yep

Seth Halvorsen probably the single guy nobody has ever heard of who analysts I have talked to over the past 18 months have been salivating to trade for and the Dodgers got him for two name prospects in the middle of el busto-ing

there are no ^specific^ public rumors about anything other than the carbon monoxide screening but the sport’s history combined with the breath of his ability and the PED era links of some of the people around him sure have caused a lot of discourse

not a lot is actually undetectable but a lot of the better doping regimens are only detectable for a few hours. If you tell athletes who could plausibly be on the best stuff what hours they won’t be tested they will never get caught

the TdF doping controls controversy is hard to parse because waking guys up in the middle of the night is absolutely the only way to catch high end microdoping but waking guys up in the middle of the night is also absolutely going to cause them to crash out in a chicane like that

He’s 32, a very normal end of peak/beginning of decline age, and his speed and defensive range are completely off a cliff. Time is undefeated.

I haven’t seen a tank commander at Kodai Senga’s level since General Patton

Everyone realizes the media reports on Lindor are “teams who might be interested in trading for a shortstop don’t want his contract/declining skills/personality/etc” and not reporters themselves editorializing as such, right?

Ralphy and Doughty and maybe Jaison Chourio

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I reckon I might at some point. My conclusion when working him up for this list was mostly just strength gains and instruction on stuff like intent and bat speed, without a magic silver bullet swing change

Most polarizing between me and Jeffrey is probably Josuar Gonzalez? But not really that polarizing at all. It was really tough to discern how much of Walker Jenkins's power has actually come, I guess. Sebastian Walcott is always tricky and the injury didn't help.

anyway I mostly wanted to push the top 50 because it's a lot of fun and has more info in there than you've been able to glean by yourself

since everyone is going to accuse us of being on the take for the Dodgers again or whatever instead of just accepting how good they are at player development and acquisition: I can only speak for myself, but I basically never hear from them to push their own guys

it feels like it, but one of my team friends keeps telling me I've just gotten way better at evaluating and understand players' flaws better

we only started ranking draftees a few years ago. We had 6 this year, I think that's slightly below average but it's also not meaningful because the next three guys were all pretty close misses

Grindlinger, Booth, Helfrick

the most recent update on Miller was the Phillies POBO admitting they couldn't get ramp him up to the point where he could regularly swing a bat, and you're simply not a top prospect if you have no timetable on being able to swing a bat because of your oft-recurring back problems

on balance I think he's just kind of holding serve in terms of stock, directionally, but there have been a *lot* of promotions and other attrition ahead of him. But he's also a good example of why we only rerack our lists twice a year, we'd have dropped him a bunch in March and he worked through it

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Yeah man Justin Wrobleski and Ben Rice definitely deserve loud boos for their big career moment, you guys really did a funny joke there

You know it’s serious when the Bluesky hall monitors pull out the capitalized words

Booing 70 percent of the players is so weak

Did Lipo just attack and drop Remco out of G2 lmao

I....think this format might be working? The pacing of that was better than previous years in that the homers got a chance to breathe, and Contreras didn't suffer from the swing tiredness that everyone got at the end of the old format

how's the television broadcast? From the stadium everything seems normal enough

Here is splitting out 2025 and 2026: 60.0% 2026 Jhoan Duran 60.0% 2026 Elvis Alvarado 62.3% 2025 Elvis Alvarado 62.7% 2025 Jonathan Bowlan 64.0%2026 Mason Miller 64.3% 2026 Jonathan Bowlan I don't know how many people have been more clearly right about something than @seidler.bsky.social about this

My assumption was they were probably net at over slot value in day 1 and they sure drafted like a team who was that in day 2

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is everyone who talked about how weird the Schaffner pick was going to also talk about how Boston successfully floated what was to me a clear first round high school talent to the 9th or

Seth Hernandez is uh really good

I love prospects

I'm just shocked that the Colorado Rockies are now taking big name major conference college players who posted big baseball card stat numbers, I definitely didn't watch the Mets draft like this for 12 years

it's what you do when you think you're smarter than everyone else. I will defer to the rest of you on whether you still think the Mets FO is smarter than everyone else.

Tegan Kuhns should've been popped 15-20 picks ago, the Cardinals are absolutely murdering this so far

Carson Wiggins hasn't pitched in anything but shorts in so long that I have no idea how to evaluate this pick other than "I wouldn't have done it" I assume this is heavily underslot but like you don't have the picks to manipulate to make it worth it? Just massively confused

I did say some smart model driven team was going to take Carter Beck dozens of spots higher than you thought (that was my blurb)

Ebel is the first player we didn't rank to be drafted but we're distinctly in "nobody is going to have all the right prep hitters" territory (these guys are impossible to evaluate) and I am absolutely not betting against the Brewers on a prep hitter

the team that took Tyler Locklear a few years ago took Ace Reese? You're telling me now for the first time, etc (I am prewriting these posts like 10 minutes ahead of time now without even actively trying to spoil shit, if you want a real draft show you can't be this far behind eBIS, guys)

on nothing but arm talent Cade Townsend is my second favorite arm in this draft, absolutely love his ability to manipulate the ball, but even little ol' me who puts almost nothing into college topline performance was a bit worried by his close to the season

I am starting to wonder things about the extreme up/down profile guys who don't have any ability to manipulate the ball laterally and don't have an 80 grade offspeed, so ask me in six months what I think of the Flukey pick I guess

Borthwick is among the more fun players of the draft and also Preller has never seen a high upside prep he didn't want to draft so

we ranked Schaffner much lower than this but this is the area where the draft gets really flat, I am guessing this is way way under slot value, he's extremely Red Sox coded for the type of power dev they get to, and my colleague Liam had suggested him as a good late-first cut target

congrats to Liam Peterson for winning the "best player/team developmental fit" lottery for this draft, he just gained millions of dollars in projected future career equity the second his name got entered into eBIS

as with Lombard, this is deep enough that I think taking Lebron is fine given the power/middle infield profile, but finding someone who has both terrible swing decisions and terrible barrel dexterity within the zone and is actually good is basically impossible

we ranked him 43rd. I wouldn't be shocked if he slipped into the back of the first but like...

it's 2026 and there's a between picks Macarena dance off. Who the fuck is this for

Rojas is a demographic pick I would just not make in the middle of the first round but if you're fine taking a prep pitcher that isn't an absolute stuff demon here I guess it's fine