MurphDogg

Fangraphs had him at #32 on their board.

No, no way he is up before two weeks into the 2021 season.

He had 18 plate appearances in AAA in 2016 with a .958 OPS. I had to go look at his stats because your post made it seem like he was repeating AAA for the fourth consecutive season.

Can a body really be maxed at age 16?

Keegan Akin, who will needed to be added to the 40-man roster at the end of the season anyway?

Wieters is close to the floor for Rutschman. Witt's floor is much, much lower.

Posey is probably the ceiling, but like I said, the total career really doesn't matter in so far as whether the pick is considered a success. Do the Mariners care how successful A-Rod was for the Rangers and Yankees? Does it affect the Orioles view of how the Machado pick turned out if he bombs for the Padres? With Posey's service time games, he was actually under club control through 2016, his age 29 season. He was worth 34.3 rWAR over his club controlled time and has had his two worst seasons by WAR in the two seasons since. Posey was actually more valuable by rWAR than Machado (33.8) over his club controlled period, despite playing catcher and being in a league without the DH that could have given him more at-bats.

I fully expect other players to have a higher WAR than Rutschman over the length of their careers, catchers simply don't last that long and former catchers don't have extraordinary value after moving from behind the plate because 1B and DH are not WAR heavy positions. That said, the draft is about the first 6-7 MLB years, any additional years beyond that should really be discarded because by then the player could be signed as a free agent. If you believe that Adley Rutschman will be an All-Star caliber catcher from 2021-2027, then he should be the guy. I will take the narrower range and higher floor that Rutschman offers (better than average MLB catcher to perennial All-star catcher) over Witt who hasn't nearly proven himself at the level Rutschman has.

Mauer won an MVP, finished top 8 three other times and averaged 5.3 WAR per season over his six team-controlled seasons, plus another 1.4 WAR in his partial 35 game season.

Easier to live up to.

I thought Stevie Wilkerson was our new Melvin Mora.

The game didn't tell Mike Mussina he was done. He walked away from money, and significantly more than $5 million.

Not really, he either goes or he doesn't. A team will get assurances that he will report before trading for him.

If Cashner is considering walking away from his contract, I would guess that he is not among that cohort.

Players do it all the time when they retire.

If you have already made $36 million is another $5 million really going to affect your life one way or the other?

Just like with Adam Jones last season exercising his contractual rights, sometimes fans forget that baseball players are people too and not just cogs in a machine.

I thought it was IL Hall now.

I am pretty sure that is the map of county-by-county favorite MLB teams per Facebook likes.

Here is the aforementioned MLB park center field camera rankings.

Seems like a poor man's Joey Rickard to me. Although I agree he is more interesting than Eric Young, Jr.

I guess so, but presumably he saw him last year, so I'm not sure why his opinion of him from then should be entirely disregarded.

He hasn't seen him yet this year, so that isn't really a fair assessment.

Keith Law believes Rutschman is a weaker prospect than the last two players who went 1:1. Curious to see whether his opinion improves as Fangraphs' did when he sees him in a few weeks. Robert 2:14 Adley feels like a pretty solid #1 talent. Better than recent years but perhaps not generational. How do you think he stacks up talent wise to recent 1s? Keith Law 2:14 I'll see him in a few weeks, but I feel like he's below the last couple of 1-1 picks.

Those are two very different standards. Based on historical Orioles Hall of Famer standards, Wieters WILL be and Orioles Hall of Famer. 10+ years with a statute is reserved for Baseball Hall of Famers.