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Padres appear to be set and my opening day MP has been sent to the Roster Dude.

Thanks JP!

Look, Cubs newcomer Shota Imanaga brought this upon himself. Imanaga, 30, has been so obscenely good since arriving from Japan, we have no choice but to compare him with giant pitching names present and past. The lefty starter is 5-0 with a minuscule 0.84 ERA, the fourth-lowest after the first nine ...

The Houston Astros are in an unfamiliar situation: five games under .500 with Memorial Day approaching in the distance like a looming mountain out an airplane window. And they’ve won nine of their past 11 to even get that close. The Astros have had their ups and downs during their ongoing run of sev...

Giants signed OF Jerar Encarnacion to a minor league contract. The deal is pending a work visa and physical. The outfielder had been with Guerreros de Oaxaca in the Mexican League, where he had a ridiculous 19 home runs in only 107 plate appearances. The 26-year-old came up with the Marlins, but was...

Jacob Melton , OF, Astros Age: 23. Average Launch Angle: 10°. Zone Miss Rate: 13.3%. 90th Percentile EV: 108.5 mph. Melton was Houston’s second-round pick from 2022 out of Oregon State, and has been a strong offensive performer for most of his career. He was especially potent in offensive oasis Ash...

Among the crowd of high-end starting pitchers to sign with new teams over the offseason, perhaps none had wider error bars surrounding his projection than Shota Imanaga . An NPB star for the past half-decade, Imanaga had a track record of success but also many questions about how his skills would tr...

Eric Adler has a path to the Majors. The first part of said path is to pitch well for division-leading Double-A Birmingham, just as he did over eight scoreless outings for High-A Winston-Salem to start the 2024 season before he earned a promotion to the Barons last Wednesday. He did the same with a...

Padres released Whit Merrifield

Marlins trade James Karinchak, Slade Cecconi to Padres for Braxton Garrett I think Braxton Garrett is a solid young southpaw SP who is, is real life, getting close to returning to live action at the MLB level. It won't surprise me if he has the best total career of the three players involved in thi...

Jared Karros , RHP, Los Angeles Dodgers (High-A Great Lakes): 6 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 5 K. A 16th-round selection in 2022 out of UCLA and son of a former Dodger star, Karros is proving that he is not just a legacy selection, but a bonafide pitching prospect capable of making an impact at the highest...

Mariners wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 9:45 pm

Mariners wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 11:58 am Mariners created Starlyn 23-Nunez

Starlyn signed in '23, which of course is a "22", could I get this changed?

FIXED

Keiner Delgado , 2B, Pirates The newest Pirates prospect came to Pittsburgh on April 30 as the player to be named later in the deal that sent JT Brubaker to New York. Delgado was part of a loaded FCL Yankees club and earned plaudits from scouts for his ability to do a little bit of everything while...

In a lot of respects, Kyle Karros is like most minor league baseball players, just trying to earn a living playing a kid’s game and making a name for himself. But it’s his name that usually get first recognition. Such is the case for the son of a longtime former big leaguer. Karros’ famous father is...

Padres created Kyle 23-Karros

Padres released Dayan 0-Frias

Jared Karros , RHP, Los Angeles Dodgers (not ranked): Jared may currently be known nationally as Eric Karros’ son, but he’s been making a name for himself in the Dodgers’ system. A 16th-round pick in 2022 out of UCLA, Karros spent most of last season in Low A but finished the year with three impres...

Padres created Jared 22-Karros

Padres released Tyler 22-Schweitzer

Damiano Palmegiani , 3B, Toronto Blue Jays (Triple-A Buffalo): 3-5, 2 R, 2B, 2 HR, 3 RBI, BB. Should the Jays need a boost to the offense this year, Palmegiani is likely the first to get the call. He’s produced big power numbers at every level of the organization since being drafted in the 14th rou...

Padres signed Mason 22-Adams

Padres released Christian 23-Oppor

Padres signed Grant 23-Taylor

Padres released Justin 22-Campbell

The Situation: The White Sox have finally decided they need a fifth starter, turning to Nick Nastrini —former Top 101 prospect and one-half of the Joe Kelly and Lance Lynn return. The Background: The Dodgers took Nastrini in the fourth round of the 2021 draft after a college career in which the righ...

Padres signed Will Brennan