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Its basically so teams can't get around the not trading draft picks by just agreeing to trades in principle and then confirming them after the draft. There used to be a loophole where a recently drafted player that should not be allowed to be traded was traded as a PTBNL in a trade. It happened to Dansby Swanson Trea Turner and everyone knew it so it was weird when he was playing for the team that drafted him for two months when he knew he was actually heading to the Braves Nats as soon as he was allowed to be traded.

I feel like relievers are down in value this cycle just because so many tanking teams seemed to have one. The Mejia trade was 2 good ML relievers with tons of control for one prospect, so I don't think that would factor into a Fry trade. I think the best option would be to keep him and reassess at the trade deadline next year. If we still suck and can get something good for him, we just proved that he is good by letting him have two good seasons in a row so the return should be greater than this year; if we are good, then we might have a really good bullpen arm and that means we don't have to worry about trading for one more spot in the bullpen.

FG updated their 2019 rankings a bit. Adley is #1 and is the only 55 FV right now. Then there are five 50FV guys, none of which are Bobby Witt Jr. who is ranked #11. The five are (in order) Bryson Stott (Col SS), CJ Abrams (HS SS), Shea Langliers (Col C), Michael Toglia (Col RF), Riley Greene (HS RF). Honestly, after watching a bunch of the games, I'm pretty disappointed in Witt. He does seem to have power, but his speed seems to play down in game action, his actions were less fluid and overall just not great at short, and there are questions on his hit tool. I'm wondering if this is another case of a guy peaking early because they are old for the class (and in Witt's case he has the major league dad that might have helped him get better earlier than other), or if he is just growing into his body still and maybe has a changing skill set because of that.

I guess that guarantees we end up trading Jose.

I feel like Rosario should be in Arizona now. He is having a second good year in a row and is already 19.

It sounds like they are looking for starters so we probably don't have anyone that interests them.

Saying that kind of defeats the purpose of me not looking.....

Right now I'm pretty happy because it seems like Adley and Witt are the top 2, but Langliers is also a good defensive catcher that scouts said was the second best hitter on the college national team. He is getting overshadowed by Adley a bit, but I think he is very comparable to Bart.

A parargraph from that scouting report is really confusing me That's....that's what a slider is supposed to do. Right? Or am I taking crazy pills?

During the big league home run derby Witt and Hinds compete for the HS championship. They were given 90 seconds to hit as many as they could and Hinds went first and got 7 and then Witt proceeded to get 8 with 14 seconds left. Hinds hit them further, so his raw might be bigger and more likely to translate to wood, but Witt definitely has good power and better bat control at this point.

Yeah, he was 98 pretty easily and he didn't even really have time to get up to top speed because he only threw 8 pitches and a decent number were curves.

Basabe just hit a homerun off Hunter Greene in the futures game off a 102 mph fastball.

Basabe just hit a homerun off Hunter Greene in the futures game off a 102 mph fastball.

Is the game only on MLB network or is there another way to watch it? EDIT: There is a stream of it on mlb.com https://www.mlb.com/video/live-siriusxm-futures-game/c-2257735183?tid=188659034

The 15 was pretty good, but he hit another 11 in 90 seconds in the second round. The power is real.

Zangari with 2 HRs again. That's 6 in 13 games and he is still at an age appropriate level even with all the time missed.

I agree (though there is some debate whether playing the game just improves eye sight instead of the opposite way), and that is why the biggest thing for Moncada to me is that he needs glasses. They talked about it before the year how Moncada needs glasses but Tim Anderson told him not to get them because he (Anderson) didn't like the way they felt when he was batting. When I see heat maps of Moncada and it shows that he has bad breaking ball recognition and is bad against anything in the bottom of the zone, both in recognizing and making contact, and I feel like those are the exact things that bad eyesight would cause. It's similar to Bryce Harper when he learned he needed corrective lenses when he made the Nationals, so everything he was doing before was while he could barely see the ball.

Zangari has been putting some power into the ball since he has been back. He just missed two homeruns already tonight after hitting two last night. He has 4 in 11 games.

Eventually you'll see his ascendancy

I agree that a lot happens, but also by this point in the year Turang was falling, everyone knew Beer wasn't going 1-1 and Gorman was struggling against off speed stuff versus Japan (and he was never really in talks to go 1-1 anyway). On top of that, those are two high school players that tend to fall throughout the process and one college guy at the least premium position while Rutschman is a college player at a premium position, and those guys tend to climb as the draft gets closer. All of that said, he still needs to perform at the same level next year during his college season. His performance thus far probably assure that he is a first round pick even with a bad year, but the guys that go at the absolute top of the draft usually have good summers and a good season.

Yeah, I think something with his wrist. They only wanted to offer him the 40% of slot required to get the pick next year, so that sounds pretty bad. On the other hand, the Braves new GM was pretty notorious for finding things not to like in medicals with draftees when he was the GM of the Blue Jays, or so one of the FanGraphs guys said a while back.

I thought we had enough of that already.

Yeah, probably using it as a rehab assignment when he gets back from injury.

He might be the next White Sox letfty who is never highly rated, but is always solid. A Quintana type to balance out the Kopechs and Ceases of the organization would be pretty nice.

That's it. Bubble wrap all the top 30 prospects. Let the rest of the organization finish out the seasons.