Don’t let this thread distract you from the fact that Aguilar and Phillips combined for a higher WAR after the trade deadline than Mancini and Lopez did.
Fangraphs slots Johnson in between Mayo and Stowers as our #7 prospect and McDermott towards the end of our top 20. Not a bad deal for two months of Trey.
If Baseball America has him as the 26th best player in the draft and says he has a chance to be a below average hitter if everything goes right, then this is the worst draft class ever.
Anybody catch his introductory press conference today? He said he was excited to get to use analytics more, and that he wanted to do that here but couldn’t because the Orioles didn’t have the budget for it.
It’s probably been covered here but I don’t have time to check the whole thread. What is the tiebreaker for the first pick if we finish with the same record as Arizona?
Easy solution: Give the best teams that don’t make the playoffs the top picks, followed by the worst teams, followed by the playoff teams. Nobody would ever tank under that system.