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I think teams are less likely to trade depth pieces because any team could lose 2-3 guys to covid for 2-3 weeks at any time. I could see teams dumping close to ready or soon (2021) rule 5 eligible guys this year to rebuilding teams who are willing to play not quite ready prospects in the majors.

Josh hamilton comp? In what way? I'm a bit sceptical about him. He has the best eye in the organization and has some pop but the swings on misses on fastballs that are fat over the plate are worrying. It is ok to occasionally miss a slider or a chest high FB but collins is missing fastballs that are essentially down the pipe and that is a bad sign. If he can catch I'm fine with .220 with 100 walks and 25 Homers (about a 220/350/420 line) but at DH or 1b that is not that great.

I think they will keep him down that 7 days. Sure it is a short season and if they start 2-6 those games against the Indians and twins they would be in quite a hole but still statistically madrigal will maybe be worth one third of a win over a replacement player over 7-8 games so it is not that bad.

Softer throwing and left handed Strasburg? That is like me saying I'm like ryan Gosling except for the money and the good looks:).

Greinke is definitely a good example of overcoming this anxiety issue stuff. Greinke is a very different personality though, kopech is more of a social guy who is dating those celebrity girls while greinke is like this almost autistic, closed off guy so like almost the opposite of kopech in that regard.

Thanks great. Is the game over already? Is 1 PM Chicago or eastern time?

Is there an Internet link? Living in germany I don't have nbc

It is definitely a risk but Greinke has managed a hall of fame career despite issues like that. Greinke of course is a different character than kopech (more the sheldon cooper type:)) but it is not impossible to manage stuff like that. Can of course also go wrong and ruin his career, every case is different.

I don't think it was malicious intent by coop but he totally can't say that.

Hopefully yermin doesn't collide with someone in the OF, that would be like getting hit by a tank:)

Vaughn bomb And a bomb and a bat flip by Tim

Thought it might be fun to collect some stuff from twitter and other social media here. Starting with robert hitting a bomb of rondon while falling to the ground

Most delivery changes with adult players go wrong though. You can make a small change like shortening up the arm a little or change the stride but changing the arm slot is risky because the muscles have been used to this path for decades and changing it can cause injury and performance loss. I'm not saying it cant work (I think Halladay did a successful slot change) but I have not heard of many successful changes but of quite a few ones that went wrong.

The offense was great but the pitching not so much. The results in the RS weren't that bad but sirotka, parque and Baldwin significantly outperformed their FIP which was bound to come back to earth.

I think crochet could get mlb lefties out right now but against righties his third pitch and command would need more work. I think you can't use a loogy anymore (does the 3 batter rule apply already this year?) but you could bring him in to face two lefties sandwiching a righty batter. The question is whether you want to bring him up and start his clock for such a specialized role.

Isn't there a rule that a Corona outbreak doesn't count against the 60 man, I.e you can call up extra players to replace corona infected players?

I guess they can do some kind of intrasquad games and live at bats against sox pitching prospects. Not real games of course but better than just hitting in the cage and playing catch all year.

I do think he would play in the expanded afl if he is healthy (and if that fall league can happen at all which we don't know yet). The swing looks good and he was an advanced bat but still if that afl is not happening he can't really play because you can't just put him in the majors after all the time off with injury and never playing above A ball.

Burger had a 1100 ops in college hitting 330+ with lots of walks and 20+ Homers. He always was a long shot to stay at third but he was a very polished college hitter who would have profiled at first or DH too. He wasn't super fit in college of course but still you dont expect an early 20 year old to RIP his Achilles twice. Fat players tend to get injured but not before their late 20s, that a player gets injured that early is rather unlikely.

I still like it because it prevents teams from keeping prospects down too long and use the minors as a reserve for mlb ready players. I would slightly adjust the times though, make it 6 years for HS and international kids and 4 years for college players because 5 years can be too little for international guys (who are only 21-22 after 5 years) while for college players 5 years is plenty (they are like 25-27 after 5 years).

Howard got less than crochet (3.7m) so I guess the sox simply liked crochet more. Also maybe timeline played a little role as howard probably isn't ready until 2024. Kelley will take time too but he has a mature body and maybe could be up a little faster.

So he got full slot value, right? This means he probably really was 11th on the sox board and they didn't want to save money. When looking at the board it probably makes sense, the better players really all went top 10 unless you like abel or howard more.

Are you worried about the reports of Kelley showing up out of shape in spring as of makeup concerns or do you think that is nothing to worry about?

I Think pipeline is the outlier, law said the change is bad and longenhagen didn't really mention the change. However I would prefer a plus breaker over a good change with an amateur. Not everyone can learn change up feel but it is possible however learning to spin the ball is hard. If the breaker has no command or a bad axis it can be corrected but if you can't make the ball spin fast at all your breaker will likely always be a "cement mixer" that just hangs up there.

I think that was kelley, crochet does throw a change but is not a viable pro ball pitch yet.