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I do think the Braves have rotation depth pitching prospect types getting closer. They probably need to sign the next elder statesman type to a fair deal this offseason.

Also core players have sucked which is maybe worse than an injury.

I think the Braves locked themselves into a roster that was near the limit of their spending power and were fairly dependent on that roster staying healthy and performing. They had pretty outrageously bad luck with that. Whether they could have done better with marginal filler or not is...

I suppose it just ended up working out that way but I had the same thought.

Let's hope so because he was taken very deep from the list of SS prospects.

Take it up with the best prospect guy in the business per Enscheff. He's a college SS that was something like the 21st SS drafted (and behind several other college SS) who signed well underslot in the second round. The upside might not be quite what you think.

I'm a little confused why you think I was trying to pass it off as my own since nearly everyone here reads fangraphs. but I suppose I should have remembered the quotation marks.

Except the fangraphs author who wrote the piece apparently. if you want to be thrilled the Braves signed a bunch of grossly underslot middle infielders with their first three picks then don't mind me. I want you to have that inner joy if you can manage it.

Lodise can play shortstop and has ambush pull power; he’s a lower-variance utilityman. Miller went to Cape Cod after the college season to try to elevate his stock and it looks like it worked. He’s a “maybe” shortstop who struggled on defense during the SoCon tournament and Regionals, but he has...

Definitely the most intriguing player in the draft class.

Nah, I'm good with the write up. Limited upside to pick 2 and 3 and big questions about #1. Pretty universal consensus.

I just don't get excited by middling middle infielder power, particularly in college prospects.

Fangraphs. The #1 has a swing with holes it is also said. .

I'm not all that excited about drafting college middle Infielders who seem to project as utility guys so it confuse me that folks think this was so much better than past drafts. Oddly a pitcher is the highest upside draft it seems.

I do t really get how people look at some names and stats and positions and decide they love or hate a draft. I look at a bunch of smaller college middle infielders and at baseline am unenthusiastic but who the hell the knows?

Dang AA got bullied into taking a bunch of SS after the run of SS had already happened. Good job fans. O

I think a lot of players have gotten injured, some have regressed to the means, others are not playing as well - either because it is a down year, or perhaps because they are in decline. The Braves financial picture obviously does not allow for expensing the seemingly infinite resources of a...

feeling healthier and stronger and more energetic probably does help your hand eye coordination. That has always been the strangest defense of PED users.

Why would you say that? There were some saying he might be done this past injury. He's a young player, medicine is highly advanced ... for the moment.

I like those guys ok, but not sure why they would know.