Free Agent Signings:
Carlos Santana
Mike Minor
Michael Taylor
Ervin Santana
Top 10 Prospects:
1 Bobby Witt Jr., SS
2 Asa Lacy, LHP
3 Daniel Lynch, LHP
4 Jackson Kowar, RHP
5 Erick Pena, OF
6 Nick Loftin, SS
7 Kyle Isbel, OF
8 Khali Lee, OF
9 Jonathan Bowlan, RHP
10 Carlos Hernedez, RHP [Reply]
Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
Are you starting that count in 2008 specifically to exclude Duffy and Holland?
Weird, arbitrary start date.
They did a decent job acquiring pitching talent early on (2007-2010 or so), especially if you include international signings like Herrera and Ventura, then struggled when the draft format changed and the hard slots went into place, and only recently came out of it with the college-heavy approach.
If you’re saying you have to go all the way back 14 years to find a single pitcher worth a shit that DM drafted.....seems like we are saying the same thing. [Reply]
Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry:
Padres gave Olivares up for Trevor Rosenthal. He is way over valued on this board.
A) The Padres were in a pennant race and making a trade for a reliever who was having an outstanding season. It's not like they traded him for nothing.
B) We just want to see what Olivares can do. He was tearing it up in AAA, but for some reason they refuse to give him any meaningful opportunity in an offense that is woefully underperforming. [Reply]
One of the few things that people around the industry seem to agree on is that Kansas City is likely to take Rocker if he gets here, and right now, he's seen as likely to get here. The Royals were on Rocker back to his high school days, and he fits their recent preference for major conference college arms. They're on House as well, and I'd imagine they would take a long look at Lawlar or Watson if either got this far [Reply]
Originally Posted by duncan_idaho:
Are you starting that count in 2008 specifically to exclude Duffy and Holland?
Weird, arbitrary start date.
They did a decent job acquiring pitching talent early on (2007-2010 or so), especially if you include international signings like Herrera and Ventura, then struggled when the draft format changed and the hard slots went into place, and only recently came out of it with the college-heavy approach.
And used Fangraphs WAR so Aaron Crow wouldn't be included. [Reply]
Originally Posted by dlphg9:
This is literally one of the dumber posts in this thread. I don't care who we have up for him. He's been killing it in Omaha and deserves a chance to show what he can do, especially since we have about 5 auto outs in the lineup.
Originally Posted by BWillie:
We just want to know what we have with him.
Originally Posted by Mama Hip Rockets:
A) The Padres were in a pennant race and making a trade for a reliever who was having an outstanding season. It's not like they traded him for nothing.
B) We just want to see what Olivares can do. He was tearing it up in AAA, but for some reason they refuse to give him any meaningful opportunity in an offense that is woefully underperforming.
O'Hearn is tearing up AAA as well, nobody wants him up here. If Olivares was worth a shit he would have been up here. He hasn't done much of anything when has been up in the bigs.
Honestly our best lineup coming up and I hate to say but Whit needs to move back to the outfield and while Benni is out needs to be in left field.
Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry:
O'Hearn is tearing up AAA as well, nobody wants him up here. If Olivares was worth a shit he would have been up here. He hasn't done much of anything when has been up in the bigs.
And another completely shit take.
O'Hearn has a -1.6 WAR over the last 4 years, 200+ games, 700+ PA's
Olivares has 38 games and 125 PA's in 2 years. No one knows if he's worth a shit or not. I'd say say he has a better chance of being good of being good than most of our other prospects based on the fact that he wasn't developed in our system. [Reply]
