Rule 5 Madness!
Well, the title of this entry is considerably more exciting than this year’s draft turned out to be. In the Major League portion of the draft, several teams used the draft to pilfer other free agents signed to minor-league contracts. The Royals lose both Etherton and Victor Santos almost as quickly as they signed them, which is unfortunate as both could have been useful to the team. Etherton and Booker both go into pretty nice situations - they’re extreme flyballers that now play in big outfields with good defensive players. Curveball God and BTF Fave Andrade gets a shot at a major league job, too.
Fabio Castro is the biggest name of the rest of the group - a young reliever with a decent fastball, curve, and sinker, and small enough that David Eckstein could probably beat him up. Jumping a lot of levels in the minors is hard, though. The Rockies pick up another Luis Gonzalez in the Rule 5, but this one isn’t ready and will get killed when he can find the plate.
The Marlins take Mike Megrew and Dan Uggla. Megrew isn’t an elite pitching prospect, but he had a lot of success in the Florida State League. He doesn’t have the big fastball you’d expect from a guy his size and missed most of the year with shoulder problems, so it’s clear why the Dodgers didn’t protect him. The Marlins simply have an unbelievable amount of arms now - they’re going to have an All-Star rotation in 3 years just by brute force. Uggla could fall into a job on the team solely due to the fact that the Marlins don’t have much infield depth. Uggla’s quite mediocre defensively at 2nd and 3rd - his upside is probably the New Mark Lewis.
Jamie Vermilyea has no chance to go north with the Sox in April, but with the Jays’ 40-man roster as tight unless they start clearing out some 1B/3B guys, the Sox will probably keep him and send him to Pawtucket.
2006 ZiPS Projections
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Player W L G GS IP H ER HR BB SO ERA
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Andrade 3 3 39 0 51 44 24 6 22 50 4.24
Booker 4 5 52 0 60 50 30 6 35 69 4.50
Castro 3 6 50 0 72 77 44 9 38 53 5.50
Etherton 8 8 25 25 138 134 65 17 41 113 4.24
Gonzalez 1 7 49 0 66 76 60 16 61 45 8.18
Mateo 7 5 38 12 109 109 51 13 30 84 4.21
Megrew 5 7 20 20 103 101 54 10 48 85 4.72
Santos 7 11 30 26 146 149 77 16 60 95 4.75
Vermilyea 4 4 38 8 96 110 53 12 26 53 4.97
Wylie 3 4 22 7 62 62 30 7 20 45 4.35
2006 ZiPS Projections
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Player AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO SB BA OBP SLG
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Pridie 385 70 85 17 4 12 46 19 92 11 .221 .265 .379
Uggla 463 62 107 24 2 11 55 37 112 12 .231 .302 .363
Dan Szymborski
Posted: December 08, 2005 at 05:57 PM |
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1. Andere Richtingenhttp://www.baseballamerica.com/today/news/051208rule5.html
Also,
Royals acquired infielder Esteban German from the Rangers for LHP Fabio Castro, the first pick in the Rule 5 draft.
We like it. Royals GM Allard Baird had made it clear there was no one he really wanted with his pick. German immediately becomes the Royals' top candidate to start at second base next season. The former A's prospect hit .313/.400/.423 with 43 SB for Triple-A Oklahoma last season. That speed could make him quite valuable in AL-only leagues. Dec. 8 - 12:27 pm et
AZ lost Uggla, and Jeff Cook, OF, to Pitt and Josh Perrault, rhp, to WAS in the AAA phase. I'd never heard of the pitcher. Cook never had a future in AZ, with the Dbacks having top OF prospects coming out of their years.
Ball wasn't taken, neither were Murphy and Chico. AZ dodged a few.
Gio Gonzalez
Ray Liotta
Casey Daigwood
Fabio Castro
And now they have one. Brilliant!
Seriously. ZIPS loves Mateo. Let's hope the Cardinals don't.
Casey Daigle is a righty and different guy altogether ;).
Casey Daigle is a righty and different guy altogether ;).
picky, picky. Look, I don't get paid for analysis, and...
but that is pretty funny, now that I read it again. It's like I just split their names at a random point and joined them right together. I remember that for a time I thought Haigwood's name was Daniel Haiglewood.
It reminds me of the time I was writing a paper at 3, 4 in the morning. I forget what it was on--either Wuthering Heights or MacBeth, since I was in two different English classes at the time. My sleep addled brain actually combined elements from the two works I was reading...and this was a paper I turned in. My professor's comments were hilarious. For the first two paragraphs everything went along fine, and then Heathcliff killed the king, and visited the witches and everything fell apart.
good thing that wasn't a major paper. It actually had a thesis and a conclusion, and supporting evidence from two randomly different works. I'd switch character names, place names, etc. I think I still have it, somewhere. The comic value was just too high to let it go...
Kind of like how the value of those 4 White Sox lefties was too high to split them up. Pitchers don't grow on trees, KW! Where do you think this is, Atlanta? I can't even write OR pitch left handed and I know that losing 3 of these 4 guys is bad policy. I hope Ray Liotta goes on to be Mark Buehrle, cause otherwise...
<a href="http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20051208&c>Phillies Press Release</a>
He held his own in AAA last season, but I doubt he'll see any time with the Sox.
In the AA phase the Sox took catcher Cole Armstrong from the Braves system. Armstrong, 22, had an excellent but brief 2004 Appy league season but was competely over matched in the Sally league last year.
The Sox also got Dewon Day from Toronto in the A Phase. Day's a 24-year old right-handed reliever who had decent numbers in Appy and NYPenn leagues in 2003-2004. He must have been hurt last year.
Poor Baird - losing Santos and Etherton costs him two potential starters.
Vermilyea high GB ratio is not a fluke - he's done that throughout his minor league career and at New Mexico.
What do people know about Wylie? He's just a name to me.
Which Chris Young got taken by the Pirates?
Was Diggins drafted as a pitcher or position player?
I'm surprised Huerta was available in the AA phase - the Pads paid a lot to acquire him a few years back.
I once called Jayce Tingler a better John Cangelosi. This draft is all about failed expectations...
So much for the theory that the former Angels in the Rays' organization wanted him. The Padres will have the soon-to-be 28-year-old compete for a spot in middle relief. Dec. 8 - 4:38 pm et
This one, who actually was taken by the Marlins from the Pirates.
-- MWE
Or, as with Lenny DiNardo a couple of years ago, they could have him fake an injury and stash him on the DL for most of the season.
You realize that this doesn't actually get the drafting team out of its obligation to keep the player on its roster for a certain number of days and then return him, right? At worst it's a deferral.
-- MWE
It actually a slider that he throws i think but whatever
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