Always A Commander Never A Captain

I saw that Hassell has been hot lately! As has House, but in a different way. House seems to be more consistently getting his raw power onto the ball. Is this just Hassell speculation, or are they actually talking about moving him up?

It didn't help that the beat writers gassed up Cole Turner too us too.

Anyone have any idea how to read this or the methodology for how they rank it? It's pretty different from what they would post for the Top 100, which makes it really interesting. https://www.fangraphs.com/roster-resource/minor-league-power-rankings/nationals For reference, here's the end of 2023's minor league rankings: Just trying to figure out however the stats are combined into this ranking system could be indicative of future success. Cause Jacob Young being 2nd in 2023 has certainly panned out. Does this portend well to Lara (who fell off most org Top 30 rankings in 2023) and Glasser?

You wouldn't think a Shutout would be led by an ugly outing from the Starter, but it happened. A WHIP of 1.8 and somehow it never happened. Helps that the Bullpen is turning into something nice.

For the Beebe lovers here, can be play Center? Cowboys fans are saying he'll compete for starting Center job.

The overhauled kickoff probably means you want more LB's and TE's than Safeties and Corners for those plays.

Slater needs to bounce back. His rookie season was his best season, and his lack of length/width becomes apparent at times when his pass protection issues crop up. I wouldn't count Slater as a success story yet.

Loving the base stealing extravaganza we have. Jacob Young is 3rd in WAR for us this season. If this is the best version of himself, then he's a pretty good starting CF in MLB.

That is an issue that I also hate. They estimate likely scores based on other measurements and use that to make the full RAS. Which isn't something that should be done. Just to clarify though, you do know Sinnott did every test except bench press right? Sinnott's SS and 3cone were a smidge better than LaPorta. He's also a tiny bit bigger, but probably not enough to matter for much.

I disagree with this. While Cosmi's athleticism was never in question his size was. His length and wingspan were always too small for an OT. It was always a knock on him as a prospect with a Guard conversion likely. If he actually had an OT body his athleticism would have gone in Round 1 instead of late Round 2. For reference, I believe Jordan Morgan's wingspan is closer to average, while Cosmi's is something like 15th percentile.

Oh, apparently our 10th rounder from last years draft, Phillip Glasser, was just promoted to A+. We've got 2 recently drafted guys highlighted in an article on the Athletic:

Speak for yourself, I simply overvalued both of them. My QB rankings were (and this might wind up egregiously stupid) Maye > Daniels > Williams for the Top 3.

I wasn't as enamored about Suamataia as most here, but for reference here's the RAS compare.

Expecting a Day 2 rookie to start and play well is a big ask. There are lots of Day 1 rookies with up and down rookie seasons. Trent Williams was pretty inconsistent his first year. And who would we have signed in FA? Most of them just re-signed with their own team. Jonah Williams got the most money from someone who actually swapped teams and he's mediocre. We did a lot in Free Agency, but this team had massive holes everywhere. We sucked. There's a limit to how much you can fix in one off-season. The roster was in a sorry state after we missed so many draft picks.

He really hangs onto the ball after getting walloped. Some tough hits right after he gets his hands on it.

Only way around that was not picking a QB

Standig is reporting we made calls about trading into the end of the 1st for Newton but didn't like the cost. So we explored trading up to the Teens for an OT and late first for Newton. We must have had a really high grade on Newton then.

Really thought we'd do more trading back. Well I guess they thought value was too good to pass up.

It used to look worse. This is it being all jazzed up after Snyder got ridiculed too much.

Except he's an athlete, and can catch.

Michael Hall just went. Newton is a far better prospect. I'm surprised they went in the same round let alone 2 rounds of each other.

There are several players like that. Such as both corners. Yeah, we have no idea how important (or not) a good kick returner is with the kickoff overhaul.

Just to clarify your statement, are you saying Jayden Daniels is worse than Howell? Even after including 5 years of control vs 2? That's a big statement.

Cause we got really good value for the trade, and that was the highest Howell's value would be. If an asset is going to depreciate and isn't going to be used, then sell it.

I don't think he talked to many then. Sounds like he's just regurgitating hot takes. You can watch games of Maye and not see a missed layup in them. It happens, but the issue is overblown.