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Brendan Gawlowski
2:45
MLB will only act if an owner threatens to cost them all a lot of money. And even then, maybe not.
The league didn't force out McCourt for the Dodgers being mediocre/slightly embarrassing. He got the boot when he wanted to sign a well below market value TV deal for a quick cash infusion.
George
2:46
Realize it's a particularly SSS for Ewing, but from what you've seen of AJ and Benge in the bigs so far, who do you like best ROS?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:46
I'll go Benge
E
2:46
Given the recency of the Sox list, and your warning about believeing power spikes, do you think Franklin Arias' power jump is real, a product of the league-wide spike, just a hot streak, or a little of all three?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:47
Some blend.
Daniel Bergman
2:47
Fastball usually gets a single grade, but what if someone has multiple fastballs, and what if they play well off each other greater than the sum of their parts?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:47
Different teams/spots have different ways to handle it. With PIT we evaluated each fastball separately.
2:48
For us, we try to include the nuance in how they play off each other in our grade
donald mezick
2:48
When does Kade Anderson come up and expectations for 2026
Brendan Gawlowski
2:48
I'll say August 24th.
2:49
I assume the 18 batter limit they seem to be imposing is meant to save bullets for down the stretch.
tdmoc
2:50
+1 on articles about developing defense

on that note, how much game tape do you need to see before changing a guy's fielding grade?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:51
That's a tricky question to answer. Do you mean for someone who has changed? Or just to see if someone is tracking along from the 40/50 grade and is now more of a 45?
Daron
2:51
What are some of the key aspects you look at when evaluating a pitching prospect's chances to stick as a starter?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:52
Can he throw strikes? Can he move the ball around the zone, either up and down or side to side? If not, does he have good enough stuff for it to not matter? Is he stretched out enough to offer length? Does he have an average fastball or better? If not, does he have a monster secondary? Does he have secondary pitches to get hitters out from both sides of the plate?
E
2:52
Is river ryan gonna force the dodgers' hand? Doesn't seem like they need to be throwing lauer instead of ryan, even if they 5 and dive ryan.
Brendan Gawlowski
2:52
Not sure what more they need to see.
2:53
There could be a KPI there, I don't know, but he sure looks good.
The Jolliest Roger
2:53
If you could build a scouting report from scratch, would you still use the 20-80 scale? Generally speaking, what would your template look like? I can't help but feel the standard template isn't optimized for this era of the game with all the information we have. Do most orgs have more advanced templates now?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:55
I think you can use any one of a variety of systems/templates and it'll be fine so long as everybody is on the same page about what the scale is. Eric's system is different than what PIT used when I was there, which is different than what PIT is using now. All can work.
twelvejones
2:55
As you reach the end of Team List season, did you have a favorite/least favorite org to cover this year?
Brendan Gawlowski
2:56
Boston was really fun to cover, came in mostly cold and was blown away by the arms.
2:57
I got violent food poisoning while covering the Orioles and while it's not the least bit fair, I'm having some trouble disassociating those things.
It doesn't help that they had so many pitches throwing max effort with 20/30 control.
2:58
The systems that have a lot of guys with paths forward are generally fun too. Colorado/LAA come to mind.
Cleveland with all the hit tools
They're mostly fun.
doich9
2:59
Spencer Jones had a pretty ugly introduction to the top level. Plenty of good players come back a 2nd or 3rd time and stick. Did you see anything from him that makes you think he can be one of those guys?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:00
No changes in my thoughts on Jones. "He strikes out 45% of the time and never figures it out" is definitely a possibility. I'd still wanna be the team that gets to find out for sure.
odin525
3:00
From a fishing standpoint, would you rather have 1-2 65+ and a bunch of 40+ or a litter 45-50+ and hope a few exceed the ratings? In other words, would you prefer top heavy or balanced with a lighter top?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:01
Take the monster.
James Doehle
3:01
Do you think either Hope or De Paula debut for the Dodgers by the end of the season or are they trade bait?
Brendan Gawlowski
3:01
A Hope debut would surprise me. De Paula less so, though I'm not sure it's likely. Don't think either is untouchable.
Re: Nats
3:02
Is Curtis Mead for real? .844 OPS, and not just doing it with the platoon advantage. I wonder what is trade value is like, and how the former prospect pedigree affects that
Brendan Gawlowski
3:02
Decent player running a little hot is my guess.
3:03
Trade value is an interesting question. A lot of models have a long tail on hype guys, so someone like Mead starting to hit will light up a model more than, I dunno, Trevor Hauver.
Sorry Trevor, I don't know why you came to mind first.
I like you too.
warpath
3:04
Thoughts on TJ Rumfield this year, who seems like he was a sneaky good pickup by the Rockies? He seems to have taken a step forward and has a shot to be an everyday 1B
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