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Ive seen Romy Gonzalez listed as 3b, 2b and now listed as an OF... I wonder if he will be playing all over the field.

I am going to try to make it to the game on Sat. I am very interested to see who is on the roster.

I think ptatc's problem is that you are looking for an excuse to keep him in AAA. We should be doing whatever is best for his development, whether it be keeping him in AAA or moving him up to the bigs. We shouldn't be looking for reasons to keep him down... If he has more to learn in AAA great keep him there, if he is ready for the bigs he should be moved up at the next service time benchmark.

So if the mlb goes to electronic strikes zones (I think they will in a couple years) does Collins value increase and the defense first catchers value decrease?

Why does everybody think it will be Zavala instead of Collins moving up? Is it because reports have him ahead defensively?

I can understand why he is ranked there. His numbers before these last couple of months left something to be desired (especially for a 1b). If he keeps raking this yr, which I think he will do, he will keep rising up that board.

Dang, my daughters name is Rose and my name is Robert, I was hoping we could one day get jerseys with our names on them together...

Well if they talk to him and thats what he wants, i agree. I am just not sure he is as valuable to another team as he is to us and nobody pays what we demand. But if they do give us a kings ransom then great!

If Avi comes back and re-establishes some value he could be traded as well. I am hoping we package guys together to get bigger returns. If we trade Abreu hopefully an arm or 2 gets thrown in to increase the what we get back.

Side question... If MLB goes to electronic strike zones, is pitch framing no longer a stat?

From the sounds of it, there will be very few quality starters available in the trade market this year. which could def increase Shields' value.

sweeeeet

ditto

I don't know if he is severely underrated... I think he is a top 10 pick easy and would hope he fell to us if our pick was a few picks later but at #4 I think there is better available.

yes......

I say Madrigal (if he is gone, go underslot with India) Madrigal and yes.

Didn't he start the season with ridiculous BABIP numbers in the other direction...

I think youre wrong about this. 1st I don't think the popularity of the rebuild has anything to do with it. Its all about competing when the window is open. 2nd I doubt any other values Abreu more than us, so I don't think anybody will give what it takes for us to trade him. In my opinion he only gets traded if somebody grossly over pays for him.

Also Curbelo is in Kan. It seems he is playing 3rd with Laz there, and if it is Madrigal I guess Madrigal would be the starting SS.

its very interesting to see how people value different tools. Because there is nobody who has strong tools across the board people have a wide variety of opinions. Also a lot of people seem to have a very high tool and a very low tool which causes further division

IF Avi re-establishes some value when he comes back, what kind of trade can we get from the rox for Avi, Abreu and Jones? Would the rox be interested in Avi as a righty OF? Arent all of their starting OFs left handed?

Rogers started the season really slow and has since turned it on. With how valuable I think Jose is he is a must in my opinion. With McMahon, lots of players start off slow, I still think he will hit in the bigs. I really like Welker. But he started off on fire and has since cooled off, still playing very well though. If we are giving up Jose we should get our pick of 2 of these and a player like Tapia. If we don't then I say we keep him.

I think there is already a thread on this...

I totally agree with you. which means he is a steal at 1-4! I really hope he is not gone by our pick.

Looks like Eloy threw somebody out at home. Would be nice if somebody had a video so we could see how his arm looked.