Speaking of drafting under slot players to try and cash in later, how does getting Anthony that way, look?
Maybe Anthony & Zanetello will work out well.
Top Farm OPS (90+ ABs)
1.169 Kavadas AAA
.890 T Miller A+
.855 Paulino AA
.809 Mayer AA
.780 Westbrook AAA
.769 Meidroth AAA
.760 Teel AA
.757 Yorke AA
.756 Jordan AA
.756 Yuten A-
Notables:
.719 Anthony AA
.718 Castro A+
.662 Bleis A-
.657 Hickey AAA
50-89 PAs & notables
1.083 M Lugo AA
.954 K Campbell A+
.952 Jh Garcia
.874 Gasper AA
.496 Rosier AAA
OPS Against (18+ IP)
.457 Wehunt A-
.536 Olivarez AA
.556 Bastardo AA
.562 Ingrassia A-
.567 Dobbins AA
.572 Wikelman AA
.583 E R-C A-
.587 Kwiatkowski AA/AAA
.618 Penrod AA
.620 Encarnacion
.625 Paez A-
.631 M Duffy A-
.636 I Coffey
.641 Cohen A-
.660 Mullins A+
.677 Fitts AAA
.706 N Dean A-
Devers seems to have long stretches of being bad on D and also some short and long stretches of being pretty good on defense.
I think he put together one full season of decent numbers.
Let's hope this is his second one.
Cots has these numbers for more "dead money:"
17 Sale
4.2 Turner
2.0 Joely
.74 Hosmer
.14 Reys
.03 Gutierres
.02 Jacques
About $25M added onto IL money that is "dead."
Alive money:
.70 for Bernardino
.74 for Grissom, Slaten, Weissert & Abreu
.76 for Wong, Duran, Wink, Houck and Casas
.93 Criswell
Sounds right...
per cots:
Actual
$22.5 Story
$18.6 Yoshida
$16.0 Giolito
$3.5 Whitlock
$2.0 Hendriks
I hesitate to list guys like Casas, Mata and Murphy, since they are min wage.players replaced by min wage players.
AAV:
23.3 Story
19.3 Giolito
18.0 Yoshida
5.0 Hendriks
4.7 Whitlock
We keep hearing about how Rafaela leads the team in RBIs.
Here are the current RBI leaders projected for the season (RBIs x 4:)
88 Rafaela
64 Duran
56 Abreu, Devers, Wong
52 O'Neill
44 McGuire
We are 3 games behind KCR and MIN for the #2 and #3 WC slots, and we have a tougher schedule coming up.
I know many think it is too early to be even thinking about these things,- but it's where we are at the 1/4 point.
The 1/4 surprises, besides the Sox at 21-19:
25-17 KCR
20-20 DET
19-20 WSH
Bad surprises:
15-25 HOU
16-24 STL
Woo lost 5-0. Guerrero had a ruff game. Meidroth 2-4 (.769)
POR won 4-2, as Penrod is getting noticed:
10K in 6 IP (0BB) 5 hits and 1 ER
The big 3 prospects each had 1 hit (Anthony a 2B & BB .710, now)
Lugo 1-2 w 2BB and a SB
GRE won 3-2 (Adams 1 ER in 5IP & Sena 3 IP 1H, 0ER, 1BB, 4K)
T Miller homered
SAL up 3-0 in 9th (Duffy 5 IP, 2H, 0BB, 3K)
Alcantara 2-4 w 2B