Great information and analysis of three prospects that virtually none of us have ever heard of. Who would you expect to be next traded? Merrifield? Taylor? Barlow? No one else?
This is about what I expected. Just a good BA and OP are not valued like someone who drives in runs. Especially with a short term rental. The Yankees realized other teams were not going to send the stars and the moon for him and so offered just enough to get him. For Beni, this was probably the best spot for his current skill set. Just get on and let the rest of the team do what they do best. For me, just glad one of the 10 are gone. I personally won't be happy until at least half are off this team. I've had a hard time listening to the games when they dominate the lineup.
I think everyone got a little hyped up about the return they get for Benny one of the things I forget about each year is there is always more players that become available than you assume. See Soto this year. The thing that irritates me are the reports than Benny will get the shot now with the Yankees. This was totally about having 8 days off over the all star break and just move them all now for low A arms.
As I was reading through this I kept thinking, "It's nice to have this info, but none of it matters if they don't fix their pitching coaches/development people issues." Then you went and said the same thing at the end of your article, only said it much better than I could have!
The other thing that jumped out at me: all of them are pretty old for A-ball.
Meanwhile, these guys are going to have to get their walk rates WAY up if they want to fit in around here. I'm confident that the current crew of coaches/developers will be able to help them with that.
Jonathan Bowlan back on the hill tonight at NWA after a year and a half absence while rehabbing a TJ. Seems like a big story. There aren't a lot of short term options in the minors atm likely to step up as a starter once you get past Zerpa and Hernandez.
Makes me wonder if there wasn’t as big a market for Benny as we were being told. It seems pretty clear to me that they realized they weren’t going to get much better than this even if they waited. Otherwise don’t you wait until the day of? I guess you do risk injury but there was clearly no impact prospect to be had because even if you were sniffing that you’d would’ve waited till the end to take this one. Maybe that many teams weren’t in on him. We’ll never know but the timing seemed odd to me. You?
What are the chances we raid the Yankees pitching development to get someone teaching that sweeping slider? Having three pupils of said coach already in the system would be a nice benefit.
Why is a premium not paid to highly talented coaches and development staff? Market inefficiencies is how we developed one of the all time great bullpens. I think this is the inefficiency the Royals need to be exploiting. Has to be cheaper than one MLB minimum salary.
*WHEW!* I'm so glad to see that this trade made it possible to start O'Hearn in RF Thursday night. I was deeply, deeply concerned that might not happen. Everything is fixed now.
Am I the only one who thinks that if given a real chance at it, Greinke could not only play RF better than O'Hearn, he could hit better as well? (Greinke's career OPS is nearly 30 points higher than O'Hearn's OPS this year. And his career BA is about 20 points higher than O'Hearn's this year.)
I'm not at all a fan of the way MJ sets the target but then drops his glove to the ground as soon as the pitcher starts into his windup, thus making the target vanish, presumably just when it's needed most. There's probably a cool "inside baseball" term for that but I don't know what it is.
He's not the only catcher to do that but it still makes me a little crazy.
You've said before that you feel the Royals' offense isn't that bad. But isn't this like a dozen times they've been shut out this season? Outside of Salvy last season, it's been a while since they've had a feared hitter in their lineup. And they can hardly afford to waste a great start like Singer gave them.
You nailed it with the development comment.
Every trade is going to have that lingering cloud of doubt over it with "Well, what happens when Eldred gets his hands on him?".
Is it my imagination, or do rental players tend to bring back less of a return than they used to?
Great information and analysis of three prospects that virtually none of us have ever heard of. Who would you expect to be next traded? Merrifield? Taylor? Barlow? No one else?
This is about what I expected. Just a good BA and OP are not valued like someone who drives in runs. Especially with a short term rental. The Yankees realized other teams were not going to send the stars and the moon for him and so offered just enough to get him. For Beni, this was probably the best spot for his current skill set. Just get on and let the rest of the team do what they do best. For me, just glad one of the 10 are gone. I personally won't be happy until at least half are off this team. I've had a hard time listening to the games when they dominate the lineup.
When I saw 19th, 21, and 30th, I was very underwhelmed. I also had Gil pegged es the one I hoped for. Oh well, time will tell.
I think everyone got a little hyped up about the return they get for Benny one of the things I forget about each year is there is always more players that become available than you assume. See Soto this year. The thing that irritates me are the reports than Benny will get the shot now with the Yankees. This was totally about having 8 days off over the all star break and just move them all now for low A arms.
IN: Champlain, Way, Sikkema, Waters, Hoffmann, Alexander, Mills, Fleming.
OUT: Benintendi, pick #35, Santana.
Not bad, JJ.
As I was reading through this I kept thinking, "It's nice to have this info, but none of it matters if they don't fix their pitching coaches/development people issues." Then you went and said the same thing at the end of your article, only said it much better than I could have!
The other thing that jumped out at me: all of them are pretty old for A-ball.
Meanwhile, these guys are going to have to get their walk rates WAY up if they want to fit in around here. I'm confident that the current crew of coaches/developers will be able to help them with that.
IMO, looking at this in what we gave up to get Benny and what we got in trading him, it's a net gain and win.
Now if its used to get more outfield playing time for O'Hearn, it's a loss.
Jonathan Bowlan back on the hill tonight at NWA after a year and a half absence while rehabbing a TJ. Seems like a big story. There aren't a lot of short term options in the minors atm likely to step up as a starter once you get past Zerpa and Hernandez.
Makes me wonder if there wasn’t as big a market for Benny as we were being told. It seems pretty clear to me that they realized they weren’t going to get much better than this even if they waited. Otherwise don’t you wait until the day of? I guess you do risk injury but there was clearly no impact prospect to be had because even if you were sniffing that you’d would’ve waited till the end to take this one. Maybe that many teams weren’t in on him. We’ll never know but the timing seemed odd to me. You?
What are the chances we raid the Yankees pitching development to get someone teaching that sweeping slider? Having three pupils of said coach already in the system would be a nice benefit.
Why is a premium not paid to highly talented coaches and development staff? Market inefficiencies is how we developed one of the all time great bullpens. I think this is the inefficiency the Royals need to be exploiting. Has to be cheaper than one MLB minimum salary.
*WHEW!* I'm so glad to see that this trade made it possible to start O'Hearn in RF Thursday night. I was deeply, deeply concerned that might not happen. Everything is fixed now.
Am I the only one who thinks that if given a real chance at it, Greinke could not only play RF better than O'Hearn, he could hit better as well? (Greinke's career OPS is nearly 30 points higher than O'Hearn's OPS this year. And his career BA is about 20 points higher than O'Hearn's this year.)
I'm not at all a fan of the way MJ sets the target but then drops his glove to the ground as soon as the pitcher starts into his windup, thus making the target vanish, presumably just when it's needed most. There's probably a cool "inside baseball" term for that but I don't know what it is.
He's not the only catcher to do that but it still makes me a little crazy.
You've said before that you feel the Royals' offense isn't that bad. But isn't this like a dozen times they've been shut out this season? Outside of Salvy last season, it's been a while since they've had a feared hitter in their lineup. And they can hardly afford to waste a great start like Singer gave them.