Quote from LynchMob on May 15, 2023, 10:48 am

May 15 Baseball America Prospect Report

James Wood , OF, Nationals: Wood homered and doubled twice to go 3-for-3 on Sunday for High-A Wilmington. He’s now hitting .282/.366/.564. That may sound like he’s having a solid year, but it’s actually much more than that. Wilmington is truly a graveyard for hitters. It’s a place where home runs turn into fly outs, so much so that when they held a home run derby at Wilmington, they had hitters hit from the outfield into the seats behind home plate. Wood is slugging .564 after 31 games this year. That slugging percentage is 149 points higher than anyone else on the Blue Rocks roster. No Wilmington hitter has slugged .500 or better in more than 30 games since 26-year-old Matt Fields did so in 2012. When you consider his home park, the 20-year-old Wood is off to a truly outstanding start to the year.

Quote from LynchMob on January 3, 2024, 10:16 am

I'm still having post-partum depression ... FanGraphs Top 20 ... at least we have #7 ...

2023 Updated

Rk	Name	Pos	Tm	FV
1	Jackson Holliday	SS	BAL	60
2	James Wood	CF	WSN	60
3	Jackson Chourio	CF	MIL	60
4	Dylan Crews	CF	WSN	60
5	Jordan Lawlar	SS	ARI	60
6	Paul Skenes	SP	PIT	60
7	Jackson Merrill	SS	SDP	60
8	Adael Amador	2B	COL	60
9	Andrew Painter	SP	PHI	60
10	Brooks Lee	SS	MIN	55
11	Junior Caminero	3B	TBR	55
12	Colson Montgomery	3B	CHW	55
13	Diego Cartaya	C	LAD	55
14	Ethan Salas	C	SDP	55
15	Wyatt Langford	LF	TEX	55
16	Marcelo Mayer	SS	BOS	55
17	Kyle Harrison	SP	SFG	55
18	Ricky Tiedemann	SP	TOR	55
19	Mick Abel	SP	PHI	55
20	Curtis Mead	LF	TBR	55

Quote from MrPadre19 on January 3, 2024, 1:34 pm

And #14.

Only two teams have two guys in the top 15.

After trading away the Farm less than two years ago….I'll take it!

 

Quote from LynchMob on May 10, 2024, 11:37 am

From BA Prospect Report today ...

James Wood, OF, Nationals: It’s no secret that Wood has game-changing power. Through the first 27 games of the season, spanning March and April, he had just two home runs, which both came in the same game. He hit two more on Wednesday, then added another blast on Thursday, giving him three in two days and five for the season. The latest longball was a skyscraper that carried 348 feet and out to right field off of Scranton starter Tanner Tully and was part of a 2-for-4 day for the 21-year-old.

Quote from Jeremy Hill on May 10, 2024, 12:11 pm

Hassell looks like he's starting to put it together again too.

Quote from sportwarrior on May 10, 2024, 12:15 pm

This trade could end up being looked at as one of the worst. Somewhat bad luck for Preller, considering the volume of prospects he's sent to other teams. A ton haven't worked out, but the ones that have have been friggin studs. Fried, Turner, Naylor, and now Abrams and Gore, probably Wood and maybe Hassel. Plus Thorpe and Iriarte are killing it in AA, although Cease is making that one much easier to swallow.

Anyway, I've been a huge James Wood fan from the day we drafted him. I'll be excited to watch him regardless of the color of his uniform (unless, of course, it's Dodger blue).

Quote from MrPadre19 on May 11, 2024, 10:21 am

These trades look worse when the player(s) we acquire are already gone by the time the prospect makes a difference.

Fried didn't produce in MLB for 4 years after the trade….Naylor was good…but not this good the last 3-4 years.

Everyone was upset we lost France but suddenly he’s just average.

I will always side with “going for it” rather than waiting 4 years to see if a guy works out.

Some will….most won’t.

The successes also only look worse because we haven’t won a ring…that’s the ultimate hindsight.

 

Quote from BoosterSD on May 11, 2024, 11:31 am

Really it boils down to a trade of Voit, Gore, Susana, Hassell, Wood, and Abrams for Bell, Brito, Vasquez, King, Cease, and Higashoika.

Quote from fenn68 on May 11, 2024, 12:16 pm

Somewhat a different way to look at the deals focusing on the 2024 ML players with Padres:

Padres add: Arraez (2 years); Cease (2 years); King (2 years); Vasquez (6 years); Brito (6 years); and Higashioka (1 year).

Padres subtract ML players: Wilson, Grisham and Voit

That leveraged with trading Padre prospects: Gore; Abrams; Wood; Hassell; Susana; Iriate; Zavala; Head; Marsee; Martorella; and Go. Consider Bell and Thorpe as transactional pieces.

So if the Padres want to actually compete and win in 2024-25 after having locked in major contacts expecting peak production on the early years of these contracts … the net adds were critical … can’t wait for prospects to develop (if they do) and arrive with impact for years.

Realistically how many of the Padre prospects actually develop into impact ML players … something more than just an “average” regular? Gore and Abrams in the ML now … others TBD. In 2024 … advantage Padres.