Athletics & Twins & Brewers
Submitted by: Gregory B
Athletics
| Name | Age | Level | P1 | P2 | Availability | Years | AFV | Salary | Surplus | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trevor Larnach | 25 | Majors | OF | Low | 5 | 39.9 | 9.5 | 30.4 | 24.3 | 30.4 | 36.4 | |
| Joey Wiemer | Minors | OF | 13.6 | 10.9 | 13.6 | 16.3 | ||||||
| Josh Winder | 25 | Majors | SP | RHRP | Low | 6 | 9 | 0.7 | 8.3 | 6.7 | 8.3 | 10 |
Total Value:
52.3
Twins
| Name | Age | Level | P1 | P2 | Availability | Years | AFV | Salary | Surplus | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sean Murphy | 27 | Majors | C | Low | 3 | 75.8 | 24.5 | 51.3 | 41 | 51.3 | 61.5 |
Total Value:
51.3
Brewers
| Name | Age | Level | P1 | P2 | Availability | Years | AFV | Salary | Surplus | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ryan Jeffers | 25 | Majors | C | Low | 4 | 18.6 | 5.6 | 13 | 10.4 | 13 | 15.6 |
Total Value:
13
Comments
5Brewers just laugh and hang up. Jeffres is a very weak hitting catcher and offers nothing at all to the Brewers. No team in baseball would trade a top prospect for him.
I doubt they laugh and hang up. You're underestimating Jeffers. In particular, he hits lefties quite well. He has value. He's certainly better than the catchers the Brewers currently have on the 40-man, and the Brewers have lots of OF depth from which to trade. Taylor would be the more appropriate choice, but the concern there is whether the A's hang up because of the service time concerns. Maybe not. It's tough to know how each club values a particular player. Since I'm not in those meetings . . .
Down vote for Oakland. Larnach struggles to stay healthy. A lingering hand injury tanked his 2021 and core surgery did him in in 2022. Winder missed time in 2021 with a shoulder issue. He missed time in 2022 with (again) a shoulder issue. Talent means nothing if it can't get on the field.
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I think that's a fair criticism if Winder, but not of Larnach. Nothing in college or the minors suggested he's injury prone and the hand injury wasn't soft tissue in nature. Winder would be a bit more concerning if I'm the Twins or the A's. That said, in the real world, Wallner is probably the more desirable between Larnach and Wallner, but Wallner doesn't have the value in the app. These things can always be tinkered with.
Wallner has a touch more more swing and miss and less glove than Larnach. Maybe there shouldn't be as much a value gap between the two but I think there's a clear difference. And it turns out that Larnach's 2022 ended with a wrist injury, I think to the same hand that gave him problems in 2021.