I can see it now: Ryne Stanek inning and a third opener followed by 4 innings of Ian where he gives up 6 runs
Keith Law Prospect Rankings - 1 guy in the top 100 #27 - Drake Baldwin (C) 2024 Ranking: Unranked Baldwin is such a good defender behind the plate that he’s almost certainly going to be someone’s everyday catcher, and if his raw power keeps showing up in games as it did after a midseason promotion to Triple A, he’s going to make some All-Star teams. He was Atlanta’s third-round pick in 2022 out of Missouri State, where he wasn’t a full-time player until his draft year, and he’s improved substantially as a hitter since entering pro ball, loosening up at the plate to try to get to more of that plus power. He had a slow start in Double A but Atlanta promoted him to Gwinnett in early June, after which he took off, hitting .298/.407/.484 at the higher level with 12 homers in 72 games. He hits the ball extremely hard — his average exit velocity in Triple A was 92 mph, his EV50 was 103, and his 90th percentile EV was 107 — so there’s every reason to think the power is real. He whistles the bat through the zone with excellent bat speed, and even with a pretty high starting position he hasn’t had trouble getting to pitches at the bottom of the strike zone so far. He’s an outstanding blocker and receiver with plus arm strength but just fringy accuracy so far, leading to a career 20 percent caught stealing rate in the minors. A 20-homer catcher with plus defense will rank among the best backstops in the majors, and Baldwin looks like he can be at least that, and probably will debut this year.
We owe these guys an Ace for Max so I’d be happy giving them a high potential arm. Maybe someone who was the 3rd overall pick
Just saw the saddest story ever in 20 words or less: “if the season were to start today, here’s how the rotation might look: Sale, Lopez, Schwellenbach, Holmes, Anderson.”
His numbers when he throws more than 1 inning are staggering* *in a bad way, but I said "gamechanger" not "positive gamechanger"
When a guy is out of options there’s only one thing you can do: start him every fifth day and pray for the best.
woke up in a cold sweat thinking about what if we block grant holmes or ian anderson. i will end it all if we do.
Braves have an open FP&A role. If I get it the #flexibility will be unlike anything our shareholders have ever seen
The greatest accomplishment one can achieve is to assemble a roster that has the most #options. Anything past that is just gravy. Financial AND Roster Flexibility. The sort of thing only elite minds can even comprehend.
He’s clowning on you now but I bet if you photoshopped Louis Holth with a girlfriend, he’d probably pay you a lot of money for it