MINOR LEAGUE/PROSPECTS Thread

JJ Cooper ‏@jjcoop36 5h5 hours ago
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John Hart...ballin.

 

Where did you see that about Diaz? Or are you just referencing what Law said? If it is Law, he is going off of older scouting reports.

 

Not just Law, but from most every report I've seen they're on Diaz early, before he even really gets started in the states.
Pretty sure he's in everybody's Top 100 so far, gettin a lot of love

 

Ah, I see. Well he was the top Int'l non-pitching prospect on the market until about 3 days ago, so I am not surprised. Though, I think MLB.com has him pretty low, at least initially they did. Could be awesome if Joc figures out his stroke again. He does not have the speed of your avg CF'er and could be the potential long term option in LF once Diaz is ready.

 

MLB.com has Alvarez (1) and Diaz (3) in their top 30 international rankings from a few months ago. They haven't released their 2016 rankings. But Diaz is only the 12th best Dodger prospect via MLB.com.

 

I meant low on the teams page, and 12 is low considering some of the guys ahead of him. The as of 3 days ago comment relates to the Gourriel brothers defecting.

 

77th is a bit high at this point IMO, but I'm not complaining, the tools are there.
That's the highest of all his rankings thus far I believe.
If he lives up to it all perhaps he hits the show by '18.
Tough to think that far ahead right now tho, I'm thinking Yuli Gourriel on the ASAP side of things

 

If they go the Gourriel route, then that either means that Turner moves to 2B, Turner is traded in advance of free agency or Gourriel moves to 2B and Kendrick does move to a LF platoon with Ethier, which would be a step down from an SVS platoon. I think Gourriel the elder is a long shot, but man if they get him, that would be great as he probably becomes the best hitter on the team.

 

The latter is why I think it happens, AF said they'd continue to be aggressive in looking for different ways to make the big club better, I can't think of a better option at the moment just in terms of not having to give up anything other than cash for a guy who could potentially be their best hitter.
Not sure how they'd work it out, I imagine Yuli would get the nod at 2B over Howie and Turner tho.
He's moving better than both of those guys, so much better that perhaps they'd just go ahead and deal Ethier and open up LF for Yuli to handle everyday?
Would hurt SVS' value, but hell he's already fighting for scraps as it is anyway.
Think eventually it'd mean the end of Turner starting at 3B tho, whether it's this year or the next ( if they even bring him back).
Of Turner/Ethier/Kendrick, Ethier's the guy I'd deal, he's the only one that hasn't shown enough ability as of late in terms of catching up to 95 and that's ultimately what we're gonna see in October.

 

Yankees are buzzing over Yuli tho, so...

 

I agree, if Turner is eventually healed up and 110% he can play some LF, wouldn't assume he could play there everyday, but he wouldn't have to either.
They could move all these guys around, Howie signed up knowing he could be moved around, agreed to play some 3B.
Of course Howie's played more LF than Turner has in his career, but both could flex out there from time to time and both are pros that wanna do what's best for the team, so I wouldn't worry too much about it, allow DR to do what he does best.
But they'd still have to somewhat clear the way for it to happen, so again, yeah I'd just go ahead and deal Ethier and then juggle those guys @ LF/2B/3B.
It'd be a good example for the young players coming up through the system - having vets set a team 1st type of example and the FO does covet versatility, so it'd connect with their beliefs as well.
Could perhaps look somethin like this,


Joc/Kike CF
Corey SS
Yuli 2B/3B
Adrian 1B
Turner 3B/2B/LF
Puig RF
YG C
Howie LF/2B/3B


Sick really, when you can roll out an order with Howie hitting 8th, would like to hit him higher because of all the damage he does with players on base, but if Puig and YG play up their potential he should still get plenty of opportunities with guys on and he does bring incredible presence to the 8 spot - getting those guys pitches to hit.
But hell, it's an order that could be shuffled and reshuffled and still look pretty great, still have Kike/SVS/Utley on the bench, excellent.
Turner sits every 4th day and Howie goes to 2B with Yuli moving over to 3B and SVS taking LF...
or Corey takes 3B and Kike takes SS...
and on and on and on, a ton of versatility and depth.
But turn LF over to Howie at the start of the year, until Turner is healthy enough to rotate in for a couple weeks and settle in there for a spell.
Then shuffle the deck again, not on a day to day basis with the vets, but a couple weeks here - a few weeks there.
And still we know that guys will eventually deal with injuries/bouts with health, so it'd be fine.

 

I have no fricken' clue if any thing happens as far as bringing in another infielder, but if it did happen I would advocate selling high on Turner while we can. Yes, he's been a great find for us and couldn't ask for a better bargain but let's face it, he's never showed he can stay healthy and truth be known we don't know what to expect coming back from surgery. If we netted a solid everyday guy that allows us to shift players so as to have solid players around the infield without much platooning, and keeping someone like Hernandez in a super utility role, I'd be in favor of trading Turner while his value is up. Realistically, he's one injury away from being hard to move.

JMO.

 

Fuck my OCD, ...ok, WHICH 2013 are we talking about? Or which Los Angeles??? Or which publication???

 

Jared Massey ‏@JaredJMassey 23h23 hours ago
New Dugout Blues recording soon featuring top #Dodgers prospect Cody Bellinger! Send questions here or to dugoutbluespodcast@gmail.com
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Should be worth a listen if just for that interview.

 

http://m.mlb.com/prospects/2016/?list=prospects

Guessing we'll be waiting until march 4th to see the full top 30.