Here’s the latest from around the league as the evening winds down:
- Bryce Harper may be likely to enter free agency after the 2018 season, but Yankees fans shouldn’t start counting their chickens just yet. Bill Shaiken of the LA Times believes the Dodgers have a better chance to sign Harper. The Yankees roster is aging and none of their prospects are among Baseball America’s top 30. Meanwhile, the Dodgers may have a brighter future when Harper is a free agent. They have a young, talented active roster with Corey Seager and Julio Urias waiting in the minors. Harper could prove to be a valuable supplement to young assets like Joc Pederson, Yasiel Puig, and Yasmani Grandal. Of course, this all assumes the Nationals can’t manage an extension or that they won’t trade him to another team that can.
- Diamondbacks GM Dave Stewart “does not seem inclined” to trade for pitching at the trade deadline, tweets Steve Gilbert of MLB.com. The club has plenty of young depth both in the majors and the minors, but Stewart wants to continue developing internally. Arizona is currently fourth in the NL West and 7.5 games behind the first place Dodgers. They’re also five games back in the Wild Card hunt. In my opinion, there will be more pressure to improve the rotation and bullpen if the club is within a few games of the plays at the deadline.
- Don’t expect the Phillies to sit on their veteran assets at the trade deadline, writes Ryan Lawrence of the Philadelphia Daily News. Last July, the Phillies controversially opted to hold steady, but the club is now more thoroughly committed to rebuilding. Lawrence runs through possible destinations and hypothetical trade packages for the team’s remaining veterans. Interestingly, he believes the performance and complicated contracts of Chase Utley and Carlos Ruiz will make them harder to trade than Ryan Howard.
- The Yankees trade to acquire Didi Gregorius doesn’t look so bad after the Tigers optioned starter Shane Greene to Triple-A, opines Brendan Kuty of NJ.com. Greene began the season with a 0.39 ERA in three starts, but he has since allowed just under a run per inning. Of course, Gregorius has hardly lit the world on fire with a .228/.287/.298 line and 0.4 UZR. While it’s much too early to declare a winner of this modest trade, perhaps we should be looking at the Diamondbacks. They acquired Robbie Ray in the swap. Through three starts, he has a 1.53 ERA with 6.62 K/9 and 2.55 BB/9. Just don’t forget how Greene looked through three starts!
Harper has stated his desires in past to play for yankees, not saying Dodgers have no shot or Dodgers don’t have brighter future but if that’s been his dream…
Maybe he has another dream to win a world series….Something the Dodgers not the Yankees could help him achieve in 2019 and beyond…..
Yes, because we can really predict what a team will look like in 4 years. Google ‘2011 Phillies’ and compare them 4 years later to the 2015 Phillies.
Anyone who knows anything about baseball knew that 2011 Phillies team would most likely look horrible now….base on the age of that core….and who their Gm was…..But these Dodgers could look scary good in 2019 base on their young core…30 year old Kershaw….with the addition of Harper…..
The Phillies had Cole Hamels, Vance Worley, Hunter Pence, the #4 prospect in baseball, one of the better farm systems in baseball and at the time, Amaro wasn’t viewed as terrible, Utley, Halladay, Ruiz, Oswalt and Victorino and Madson all had expiring contracts and they had the 2nd highest payroll at the time with almost half coming off in 2012 and 2013.
How is that an awful outlook?
Umm ok Lee,Halladay,Utley,Oswalt,Rollins, age at the end of 2011,the Howard injury..followed by the Howard extension..The Pence trade…Midway through 2012 you could see that window was closed and that team would be horrible in no time…..
Midway through 2012 you could see that they were committed to their course. No way to foresee that it would go down as quickly as it did.
The real problem was they were locked in and couldn’t get out once it DID go downhill. And that is the moral of the story; be careful locking yourself in too tight, you will be trapped if things go bad.
Maybe in 2012 you could make a prediction, but not in 2011, which is the year in question.
Hallday, Utley, Oswalt and Rollins were all FAs after either the 2012 or 2013 seasons.
Lee and Halliday both were excellent until they got injured, age didn’t play into the factor (no loss of talent) – Rollins still had very good years up to last year w/ the Phillies. Oswalt also gone due to injury. Howard’s decline based mainly on injury as well. The Phillies didn’t decline as much as talent and age as they did being slammed by devastating injuries and poor trades of Pence, Victorino and the non-trades of Lee, Utley and Papelbon when their value was highest and in-demand.
Yankees prospects are looking pretty good and the fact that allot of money is coming off the books therefore allot of money is available I’m thinking the Yankees which is his preferred team has a great shot at getting him. Man the Dodgers better win soon because that payroll will sink them if they don’t. For some reason some dodger fans on here speak as if the Dodgers have won recently????
I just made the case that 2003 Tigers went 43-119, one of the more abysmal team performances in MLB history. They then went to World Series in 2006 after only 2 intervening seasons. You can look it up.
Yup, baseball is weird. Look at all the assets and resources the Red Sox have right now and look where they are.
A case could be made that Sox would be a lot better off signing neither Panda nor Ramirez and keeping Middlebrooks. It seems like all they did was put expensive roadblocks in front of their upcoming prospects.
Which is why I want the Dodgers to let Howie go and collect the comp pick.
Middlebrooks was absolutely terrible while in a Red Sox uniform, minus his rookie season. Most of Boston’s hitting talent are in the low minors. They didn’t really block anybody significant with the Panda and Hanley signings unless we are talking about JBJ.
but they WILL be blocked in just a couple years. Moncada and Coyle blocked by Pedroia. Cecchini blocked by Sandoval. Marreo blocked by Bogaerts. Margot, JBJ, and Brentz all blocked by current OF. I think Craig plays 1B when Napoli leaves via FA – I think Devers plays 1B and Craig goes to DH when Ortiz retires.
Of course that’s assuming that they make no trades to upgrade their Pitching and only go the FA way…
I think I was saying that since January.
Boston still has the assets, resources as you say. Terrific people in the system. They are not DOA in the minors like some other teams and have a great future, even if the current system looks awful to Sox fans who look at the season with open eyes.
Future for them is much brighter than say.. Philly/NYY with MiLB assets alone and LT deals come off the books either end of this year, or shortly after for the ones which could be construed as bad.
I have a couple of comments to that. Agree that Sox are not DOA and way too soon to write them off in 2015. They could also be very competitive next couple years. But farm systems have 3-4 year turnover times.
You have to keep drafting well, and give opportunities and playing time to the right prospects, field a competitive team in all aspects and keep mix of commitments in balance. All current challenges to the Sox right now, and while I’m more optimistic about them than others, a bright future is not a guarantee.
They are stuck with 2 potentially bad contracts (Hanley, Pablo). Even if Hanley moves out of the OF, his bat alone is nothing special at 1B or DH. I mean, there are only so many positions on a baseball field where you can hide guys.
Never mind the fact that they are one of the worst teams in baseball right now, which is backed by run differential and other metrics. Unless Pablo plays like it’s 2011, Hanley like it’s 2013, and they get Hamels, I don’t see them turning it around this season at least. They’ve also had problems developing players from their system w/ their new GM.
Hanley’s bat is more than enough for 1st base or DH. His bat is on-par with the likes of Ortiz. I’m not sure how you can make that argument.
Sure, Victorino, Napoli, Buchholz, Masterson come off the books this year. But none of their LT big money players are doing particularly well right now; Ramirez, Sandoval, Ortiz, Pedroia, Porcello, Castillo.
Masterson, Napoli, Mujica (they are paying), Victorino, Breslow total 45m. Bucholz has done well since toward the end of April and as long as he maintains? His option for 13m is a given next season, before giving up 4r his last start over 5IP, he had gone 7+ 4 straight starts.
100% with you on Sandoval, have never been a fan of his, or his obesity, tho think Ramirez was a good deal and still do. He will be able to slide into DH slot when Ortiz retires and his play at Fenway (at least) in LF has been overblown, he’s no worse there than Manny Ramirez was.
being “no worse there than Manny Ramirez was” doesn’t say much at all. Manny was terrible. Hanley usually has a good bat, but he does not compare to Manny there, so its harder to make up for the defensive shortcomings.
I’d say both Pedroia and Ramirez are doing well, especially pedroia since he’s healthy and Ramirez was red hot until he hurt his shoulder back end of April, his injury tag has hit him this season. Why think a DH may be in his future.
He did finally seem to get over it after several weeks and dropping almost 50pts off his average and is now hitting once again. Wouldn’t say he’s not hitting.
Too early for Castillo, who missed most of ST and hasn’t had many AB at MLB level yet period, give him some time and we’ll see. The last week he’s looked more comfortable at the plate.
Hanley’s been arguably the worst defensive player in baseball and has absolutely no desire to go back to playing the infield, that deal looks bad surprisingly
Future for them is much brighter than say.. Especially with all those top-10 picks boston keeps getting.
RedSox don’t have that much in upper minors, which is what a lot of teams look for. A good number off the recent wave has turned into fools-gold, which is fairly common.
The Yankees had a top-10 system for a while, as late as 2010, and that was the start of semi-bad period of yankee baseball. All this team of the future stuff is just guessing.
You have 0 idea how 2019 will play out, none.
Yes because the Dodgers are known for there winning championships???
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Getting tired of all this talk about Harper’s free agency, that he is not even due to hit for 3 1/2 more seasons. Too much can happen in that timeframe for local beat writers to take up some sort of cause campaigning for him to join their team like he’s an impending free agent.
This is not a complaint about MLBTR passing it along, it’s their job. My complaint is about a beat writer with the LA Times feeling the need to chime in.
I agree that Utley is the most difficult Phillies player to trade, for same reason as Papelbon. Those vesting options. And without the performance. But no matter, if the Phillies can trade Howard, and Utley continues to struggle, that could be the end as he could be platooned/benched, and not get his contract renewed.
Chooch may be more tradeable simply because experienced catchers are always in demand, he would possibly clear waivers on Aug 1, if still around, and first injury on another team could be on his way out, Phillies absorbing some of $9M owed for 2016.
I think some people are forgetting that the Dbacks should be getting Corbin back sometime before the trade deadline. If the rotation can somewhat stabilize by his return, adding him to it should give them a boost for a WC push. Either way, they aren’t going to be a serious WS threat this season & shouldn’t trade away their young assets this season for a chance at a WC birth.
More than a little premature for an LA beat writer to be dreaming up Bryce Harper in a Dodgers uniform. Harper isn’t an impending free agent, he’s still 3 1/2 years away from free agency. Things in this great game have a tendency to change very quickly.
Are Astros and Mariners writers to chime in next?
Exactly, a lot can happen in 3 1/2 years.. But, I think you are wrong about the Astros and Mariners writers.. Everyone knows the Cubs writers will chime in next then the Astros and Mariners..
Giancarlo was the Dodgers guy before the extension with the Marlins. He grew up in the backyard of Dodger Stadium (Notre Dame HS) and wanted to be drafted by LA. He even took BP at Dodger Stadium a few times when he was in HS.
I still think Giancarlo is a Dodger before his careers over, but that insane contract (and insane owner) is going to be hard to trade for (with).
Yes it is. It could get insanely ugly in 2020 if Marlins are tanking and hoping Stanton opts out with 8 years and $210M still to go.
He’ll most likely opt out for another 10 year deal…that 2 extra year’s gos a long way…….
It’s insane to give any player a 13y big money deal. Look at Andruw Jones. He broke in at 19, who would have believed that he’d be done before he was 30 years old?
I dont see how the Yankees aging and the Dodgers having young players has anything to do with Harper. It will come down to dollars.
all Yankee fans believe you can just use money to get every single players. The good players can get loads of money anywhere. They want to go somewhere where they’ll win a lot and they get paid, too.
I understand your point but, that thing about the Yankees aging and Dodgers having young players, I don’t know, every player is aging but the oldest Yankees players are next to become free agents, if im not wrong A-Rod’s contract is over after 2017 season, Teixeira after 2016, Carlos Beltran after 2016, I think when the time comes the Yankees could have some good young blood on the team with Refsnyder, Judge, Bird, Austin, Williams, Severino, Mitchell,etc. If they don’t trade them.
Beat me to it lol
I assume they’ll replace them with…… a bunch of 25 year old free agents?
That’s an oxymoron. The reason players like Heyward and (until he signed) Porcello are so rare, is that you would have to spend a full season in the Majors at age 19 to qualify for free agency when 25. Most rookies are up around 24, which is why most don’t become FA’s until 30.
Exactly my point.
Just saying its a fairly obvious point.
Yup and going to a team with a deep farm system, and that’s currently in first place, sounds like a smart choice. Especially since players like Harper believe they could make any team a winner.
The other thing is that by the time Harper is a FA, the Yankees should be younger; Beltran will be gone, Tex may be as well, and CC, A-Rod etc.
Theoretically Judge replaces Beltran, Bird replaces Tex, Severino replaces CC…if they turn out to be as good as advertised, Yankees will be young and talented. Plus right field plays perfectly for the left handed Harper. All that plus money may be a good draw.
Plus, the Yankees have something the Dodgers don’t and that is New York City.. Players with the ego of Harper dream of NYC.. Someone will have to fill A-Rod’s shoes..
Maybe the Yankees don’t want those shoes filled…don’t want to put up with the burden of another mega long term deal…
He will only be 26 when he signs his next contract.. I can stomach a 7-8 year deal for a 26 year old.. 13 years is something else entirely though..
Yeah, because if you want more fame everyone knows you stay away from LA.
LA has fame.. That is not what I was saying at all.. You apparently have never been to New York..
Big stage, bright lights. They exist in LA as well.
the Dodgers have the advantage in the dollars department as well
Huge advantage.. Hal Steinbrenner bought a wallet with the first dollar he ever made and put every dollar after, in it..
Ruben amaro jr and the phillies couldn’t even trade $1.50 for a whopper jr at Burger King.
Wouldn’t that mean the Yankees have a better chance of signing Harper? If all of these other guys are in the way, Harper wouldn’t have as much playing time. The Yankees would probably offer him more right? I guess it depends on whether Harper wants to play for a World Series team or not
No because I dont think there are many players in the entire league that could stop Harper from having playing time.
But with the Dodgers having all that up and coming talent, wouldn’t Harper rather go somewhere that he can get more attention and playing time. The Yankees are older and Harper would get more playing time
Like I said, anywhere harper goes, he would get as much playing time as possible. No one is going to block him. Plus the up and coming prospects in the dodgers organization are mostly infielders.
Really? He has been the best player in the game this year short of maybe Goldschmidt (and that’s debatable). Even if you had Trout Harper Stanton Puig in your Outfield, I would sit Puig before the other 3
I guess we will see with Harper. I think he will go with the team willing to pay the most so Yankees and Dodgers could be the top two likeliest destinations. The contract will probably be terrifying if he has extended injury issues for the team that signs him.
he will go to the team willing to pay the most? you don’t say?!
thanks captain obvious.
now why are we talking about this 3 years ahead of time?
Although the dodgers have better prospects than the yankees that doesnt mean they necessarily have a brighter future. When you have the ability to have a 200m payroll, your future is as bright as it can be no matter what.
That’s the problem.. Hal is complaining about $200m while the Dodgers are getting really close to $300m..
I’d have to guess LAD current payroll is unsustainable, especially when you add the luxury tax. Even the Yankees laid low this offseason and may continue to hold the line on payroll.
The Red Sox have deep pockets, but have not had success buying the best team. The Yankees had many years with the highest payroll, without winning the WS. Dollars usually indicate contending, but not winning.
Harper is going to sign a 15 year $500M deal with Oakland and also be the chief architect on their new stadium
Dammit Dave Stewart! I was on the verge of becoming a DBacks fan when he had to make those ridiculous anti-moneyball comments.
Judging the Greene/Ray/Gregorious trade right now is silly. There are 14+ collective years of control left for those guys.
Remember that Max Scherzer got sent down to the minors after he came to the Tigers.
True. But it is not too early to see the Fister for Ray, Krol and $20 million in salary relief was not a rip off of Dombrowski. It is still shocking that so many were willing to believe guys running a couple internet sites had better resources to evaluate a pair of 20 year old lefties than a major league team with a proven track record.
Yeah how silly people form their own opinion instead of just thinking whatever a team does must be a good move.
Yes, silly people form their own opinion with very little information. That is their right. A humble person would recognize their own limitations before criticizing those in a better position to know.
There were waaaay too many people absolutely sure how this trade would pan out and were waaaay too quick to criticize even though two 20 year old left handed pitchers were involved.
Based on what? Year old scouting reports from two internet sites. More respect for the game and people involved in it was in order.
The big objection was the Tigers were trying to win a World Series and traded away a very good pitcher. What do you know, the Tigers had to go out and trade for pitching last year.
Knowing they would more than likely lose Scherzer for ’15, the trade for Price was a 2 month ’14 all of ’15 roster decision. Losing the $$ on the Fister contract allowed them to get a big upgrade of Price and his big $$$ and not hit the tax.
I agree that it seems counter productive when looking at it in 1 year time frames. If they are “going for broke in ’14, why trade Fister? How much of ’15 and beyond are you willing to lose to get it all in ’14? It all is taken into account when making deals and for the rabid fans, often a head scratcher.
You’re rewriting history. The objection was they didn’t get enough in return, when nobody knew anything about what they got. They were basing their judgment on a few comments by guys running internet sites with hardly any resources.
The Tigers had Drew Smyly waiting in the wings, who was just fine until flipped for David Price.
I agree with your assessment but there is one thing that I can’t figure out. How do you exactly “grade” a trade as bad or good.Or even if it has to be either bad or good and not equal. Fister trade could look bad for Detroit if you only look at 2014-15(yrs. left on his contract) and how he could help them in “win now” mode.He was good in ’14 but so far not so good in ’15. It could look good from a financial view by being able to use those $$$ resources saved to help other needs. It was a good trade if you only look at the years of control a team has on a player. Some could look at the WAR of each player while on their new team or those aquired by trading one of the main characters, (Ray for Greene).
Seems to me that there are too many variables on many timelines to be able to form a concrete answer.
Somebody recently posted wait 7 years to evaluate a trade. Seems fair, especially when 20 year olds are involved. Unfortunately, this trade was soundly criticized before anyone threw a pitch.
But it was.
The jury is still out isn’t it?
What $20 MM in salary relief? I never heard that reported as part of the deal.
That’s the difference between what Fister made and Ray/Krol.
No money exchanged hands then. Just the difference in salary. Salary relief is usually what people refer to as cash included in the deal. The Tigers sent cash with Fielder for example. I do believe that the Fister trade was motivated by the Nathan signing, as their salaries were similar. It was more reallocating salary. It worked out well for whatever team was about to sign Nathan, before the Tigers came up with the cash.
The Tigers got salary relief, but not from Washington. Correct.
I can’t see one reason in the world why the Phils should continue to play Utley. He has a vesting option for 500 AB’s of $15 million and he’s not even hitting .200 and the Phils are awful.
Because they want to trade him… and keeping him benched won’t do it. They have to play him enough to try to bounce back… but not enough to vest his option.
Utley isn’t going to accept a trade.
you never know how that could change circumstances being what they are. If someone wants him.
Rollins said he wasn’t going anywhere either…
I find it really silly when writers and fans start predicting where a player will go when they are several years away from free agency. First it was people assuming Harper will be a Yankee when he signs his new contract, now people are saying he will be a Dodger. The fact remains that we don’t know how any club will look like in 4 years time. It is very possible both these clubs will have their outfields full in which signing Harper would probably be silly.
Its also assuming that Harper reaches Free Agency then. As the face of the franchise, if he shows he can stay healthy, he will be more valuable to Washington than any other team. I am sure they will try to keep him.
It’s just a little early to predict Harper’s whereabouts in 2019? Or, what the roster and prospect pipeline of any team is going to be at that time. Must have been a slow news week.
It seems pretty pointless to wonder where a player will go in 4 years.
Boras and Harper will take the largest deal possible. The Yankees roster by the time Harper will reach free agency will only have Ells’s contract on the books. literally every other big contract will be off the hook besides Ells and a year of Headly’s contract.
See, that’s the exact problem with even guessing where a player ends up in 3+ years…. From your point, the Yankees will not sign a single FA for the next 3 years just so they can win a bid for Harper… Are you telling me with the FA class of 2016 and 2017 that the Yankees (or any other high payroll teams) will just watch and let other super-stars sign elsewhere??
Will the Yankees and Dodgers not go after such players as Cueto, Price, Zimmermann, Heyward, Cespedes, Justin Upton, Wieters, Greinke, Strasburg, Encarnacion, Chapman, Bautista, Gomez, and the dozens more good players out there??
You cannot actually think only Ellsbury will be the Yankees big contract come 2018? Right???
Even if they sign both Strasburg and Upton for example they’d still have payroll space and a LOAD of contracts coming off the books with younger players coming in.
Rumor has it that the Dodgers are going after Zimmerman first in the winter, but guessing what teams are going to do in 2018 is fruitless.
Let’s leave the rumor reporting to MLBTR, OK.
money talks and dodgers will pay the most. meanwhile my Phillies are stuck with two old senile owners. giles and Montgomery. PLS LET MIDDLETON BUY THE TEAM.
The Nats, Dodgers, Cubs, and Royals look to be in good shape going forward!
It’s really a stretch when reports and hack writers start looking at free agency three to four years from now.
I’ve never heard any Yankee fans “counting their chickens” with respect to Harper. Most believe it is quite possible, but hardly a lock.
Everyone is talking about FA’s 3 years from now… Anyone here that plays the FA guessing game knows your lucky to get close to 1/2 right.
2016 will be just as hard… Forget where Harper will be in 3 years, where will these guys be in 2016?
1) David Price (p)
2) Johnny Cueto (p)
3) Jordan Zimmerman (p)
4) Justin Upton (of)
5) Y. Cespedes (of)
6) Jason Heyward (of)
7) Matt Wieters (c)
8) I. Desmond (ss)
9) C. Davis (1b)
10) Doug Fister (p)
11) Mike Leake (p)
12) Ian Kennedy (p)
13) Mike Napoli (1b/dh)
14) Y. Gallardo (p)
15) D. Navvaro (c)
16) A. Avila (c)
17) R. Davis (of)
18) J. Garcia (p)
19) J. Lackey (p)
20) A. Lind (1b/dh)
21) J. Masterson (p)
22) D. Murphy (2b/3b)
23) B. Colon (p)
24) D. Stubbs (of)
25) J. Happ (p)
26) A. Jackson (cf)
27) D. Fowler (of)
28) C. Rasmus (of)
29) B. Zobrist (UTIL)
30) J, Uribe (3b)
31) A. Cabrera (2b/ss)
32) D. Freese (3b)
33) H. Kendrick (2b)
34) D. Span (cf)
35) W. Venable (of)
36) S. Kazmir (p)
37) Z. Greinke (p)
38) M. Latos (p)
39) B. Norris (p)
40) W. Chen (p)
41) J. Samardzija (p)
42) T. Lincecum (p)
43) M. Joyce (of)
44) M. Pelfrey (p)
45) T. Cahill (p)
46) M. Buehrle (p)
47) B. Morrow (p)
48) B. Anderson (p)
49) Iwakuma (p)
50) C. Iannetta (c)
Relievers: Soria / Feliz / Clippard / Hunter / O’Flaherty / O’Day / Parnell / Broxton / Webb
Benoit / Bastardo / Rodney / Mijica / Marshall / Vetters / Russell / Sipp /
Chamberlain / J. Johnson / Blevins / Affeldt / Thornton / Parra / Choate
and where will these players be come 2017??
1) S. Strasburg (p)
2) A. Cashner (p)
3) C. Gomez (cf)
4) J. Reddick (of)
5) E. Encarnacion (dh/1b)
6) K. Morales (dh/1b)
7) A. Chapman (rp)
8) K. Jansen (rp)
9) D. Storen (rp)
10) D. Holland (rp)
11) J. McGee (rp)
12) J. Papelbon (rp)
13) C.J. Wilson (p)
14) I. Nova (p)
15) M. Trumbo (1b/of)
16) P. Alvarez (1b)
17) M. Teixeira (1b)
18) J. Jay (of)
19) A. Gordon (of)
20) C. Coghlan (of)
21) A. Pagan (of)
22) M. Prado (2b/3b)
23) L. Valbuena (3b)
24) A. Beltre (dh/3b)
25) J.Peavy (p)
26) J. Weaver (p)
27) E. Volquez (p)
28) J. De La Rosa (p)
29) T. Wood (p)
30) J. Danks (p)
31) B. Beachy (p)
32) C. Medlen (p)
33) L. Morrison (1b)
34) B. Moss (of/1b/dh)
35) M. Morse (1b)
36) M. Cuddyer (of/1b)
37) J. Morneau (1b)
38) A. LaRoche (1b)
39) M. Saunders (of)
40) J. Smith (rp)
41) S. Cishek (rp)
42) D. Gee (p)
43) Hellickson (p)
44) R.A. Dickey (p)
45) I. Davis (1b)
46) S. Feldman (p)
47) J. Chavez (p)
48) D. Hudson (p)
49) M. Byrd (of)
50) J. Bautista (of)