IBC

I loved Entourage so much back in the day.

Downloaded the movie from Netflix while I was traveling the end of last year. I spent most of the time thinking how exhausting that all looked.

Been in this league a long ass time.

Pirates traded Joe Jimenez to Yankees for Josh 23-Knoth Knoth is a really fun, young arm who flashes impressive velocity and spin rates, and is in a really good organization to maximize those traits and he missed a full year of development with TJ at a crucial stage and command was never really his...

As part of my consulting company I'm jumping in as an advisor to a cool new product called backstop (https://www.usebackstop.com/)...no, it's not capitalized. It uses available, non-wearable analytics to create warning signs for player fatigue and allow coaches/managers an opportunity to optimize pl...

Yankees traded Jake 22-Bennett to RedSox for Robert 22-Calaz Felt fortunate to snag Bennett as part of the Valera trade, as his prospect profile is really fun, but 1) He's a Red Sock, 2) He has more of a back-end profile, and 3) He's a Red Sock. That meant he was movable. Calaz was on or approachin...

Yankees signed Yeferson 24-Portolatin

CCR. Been rocking their record a lot lately. Id imagine a decent amount of us know them.

A lot of young bucks when we started this league, I’d imagine most of us have some grey hair now.

Still have Schlittler on the block. I've opened up some room around the periphery of the roster, so would be open to 2-1 or 3-1 offers that give me back good ceiling and value. FG prospects chat said he would have ranked in the top 10 prospects in baseball, he already has a very usable SIM, and any ...

We are done, done. Please draft safely everyone!

Yankees signed Zach Maxwell

I did not prompt that, though we have been talking about my team for a minute now, so I'm sure they are empathetic.

I'm doing a lot of work with AI at the moment, so figured this would be fun. Prompts to ChatGPT for this included what type of league we are (Diamond Mind, zips stats, no contracts) and the bolded part below was my specific prompt on the draft. Everything below the bold was ChatGPT's response. I'd l...

Yankees traded Yandel 23-Ricardo, Joshua 24-Kuroda-Grauer to Twins for 2025 Draft Pick 101 Ricardo is young, but has some really fun talent and should stay on short. It's unlikely he'll run into a ton of power, but if he unlocks something he becomes very interesting. JKG is one of the more defensiv...

At pick #101, the Yankees select Miguel Sime Jr., sp, 5/8/2007.

Yankees signed Curtis Mead

FanGraphs 2026 Picks to Click This Is What They Look Like Billy Carlson, SS, Chicago White Sox (BG/JF) Gavin Fien, SS, Washington Nationals (BG) Cris Rodriguez, OF, Detroit Tigers (JF) This Is What They Look Like: Arms Edition Esteban Mejia, RHP, Baltimore Orioles (EL) 2025 Two-Year Darts (All Eric...

Rays traded Reese Olson to Yankees for Gabriel Gonzalez, Micah 24-Ashman Yankees traded Walker 23-Martin, Jacob 24-Cozart, C.J. Kayfus to Angels for Anthony Volpe, Garrett 21-Hawkins, R.J. 23-Schreck These two are decently intertwined...so we'll take them together. Out the door go a lot of my good ...

FanGraphs OOPSY 2026 Top 100 Prospects
#7 - Emmanuel Rodriguez
#21 - Moises Ballesteros
#23 - Jett Williams
#41 - Ricky Teidemann
#62 - Dax Kilby
#64 - Demetrio Crisantes
#65 - Gabriel Gonzalez
#86 - Carlos Lagrange
#94 - Ryan Waldschmidt
#107 - Gage Jump

ZiPS 2026 Top 100 Prospects
#29 - Jett Williams
#34 - Emmanuel Rodriguez
#35 - Moises Ballesteros
#40 - Travis Bazzana
#45 - Theo Gillen
#64 - Gage Jump
#71 - Eric Bitonti

Had a couple inquiries about Schlittler and Lauri’s amidst all my movement. I’m always open so come at them. FanGraph’s top 100 chat said Schlittler would have an EV of 60, which would make him a top 10 prospect. He’s got a usable sim, and I’d value him that way. Kayfus was moving into top 70 territ...

There's one more guy I really rated on the board, otherwise Compton and Ebel were the last of my guys I really liked, and I thought Petry and Cannarella were really good gets at this point, too.

I'm really intrigued to see where my last guy goes.

Fangraphs 2026 Top 100 Prospects
#35 - Ryan Waldschmidt
#51 - Jonny Farmelo
#53 - Elmer Rodriguez
#54 - Travis Bazzana
#68 - JR Ritchie
#69 - Dax Kilby
#72 - Jaxon Wiggins
#73 - Carlos Lagrange
#75 - Jett Williams
#81 - Gage Jump
#84 - Moises Ballesteros
#98 - Tommy Troy

Yankees traded Markevian Hence, Angel Genao to Cardinals for Gabriel Gonzalez, Jaxon 23-Wiggins Genao is a top 60 prospect across the board. If he's healthy and the bat comes back, he'll jump up even higher. Speaking of healthy, Hence needs a good, healthy season to return his prospect status. He's...

Yankees signed Kristian Robinson

Yankees released Cade 22-Winquest

Royals traded Markevian Hence, Jake 22-Bennett, Tommy 23-Troy, David 24-Hagaman to Yankees for George Valera, Christopher Morel, Ben Williamson We've been dropping a couple trades to each other and Mark sent this over and I felt it was fair enough. The SIM loves Williamson's defense, but I've got s...