Heliot Ramos is pushing to break a 40-year-old curse, we’ve got guys journeying from baseball in France to the major leagues, and generally the farm system is having a positive overall impact on the Giants’ 2024 season.
I’m far too late to this but thank you so much for the enlightening answers Roger! I know this has been one hell of a week for you and Giants fans everywhere, so I just wanted to say thank you for everything you do covering all these games and interesting players! You’re one of my favorite parts about rooting for the Giants.
Thanks for your answers and that amazing photo of 2005 Pablo Sandoval!!
Also, you mentioned that trade the Phillies made to acquire Brandon Marsh from the Angels. I'm probably MUCH worse at grading trades than you are at coming up with them...but looking at that trade in today's light - Brandon Marsh for Logan O'Hoppe is looking like a winner for both clubs to my eye. Each player is in the top-4 position player list by bWAR for their team and seemingly doing everything that the acquiring team had hoped for on the day of the trade nearly two years ago (and one of those teams is the ANGELS which makes this even more impressive, IMO)
Very much rooting for the 2025 There-R-Giants roadtrip to DR! (maybe bring some Al Horford championship t-shirts with you to curry favor and/or find yourself a dedicated translator?)
I would agree that Marsh for O'Hoppe has worked out quite well for both teams. FWIW, I have reason to believe that O'Hoppe was a player philly was willing to move to Giants in potential deal for Carlos Rodón had the Giants been decisively willing to move him early. As it turned out, by the time they engaged in serious discussions, the Marsh trade had already happened and it was harder for two teams to find a satisfactory fit.
Thanks for answering my question! You want the Giants to be able to get some kind of value even if the odds are against unheralded guys, but it's tough. Munguia in 2019 Augusta, and Bericoto in 2022 San Jose are the recent examples I'm looking at for relatively low-profile DSL folks at Low-A who have made it to the upper minors.
As far as indy baseball in the DC area, it's tough with regular trips to Richmond, but neither the Blue Crabs in Waldorf nor the Keys in Frederick (currently featuring Royce Clayton, Jr, and apparently his other son Elijah) are too far away, depending on traffic. Hagerstown has a team again and a new stadium this year, though that's a bit farther afield. We're hoping to get out to at least one of those three and hopefully two this year.
I suppose it depends on what recent means to you, but Alex Canario was a five-figure signing who has now made the majors, and Luis Toribio, Diego Rincones, or Sandro Fabian could certainly qualify as unheralded guys making upper minors. Ricardo Genovés was a mid-six-figure guy who got to Triple-A and Adrian Sugastey is right in that same range and already in Double-A at 21. And then, of course, there's the pitchers: Doval and Randy were both five figure guys, etc
I totally skipped over pitchers, now that I think about it. You were in on Doval at Augusta for sure.
I guess it comes down to a subjective idea of what "unheralded" means. Guillermo Williamson made your "just missed" list, but nobody else I mentioned in the question even got there. Maybe it's hindsight, but I don't think Canario, Toribio, Genoves, etc were people not on your Top 50 in previous years (even at ACL, etc). But perhaps I'm mis-remembering.
Anyway, thanks for answering questions about long-shot guys at the bottom of non-complex ball; I'm glad that there are people like you out there willing to dig deep on behalf of people like us!
It's true, Canario and Toribio were in a similar class with Lisbel Diaz now where the notice starts pretty quickly once they get on the field. Canario at 17 was one of the biggest pop ups in recent memory
I’m far too late to this but thank you so much for the enlightening answers Roger! I know this has been one hell of a week for you and Giants fans everywhere, so I just wanted to say thank you for everything you do covering all these games and interesting players! You’re one of my favorite parts about rooting for the Giants.
Those of you who skimmed through, GO BACK to the Glow-in the-Dark video. I would pay good money to see that in person!
Thanks for your answers and that amazing photo of 2005 Pablo Sandoval!!
Also, you mentioned that trade the Phillies made to acquire Brandon Marsh from the Angels. I'm probably MUCH worse at grading trades than you are at coming up with them...but looking at that trade in today's light - Brandon Marsh for Logan O'Hoppe is looking like a winner for both clubs to my eye. Each player is in the top-4 position player list by bWAR for their team and seemingly doing everything that the acquiring team had hoped for on the day of the trade nearly two years ago (and one of those teams is the ANGELS which makes this even more impressive, IMO)
Very much rooting for the 2025 There-R-Giants roadtrip to DR! (maybe bring some Al Horford championship t-shirts with you to curry favor and/or find yourself a dedicated translator?)
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I would agree that Marsh for O'Hoppe has worked out quite well for both teams. FWIW, I have reason to believe that O'Hoppe was a player philly was willing to move to Giants in potential deal for Carlos Rodón had the Giants been decisively willing to move him early. As it turned out, by the time they engaged in serious discussions, the Marsh trade had already happened and it was harder for two teams to find a satisfactory fit.
Thanks for answering my question! You want the Giants to be able to get some kind of value even if the odds are against unheralded guys, but it's tough. Munguia in 2019 Augusta, and Bericoto in 2022 San Jose are the recent examples I'm looking at for relatively low-profile DSL folks at Low-A who have made it to the upper minors.
As far as indy baseball in the DC area, it's tough with regular trips to Richmond, but neither the Blue Crabs in Waldorf nor the Keys in Frederick (currently featuring Royce Clayton, Jr, and apparently his other son Elijah) are too far away, depending on traffic. Hagerstown has a team again and a new stadium this year, though that's a bit farther afield. We're hoping to get out to at least one of those three and hopefully two this year.
I suppose it depends on what recent means to you, but Alex Canario was a five-figure signing who has now made the majors, and Luis Toribio, Diego Rincones, or Sandro Fabian could certainly qualify as unheralded guys making upper minors. Ricardo Genovés was a mid-six-figure guy who got to Triple-A and Adrian Sugastey is right in that same range and already in Double-A at 21. And then, of course, there's the pitchers: Doval and Randy were both five figure guys, etc
I totally skipped over pitchers, now that I think about it. You were in on Doval at Augusta for sure.
I guess it comes down to a subjective idea of what "unheralded" means. Guillermo Williamson made your "just missed" list, but nobody else I mentioned in the question even got there. Maybe it's hindsight, but I don't think Canario, Toribio, Genoves, etc were people not on your Top 50 in previous years (even at ACL, etc). But perhaps I'm mis-remembering.
Anyway, thanks for answering questions about long-shot guys at the bottom of non-complex ball; I'm glad that there are people like you out there willing to dig deep on behalf of people like us!
It's true, Canario and Toribio were in a similar class with Lisbel Diaz now where the notice starts pretty quickly once they get on the field. Canario at 17 was one of the biggest pop ups in recent memory