A real shame with the DSL tiebreak. The four teams that made it through are all top 10 oldest in batting and pitching ages.
The Giants team we lost to was a full year older than the next closest team (in a 51 team league).
Using all the 11-20 picks for high schoolers and not depth arms like everyone else has kind of choked out the upper minors of pitching for now.
A lot of pitcher injuries with the 2025 class didn’t help either. Thompson, Cairone, Morrison, Flores, and Episcope all missing large amounts of time.
Well we are down to only four top 100 guys on BA after Pratt’s graduation (with one of them being Lara).
Only Made, Pena, and Adamczewski once Lara graduates.
I choose to take this as them being very confident in our ability to find Latin talent.
Maybe Frias starting in Arizona rather than Wilson is probably the clearest sign on how they view him?
We must not think anything of Darrien Miller even though he has over a 1.000 OPS in AAA against RHP (.480 against LHP).
Guy is screaming for a platoon and we get another lefty in Naylor.
The Wilson OF is clogged with Handelfrey, Anderson, Frias, and Antunez.
Sure seems like Appleton is gonna get the draft picks out there to make a pretty fun OF of Payne, Strosnider, and Kyle Jones.
I wonder what the average lineup age vs average pitcher faced age has been for this Wilson series. Seems like every day is literal men vs boys.
Do better, Devil Rays.
Any word on if he was one of those AmFam tryout guys? Sure feels like we’ve been getting super under the radar guys up there for workouts and throwing $150k at them.
In BA’s write up for the Brewers draft they mentioned that Strosnider had shoulder surgery in 2025.
Kyle Jones, the 3rd rounder, missed his entire 2025 due to shoulder surgery.
Could very well be that we are expecting big bounce backs from them, as we’ve seen it takes a while with Quero and Boeve. Buying low.