Sleepy Harold

#14 & #15 at BA FWIW.

Smith is pipeline #12 & Hopkins #22

He has one more year on his deal but it shouldn't matter too much given how the season has gone.

This is also an interesting thread on Thorpe's changeup.

Last week of the ACL regular season

I know it's a hypothetical, but Smith being 750k over would really surprise me.

Pedro's already thinking of ways to call out Brooks when he speaks to the media

Think this year with the overage it was around 15.75M, give or take. Edit, just checked and their pool + overage was $15,322,965 this year

can get a rough idea here https://www.mlb.com/draft/tracker/2024/all/team/athletics. The slots for rounds 2-10 should increase some, and could probably reference the Nats pick at 10 for a rough projected slot for RD 1. Did some rough calculations on my own and their pool (before overage) should roughly be around 12Mish, assuming no trades for comp picks.

BA writeup on UDFA Bryce Eblin

Per BA undrafted tracker the Sox signed RHP Colton McIntosh from Washington. Not a whole lot to go on here https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=mcinto000col

I'm just more amazed that this clown was allowed to lose 71 games before the break in his second season as manager and is (as of this angry post) still employed.

I would hope so as well. A .968 OPS in 36 ACL games in his first stateside action is great for someone we were adamantly told wouldn't amount to anything because he's short ??.

There was a lot of movement today, Camilletti and Goosenberg to Bham. Veloz, Gordon and Connor to WS. Mason Dinesen to Kanny (Burrowes placed on IL).

Here's another

Personally it's not hindsight, I thought that at the time when it was announced. I believed he could've used more time in AA considering he missed a chunk of time due to injury.

Unnecessarily pushing him to AAA to begin the season was a choice I wouldn't have made.