be a top-3 round type of prospect as a third baseman, because he has that kind of athleticism. That being said, I'm not sure he has the speed for the outfield, and if he's a first base-only type, I'm not quite sure the offensive ability is enough to warrant a high pick, given how high the bar is for those guys. I like him, and I certainly wouldn't be surprised if he became an MLB player, but I'm also not quite sure how to value him given neither the ceiling nor floor are relatively very high.
Virginia
Unsurprisingly, the best team in the regional and the team that swept it comes in with the most impressive collection of prospects. First, the pitchers. Like Oklahoma, it's a lot of low-velo pitchability types, though there were a couple really interesting names. I couldn't tell you much about Jake Berry's arsenal given most of when I caught his outing was off at the dugout level to the side, but the dude is a 6'10" lefty that sits in the low 90's and strikes out over 11 batters per 9 innings. Count me in on the gamble on his development. Their Friday and Saturday starters, Brian Edgington and Nick Parker, were pretty prototypical college pitchers, good command and pitchability but high-80's to low-90's velos. Their Sunday starter, Connelly Early, was somewhat similar but has pretty easily the most room to dream on his development. For starters he's two years younger than those other two guys, being a true junior. Second, he had more success on the mound both throughout the season and in this regional (won the player of the tournament award after striking out 10 in 6.1 innings in the final game). Third, and this is the most important part to me, he is a transfer from Army, so he's really only had one year in a true baseball-centric strength & conditioning program. A 6'3", 195 pound lefty, if he can go from sitting 90-92 like he was on Sunday to 92-94, I think that'd make a world of difference with his already good secondaries and command. Personally, I'm in on him as early as the third round, as I think he's a very reasonable developmental gamble (in addition to the potential slot savings) and the makeup is 80-grade. One of the players that jumped out most to me as a guy to watch over the course of the weekend.
The headliner, obviously, is Kyle Teel, and personally I can see why. He OOZED "best player on the field" level of confidence, and the performance backed it up. Literally every time his bat touches a ball, it's barreled. Everything was hard hit, including a bomb off of the batter's eye to cap off the last night. He was also an obviously good athlete, looking good on the basepaths and jumping around behind the plate like I almost never see from a catcher (if this doesn't make sense, think about what Juan Soto does during his at-bats but from a catcher). I'm not sure there's a ton of big-time power potential there as much as it's just steady line drivers, and despite the athleticism I'm not sure he's a true catcher, but I'm more than willing to jump all over the bat if he made it to 14. I think he's perfectly justified as a top 10 guy if you think he sticks behind the plate.
Their heir apparent at catcher (if you take Brian O'Connor's comments at face value), Ethan Anderson, was another big riser for me as a 2024 guy. He's playing first base for them right now as he's obviously blocked by Teel, and as a first baseman he's in the "bat is good but not great enough for the position" mold like Moylan, but if he can catch, he's got an extremely good approach (10.14 K%) and can impact the baseball. He even may develop enough in the next year to warrant being a high pick as a first base-only guy, it's that level of talent. Their backup 1B and DH, Anthony Stephan, is in a similar mold where he doesn't feel like a fit at first (he's just really small) but he impacts the baseball at a high level, and also only strikes out 10% of the time. I'll be interested to see if he moves positions next year or inherits the first base spot should Anderson jump to catcher.
Their top two hitters, the Irishmen, Griff O'Ferrall and Ethan O'Donnell, were also both impressive in different ways. O'Ferrall is a pretty classic light hitting shortstop, but he's currently hitting .391 so not *too* light. He also has a great glove, so as a rising junior it'll be interesting to see if he can add strength to give the bat a little extra oomph. O'Donnell was relatively quiet for most of the weekend before hitting a home run to put Virginia ahead for good in the final game. He's got a bit of a "jack of all trades" type profile to him, but was another guy like Spikerman who was extremely smooth in center. I look at him like I look at a less-versatile Tyler McDonough, who is a prospect I liked and still kinda like, so he's my type of player.
Finally, the one big prospect who I came away feeling a little less enthused about was Jake Gelof, who I liked as a second round type guy coming into the weekend. He's definitely got the power (he had a home run get robbed), and he's got the patience, but his swing is really long and he had some serious issues with swing and miss against not the best pitching, at least relative to it being a postseason event. There's still certainly tools to bet on, and I think he's definitely a third baseman, but I think he's in a clear tier below guys like Yohandy Morales and Brock Wilken, and I think that archetype suffers a pretty steep dropoff after the top tier as a general rule.
Overall, I saw a lot of good baseball (and a fair share of bad), and really enjoyed my time there and ended up with what I felt were some pretty good takeaways.
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Post by thegoodthebadthesox on Jun 6, 2023 10:51:02 GMT -5
I dont care how much he's struggled, take Dollander at 14 for no other reason than he doesn't go 19 to the Rays Yeah he has struggled, but the K rate is slightly up. That is enough for me. His 2002 season was real. Pick him if he is there. I know the pre-college sample matters, but this seems extreme
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