He wasn’t good in his chances as a pro and they were running out of roster space. He had no options left.

Matias (41) and Lee (49) both check in on Baseball Prospectus’s mid-season Top 50.

Write ups are behind the pay wall, but basically they say Matias’ power and defense are legit and that you can believe in hit tool improvement due to his athleticism. Lee’s approach and OBp skills and raw power are cited. Question marks about translating power to games, if he can stick in CF.

I tend to favor Baseball Prospectus more than Baseball America. Think BP is more of a scout-driven thing and a better recognition of true upside. BA is a little more conservative and more focused on performance and how far the player has advanced through the minors.

It's nice a few guys have moved into the rankings...those are what the corner outfielders in 3-4 years?

I just hope the Royals embrace that they are going to be bad for a few years and take their high picks, that seems to be the way to win now.

Royals cut him. Blue Jays cutted him after a year there after the Royals dumped him.

Jeffress is no different than a lot of relievers, he bounced around quite a bit before really finding it.

Plus he had alcohol and drug problems. He's been suspended a few times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Jeffress

This is the answer. Our bullpen was stacked at the time.

Poor Hosmer just keeps spiraling deeper into the black hole. He's at .250/.321/.396 on the season. Hitting .147/.190/.179 over the last month.

We've all seen that before. His slumps can be epic.

Lee May be able to handle CF. If he can, his profile jumps a ton. High OBP with 20 HR pop is ok/nice for a corner... it’s plus for a CF.

Matias is a RF the whole way. 70 grade arm (regularly clocked in 90s on throws from OF). He actually is a decent runner, average or maybe a little better.

MJ Melendez also made their “just missed” list - around a dozen players. So, that would be 3 top 100 guys on BP’s list, for sure, if they were doing that many. Not great but not awful either.

It should be concerning Dayton offered that bum a contract. Could you imagine having his salary on the books along with Gordon and Kennedys? Oh boy.

Well that's good have to hope a few more guys can spring in there in the next year.

He wouldn't quit smoking ganja iirc

Just saw Kowar started for Lexington last night and got through 1/3 of an inning. 3 hits 2 walks and 3 ER and 1 K. Hope it was first start jitters.

The Padres subreddit is starting to freak out - Beyond the Box Score and Fangraphs released scathing articles about Hos in the last week. Yesterday the subreddit discovered an old article that talked about Hos' batting coach, his brother.

The subreddit talked about how Matt Stairs will likely be able to get him to shorten his swing after this slump. I hope they're right - maybe getting his heat in a bigger market will inspire Hos to change, but we'll see.

The thing that fascinated me about Hos is that he really never changed as a player from his rookie season to his last. He was who he was - and he will forever be a hero for that in KC, we accepted him for who he was - but it might be a different story in SD now that he's landed that contract.

I hope he figures it out - because I wish him nothing but the best and would build the statue for him myself if I could

He was on a 30-pitch limit. Just a matter of getting him work. I wouldn’t read anything into what he does this year, especially coming off a mini-shutdown.


The only person who is going to get Hosmer to change his swing is his brother. We learned that in KC. I’ll be floored if he does anything differently, no matter how much trash talk he garners.

He’s stubborn enough about his approach that it got Kevin Seitzer fired and replaced with a pair of incompetent yes men (Jack Maloof and Andre David) who would let Hosmer do what he wanted and stop hounding him to make major changes.