Brock Beauchamp

I wish I knew more about Benintendi in CF. He hasn't played there in quite some time but if he's even playable there, I'd pursue him pretty aggressively. I don't think I'll like the iron price the A's ask for Laureano.

He doesn’t have a lot of power but this lineup doesn’t need power. What it needs is Benintendi’s near-.400 OBP.

He bats lefty so he could replace Renfroe and/or McCutchen regularly.

This is my thinking as well. Benintendi isn't a perfect option because he's not a natural centerfielder but his bat plays into almost exactly what the Brewers need right now.

As you may have noticed, we launched this feature. It has been a wild success at TD and I hope to replicate it here. We’re going to try to limit the rumors to well-respected sources only. If you see a good rumor, please let me know!

Heyman reports the Crew is interested in Benintendi, which makes all the sense in the world. The Brewers (and other NL teams) have a big leg up on acquiring Benintendi from the Royals, as he is unvaccinated. That basically excludes any AL team from aggressively pursuing him, as any matchup with Toronto takes Benintendi off the roster. It's hard to see an AL team that expects a postseason berth to pay for a guy who might write himself off the roster in the first or second round of the postseason. Benintendi is a free agent at the end of the season and has a 127 wRC+. And maybe most importantly, an OPS approaching .400. He'd be a huge addition to a Brewers lineup that is plenty deep with power but often struggles to drive in more than one runner at a time with that power. View full trade rumor

Yep, hard to argue with these grades, though I may have given Severino an F- purely out of spite.

This piece does a really nice job of giving off the “what the ****” vibe that is the Colorado Rockies.

The topic was in the rumors and proposals forum so I merged the topic you created. This is more of an “in addition to” than a real change. The forum topics would populate in this forum and be readable in both places. We’re seeing surprising success with this feature on Twins Daily so I may try to replicate it here if I have time.

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I find it maddening to watch him pitch.

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Personally, I'd knock half a grade off each guy except Renfroe, who has been a pleasant surprise. I worried about him - probably unfairly - before the season but he has been just fine with the bat and pretty good with the glove.

Well shoot. Changing the terminology is more complicated than I expected now that the draft picks are in place. I'll try to get to this at some point but my focus needs to be on the trade deadline for awhile.

No input on this? Unless someone speaks up, I'll chalk this up to indifference and probably move on, maybe we'll revisit in the offseason.

For sure, it's going to be extremely hard for a lumbering first baseman to be valuable if his OPS is under .800, even in this depressed offensive game.

Byron Buxton has an OPS under .300. He's also the fourth most valuable CF in baseball according to FanGraphs.

Being out of market, I can't buy it because baseball blackout rules are awesome. So I can't give any kind of review on it because baseball blackout rules are awesome.

There’s a finality to one and not the other that I want to differentiate.

Does “Yet to Sign” make more sense than “Pending”? Like I said, the terminology here has been frustrating.

Except that conflicts with players who opt to go to college or refuse to sign, which is a third category that has yet to appear. ?

Yeah, it was kinda obscured until players started signing. The language behind those symbols was surprisingly difficult to get “right”.

This is a good point. When talking about the way modern rosters are constructed, ten players is kinda the positional bare minimum but I would probably argue to grade a full 12 players (1 UTIL, 4th OF, 2nd C). Given the flexibility of modern lineup construction and the plethora of injuries in the modern game, a team could have a very good starting "nine" but still be pretty crappy due to the back-end of the roster being atrocious while consuming up to 20% of team PAs.