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Dude was a 4 WAR pitcher at 21. He was absolutely an emerging stud and it's such Braves luck his Achilles did what it did.

Anderson's GB% in the minors last year was 51.9%. That's pretty consistent with his career which tends to land between 45% and 55%. He's never been a groundball machine. Anderson needs to K north of 8 per 9 and walk south of 4 per 9. I'm not sure he's capable of either.

That's like deciding if I want to get poked in the right eye or left

It's not unusual to have a guy bat high up in ST that makes no sense. It's a way to steal them an extra live AB.

I still think someone in the organization messed with Waldrep. There's no way we didn't have data on his stuff and we don't draft him with the data we're seeing. There's also no way literally everyone was so wrong about his splitter. It makes more sense that someone tweaked his delivery or...

Any team that would trade for Anderson should fire their GM immediately. Guys of Anderson's quality are literally always available as waiver claims, free agents, or available for cash considerations.

This. Anderson has basically negative value at this point. He never had good stuff and the stuff he once had has eroded. He needs to stop being talked about as a legitimate option. He's minor league filler at this point, nothing more.

Anderson was nothing special before he got hurt. If anything the TJ surgery gave him more rope. If he'd stayed healthy he'd probably have been DFAd before now. His stuff has always been poor. He benefited early from a weird arm slot but once the league figured that out he had nothing. The...

The MLB community isn't all that big. Guys form relationships and talk. An umprie isn't going to be the most plugged in person but he will probably hear rumors like anyone else in the business will. They might even be especially plugged into a certain team if they've made friends with someone in...

This makes me wonder if someone tinkered with Waldrep's delivery or grip or something that negatively impacted his splitter. Because you're right the Braves almost certainly had data on his pitches. It makes more sense to me that the data was better pre-draft and something changed after. I...

I was unaware there was an ACL in the penis.

Yeah, I can't imagine the players association or MLB is very happy with the abuse of deferred money.

Compare Bagwell to David Ortiz. Both were suspected of steroid use but with zero real evidence. Neither brought much defensive value. But Bagwell had 30 more WAR. Why was Ortiz a first ballot and it took Bagwell years? The answer is simple, Ortiz played for the Red Sox and Bagwell played for...

Looks like Baseball Reference still has him listed as with Boras. Probably why a lot of articles about Profar this off-season have said he's a Board client.

Then there are some very inaccurate articles floating around. Still holds true. Who knows when we offered. Could have been weeks ago and the agent drew it out.

I don't know if us waiting until now was AAs choice or not. Boras is notorious for having his clients try to wait out the market. It wouldn't shock me if he had an offer from the Braves in early December.

Yeah, I don't think Bagwell has ever been publicly tied to PEDs. Only baseless speculation everyone playing at that time is subject to.

It took Bagwell 7 tries. Career WAR over 80. Edgar Martinez took 4 years. Had a career WAR of 1 less than Sabathia. The writers usually get no doubters right but theyre inconsistent with the WAR in the 60s.

Don't get me wrong, I think Sabathia deserves to be in the hall and have no problem with him being a first ballot. I just have far less faith in the voters not to overlook a guy who toiled away in a small market. They've repeatedly proven they'll do just that.

100%. Sabathia getting in first ballot had everything to do with his time with the Yankees. If he stays in Cleveland his whole career, he'd take a decade to make it in if at all.