Recent content by biggentleben

Cancel culture is only fun when it's YOUR side doing it...

After the loss of prospects this offseason and some further reports on players, I've released an updated top 100: https://calltothepen.com/2018/01/31/atlanta-braves-revised-top-100-prospects/ Also, because you don't want to have to look hard to find prospect rankings, I put together a...

Javier's not moving, though...probably the second least movable player in the farm system behind Lewis.

Fangraphs is expanding and hiring more writers at a time when the rest of the industry is either shrinking their writing staff or going to so many ads on each page that it's difficult to find any content. I'd hardly say that the best of Fangraphs is beyond us. Meg also writes for Hardball...

I personally like the Padres return on Solarte in that I like the players they got back, but they still should have been able to net more. Immediately after he was dealt, there was the similar backlash that the Donaldson deal had - akin to "If I'd have known he was available, I'd have been that...

Basically every ranking service out there has seen most of the guys, whether it's in person or video. As far as Acuna, they were on him primarily because one of Baseball Prospectus' writers was on him, and they did not have him #1 last year (they moved him to #1 in their midseason list), as...

You do realize that they traded Shields for a guy who will be one of the top 10-20 prospects in the entire game (Tatis), right?

I think the market is fairly flooded in the Bryan Shaw/Joe Smith/Pat Neshek types, so I think they could wait out the market a bit and likely get a deal on a reliable reliever.

A few places reported it on Twitter last night, but one in particular was a Dodgers beat guy, who said that the teams have framework of what the Marlins are interested in from the Dodgers system due to Stanton talks.

Dodgers and Marlins now talking Ozuna.

Angels are really the perfect team to pitch a six-man rotation with Richards, Meyer, Heaney, Shoemaker, Skaggs all injury guys that could use extra rest along with swing guys like Ramirez and Bridwell that each made 20+ starts. With that being how Ohtani previously was used to pitching, that...

The Twins primary beat reporter put out a piece online last night that the Twins were the high bid on Maitan, but he chose to go to the Angels because of the depth the Twins have at SS. Not the same depth at 2B for Severino. Severino is the first of the ex-Braves to exceed his previous signing...

Ah, I love it when my point is made for me.

Except that is not how the point is "measured". You understand the point I'm making completely, however, the discussion on value for most will turn to WAR or another metric to compare the two, and it's entirely feasible that Odorizzi does not out-perform there, yet others would claim a "victory"...

The basis is right here: https://puckettspond.com/2017/10/23/minnesota-twins-target-huge-move/2/ It's a Twins site, but the reasoning is similar no matter the team pursuing him...