Ordinarily, I break this up into two posts because this is a slow time of year. But the expansion from 30 picks to 40 gives me an excuse to draw this out to three! Without further ado: 31. RHP Seth Shuman 32. 1B Drew Mendoza (10) 33. RHP Richard Guasch 34. OF T.J. White 35. …
Sure, I’ll open the kimono… 16. SS Jackson Cluff (16) 21. LHP Mitchell Parker 26. C Tres Barrera (15)* 17. OF Donovan Casey 22. LHP Evan Lee 27. LHP Seth Romero (13) 18. OF Daylen Lile 23. C Israel Pineda (14) 28. RHP Mason Denaburg (8) 19. LHP Tim Cate (7) 24. OF Daniel Marte …
As usual, my knack for waiting one day too few remains intact. Yesterday, my digital copy of the 2022 Baseball America Prospect Handbook arrived in my inbox. Alas, my junior member of the staff is not up to the task of reviewing it, so I had to do it myself. Yesterday’s convo in the comments …
The good news is that January is finally over. The bad news is that, statistically speaking, February is often the snowiest month. This week MLB and MLBPA restarted their negotiations, but it seems rather obvious that it will require games to be lost for the owners to end their lockout. Please note that syntax: It’s …
We’re still here, waiting for Godot the spring, working on the player capsules, hoping for something truly significant to happen… I’ll be headed back to Greenville, SC this week for an email marketing conference, which, TBH, I didn’t think would actually happen. I’m hoping that once I’m away from the worst part – the airports; …
In the wake of last year’s teardown at the trade deadline, followed by the announcement of a new sheriff in the player development town, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that the 2022 version of this annual announcement feels a little different. Obviously, with the MLB lockout (make sure you get that right, the …
For the second straight year, the Nationals have gone big, signing Cuban sensation Christian Vaquero for a reported (and record) $4.925M bonus. The Nats 2022 pool was $5,179,700. The 17-y.o. Vaquero, a switch-hitting OF, was ranked #1 by Baseball America and #2 by MLB Pipeline. He’s considered to be a five-tool talent, listed at 6’3″ …
The second transaction update of the 2021-22 offseason just dropped yesterday from the Boys in Durham: RE-SIGNED ● LHP Luis Avilan SIGNED ● RHP Erik Manoah ● 1B Joey Meneses ● 2B Dee Strange-Gordon ● 3B Maikel Franco ● OF Mitch Longo RELEASED ● LHP Sean Nolin ● IF Corban Joseph As is often the case, most of the signs are with an …
MiLB, which is now an arm of MLB, finally got around to releasing its 2021 All-Stars for the Washington system: C – Israel Pineda 1B – K.J. Harrison 2B – Jake Noll SS – Luis García 3B – Jake Alu OF – Daniel Palka OF – Ricardo Méndez OF – Justin Connell RHSP – Cade …
Longtime readers know when they see this post, we’re just trying to prove that the site has not gone dark. Still no transactions from BA, still no organizational All-Star story from MiLB to make fun of (remember when they named Jaron Long the best RHSP in the system?!) As the headline says, I’m in the …