Official Draft Day, Post-Draft Thread
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Whats weirder is European Soccer is very capitalist survival where big clubs get bigger.
In North American sports there's very much socialistic way of running things. From things like the luxury tax and revenue sharing to things like the draft (worst teams have best chance of signing the newest talent).
one thing I would have liked to have seen in North American sports is relegation and promotion. But will never happen.
50PoundHead
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I guess Bowman had his calculator handy. The combined slot values for Wright and Waters are around $7.5 million, so no real insight coming from him. Tarnok's number is just over $700,000, so there could be savings there. Probably savings with the next three guys, especially Zimmerman and Rodgers.
msstate7
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When the choice is pay money to go to school or get paid then have school paid for later, I choose the money and free education
msstate7
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Fify
cajunrevenge
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Love the idea of relegation and promotion. Gives something to play for even when your not a top team.
jpx7
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Pretty slick trick by ownership, playing tribalism up in order to downplay the management/labor dynamic. Especially ironic in the amateur-spending setting, considering most of these guys never sniff the benefits of being added to a major-league roster.
Russ2dollas
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people also know how much the players get paid. It's easy to hate on Kemp's 20 million. They don't know how much the owners are raking in.
Russ2dollas
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Klaw has Wright or Acuna as our top prospect.....
Joe-Nathan: Which guys drafted who immediately becoming the top prospect on their team?
Keith Law: McKay for sure. Wright maybe; depends on where Acuna ends up on my midseason list. Beck. Greene of course, although Senzel’s pretty damn good. DL Hall. I think Pratto would be too. Rogers, by default, since Garrett is hurt.
Joe-Nathan: Which guys drafted who immediately becoming the top prospect on their team?
Keith Law: McKay for sure. Wright maybe; depends on where Acuna ends up on my midseason list. Beck. Greene of course, although Senzel’s pretty damn good. DL Hall. I think Pratto would be too. Rogers, by default, since Garrett is hurt.
cajunrevenge
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Is it really a position of need? Ruiz just hitting the majors, Riley at High A and Maitan in rookie ball. All 3 are very different players too.
Yep. Downside is there really is no parity. In Spain it's basically Real Madrid, Barcelona and the off chance it might be Athletico Madrid. In Germany it's basically Bayern Munich. England has a little more parity at the top. and generally the richest teams can afford to purchase the best prospects in smaller leagues/teams.
Only reason we don't have promotion and relegation is teams have already milked cities for building big stadiums. If the Braves get relegated ain't gonna fill up suntrust park playing AAA teams.
cajunrevenge
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Seems weird to me that we have arguable the top farm system in the game and the #5 draft pick becomes our top prospect. Personally I would put him behind Acuna/Allard/Soroka/Maitan. Albies is free falling imo. I question his ability to make an impact at the ML level. His best bet to be an impact player would be to put up an elite OBP and I am doubting he will do that. Seems like a slightly below average bat(mostly due to lack of power, I expect about a .350 OBP) who will be slightly above average overall due to good defense. I know people will take this as a knock on him but being a solid starting 2B is still pretty good, especially while he is cheap. Wright I see as a #3 starter and I would take that over a slightly above average 2B.
Russ2dollas
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Demerritte too. But I think all positions are positions of need unless you have a guy who is a 2+ WAR guy there and signed for 3+ years.
zbhargrove
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You must not have looked at Ruiz lately... he's not hitting anything in the majors. Riley's not exactly doing anything but hitting some homers.
Russ2dollas
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Agree. I think Albies is mostly a victim of prospect fatigue and size. IF he's at 2B the power becomes more of an issue.
Klaw follows his opinions and his people's. He's not a Soroka guy. He might have him in the top 100 but he might not. He doesn't seem to think Soroka is good, despite his success at at a young age. I recall a chat where Soroka came up and Klaw listed other guys that did great in the minors at a young age and nobody had ever heard of them.
Maitan still hasn't played in a game that is publicly available.
Klaw is REALLY high on Wright. I think most things I've read have been more in line with Enchesff (spelling?) calling Wright a 3, maybe a very good 3. Klaw has him as a 2 with 1 potential. I don't think I've seen anyone else suggest a 1 for Wright.
jpx7
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Still a lot of doubts about the major-league offensive capability of the first two, while Maitan—albeit supremely talented—is very far away. So I would say that it definitely is—though I don't actually think Rodgers does much for it (but that's why the play the games and all that jazz).
I'm fine with the Tarnok-Wilson one, but Bacon and Zimmerman don't have anywhere near the pedigree that Harrington did out of Louisville.