I’d take a guy with a wrist injury over a guy with a back injury any day. Regardless, the ball was dropped here. Hopefully it doesn’t come back to bite us.
You really can't say that with 100% certainty.
I’d take a guy with a wrist injury over a guy with a back injury any day. Regardless, the ball was dropped here. Hopefully it doesn’t come back to bite us.
We drafted and signed Allard with a legit bad back injury that everybody knew of before the draft and that’s turned out ok to this point.
Why would we draft him if we intended to low ball him and him not sign? I don’t like Coppy but something tells me he would have made it happen.
Actually starting to think the odds are better for cheap guys.... here are some of the bigger/most hyped international prospects... a few really good ones, and most busts
Carlos Martinez (very good pitcher with TOR potential)
Sano (shown real glimpses - has not arrived closed to the hype yet)
Vlad (HOFer_
Miggy (HOFer)
Ichiro (obviously was a star)
Jose Abreu (uneven performance, one dimensional player, $10 million bonus)
Gary Sanchez (good player... health issues? struggling now)
Puig (obviously has talent, but we all know the issues)
Moncada (struggling mighty hard for the best international prospect ever)
Eloy (too early to say but early returns look good)
Michael Ynoa (lol)
Adonys Cardona
Luis Heredia
Yoan Lopez (too early to say, but $8 million bonus for a reliever prospect is a little nuts)
Hechavarria (solid career I guess, unspectacular)
Leslie Anderson (huge bust)
Rusney Castillo (lol)
Yasmay Tomas ($14 million signing bonus!)
Yunesky Maya
A few current high dollar Cuban prospects, jury still out (funny the best of these are the two cheapest):
Yusniel Diaz (decent prospect, but $16 million good??)
Luis Robert (hasn't done much as a 20 year old with a combined A and A+ OPS this year of .734 OPS... $26 million...)
Morejon (solid prospect)
Michael Baez (very good prospect)
Yordon Alvarez (very good prospect)
Yadier Alvarez (still early but has disappointed)
Maitan (yeah...)
Then you have all the Asian busts:
Kaz Matsui
Irabu
Kei Igawa
Dice-K (lets face it, he sucked hard after he was figured out)
Fukudome
Compare that with just a small sampling of guys singed $100k and under:
Inciarte
Acuna
Albies
Nelson Cruz
Starlin Castro
Ozuna
Jose Ramirez
Jansen
Schoop
Cano
Salvador Perez
So after doing some research... obviously I'd like to sign the high dollar guys if possible, but I feel like you're spending a ton of money and the percentage of these high dollar guys actually working out looks pretty small. Yet, there are tons of stars who on one had ever heard of when they were signed. We very well could have one or more of those in the DSL/GCL right now.
It’s amusing that people have decided the kid’s wrist doesn’t work any more. I guess we will find out soon enough.
I’ve never heard of disabling wrist injuries in a pitcher nor of any great prevalence of them around curve ballers. Is that actually a thing?
You really can't say that with 100% certainty.
This is some extreme cherry picking from an enormous sample of small bonus players.
It just seems to be a reoccurring thing with AA.
Some good news:
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Sure. Would also be helpful to look at said players he didn't draft and what they ended up doing afterwards.
This is fantastic news... I assumed him and Hess would be a no go since we lost the pool money... he has a huge ceiling just raw.
Getting Vodnik does help a lot. I didn’t think we had a chance at him.
Sure. Would also be helpful to look at said players he didn't draft and what they ended up doing afterwards.
The two that he didn't sign besides Singer (who was drafted this year obviously), are Beede and Bickford. And neither of those two pitchers have done squat.
Bickford has had a 50 game suspension for banned substances and is a 22 year old still in high A ball. Beede was a barely top 100 prospect going into the 2017 season and has proceeded to get drilled in AAA in the past two seasons with ERAs over 5.5 both years.
It's rather bizarre to try and call AA out for not signing players when both players he didn't sign were busts so far. Singer is obviously a bit different, but it's not exactly fair to blame that one on AA 100% since Singer was always a guy that was likely going to go to Florida.
How is it bizarre?? Did you know what they’d turn out to be when they were drafted? Bc in that case maybe you could pass along the powerball numbers for tomorrow night.
Here's how I look at it...the Braves had the 4.9 million to offer. If they didn't reach an agreement with the guy they lose this money so the wrist concern must have been much bigger than thought and the Braves believe they are better off with the number 9 pick next year.