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Ben Clemens

2:32

I think he'll end up making it

Princess Leia

2:32

Help us Obi-Wan Clemonobi! Royce Lewis is lost. Again.

Ben Clemens

2:32

it's so miserable

2:33

I was talking to Meg about this last week when I was trying to figure out if he was a top 50 trade value guy

2:34

and literally WHILE I was talking about it he got hurt

can't make this stuff up

Harmon Ripkowski

2:34

Yankees all time outfield, Aaron Judge is...top 3, top 6,...?

Ben Clemens

2:34

I don't think he's lower than 4th

so the question is basically order Judge, Mantle, DiMaggio

and yeah, I have him fourth

Guest

2:34

how do you think teams should evaluate Jordan Walker at this point? He's so young that he's obviously not totally hopeless or anything, but at the same time he's struggling badly in AAA right now

I strongly think he will still be in the Cards' org in August, but I wonder if all parties would be best served if another team was given a chance to fix him. Or should the Cardinals give him another year?

Ben Clemens

2:34

The offers the Cards get for him are going to be extreme lowballs

which is wise, to be clear

2:35

I think he would probably be best served with a new org, I don't have a lot of great examples for you of the Cardinals succeeding in this particular type of prospect dev

2:36

but I think that's a hard trade to make, it's always tough to sell low

Will

2:36

Emmanuel Clase + some throw ins to the Cubs for Justin Steele, fair or unfair?

Ben Clemens

2:36

I would not do this trade if I were the Cubs

2:36

Since the start of last year, Justin Steele is 8th among all pitchers in WAR and he's got 3 years of control left after this. I really think they'd laugh at 2 50 FV types and that you are badly undervaluing him.

Ben Clemens

2:36

i mean, perhaps

if that's the case, I don't think he's getting traded

2:37

which is probably the right thing for the Cubs

2:38

I have a big old slug of controllable pitching all tiered together in trade value at the moment

and either he, Grayson Rodriguez, or Jared Jones is the headliner of that tier

I think that all of them are pretty dang exciting

Princess Leia

2:38

You're brother in name, Ben Rice, done good this weekend!

bosoxforlife

2:38

Ben Rice gave you plenty of stuff for your 5 things I liked (or didn't like) last week. His loafing badly on Friday probably cost the Yankees the game then hits 3 HR's on Saturday.

Ben Clemens

2:38

gotta love a fellow Ben helping me out

davealden53

2:38

I recall you being enthusiastic about Eguy Rosario. He's now back at AAA after only a handful of MLB at-bats. But I understand the Padres not seeing a position to play him. What's his future? Learn a different position? Trade bait?

Ben Clemens

2:38

trade bait I think

Guest

2:39

Have you or others you know looked into the discrepancy between Masson Miller rookie status? Appears to be differences between a few reliable sources.

Ben Clemens

2:40

He's eligible

https://x.com/unofficialAB/status/1788587331835858951

it's an extreme corner case

2:41

where he had exactly few enough days, but on a day where he was placed on the IL, a few sites counted him as also being on the active roster that day

Summer of George

2:41

Julio Rodriguez, traded at deadline?

Ben Clemens

2:41

I....

wheelhouse

2:41

i think anthony volpe has turned into the worst hitter in baseball. or at least he's tied with like 5 other yankees who play every game

Ben Clemens

2:42

Yankees fans are the best

Guest

2:42

While we discuss Walker, what about Torkelson? This was quite the disappointment this season. I wonder if he’s progressing in Monroe but doesn’t appear as so on the stat line.

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