RIPPA Posted July 11, 2022 Author Share Posted July 11, 2022 Quote The Atlanta Braves acquired the 35th pick in Sunday's Major League Baseball draft from the Kansas City Royals for center-field prospect Drew Waters, right-handed pitching prospect Andrew Hoffmann and Double-A third baseman CJ Alexander. The draft choice, which is tradable because it is a competitive-balance pick given to small-market and low-revenue teams, comes with a slot value of $2,202,100. The Braves' bonus pool will swell to more than $10.2 million, moving them from the 19th-most available money to ninth. Waters, 23, was at one point a consensus top-100 prospect but has plateaued at Triple-A over the past two seasons. A switch-hitter whose glove is good enough to keep him in center field long term, Waters is the key to the deal for Kansas City, joining its young core of Bobby Witt Jr., MJ Melendez, Vinnie Pasquantino and the soon-to-arrive Nick Pratto. Waters has been added to Kansas City's 40-man roster and optioned to Triple-A Omaha. Chosen with the 41st pick in the 2017 draft, Waters is hitting .246/.305/.393 in 49 games at Triple-A this season. The emergence of Michael Harris II, the Braves' rookie center fielder, made Waters expendable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 6 hours ago, RIPPA said: Whatever the opposite of a contract year is - Aroldis Chapman is having it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Wilson Posted July 11, 2022 Share Posted July 11, 2022 Most pitchers adjusted pretty quickly to the "substance ban" but Chapman... did not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 Pretty confident that JT Realmuto spent a portion of 1997 cheering Stone Cold and calling Bret Hart "Shitman" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 Alright, maybe it's good that the Fish traded JT for pennies on the dollar. Anywho... Albert Pujols is entering the home run derby. Because it's fun to watch a 42 year old hit balls 250 feet er... I mean, a future Hall of Famer take a final bow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 (edited) It's funny that you think Pujols is only 42 Edited July 12, 2022 by BrianS81177 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 15 hours ago, Cobra Commander said: Pretty confident that JT Realmuto spent a portion of 1997 cheering Stone Cold and calling Bret Hart "Shitman" Considering he's hitting .240 with an OPS of .684 it's probably better for them that he doesn't play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 1 hour ago, BrianS81177 said: It's funny that you think Pujols is only 42 tbf, I typed in 50 at first, but then thought, eh, I'll change it to what wiki says. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 2 hours ago, BrianS81177 said: It's funny that you think Pujols is only 42 Pujols is the one guy whose age rumors have persisted despite him going to school in the US. A bunch of players got banged on age fabrication for travelling post-9/11 so either Pujols is baseball's Colonel Tom Parker or he might actually be born in 1980. They've popped some other good players for that so it's not like DHS is protecting Pujols' reputation when they wouldn't do that for Vlad Guerrero or Miguel Tejada A certain amount of the rumors started with suburban people mad that Pujols smashed the baseball in high school games in 1998. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 Well you'd be mad too if a 24 year old was playing against your kid's high school team 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 Orioles are officially at .500 This also means that no team in the AL East - a division where the 1st place team has a 14 game lead - has a losing record 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 4 hours ago, RIPPA said: Orioles are officially at .500 This also means that no team in the AL East - a division where the 1st place team has a 14 game lead - has a losing record I'm fucking giddy. I have no expectations about anything especially this year. But it sure is nice to after the years they've been having. I do have to laugh when the team says one main reason is that they're just having more fun. It's like they all saw "Rookie of the Year" and went "Yeah, that's it, let's have some fun!" I still expect them to finish maybe in 4th place especially since All Star break hasn't happened yet. But even if they're fifth and it's a tight race I'll take it. Sometimes it's best to just enjoy the progress however little it may be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 Blue Jays have fired Charlie Montoyo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 3 minutes ago, John from Cincinnati said: Blue Jays have fired Charlie Montoyo. Well now Someone clearly still has outsized expectations for this season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RIPPA Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 Bench Coach John Schneider will be interim for the rest of the season I didn't realize Schneider knew how to make all the pitchers healthy but here we are 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 22 hours ago, BrianS81177 said: Considering he's hitting .240 with an OPS of .684 it's probably better for them that he doesn't play With those numbers, that's nearly a team leader on the Cubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 I have no idea what Passan is talking about with the losing the clubhouse stuff. Where did that come from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 Unclear, but a Mariners beat guy is saying the same (they got swept in four in Seattle this past weekend). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 1 hour ago, RIPPA said: Bench Coach John Schneider will be interim for the rest of the season I didn't realize Schneider knew how to make all the pitchers healthy but here we are Maybe he gives them Uncle Jesse's shine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 2 minutes ago, odessasteps said: Maybe he gives them Uncle Jesse's shine. So does that make Aaron Boone the AL East's Boss Hog? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serious Darius Bagfelt Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 2 hours ago, RIPPA said: I have no idea what Passan is talking about with the losing the clubhouse stuff. Where did that come from? There's been regression with a lot of the players this year. There is chatter there is too much of a hands off approach to the young guys and there is a lack of accountability. When Guerrero has 2 balls pass through the webbing of his glove in one half season why is he still using a shitty glove. Probably the same reason his ass is getting bigger. He only works out in the off season and no one is keeping on him. Charlie also has his little league approach to the lineup. Everyone gets a turn. Raimel Tapia is the 4th OF we shouldn't be seeing him every day when the other guys are healthy. No reason Bo Bichette still needs to throw the high heat all the time on routine ground balls. No need for guys to have weekly games off. Charlie was a good guy for a team with no expectations that was young with several Spanish speaking players. He is struggling this year and often has that confused look on his face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serious Darius Bagfelt Posted July 13, 2022 Share Posted July 13, 2022 2 hours ago, RIPPA said: Bench Coach John Schneider will be interim for the rest of the season I didn't realize Schneider knew how to make all the pitchers healthy but here we are Of course you could blame Charlie for overusing certain relief pitchers leading to their injuries. Even if you don't trust certain guys you can't keep rolling out Yimi Garcia 3 nights in a row Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 On 7/11/2022 at 12:10 PM, Cobra Commander said: meanwhile the Royals are in Toronto on Thursday so guess I’ll find out which guys could have kept them under 85% vaccinated last year. The answer is.... TEN~! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 13, 2022 Author Share Posted July 13, 2022 In a later Tweet, Passan pointed out that 25 players TOTAL had been unable to play in Canada so far this season The Royals with 10 all by their little lonesome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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