Jose Abreu

And if Madrigal truly turns out to be the on-base menace that many think he will be, having him at #9 to turn it over to those three sluggers will be an awesome configuration.

I'm glad he at least got that

Missed that, but he's wrong either way

Meh, tell him to worry about catching up to Robert in fWAR ?

Not to mention, Woodruff is a #1/ace, so saying he's a better matchup than a soft-tossing lefty because of a very SSS might not be accurate

Fangraphs made their first ratings update today. Robert is #2 in WAR behind Yastrzemski (and tied for 2nd with Judge). 2nd best defensive CF behind Kiermaier

I turned on the Yankees/Red Sox game for 30 seconds and heard the announcer refer to Gio Urshela as "the best third baseman in the American League right now". I'm sorry, Urshela is a nice player, but I would take (no order) Bregman, Chapman, Rendon, Donaldson, Moncada, Ramirez, and Devers over him. That's half of the American League's third basemen. I guess this is a roundabout way of saying that, despite all this amazing young talent we have, a very brief stroll over to national baseball talking heads is a funny reminder that nobody else will care unless they get traded to [insert big market team here]

Wow, Grandal's numbers are starting to look respectable. Who could've seen that coming??

Royals hit balls that inning with hit probabilities of 75%, 90%, and 79% and still went down in order

LHP starting against us tomorrow, but either way I doubt Delmonico plays again for us barring a Mazara/Eloy injury

Nice call

And he's walking 15% of the time this year. Really encouraged by his season actually

stop hating

The difference, though, is that Moncada already is a top 15 position player in the game. It's not potential with him, it's right now

Not trying to be overdramatic but the scouting reports (which were already very positive) were very wrong about Robert in many, many ways. He has very few flaws as a baseball player, and he is already reducing them (such as his swing-and-miss) in-season. The key is just health

Yes

Is he new? The one last year was awful during the TA stuff

Awesome tweet from an even better tweeter!

IMO, evaluators have been way too low on Robert's defense/speed and way too dismissive of Franco's defensive concerns. Robert is a better prospect Edit: I've been saying this since last year, not just from this brief Robert sample

Fegan was tweeting earlier today that he's understanding it pretty well. Not sure if he's speaking though

Nah, enjoy it. Who knows how many innings we have left this year

Say what you want about this organization's young talent, but the fact that we drafted Jace Fry over Bryce Harper speaks volumes.

Luis Robert

Oh trust me it can be worse: 1. Goins 3B 2. Mendick SS 3. Delmonico LF 4. Engel CF 5. Madrigal 2B 6. Garcia RF 7. Collins C 8. McCann DH 9. Encarnacion 1B (don’t want to be too unrealistic)

Y Grandal