LongLiveMaroth

Toledo L 10-3 Tork 0/3 BB 2K Jung 1/4 2K 2B Dingler 1/4 HR 2RBI 2K Bigbie 0/3 BB 3K Hurter 3.2IP 9ER 9H 4BB 2K Erie W 6-3 Lee 1/4 RBI K SB Workman 0/4 RBI BB 2K WM L 4-2 Campos 0/3 Anderson 1/4 Gold 2/4 RBI Hamm 4.1IP 4H 1ER 3BB 6K Lakeland W 7-5 McGonigle 2/4 3RBI BB HR SB Clark 3/4 RBI BB K 2B HR SB Leonard 0/3 K

Athletics Big Board https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5649385/2024/07/22/mlb-trade-deadline-player-position-ranking/ Skubal #1 with NYY, BAL, LAD as possible landing spots Flaherty #12 with NYY, HOU, MIL as possible landing spots

Braves just lost Albies for 2 months. Called up Nacho Alvarez 😅

God yes please, between that and the Candelario situation I am not sure which one has been overdone.

In the next week or two when the draft picks are signed is my guess.

Atlanta just put Max Fried on the IL with left forearm neuritis so depending on how severe that injury really is they can probably be added to the "Needs SP" list.

Jose Dickson and Cristian Perez are DSL all Stars

Certainly does not lack confidence.

I should have expounded more on this in drafting prep players you more likely have to spend more money working on things that they have may have got in college which may be why some orgs prefer college to prep. I could also be completely wrong 😅.

And honestly we saw what it was like without him. Not a super fun time having Kriedler and McKinstry as your SS. Now if we could pull someone like Nacho Alvarez from Atlanta to fill in that SS hole for next year that would be great.

Jobe hasn't allowed a hit through 5 so far tonight.

Also picking up Holton on waivers.

If Reese is hurt for a long period you can kiss buying at the deadline goodbye. You'll end up trading Flaherty and move Maeda back to the rotation and bring up Hurter.

Jack Flaherty 2024 3.13 ERA 32.1% K 0.98 WHIP Jordan Montgomery 2023 (before trade) 3.42 ERA 23.9% K 1.25 WHIP I was looking at deals from last year and I think Jordan Montgomery is probably the closest equivalent to Flaherty that we can compare against. He was on the last year of his deal and has comparable (not as good as Jack) stats. So looking at what STL got for him they got 2 borderline/upper bounds top 100 prospects and a lottery ticket. I would say that is what we should expect back. Maybe it's one Top 50-60 instead of 2 top 100 but that is what we should expect when we trade him.

I keep seeing things like this and I wanted to add some color. Harris most likely acts like a CEO of a company. While he has the final say on things he is not down in the everyday discussion of we should draft x vs y. Those discussions are had by Mark Connor who came over from San Diego. San Diego was known for their proclivity of selecting prep talent in the draft. Sure Harris could have demanded Connor focus on the most ML ready talent but he hired him for his knowledge and expertise so if Connor tells him hey here is where we have the prep players and we believe it's above the non-prep players should he select the non-prep because they will get here faster? The draft is about talent not timeline.

Flaherty decided to strike out the next two to not test it again.

Flaherty looking good so far.