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80% of that list hasn’t hit in years.

Impressive WBC outing for Assad.

It’s a silly comparison. “A” ball isn’t to the major leagues as 7th grade is to a PhD. Basically everyone makes it to 7th grade. You have to be a...

https://twitter.com/gjoyce9/status/1633868451130245132?s=46&t=X5NZ7Ear-HCntxz-dDE1Pg Between him throwing 91-92 the other day and this that’s not...

I completely disagree with all of this. Players in A ball do not suck. Basically every good player played in A ball. Most of the players at this...

Yeah, he was getting some extra base hits out of the gate in A+, but otherwise struggled offensively for a bit. In his first 94 PA’s in A+ he had 1...

You can keep saying that A ball pitchers are throwing BP and they suck, but it doesn’t make you any less wrong. Alcantara was 2 years younger...

Here it is… https://twitter.com/watchmarquee/status/1633233737826861056?s=46&t=X5NZ7Ear-HCntxz-dDE1Pg

It’s all relative. The average K rate in the Carolina league last year was 25.5%. The average & rate in the Midwest league in 2019 was 23.3%....

There could be mitigating factors in small sample sizes with positive outcomes too. Obviously when we have more data that will help, but we’re...

It wasn’t just the HBP in August. Davis didn’t start that South Bend season until the end of May. I’m not as confident as you are that his next 75...

I don’t think this is really an apples to apples comparison. Personally I’d argue that Alcantara’s A ball season was better than Davis’ A ball...

He’s easily the 2nd best prospect in the system for me. At least until Cade Horton starts pitching.

They made the shift to bullpen only with him during the season last year. I doubt they’d go the other way now.

Davis should not be considered. He needs to play in AAA and have success there. I think Tauchman will get most of the RF starts in April.

I just noticed that too. They also have Nwogu at 3b, so there is no way it is correct. It’s probably Nwogu at LF and someone else at 3b.

Sure, but come on. 49 in 79 games as a 3b. That’s wild. Jeter had 56 in 126 games at SS in his legendary 1993 minor league season. Willson told...

They wasted a good chunk of money last year too. The Miley move was fine in theory, but it didn’t work out. Villar and Simmons were bad ideas right...

Why will they have no prospects in 5 years? They’ve done a great job identifying and developing top prospects who weren’t top 20 draft picks. Their...

I wish I could see it.

At 3b? Willson played 704 innings at 3b between the rookie league and short season Boise. That’s about 79 full games worth of innings. In that time...

They went hard on Turner and Judge too.

I’m not the one doing the twisting. People here are making the point that it’s absurd to compare how the cubs operate to how the pirates operate....

Now do revenues. The pirates spending is embarrassing and I’m not saying the cubs are exactly equally bad, but the cubs spending more than twice...

It’s both how and how much. I think they spent very inefficiently and they are also getting outspent by plenty of teams, many of which bring in less...

It’s all relative.

He’s going to have to make a lot more contact to be a good player as a LF. It’s pretty unlikely.

I don’t think anyone is discarding him. Saying you hope he rebuilds trade value so he can be flipped isn’t discarding him. It’s really hard for...

Absolutely. The Madrigal conversation had ended before I read it, but it’s only selling low if the value is going to get higher. If the players value...

To be clear, I said it would be nice if Davis could rebuild trade value this year and then they could move him next offseason. There’s no...