Harold's Leg Lift

He was a very nice man. RIP Farmio.

The Cubs literally hired a clown show.

Meyer scares me. Undersized right hander with a violent delivery. The Sox have been down that road before. Fool me once.....

Yep and the HS guys hoping to get drafted who are comitted to mid-majors will end up at JC's and hope to get picked next year. I'm surprised the NCAA granted a year to everyone but it doesn't help their pro prospects any. They will just be a year older and teams that use models do not like older players.

I see James posted his mock so I'll post mine. I had to drop Ed. He's going to be hurt the most if they don't play this spring. 1. Detroit Austin Martin OF Vandy 2. Baltimore Spencer Torkelson 1B Arizona St 3. Miami Asa Lacy LHP Texas A&M 4. Kansas City Emerson Hancock RHP Georgia 5. Toronto Zac Veen OF Spruce Creek HS 6. Seattle Reid Detmers LHP Louisville 7. Pittsburgh Nick Gonzales 2B New Mexico St 8. San Diego Max Meyer RHP Minnesota 9. Colorado Garrett Crochet LHP Tennessee 10. LA Angels Patrick Bailey C NC State 11. Chicago WS Cade Cavalli RHP Oklahoma 12. Cincinnati Heston Kjerstad OF Arkansas 13. San Francisco Mick Abel RHP Jesuit HS 14. Texas Pete Crow Armstrong OF Harvard Westlake HS 15. Philadelphia Cole Wilcox RHP Georgia 16. Chicago Cubs Jared Kelley RHP Refugio HS 17. Boston Austin Hendrick OF West Allegheny HS 18. Arizona Ed Howard SS Mt Carmel 19. NY Mets Robert Hassell OF Independance HS 20. Milwaukee Carmen Mlodzinski RHP South Carolina 21. St Louis Tyler Soderstrom C Turlock HS 22. Washington Garrett Mitchell OF UCLA 23. Cleveland Nick Bitsko RHP Central Bucks HS 24. Tampa Bay Justin Lange RHP Llano HS 25. Atlanta Tommy Mace RHP Florida 26. Oakland Bryce Jarvis RHP Duke 27. Minnesota Dylan Crews OF Lake St Mary's HS 28. NY Yankees Clayton Beeter RHP Texas Tech 29. LA Dodgers Bobby Miller RHP Louisville

Yep especially if the NCAA isn't going to grant them another year of eligibility which knowing those assholes is the likely scenario. Manfred is a shortsighted whorebag. Rather than growing the game he's fucking over the players of the future so the billionaire owners can save a few bucks. They should all be ashamed of themselves.

If it's 10 rounds then they should definitely use last years strategy. College guy in the first and over slot HS guys in the 2nd and 3rd. The key will be rather than signing college Sr's in rounds 5-10 finding college juniors or JC's guys who want to play and are willing to sign for nothing. That's an example of an area scout really knowing his players.

Last year their 5th rounder signed for $10k. I think they would use the same strategy. Slot for the 1st, over slot 2nd and 3rd, under slot 4th and 5th. They obviously won't be able to over slot as much as last year on the 2nd and 3rd picks because they won't have the under slot money from rounds 6-10 but getting three good players out of this mess is about all you can hope for.

No doubt a player would be wise to look at an organization where he would have the best path to the big leagues but ultimately it will be on the area scout to convince him it's with his organization. I wonder how much these money grubbing fucks are even going to allocate for these players. They may just sign a few for $5k and call it a day.

There will be a small popularity aspect to it but much more important will be the relationship or lack thereof the area scout established with the player. It will be much more difficult for the teams who fired their scouts to sign these guys.

Same strategy as last year. Over slot rounds 2-5 and sr signs the rest of the way. I guess there could be some manipulating here and there but with teams not getting good looks at players not sure there is much of a difference between the two. Another thing I don't understand is why bother moving it back and screwing up the '21 draft. They can do a 5-10 round draft right now.

I'm not sure what the difference is between 5 and 10 rounds. If the bonus pools are the same rounds 7-10 will just be money savers anyway. If the NCAA votes not to grant another year those college seniors will get $1k. The players union sold amateurs out hard.

My guess is they go with the '19 bonus pools. Billionaire's gotta save that $$$$$$.

It sounds like the stupidity (ie greediness) of canceling the draft is over. It also sounds like they will move it back a couple weeks to the end of June. I think that's a mistake but oh well. There's no perfect solution to this mess but I woud rather it screw up one draft instead of two.

These guys are starting to walk back their Madrigal thoughts.

The 4th pick in the draft is for ceiling. Guys with tools, bodies and athleticism. Teams can find intangible try hard players anywhere. There's no reason to use such a high pick on a player with such a limited upside. I also liked Larnach more than Madrigal at the draft.

I can not feel it, young Jedi.

I didn't hear hate in anything he said.

Good stuff.

I googled her and I still don't know who she is.

Ok. Kelley is on there but Abel is not? I think Abel is the most polished of the bunch. Maybe he dropped him because he's ouchy.

Kelley and Lange? Interesting

He's a tough one to figure out. His numbers are greatly inflated from playing in a bad conference and the crazy home field elevation. He performed on the Cape and he does have bat speed so maybe he just needs to see consistent velocity to make the neccessary adjustments. How much a team is willing to gamble on that is the question. I heard there will likely be some area showcase/tournaments for draft eligible players before the draft and if that happens he will see much better pitching than he would have in the WAC. We'll have to see if that helps or hurts him. Things are just really fucked up right now.

It's ridiculous. The damn thing is in June. The players worked way too damn hard to make this call so early.

The SEC has suspended baseball until at least March 30 which means the NCAA will do the same. This sucks.