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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Thursday, June 07, 2007
UPDATE: Baseball America - Draft 2007: First-Round Review
“I’m just glad it promotes the sport,” Gammons said after a Wednesday night rehearsal in The Milk House with fellow Draft commentators Karl Ravech and Steve Phillips. “There were years when the clubs would announce their first-round picks, then not tell you for a week and a half who was taken in the other rounds.
“It just shows that baseball really got what they never got before, which is to promote young talent. David Stern did that with the NBA. Bud Selig is doing that now, with guys like (Jose) Reyes and (David) Wright. They said, ‘Wait a minute, we should be selling our young players, too.’ Throw a guy like (Grady) Sizemore in there, too. Today’s group of players under 27 is the best of any in that age group in the last 35 years. Without a doubt. Now young talent is really being showcased.”
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Posted: June 07, 2007 at 06:23 AM | 537 comment(s)
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-- MWE
Iowa HS shortstop, definitely a pro 3b though. Athletic enough to get college FB looks, good power potential, supposed to be a good, smart kid. Iowa picks have a small history of being underdrafted and then taking off (Jeff Clement, Ryan Sweeney, Jeremy Hellickson).
Iowa picks have a hard time gettting exposure, they have no pre-draft spring season so they must rely on good workout and Gilmore missed a showcase with a minor injury
Part of the story. Some people think he is not as good as he is hyped to be, and given that, his asking price would be way too much
So the Braves have taken 2 hitters with their top 2 picks. interesting. But they did stock up on lots of arms in last year's draft I guess
Reds pull a surprise, taking Kyle Lotzkar at 53. Lotzkar is a British Columbian RHP who is more polished than his Canadian counterpart Aumont, but doesn't have the same upside. He's got a long way to go.
-- MWE
Sorry, Mike. They were showing the last 3 outs of the game on the TV draft coverage.
-- MWE
If Tom Kotchman is responsible for this, I feel good about it.
-- MWE
All i can find now is audio of the mlb.com draft show
-- MWE
Did you set it to start at 2 PM ET? If you did, you have it.
-- MWE
After checking on the first round, noticing where Weiters went, and cursing for a few moments.... while I was sort of surprised to see LaPorta's name, I'd rather they took the best bat available than another HS pitcher, given their poor first round track record with those. The available college pitchers didn't do it for me, either.
Damn Orioles. I curse them to another decade of mediocrity! That'll show 'em! :P
Early MIL J-S story on LaPorta:
Kind of sucks how ESPN totally ignored the fact that there are 50 round left. For football, they'll go to great lengths to analyze the every team's seventh-round pick. Oh well.
-- MWE
Because there weren't any that they liked well enough to take there.
-- MWE
Okay, good. I just set it for whatever was blocked out on the schedule at the beginning of the week.
Of course, my DVR sucks, so I won't have the whole thing.
Mike, do you know anything about Bachanov beyond the MLB.com scouting report? BA said Angel scouts saw quite a bit of him. Sounds like a project, but promising.
BA mentioned him being a likely closer. Supposed to have some attitude/makeup questions (I think hes a 3 schools in 4 years kid) in addition to control questions. Big fastball
His "Countdown til I get paid" counter on his Myspace supposedly gave some scouts plenty of chuckles all spring
here come the southern high school arms!
What are the draft mavens' opinions of Hasseloff and Arthur Dent? Is Hasslehoff the next Hansen? Can Dent use his improbability drive to become a good SS?
And Dent, we hear, can throw a bomb!
And it's kind of sad. It seems like the only four people in that huge stadium are the commentators (Stern, Mayo, Rawnsley) and the guy calling the picks.
On the plus side, Stern, Mayo, and and Rawnsley, are providing good info... much better than Ravech, Phillips, and Gammons.
An Almonte!
Though given its Seattle, they might well be drafting Danny Almonte
He had group sex with a 14-year-old in high school.
How is he a good player? I'm not being snarky, I really, really want to see some justification for this pick this high.
Big kid, good body, I like the looks of his delivery. That said, I think he was more of a third-round guy.
Honestly, I'm just glad we picked someone with at least a small chance to be useful. He isn't a very good pick there by non-Pirate standards.
The worst thing is that last draft was actually almost average. Lincoln was a good pick, Felix was a stathead favorite, and I liked Shelby Ford, Jim Negrych, and Brandon Holden.
He's pretty skinny, so he might add some velo as he bulks up, Chris Young-style. The shoulder supposedly isn't that bad.
If you compare him to Jared Hughes from last year, I like Welker better. I also like him better than Shelby Ford (of course, I'm bearish on Ford in general).
I wouldn't have minded drafting him in the fourth round as much. But in general we both know the Pirates have no business going for #4 and #5 starters -- they've already drafted plenty of those. They need to be swinging for the fences with every pick, and at least Ford and Negrych were attempts in that direction (though neither is doing well as a pro).
I guess that's the difference between us. I don't see Ford as having a particularly high upside.
Power bat, good arm, otherwise raw on defense. He's Kevin Romine's boy.
Not sure how I feel about that.
You're making this judgement from watching the what, one minute long scouting video? I saw the video too -- I don't think he broke 88 MPH with his fastball -- but it's hard for me to believe the scouts were all wrong and that he's a high-80s pitcher as opposed to the low-to-mid-90s that most of the scouting reports have him pegged at.
Thanks Vlad. I like the pick after hearing some more about him (including PG's report on him).
Sounds like a good choice considering Cervelli is really the only somewhat interesting catcher in our minors.
Any reason MIddlebrooks is still available? I didn't think he was supposed to be a real tough sign.
Um, velo is supposed to be one of Griffiths strong points. In ranking him 45 overall BA said:
touching 96 and humming along at 90-92 with sink most nights."
They did say inconsistency and fatigue were minuses though
Hell if I know, but it's a surprise to me, too.
No projection. I know exactly how I feel about that.
Though he did go to a high school right next to mine... that's pretty cool.
SCAD had a guy drafted?
They play sports!?!?
Fn great.
The Pirates took a Mike Stanton fourth overall, a Ramon Ortiz, a Ryan Freel, and a Doug Glanville...
He's crafting the celebratory rap as we speak.
Freel doesn't feel like the right comp to me, though I can't find a better one off the top of my head. Honestly, he sounds kind of like a poor man's Bixler.
Taber Lee is more like it. Remember him?
In any case, I was just looking for a major league comp who wasn't very good.
Of course. I don't think that one's quite right, though, either. This kid seems faster, for one.
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