Nardiwashere

If I owned the Orioles, I'd let Elias run things for 50 weeks out of the year and then I'd bring in Kenny Williams to be his boss for a week in December and a week in July.

I am shocked that Crochet and his camp dropped this extension thing so late. That's ridiculous.

The more I think about this, the more I don't even understand how it would work. He tells them "give me $X and I'll pitch in the postseason." They give him $X. Then postseason comes around... what if he's sore? They just extended him because he intended to pitch in October as of July 31? I feel like this story doesn't make a ton of sense.

This is all new information to us but I highly doubt it is new information for the other teams. I'm sure they have had conversations about his availability, innings limits, and what he is comfortable with. If we all knew he wanted to stay on a starter's schedule, Cashman and Friedman did too. He has been in trade rumors for months. It's unlikely Crochet and his agent all of a sudden decided to tell everyone they want an extension on July 25. To me, it sounds like the type of news report you get right before he is dealt. If he isn't traded this week, that's fine. Be careful with him the rest of the season and trade him in the offseason if you don't want to extend him. Not a huge difference if he gets traded July 30 or December 15.

huh?

Everyone in the universe has known about the innings issue since April. To me, this sounds like something has been agreed to and the acquiring team has been given a window to work something out with Crochet before its finalized.

Now I think he's gone.

Unless you're Mike Elias...

I need a trade ASAP or at least a good juicy rumor. I can't take these stupid updates from the reporters saying stuff like, "White Sox are sellers."

Anyone know what this is about?

That would be the only reason, right? Unless the high school kid is telling teams he's not interested in signing... Is that done anymore?

If the plan is to sign high school kids overslot that you have worked out an agreement with and Round 11 allows you to not count the first $150k against the pool, wouldn't you always wait until Round 11 to do so?

FROM WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN!!!!!

We just drafted a guy that doesn't have a position listed on mlb.com. Is that good?

So its likely that anyone else exciting will be a Round 11 or later pick?

One time I had to go to Minooka/Morris to give a presentation for work. Afterwards, I walked to a pizza place with slot machines to call for an uber and charge my cell phone. The waitress laughed and said "we don't have ubers out here" and asked me where I was going and I said "downtown" and she responded "which downtown?" About two hours later, the restaurant was going to close and the waitress asked her dad to drive me to a Holiday Inn because nothing else was open. Just then, an uber showed up. They were nice people. I'm rooting for Nate George.

Do we think we are gonna get the Minooka kid? Is that this year's overslot local prep named George?

Strategically, why wouldn't you draft your money savers after drafting the high school guy you want?

Marlins just drafted a guy named Fenwick Trimble. I know nothing about him except his name but I'm willing to bet he has asked someone "Do you know who my father is?" at some point in his life.

So "selecting in defiance of MLB braintrust" means he was lower on mlb pipeline's ranking's than where he got picked? Isn't that like half of the picks in this portion of the draft?

This is probably a very stupid question but let's say you are the White Sox, you don't love any of the top players and next year, you have the 10th overall pick at best. What prevents them from drafting Hagen Smith #5 overall and then saying "We'll offer you $4,000,000 and not a penny more." If they sign him, they get him for a huge discount. If they don't, they get pick #6 in a much better draft next year. Do you need to show bad faith?

I'm always amazed at how fast these later rounds go. When I do fantasy drafts with 11 other guys and a much smaller player pool, there's a million instances of "Wait, did X get picked?" and taking more time than needed... Granted, we are talking about large staffs of serious prepared people, not a dozen drunk guys... but its still impressive.

If he's bad and the team decides they don't want him next year, can't they just easily cut him? Its not like he has a guaranteed contract and he's making a ton of money.

What's the significance of him being pre-FA, still on arb? A quick look at deals from the last year show Garret Cooper, Jiman Choi, Josh Bell, Jace Peterson, AJ Pollock, Carlos Santana all got moved and none of those guys were very good.

Guys like Dejong, Pham, and Vaughn etc. get moved all the time at the deadline.