BP Dodgers 2015 Top 10 prospects

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The other Yoan, Mr.Lopez is the hot commodity right now for us. Moncada isn't even on our radar the following article:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...l-dark-horses-in-the-yoan-moncada-sweepstakes

 

I expect Lee to rebound in OKC and the only way he drops out of the top 10 is because he has pitched 50 major league innings.

 

I saw that, and an article mention 15 teams and not 1 was the Dodgers. Don't get it. A lot project him at third (which would be perfect) or second base. Dodgers need to be on him.
Joc, Puig, Seager, Moncada, Grandal, to go with a still young Kershaw, Ryu, Urias, and any potential starting pitcher whether Greinke or Cueto or Price or Zimmerman and I be like

 

I'd rather throw all the $$ towards Moncada, we do this (moncada and/or Lopez) and we can't do much internationally for a year.

 

I'm a little foggy on this rule but whatever you think of Moncada the Dodgers aren't even in on this guy so the point is moot. Now knowing our FO penchant for keeping things close to the vest who knows but I'm not counting on signing Moncada. I found this article on the situation however:

http://www.baseballamerica.com/international/one-big-problem-teams-yoan-moncada/

EDIT: Lopez signed with the D-Backs, damn!

 

I mean, if we are interested in Moncada, no one knows about it. I think it is apparent at this point we are not going to know what is going to happen in terms of personnell moves until it happens. They said the Dodgers were interested in Lester, Miller, Martin, etc and it turns out we apparently never made an offer. Signed McCarthy or Brett Anderson, didn't see any rumors out there before it happened. When we traded Dee Gordon, Zaidi said the day before that he was our starting 2nd baseman and then came the Kendrick trade out of left field. Point is that we could be very interested in Moncada and no one would know it.

 

MLB.com Top 50 prospects comes out on 1/30, just saw advertisement for it on MLB Network.

 

The offer to Lester was reportedly in the 160-165M range and the offer to Martin was 4yrs/74M.

Maybe they are. Maybe they aren't. Transparency's not an overwhelming necessity for them. However, it wouldn't shock me if Friedman maybe had his eye on an Evan Longoria homecoming instead. Longoria's still only going into his age 29 season and he's on a deal that's gonna carry him through the rest of his career. He'll be 37 when it's done. So if Longoria is indeed gonna be a target, then 3B may be blocked anyway and of course they have intentions on re-signing Kendrick for 2B ( already noted by Friedman).

But why would Tampa deal Longoria? Just look at them. It's what they do, but not only that..in a few years the Rays are gonna be sold and/or moved to another city ( probably Montreal) and looking for a fresh start with their payroll. It's a wrap for them in Tampa as the city just blocked their last ditch stadium plans. They may decide to dump Longoria early if the return is right, and all the nerds have done in a below the radar manner, is continue to build farm depth for what Zaidi explained earlier this off-season as " flexibility and depth should there come a time for moves. " Now, I can't see them dealing our Top 3 or 4 prospects for a starting arm. There's just too much risk there..especially when you're talking about 30yr olds with heavy mileage on their arms. But a Grant Holmes headlined trade for an everyday guy the caliber Longoria after next season? Perhaps.

The nerds have been very creative in how they've made trades and started getting the payroll under control thus far. Next off-season I could easily see something like them sending Crawford and 20M to the Cubs for Cubbie prospects that the Rays have interest in and then combining those Cubbie prospects with maybe a Grant Holmes, Arruba, and one of the 57 catchers that they've gone out and stashed at the top of our farm for Longoria. Basically buying prospects/assets to flip for guys who fit their brand of ball. And Longoria would be a great fit in LAD blue..we're gonna need more righty thump soon and he's an excellent defensive player as well.

Why would they look at that kinda deal next year and not right now? In a perfect world Holmes would improve his MiLB ranking and value over the next year, Crawford would put together another productive year and rebuild a little more of his value + shed another 20M of that contract, and you wanna keep that carrot in front of Rollins right now in terms of him thinking that if he plays well enough that he could get an extension. If they went for Longoria right now, and locked up 3B with Seager on the way, then they may as well have not even made the Rollins trade at all because his word/leadership wouldn't carry much weight as a stop gap ( a label that the FO won't give him). They think Rollins can have a profound impact and won't undercut him. And then of course maybe the Rays just aren't ready to ship Longoria out yet, but that day is about as inevitable as the next Marlins' firesale. It's coming. Just saying that there are alternative ways for them to fill 3B if Moncada's not an option for them and that maybe the report has some truth to it. Or maybe it doesn't.

 

Kind of odd but interesting how we are so new age and shit.

http://www.dodgersnation.com/dodgers-winter-development-camp-sees-27-players-in-la/2015/01/13

 

http://www.baseballamerica.com/international/will-yoan-moncada-rank-top-100/

This article has a little bit about Seager, saying that he is his (Badler's) #6 prospect.

 

Speaking of prospects, I don't know if the Cardinals should be wearing Taveras patches on their uniforms next year. Yeah nobody enjoyed the news of him passing away, but he was crazy drunk behind the wheel and took the life of the girl that with him too. This is far from a deal where he was the victim of a crime or something like that.

 

Agreed but they did already.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/1...ls-wear-jersey-patches-honoring-oscar-taveras

 

Shockingly enough, I will take the opposite stand. The fact that he was drunk and ended up taking another life as well as his own does not make the accident any less tragic. Two young lives were lost as the result of an accident. The fact that alcohol was involved does not lessen the tragedy. Had he been involved in a criminal event, robbing a store or trafficking drugs, then it would be less of a tragedy and more of "kharma is a bitch" thing.

Ask yourself this: If the person behind the wheel was a direct relative of yours, would you grieve any less because they were drunk?

 

i agree..because it makes it more of a tragedy. that girl had family and friends of her own.

grieve less? maybe. maybe not. grieve differently? definitely. because anger and annoyance would be heavily involved in my grieving process in this case.

when your decision takes someone else out of this world as well..a level of honor is lost. family or not, i'm not down with a decision that could hurt other families as well. that's the point and why it's annoying a lot of people that the Cards would do this. you can't get that honor back.

 

i'd rather them do what you said there than throw a patch on their jersey and honor him all year. yes, let's take time out and remember him at the start of the season and say our goodbyes, but we move on after that without disrespecting him or the families/friends involved. your way actually brings some good out of it..you're promoting real action. but i guess we wait and see what else they have in store.

 

Some how my posts are not all making it to the board.