Drew

I like the Grateful Dead a lot. People used to scream for Phil Lesh to get a chance to sing at Dead shows. Phil's voice was absolutely terrible. I say this to point out that die hard fans of things often have terrible takes on those very same things.

It takes longer than a week to fundamentally change an approach to such a degree that someone becomes a different player.

Beyond the joke of a sample size these guys are all veterans, 2 of whom were already having very good years, who shouldn't need developing. Escobar has actually lowered his OPS with Arizona and Pressly's FIP has gone up by almost a full run.

Tyler Austin?

No one thought that a bunch of rag tag kids from the Goon Docks could find the treasure that had evaded the great Chester Copperpot but it turns out they were wrong. #gooniesneversaydie

Agreed, I very much doubt they're able to trade him. By most accounts the offers from last year when he had 1.5 years of service were already underwhelming. Now add in a bad season and only 2 months of ABs and I'm not sure we can expect anything of value.

I went to look at the HR leaders and realized that out of the top 40 HR hitters in baseball Rosario has the shortest average HR distance at 384.21 feet and the slowest speed off the bat (on HR's) at 100.47 mph. He is also the only one from the top 40 without a "no doubt" HR. But he does have the highest duration (behind Harper, who ) on his HR's at 5.25 seconds. Nothing to any of this maybe but I found it interesting. But to the question, I'll guess Rosario hits 30 and no one else hits 20 (for the Twins, Dozier and Esco do it for someone else).

I love it when a prospect moves up a level and doesn't seem overly challenged by it. It's only 11 games but Kiriloff seems to fit right in at high A. Interested to see how quickly he can move next year. I think he could be the next Jason Kubel (but the edition that comes with real human knees)

I look forward to vastly overrating everyone of these guys for the next few years. #KiriloffHOF

I would love the opportunity to stand in the box as his curveball comes in. It looks so absurd on TV that I can't imagine how hard it would be to comprehend standing there with a bat in your hands.

I really enjoyed this, well done. I'm currently drinking a Peru something or other from Dunn Bros. It's pretty good. I'd give it a Jason Castro out of 10.

If my wife ever leaves me I would be interested in taking Berrios' curveball out for a nice steak dinner, a quiet evening stroll across the Stone Arch Bridge and then, I don't know, just kind of see where it goes from there.

Holy crap, Jeff Kent hit 239 HR from his age-31 season and onwards.

Spring Training stats mean nothing. Spring Training is quite useful.

JR Murphy is just one 4.8 WAR season away from a 5 WAR career so, I mean like, don't give up the dream. Stranger things have happened, probably.

In 1990 I was 13 and Kirby Puckett ranked as a god in my book. We went to a game vs. the Red Sox (Roger Clemens was pitching) at the Dome for my upcoming birthday. This was always a big deal since we lived 200 miles from Minneapolis so we always showed up as early as possible and I'd try to get autographs (unsuccessfully, almost always). Before the game as players were warming up I yelled at everyone trying for an autograph with no luck. Finally, Johnny Moses came over and signed my ticket. Sweet! Then, right as I'm giving up, Kirby comes by and signs my ticket. YES!!!! So while it's my favorite piece of memorabilia, it has Johnny Moses autograph on it, making Kirby's that much harder to make out. Still have it framed here on my desk though.

Yeah that's the deal I signed out of little league and I'm still kicking myself more than 25 years later. Bet I could hit a baseball over that mountain.

A HR every 4 AB's is quite a few.

I just skimmed this but did I hear Jay Bruce is our new 2B? I'm beyond excited about that.

Ahhh I love Spring Training! I heard Mitch Garver tied his shoes withOUT making the bunny run around the tree. How will this impact his ability to react to offspeed pitches?

He cheated on and divorced his wife while she was recovering from a double mastectomy due to breast cancer. Besides that he's just a crusty old man yelling at a cloud accusing it of doing PEDs. No thank you.

Grade 80 name, that somehow makes me more confident in his future than if his name were Bob Brown. I love our farm system right now. We may not have a Buxton down there at the moment but our depth is going to be really interesting to see evolve this season. Seems there are several guys who could make a leap into top 50 prospect territory.

Looking back on MLB drafts and daydreaming what could've been, I love it. I could read stories like this forever. Great read!

I agree, though if we let Gibson go I predict he signs with St. Louis and becomes an ace. And I'm already annoyed by that.

You wouldn't look forward to the Twins in the World Series? Cody Bellinger had an OPS of .565 and struckout over 60% of his World Series ABs Mark Lemke had an OPS of 1.170 in his first World Series Neither of those stat lines tell us anything about those players other than how they did in a microscopic sample size.