MLB Draft Thread
The Rule 4 draft (AKA baseball’s amateur draft) will be held on Tuesday, June 6 and Wednesday, June 7.
MLB.com will be doing a live feed this year, beginning at noon on Tuesday. The entire first round will be announced live by MLB’s exec VP for baseball operations, Jimmie Lee Solomon, exclusively on MLB.com beginning just before 1. MLB.tv will be covering the first five rounds of the draft, and MLB Radio will have the entire draft. (IIRC, XM channel 175 had the whole thing last year, and will probably carry it again).
John Sickels and the regulars conducted their five-round mock draft over at Minor League Ball over the weekend.
First round.
Supplemental 1st round.
2nd round.
3rd round.
4th round.
5th round.
Some interesting choices in there.
BA’s Will Lingo speculated that KC may (again) be moving away from Andrew Miller for the #1 overall pick. The sticking point appears to be financial, of course:
Miller reportedly wants a major league contract, the price of which started at $6 million and may now be eight figures. At the same time, Kansas City doesn’t want to exceed the $4 million bonus it paid a year ago to No. 2 overall pick Alex Gordon, considered a superior talent to Miller.
I certainly wouldn’t want to pay more for Miller than Gordon.
Lingo also comments on a possible reason why some high-profile draft-and-follows (hello, Beato) didn’t sign:
MLB, which has established a system of recommended bonuses for every pick through the first 10 rounds, also provided bonus recommendations for significant draft-and-follows this year, sources said.
Those recommendations apparently played a big role in the Mets’ decision not to sign righthander Pedro Beato, and the Devil Rays’ decision not to sign righthander Bryan Morris. Both are potential first-round picks in this year’s draft.
BA has its complete list of confirmed draft-and-follow signings from the 2005 draft, along with fifth-year seniors who signed.
Mike Emeigh
Posted: June 05, 2006 at 09:33 AM |
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You got my hopes up.
See, at least the Cubs front office is creative.
Jeffrey Maier or Danny Almonte.
I guess Danny Almonte is an undrafted free-agent.
They already got his high school teammate, Cabreja, in the 8th or 9th round, I think.
As well as all the other fine amenities Hobbs, NM and the greater Eastern New Mexico area has to offer.
Yeah, they call it USC-Upland these days
There has to be a JuCo in Florida for Danny to go to.
Or maybe he'll go to some place where there's no real baseball talent, so he can strike out 13 per 9 innings, like he did in the LLWS
I thought Arkansas's Mineral Area Community College (where Arthur ends up at the end of Hoop Dreams) sounded mighty depressing. But this place sounds worse. I can't imagine a more alienating place for a Bronx Dominican kid than New Mexico.
I've often wondered about why JuCo powers are in such remote locations. Iowa JuCos for instance get a lot of Latin kids from South Florida and Oklahoma JuCos are a hot spot for Canadians.
And im not talking about JuCos in Des Moines or Tulsa...im talking about places like Conner St College of Warner, OK.
Kansas JuCos get alot of guys from CA and FL for football.
I understand Almonte trying to get to a warm weather area to face better competion and more exposure (he tried to transfer to a FL HS after all) but why New Mex,,,surely there was a JuCo in FL that would take him.
Utah?
There aren't any colleges with baseball teams in Alaska, so no opportunity for Danny to pitch for Alaska Bible College
Buddy Hollys drummer, and HS friend, said that they would go joy riding from Lubbock to Hobbs since they were bored and doing that would let them "go faster than time"
what he meant was...they could go 100 mph on the empty flat roads and Hobbs was 90 miles away and the time zone changes at the border so youd leave Lubbock at 6 local time and end up in Hobbs at 5:50 local time
I was amazed by the emptiness and flatness of New Mexico when I was there a couple years ago. It was like northern Indiana without crops. If Almonte has even half a chance at it, he should try to get to a Florida JUCO instead.
As i said though, these random JuCos sometimes have really good programs (Of course so do FL ones). Maybe theres a good pitching coach there he has some connection to or he thinks somehow this place will better his draft status.
I think it'd be interesting personally, as a product of suburbia, to live in HObbs, NM or Wilton, IA or Montana or some other tiny midwestern or western place just to see what its like. I think id rather enjoy it in lots of ways
You're telling me. The air is so thin, you get a little winded just walking around. I understand one acclimates quickly, though.
If a ball travels 9% farther at Coors than at sea level, I wonder what the distance is for Santa Fe?
Maybe a ball hit 400 ft on sea level would go 477ft somewhere else.
Normal Park: 325/375/400/375/325
Possible Santa Fe Park: 388/447/477/447/388
Jim Callis: Miller probably will get a Mike Pelfrey contract ($3.5 million bonus, $5.25 total value), and since that's over slot, MLB will make the Tigers wait for a while. He may not pitch this summer. Miller is a frontline starter, though may have to get in line behind Verlander in Detroit. Mid-2007 seems early to me because I don't think he'll pitch much this summer . . . I'd say 2008.
Is this true? MLB will delay an agreed upon signing to punish the Tigers for paying market instead of slot?
This is outrageous BS! If I'm the Tigers I sign him and sue their asses off if MLB screws with the contract.
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I believe the road used to be known as Township Line, but it is no longer and hasn't for quite some time. Chalfont's on the other side of Hilltown from us. Sister-in-law is in Chalfont, though.
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