Brandon Sproat rolled the dice more than once by spurning top 10 round dollars and came out ahead. He’s a rare case. The 2023 draft class signing bonus came and went with very little fan fare in terms of players not signing or threatening not to sign. Top 5 pick Walter Jenkins didn’t sign until the deadline day, but otherwise most significant names officially signed within … [Read more...] about How often to top 10 round drafted players fail to sign, and is it ever a good idea?
MLBPipeline updated Nats top 30
Keep hitting like this and Lile will be back at Nats stadium. Photo via Lile’s twitter. First Fangraphs, then BA, now MLBPipeline. All three shops have taken the opportunity of draft and trade deadline acquisitions to do some tweaking of their lists, even from just a few weeks ago, to come up with new top 30s. Here’s some reaction to MLBpipeline’s list. First, … [Read more...] about MLBPipeline updated Nats top 30
Baseball America Updated Nats top 30 Reaction
How about a Grand slam in your 4th professional game? Photo screen grab from milb.com The major shops are starting to read in the 2023 draftees (and 2023 trade deadline acquisitions) to each team’s farm system rankings. As we did ahead of the season, when a major pundit drops an updated ranking i’ll list it here. Technically Fangraphs’ “Big Board” database was the first … [Read more...] about Baseball America Updated Nats top 30 Reaction
Fangraphs Updated Nats Prospect Rankings with new Draftees
Fangraphs has become the first shop to publish updated system rankings that include our new draftees. Lets do a quick review of where Kiley McDaniel and team have put the new guys. Reminder, our review of their pre-season Nats top 30-or-so is here: Fangraphs’ methodology leaves a little to be desired and their FV-based ranking does leave us with some weird rankings. That … [Read more...] about Fangraphs Updated Nats Prospect Rankings with new Draftees
End of July 2023 Check-in on Rotations
How long before we see Rutledge in the bigs? Photo via Federal Baseball. We’re on a roll: We did an end of April check-in on the rotations, End of May check-in, and an End of June Check-in. Here’s July’s look after another month. Important links for this analysis: Big Board: Nats MLB stats: at baseball-reference.com AAA Rochester stats AA Harrisburg … [Read more...] about End of July 2023 Check-in on Rotations