Yes, if a guy is drafted out of college, he should be ready for AA. The schedule refers to guys drafted as HS seniors.
Just FTR, Victorino tweaked a hamstring yesterday, so Bradley may be with the big club on Opening Day after all.
I see the Braves sent Ervin Santana down - any idea why? Does he just need more time to get ready?
And isn’t it about time for Kendrys Morales to sign with Pittsburgh, and Stephen Drew with the Mets?
It’s not going to happen. The Pirates cover their draft picks, and the Mets won’t commit to spending more money until they think they have a chance at contending.
Besides, after the first week in June you can sign either without losing a draft pick as compensation.
The Tigers may have lost their SS (Iglesias) for the season, are already at the $162 mil mark, with a closing window of opportunity, they just committed another $250 mil to Cabrera, and they STILL won’t spend the money for Stephen Drew. They brought in Alex Gonzalez and he’s 37, lost a step and still can’t hit a lick.
The Yankees committed to $460 mil in FA contracts this winter, and may have one of the worst infields EVER this season, with Jeter hobbled at 40, and Teixeira suffering from wrist surgery (ST BA < .100) and yet they decide to go cheap on Drew, even though they’ve already forfeited their top picks.
I don’t know what league you’re talking about. There are only a handful of players under the age of 22 in any AA league. Maybe 15 in the AA Eastern League.
And most HS draftees, don’t play in their draft year (age 18), spend a year in an instructional league (age 19), a year in low A (age 20), a year in High A (age 21) and then, no setbacks, a year in AA (age 22). And that’s a normal progression for healthy, highly-regarded prospect, like Will Middlebrooks,who followed that path. There are exceptions like the Harpers, Trouts, etc, but they constitute 1 or 2 per draft class.
Opening Day tomorrow. The Reds have a shit-ton of players on the DL.
Bellhorn- The reason they take so long is because they, and their agent, waste a year darting around negotiating.
Not so. Since 2012, the deadline for clubs to sign draftees is July 15. On the previous CBA, the deadline was sometime in August, allowing mlb teams to take the “draft-and-follow” approach, where a draftee could play in an amateur league during the summer (Cape Cod League, Alaskan summer, etc) to up their value. I think it’s been almost 10 years before teams had 1 year to sign a draftee.
Ignorance fought on the draft rules. IMO players worth a damn shouldn’t be spending whole season’s at high “A” ball, or multiple seasons at AA/AAA.
But your missing a huge financial concern in all of this… earlier you said you wanted to have players with “8-10” prime years, but since a player has can opt for free agency after 6 years, what a team really wants to do is have most of those players 6 years be at his prime. You don’t want 22, 23 year-olds learning to hit a breaking ball at the mlb-level, because that’s one-year of club control out the window. Even very good players get better after their early-mid 20’s and, barring injury, don’t begin to decline until their early 30s. Having a good player from year 26 through 31 is a good thing and a cheap thing. Then when he’s looking for big money in his early 30s you can let him go sign with the Yankees, and actually feel good about it.
You’re assuming that we wouldn’t try to resign him. If a guy makes it at 22, you’re backing up the Brinks truck to a 28 year-old.
I wish him prolonged good health. I just don’t see it happening.
The Red Sox took less of a chance than the Yankees did with Ellsbury, who probably will be back on the DL before the season’s over.
Is it too nerdy to describe their infield as an Entmoot?
No that could be about right.
The irony is that even though (as a Sox fan) I’ve always resented the over-blown hype in regards to Derek Jeter, I’m actually rooting for him to pull off his last season with some modicum of performance and dignity. The guy has been the epitome of class in both victory and defeat in spite of all the craziness that surrounds a team with 100 reporters in the post-game clubhouse. My #1 memory of Jeter is on Opening Day in Fenway, 2005, watching, respectively, from the top of the dugout while the Red Sox received their first championship rings. I don’t think it would have gone that way back in the days when Munson was Captain.
I still remember Willie Mays ending his career with the NY Mets in 1973, and how pathetic he looked once his body failed him. That shouldn’t have happened to Mays and it shouldn’t happen to Jeter.