I haven't seen any bad news about Owen White, so I assume he didn't get shelled!

Assuming good news at this moment in the season is dangerous.

Eff that. Let's give him start in the 2nd half for Heaney or Perez. If he does well roll with him.

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Eff that. Let's give him start in the 2nd half for Heaney or Perez. If he does well roll with him.

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Small sample size.

Not sure if anyone is watching or just seeing clips on social media, but the guy who just pitched for the Brewers organization (Misiorowski) is freaking disgusting. 100 mph, wipe out breaking ball, and a disgusting arm slot that looks like a rubber band or whip. Where do they find these guys?!?

Assuming we are choosing between Clark and Jenkins tomorrow, who is your pick?

Would love for Langford to somehow be there at 4, but I think Jenkins is the next best thing. Think I would much prefer him over Clark

Langford - Jenkins- Clark

My Top5 are like most.

In order of want:
Skenes - I'm on the fence that he'll be more like Strasburg (consensus), Randy Johnson (wild early years), or a bust.
Crews - I want to believe the hype. He has all but made it clear he doesn't want to go to Pitt. Sounds like Ryan Leaf and Indianapolis.
Langford - I prefer the college OF
Jenkins - Safe bet for me. Which means my RBS fears we select him and he'll be the only one that doesn't pan out.
Clark - Supposedly has a strong social media game. Could be fun could be annoying.

Early start today (11:05 on Peacock)

Semien 2B
Seager SS
Jung 3B
Garcia DH
Lowe 1B
Garver C
Grossman RF
Duran LF
Taveras CF

Max Clark vs. Walker Jenkins:

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Max Clark is one of the best 2023 MLB draft prospects. The left-handed hitting outfielder is committed to the Vanderbilt Commodores and was named Gatorade's National Baseball Player of the Year. Clark has shown the ability to run, hit, and field extremely well. While playing at Franklin Community High School in three varsity seasons, he appeared in 82 games.

He had an incredible high school career as he has a .551 batting average, .713 on-base percentage, 21 home runs, 95 RBIs and 88 stolen bases. It will be interesting to see how he continues improving as he also has pitched before with a 97 MPH fastball and can be a good bullpen piece too.

Similar to Clark, Walker Jenkins is a high school player who is in the 2023 MLB draft. The 6-foot-3 outfielder is currently committed to the North Carolina Tar Heels and has shown the ability to also be one of the top players there. Jenkins was Gatorade's North Carolina Player of the Year in both 2022 and 2023 and has shown the ability to dominate the game.

Coming from South Brunswick High School, Jenkins played 49 games and wrapped up his varsity career with a .487 batting average, .598 on-base percentage, 13 home runs, 53 RBIs and 37 stolen bases.

One of the biggest pluses was the fact he had 35 walks compared to 14 strikeouts throughout his high school career.

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The following is something to keep an eye on ...

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These are two of the top high school players in the 2023 MLB draft class, and both players are expected to do extremely well. They will likely be selected back-to-back, but it seems as if Jenkins has a small upside. The only red flag is going to be Jenkins' health as he dealt with a hamate injury. There is no wrong answer here, but Jenkins is expected to be the first one selected.

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Crews / Langford please

Would be great, but unlikely

Top four in the draft seem to be pretty clear although last year we went way outside the box but it allows us to get Porter.

I think I'll be happy with any of the top four.

Crews wants way too much money, and it's money we don't have, so I think he's entirely off the board. Only way we get to Langford is if Clark/Jenkins is taken No. 1, which means Detroit would likely take Crews. Still unlikely though. I think the real question is will Pittsburg take Skenes? There's been some rumblings that because Crews wants a Brinks truck and doesn't want to go to Pittsburg, that they could take and Skenes and avoid it completely.

So the only way to watch todays game is through Peacock??

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Crews wants way too much money, and it's money we don't have, so I think he's entirely off the board. Only way we get to Langford is if Clark/Jenkins is taken No. 1, which means Detroit would likely take Crews. Still unlikely though. I think the real question is will Pittsburg take Skenes? There's been some rumblings that because Crews wants a Brinks truck and doesn't want to go to Pittsburg, that they could take and Skenes and avoid it completely.

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If Crews falls the Rangers and the Rangers want him, they will take him.

Skenes against an SEC schedule struck out 209 and only walked 20 in 122 innings. I'd have trouble passing that up at 1 or 2. He is polished.

I don't see either making it to #4, but I'd take whichever remaining OF I like best and not look back

I was leaning Jenkins for the longest time, but I just worry about the potential K risk that come with that kind of big slugger. But I like the style of player of Clark, I feel like it's more likely for him to reach his potential. And I like the idea of that speedy outfield of him, Carter, and Tavares.

That may have been the worst 3 ABs all year to start a game. Nice game plan to come out swinging at everything.

Jung has a real bad habit of watching pitches right down the middle, and then immediately taking bad swings at pitches way below zone and bouncing in the dirt.

Pretty pathetic showing from 1-2-3 to start the game

That really felt like guys are trying to shorten the game and get to the ASB

Bats need to wake up. What an embarrassing showing through the first six batters

Helluva play by 5 to make that over the shoulder catch!

Where are we getting this money? We only have 9.925 million in bonus pool money. I don't disagree at all that we'd want him, but signing him would be essentially punting on the rest of the draft. That's where my disconnect is at.

Woof. Hope they get Corbin better the 2nd time around.

5 Ks first time through. 4 in a row to all star starters. Anybody have an alarms going off right now?

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5 Ks first time through. 4 in a row to all star starters. Anybody have an alarms going off right now?

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I mean, yeah. Team sucks right now. Won 5 out of the last 15 and it wasn't a murderers row of competition

Is Dane Dunning becoming our ace?

This lineup just needs to keep fighting. They are hitting the ball hard, just not falling. It will come again.

Since this is the 30th game in 31 days I'm not shocked In the least bit.

The last couple of weeks have been tough to watch

Looking like the 60 win team of 2021