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2023 Trade Deadline


RatkoVarda

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2 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

I prefer this one (OPS+):

2017 (Det) - 133

2018 (Det) - 91

2019 (Det) - 70

2020 (Det) - 137 

2021 (Det) - 121

2022 (Det) - 82

2023 (Wash) - 128

Which tells me that Candy is an ABOVE-average hitter and that 2019 and 2022 were simply outliers.

Ok, let's split the difference and use his career OPS+ of 102 and say he is just merely average. 

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2 minutes ago, KL2 said:
Eduardo Rodríguez and Jack Flaherty have strong markets, with a little more than 2 hours left to the deadline. Dodgers, Braves, Reds, Orioles, Marlins, DBacks all looking at rotation upgrades.

sounds like the White Sox are also lying in the weeds with Dylan Cease.  They don't have to trade him, but it sounds like they might if overwhelmed.  Agree with the previous sentiment that his leaving the division would be a plus.

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1 minute ago, RatkoVarda said:

Harris certainly has a type. Lee's OBP last year at A: 384; this year at A+: 372; overall: 380. And plays 3 positions (at least now he does).

He'll add a couple more positions by the time he reaches the Tigers.

I do like the continued emphasis on on base skills.  

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56 minutes ago, kdog said:

40+ FV Prospects

6. Hao-Yu Lee, 2B

Signed: International Signing Period, 2021 from Taiwan (PHI)
Age 20.2 Height 5′ 9″ Weight 190 Bat / Thr R / R FV 40+
Tool Grades (Present/Future)
Hit Raw Power Game Power Run Fielding Throw
35/45 45/55 30/55 40/30 30/40 50

The Phillies are quite active in the Pacific Rim and tend to net interesting prospects for bonuses in the mid-six figures. Lee is the best of the recent contingent, a well-rounded, bat-first second base prospect who is coming off of a first full professional season during which he slashed .284/.386/.438 with nine home runs in 350 plate appearances, with the bulk of his games coming with Low-A Clearwater.

Lee is a plate-crowding bucket strider looking to pull. His hands have exciting life, and he generates authoritative pull power for a such a young hitter. His track record of high-contact hitting dates back to his amateur days and has continued as a pro, where his contact rates (83% in-zone, 75% overall) were close to big league average even though his swing looks like it’s compromising his plate coverage. Whether such a pull-oriented approach to contact will be sustainable or leave Lee vulnerable on the outer half of the plate against upper-level arms we just won’t know until he faces them. For now, his contact and chase rates are a better-than-average mix.

There’s a gap between scouts’ evaluations of Lee’s raw power during the spring of 2023 and what his measureable power output was in 2022. That might be because he missed six weeks in the middle of last season with a wrist fracture, which often causes power to return on a delay. Lee’s a thicker guy and doesn’t have deep-career power projection, but it’s reasonable to expect to see an uptick in 2023 as he gets further away from that fracture, and eyeball reports from the Carpenter Complex suggest that’s the case. Even though his body is maxed, Lee is only 20 and might come into another half grade of pop just through maturity. For a middle infielder, an average (or slightly above) hit and power combination would profile in any everyday role. Lee has played shortstop, second and third base. Especially with the death of the shift, it’s much more likely that an athlete with his build ends up at third base. His range already isn’t the best, but he bends well and has above-average hands and actions. Lee is young enough that it’s possible he may yet cut some weight to give himself a better chance of playing a more complete second base, the position where his bat has the best chance of profiling in an everyday role.

so he's nick madrigal?

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44 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

Is anyone at all worried that Dombrowski has a history of hyping up his prospects as better than they actually are and bilking other GMs to take them?

No. It’s up to the team to see thru the hype.  They should be just as knowledgeable as the other guy. 

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