MLB Draft thread

#2
#2
I hope its wrong and the Rays go with Beckham. Navey is only 24 and has always been solid behind the plate. He's hitting .352 this year as well, which would put him atop the AL if he had 20 more ABs.
 
#3
#3
i hope it's wrong as well. I would rather take Friedrich, who will be able to come up through the ranks much quicker than Hicks, who we would only take for pitching. I'm not sold on Cliff Pennington (A's AAA SS) either and we don't really have anyone after him to fill the spot, so I really wouldn't mind taking Casey Kelley, even if that meant he never becomes a Vol.
 
#4
#4
volfanbill said:
i hope it's wrong as well. I would rather take Friedrich, who will be able to come up through the ranks much quicker than Hicks, who we would only take for pitching. I'm not sold on Cliff Pennington (A's AAA SS) either and we don't really have anyone after him to fill the spot, so I really wouldn't mind taking Casey Kelley, even if that meant he never becomes a Vol.
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The problem with Kelly is that there are questions about his bat. I'm not a fan of drafting a guy in the Mid-First round or better when there are questions if he will ever hit that much at the next level.
 
#5
#5
i know this isn't the best comparison but i could see Kelly being like Matt Bush. I could see him struggling at the plate and then gets switched to a pitcher. The opposite of Rick Ankiel.
 
#9
#9
doesn't matter, just can't be drafted to the Rays. I want him in my Dynasty league and i got the 2nd pick in the draft, but the person with the first pick isn't active anymore and we give them the highest drafted available player, so if Beckham is drafted first he goes to that team.
 
#10
#10
If any Braves fans are wondering why the good guys don't get a first round pick, it's because the Braves' pick goes to the Mets as compensation for signing Glavine. I'd almost managed to forget about that.
 
#14
#14
Kelly to the Red Sox. Last pick of the first round. Good for him. He will be getting some good money and we will never see him in orange.
 
#16
#16
very happy with the pickup of Weeks. He put up good offensive numbers and is a stout infielder defensively.
 
#18
#18
vols kick balls said:
Safe and solid pick, doesn't have as much pop as his brother though. It was a bit of a reach but they got a good player.
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the important thing is they got a player that won't have to spend 5 years improving in the minors. The A's really don't care too much about pop. If they can get three or four guys capable of 25 hrs a year, it's a huge plus, but that's about the best to expect. That's just Billy Ball. Before I get racked for that, that could also mean Bill James.
 
#19
#19
volfanbill said:
the important thing is they got a player that won't have to spend 5 years improving in the minors. The A's really don't care too much about pop. If they can get three or four guys capable of 25 hrs a year, it's a huge plus, but that's about the best to expect. That's just Billy Ball. Before I get racked for that, that could also mean Bill James.
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Not sure what you mean by this; James has always liked the sluggers. I'm pretty sure that the first time I ever read anything about the concept of an "empty average" was in James's original Baseball Abstracts. SLG has always been at least as important in James's formulae as OBP.
 
#20
#20
i just meant that Weeks has the potential for a guy with good OBP, good hitting numbers, doesn't strike out a lot, etc. In other words, to see his worth, you have to look past traditional stats.

Way too many people get up in arms that Beane ball is nothing more than Bill James ball, so I threw that in there.
 
#21
#21
volfanbill said:
i just meant that Weeks has the potential for a guy with good OBP, good hitting numbers, doesn't strike out a lot, etc. In other words, to see his worth, you have to look past traditional stats.

Way too many people get up in arms that Beane ball is nothing more than Bill James ball, so I threw that in there.
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Hey, "Bill James ball" works. The Red Sox hired him in 2003, and look how that's worked out for them.

Probably the most important important thing that ever happened to me as a baseball fan was stumbling across a copy of James's 1984 Baseball Abstract in a bookstore at West Town Mall in Knoxville. I've pretty much viewed the whole sport through that lens ever since.
 
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