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YourDaddy
Can you say TJ?
BlueSkyLA
Sure. TJ. What do I win?
YourDaddy
You win a hurt pitcher for $1.78 million and another who said I would rather go back to college than take $2 million from your team. You also win a totally wasted draft.
You may notice that I said that about an hour and a half before it was announced that he definitely would need TJ surgery.
BoldyMinnesota
Not really a wasted draft, its not like Bueler was going to contribute this year anyways. And they still get a comp pick next year for funkhouser so its not like they lost that pick
Math&Baseball
Funkhouser was a supplement pick. I don’t think you get reimbursed a supplement pick for failing to sign the player. Pretty sure you only get to for 1st rounders not supplement 1st rounders. Could be wrong though. Maybe MLB trade rumors could do an article about what happens when you fail to sign these types for clarification.
EDIT- checked the other article. They get the #36 pick. But question becomes how does the 1.7mill taken away from them affect other commitments?
dodgerection
Congrats on “winning” Matt Kemp! Hopefully, as one of the Dodgers farm teams, the Padres draft was very successful.
knockdown 2
Kind of hard to say “wasted” draft when none of these guys got a season of pro ball under their belts.
mattg-5
That awesome Dodgers draft is definitely not looking so awesome anymore.
A'sfaninUK
Walker Buehler’s Year Off
willi
And the Dodgers are going to pay Greinke 27 million a year for thenext Five years coime Oct .
Draven Moss
So much for the “clean delivery”. If he had one, he probably wouldn’t have needed TJS….
BlueSkyLA
Thanks for the insight, Doc.
alex navarrette
I’m not going to act like a doctor, but I do know that all arms are created differently. Some guys I play ball with can throw for days while others experience arm troubles even though they have “clean mechanics.” Mechanics aren’t always the problem.
BlueSkyLA
I’m not a doctor either and I don’t play one on the internet, but I do know that everyone’s body is different. That’s why only a small number of people can throw a 95 MPH fastball. When they start throwing hard at earlier ages and do it all year round, the number of them needing surgeries at younger ages is skyrocketing. So it isn’t about mechanics, it’s about intensity and duration.