Greinke is a sure-fire Hall of Famer, so I’m not sure many GMs would live up to that pick.

But the biggest issue Moore had was adjusting once the slot system went into place. They never quite figured out how to work that, though they worked the 2013 draft pretty well.

In the Baird days, he basically could make one legit pick, but not for a bank-busting first rounder, and then had to draft a bunch of guys who wouldn’t take much to sign. They didn’t empty the clip.

This draft felt like they didn’t empty the clip.

Maybe they just missed the guy they were saving money for. Maybe it’s the big righthander from Illinois. But have some contingencies in place.

You found the words I was looking for.

Baird had that one pick at the top of the draft (Billy Butler was another), and for whatever reason, had a not terrible ratio with that one card he got to play (I feel like GMDM would outthink himself at times in Round 1).

This draft just even feels void of that one legit Baird pick.

Salvy getting the AL the lead, scoring a run.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Salvy also has the second-most All-Star Game runs by a Royals player<br><br>5 ⚾ George Brett<br>3 ⚾ Salvador Pérez<br>1 ⚾ Hosmer, Dye, Bo, White, Rojas</p>&mdash; Royals Stats (@RoyalsStats) <a href="https://twitter.com/RoyalsStats/status/1678949600504283137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

#13 retired and a Salvy statue is going to look good in downtown KC.

Shitty Blue Jay giving up a home run.

He's always just stayed so likeable, even with the shit team he's on now.

He's currently my favorite Royal ever but I would be fine with them moving him on to finish his career. There's no point in keeping him in KC now.

Yeah. I keep looking at Chase Dollander, Chase Davis, and Matt Shaw.

Dollander is a guy who reminds me a lot of another player recruited and coached by Dollander's college skipper... Max Scherzer. In that he is a guy who was viewed as a potential 1-1 pick entering his junior year, then had a weird/bad command year. The size and assortment of stuff is even similar to Max. I don't think he's that good (Scherzer has a legitimate Hall of Fame case), but Dollander has a lot of upside and would have been a good floor/ceiling mesh at 1-8 (Scherzer went 1-9 to Arizona, as I recall).

Davis and Shaw are similar guys... college bats that I think are really underrated. They are the type of high contact, low K, all-fields power hitters that I would love to see KC invest in more heavily from the college ranks.

I also just really like Hurston Waldrep, because he already has a great three-pitch mix, and I think he's going to be a good major league hurler for a long time. Atlanta will probably maximize that.

I had to go down to the Twitter rabbit hole, man lots of Salvy hate on being an all-star.

The only thing anyone can ding that man on is framing a pitch. Which has to be the absolute most over valued statistic I've ever seen. Some people act like if a catcher can't frame a pitch, then he's trash. When in reality it has minimal effect on a game.

You know if Salvy was better at English, he would be instant TV studio guy for FOX or ESPN the moment he retires.

When his career is up for the Hall of Fame, framing isn't going to be as much of a factor as his OBP. That's where the voters are going to kill him like they did with Andre Dawson for so many years.

Baseball Hall of Fame voters are the biggest cucks in the world. The stupidity they go off on.

Agreed. The absolute worst type of sports journalist.

It’s not all of them by any means.

I know/have known a bunch. Rick Hummel was possibly the best person I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting. And then there are guys that absolutely suck.

The guy that took over for me when I left the sports journalism world is a member of BBWA and has a vote. He does a good job with it.