Cole Ragans

Other names on this list, they're all big players.

You got Cole Ragans, Logan Webb, George Kirby, Jake deGrom, Logan Gilbert, Brian Wu.

Basically, all of the city of Seattle [laughs] is on this list.

Um, these are players that you were building around and you were expecting a lot from, and you did not get it.

I'm not ready right now to like tot- like, for me, that would be knocking him down.

I have a tier, I have a group right now that's 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 that's like Ohtani, Snell, Ragans, Rodon, Eovaldi.

Like, it would be knocking Cease down into the 30s of that group that like very consistently-

Wait, wait.

Hold on a second.

Ragans is in that group in the 30s?

Yeah.

He got, uh, UCL injur- uh, surgery in like August.

The fifth round was terrible by [laughs] ADP.

Roman Anthony, Edwin Diaz, Cole Ragans, Freddie Freeman, Jacob deGrom, Cody Bellinger, Austin Riley, William Contreras, Freddy Peralta, Josh Naylor, Geraldo Perdomo, Jarren Duran.

This was a bad round of picks.

If I had to choose the best pick, I, I mean, by the player rater, William Contreras finished 25th overall.

I mean, it, it is to a certain extent a round of guys who are getting the benefit of the doubt for one reason or another.

Um, you know, Roman Anthony, benefit of the doubt that he'll just get a lot better.

Cole Ragans-

Yes

So again, I looked through all my teams earlier today, and I noticed that I had one or both of Kyle Tucker, Gunnar Henderson, and Garrett Crochet on three different teams.

I also had a lot of Michael Garcia, I had a lot of Cole Ragans, I had those guys on at least three different teams.

And some of those, there was a lot of overlap with those players as well.

And I, I...

Garcia, I liked his underlying skill set.

He was not very proven at all.

Uh, Cole Ragans is someone that I was openly worried about, but I was just, like, so enamored by the skills.

I had him as, like, an SP2 in multiple leagues.

We didn't really know Shane Baz was gonna be available, then the O's went and got him, right? But we've heard the Diamondbacks wanna shed payroll, maybe the young Brandon Pfaadt, maybe Eduardo Rodriguez coming off a career, you know, rebuilding year.

Are the Astros gonna go into a rebuild? Can Hunter Brown be available? Do the Twins finally wanna trade Joe Ryan with one year left, right? Are the Royals gonna shift gears? Could Michael Wacha or Cole Ragans be traded? Do the Angels under new ownership, do they wanna move Reid Detmers or even a Yusei Kikuchi, right? Are the Reds gonna tear it down? That's one to really watch.

The lefties, Andrew Abbott or Nick Lodolo, could they be available? There's some interesting names out there.

When you go to the bullpen, there's, there's always room to add relievers.

Like the, those aren't names when you look at your roster and you're like, "Oh, you got confidence in this bullpen and this pitching staff to go out, eat up innings, and eat up quality innings." Like you just knew you were just throwing guys out there because you just needed somebody to, to take up those innings, and that's unfortunately what they had to do this year.

Like Ragans was hurt all year long, basically.

Bubic was hurt.

I mean, you look up and down the rotation, outside of Wacha, and I think even Lugo maybe had a IL stint, but like outside of Wacha, everybody was on the IR at some point in this rotation.

So yeah, Royals' bullpen was in horrendous shape.

Their pitching all season, after they lost Cole Ragans and some other guys, was just in horrendous shape all year.

But that, that was one of the drunkest games I've ever watched in, in baseball, especially considering [laughs] what was on the line.

Yeah.

The pitching over here in Kansas City.

Uh, Cole Ragans, man, what a mess.

What a mess of a year.

Uh, you know, I really thought we were leaving the injury concerns and stuff behind, but, uh, you know, it, it didn't work out like that, uh, this year, you know, for Cole Ragans.

Uh, I believe it was Tommy John.

I'm, I'm, I'm correct- I'm gonna check myself here, but I, I, I think he misses most of the, the 2027 season as well, right? Um, bear with me.

He's already had two Tommy Johns.

He had worked his way back to the point where he had pitched four and a third, um, in, um, the minor le- He was already building his way back from an injury when they shut him down and they announced that, "Hey, he's probably getting surgery." So outlook is, uh, minimal for 2027.