The Minnesota Twins are one of the stranger evaluations in this entire draft. On paper, the offense wasn’t terrible. In fact, several underlying rankings were actually pretty intriguing. But then you look up and realize they still finished just ninth in runs scored, which is baseball’s way of saying, “Congratulations on all those baserunners, shame about the complete inability to cash them in.” This lineup is basically Darin Erstad and...
The Colorado Rockies enter this draft in one of the stranger situations in baseball: ownerless, directionless, but somehow not entirely hopeless. Unlike last season’s Seattle teardown — where the franchise was essentially stripped for copper wiring and handed a pile of draft picks as compensation — the Rockies are expected to remain mostly intact while the league temporarily oversees operations. Which, depending on your perspective, is...
There are “interesting” trades. There are “risky” trades. And then there are trades like this one, where half the league immediately opens the simulator, stares at the rosters for twenty minutes, and starts convincing themselves one franchise just robbed the other blind. The Seattle Pilots have acquired Vladimir Guerrero from the Washington Senators in exchange for the 4th overall pick in the draft. Wooo boy. Let’s start with...
You may not like the style of this mock draft so far. You may think I’m too obsessed with upside, too dismissive of “safe” players, or too willing to make sweeping declarations about 19-year-olds who still look like they need permission slips to leave school early. That’s fine. But six picks in, the board has fallen almost perfectly for every team involved, and the Baltimore Orioles are probably thrilled they ignored the noise and...