Lance Brozdowski
If #BlueJays were in on Benintendi, makes sense they'd be in on Ian Happ as well.
Keep an eye on RHP Nick Frasso.
23 years old, TJ surgery June 2021, 10 starts since, up to 98, slider has been tweaked, funky angles.
#Cubs had a scout in Vancouver for Frasso's start on 7/26.
I understand that team X being at player Y's start doesn't mean they're getting him if the deal is done.
But Cubs just drafted Horton off TJ, and acquired injured players at last year's deadline.
If the "let's add stuff" motto from the draft carries over, Frasso makes sense.
Also from today in the Dan Syzmborski chat
Guest: How can we expect the Cubs return for Happ to compare to Benintendi’s return? Twice as much? Three times?
Dan Szymborski: I hate multiplicatives of prospect value! It feels a bit like subtracting temperatures
Dan Szymborski: But nothing in the Benintendi trade makes me think t hey’ll get anything drastically different from what I suggested in my piece
Dan Szymborski: (which was a 45 and a couple 40s; Benintendi fetched a 40+, a 40, and an unranked)
Zach: I’ve heard a lot lately about how teams have a system that assigns value to players, similar to baseballtradevalues.com. I assume this is purely on-field production, so how does a team also value the future monetary value a player brings in based on their stardom?
Dan Szymborski: It depends on the team, really.
12:16
Dan Szymborski: I don’t have exact specifics, but I hear enough from teams that I can make educated guesses
12:17
Dan Szymborski: Most, I believe, are a bit less rigit than baseballtradevalues
Appa Yip Yip: Package around Jordan Groshans for Ian Happ make sense?
Dan Szymborski: That’s about the type of player I can see the Cubs getting a few of
12:42
Dan Szymborski: White Sox fans were mad that I cleared a chunk of their top 10 list
12:42
Dan Szymborski: but those names are only in the top 10 because the sox system is very very very weak at the top
12:43
Dan Szymborski: But Groshans/Eden/Frasso or something?
Fun with coincidences. I’m not a fan of Groshans, but that is probably what you are looking at. It wouldn’t surprise me to see the Cubs go for a younger, higher upside lead piece than Groshans though.