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We are at the point where the kid may have literally been named after him.

Pretty complimentary piece after this on the 7th rounder phil fox and him saying he should be pushed to double a soon as he may be a major league bullpen piece already (but also that his pitches will either work now or won't work )

Lincoln-Way east has another prep prospect in Jack Bauer. Jaden Fauske of Nazareth academy is a catcher in the top 100. Man Corona High School has 3 of the top 5 and 5 in the BA100 for prep players that’s gotta be crazy.

I’m gonna embrace Greg’s post here he was always a bad poster

They aren't doing that actually, they aren't even on contract in their prime. They are absolutely thinking about how productive they will be by year 2. If you are unable to contribute until year 3 or 4 you are going to be dropped much lower. In baseball that's literally every player, and they have them on contract for at least 6 years. It's not the same draft.

I get this but the reality is when you are projecting three years out your error bars are going to be large enough that you have player tiers and not distinct rankings that X player is 5% better but we need a catcher. Secondary considerations like position would be a tie breaker if you are organizationally unbalanced.

I like this better, and this system isn’t “how we’ve always done it”, it’s only about 12 years old. MLB draft will never be straight forward because they are picking players based on what they could be in 3 years physically, let alone talent wise. “BPA” is a much more fluid concept. Andrew Vaughn was certainly “BPA” over CJ Abrams in 2019, he was older and already accomplished destroying college baseball. But Abram’s had a much higher ceiling and lo and behold he is an all star and Vaughn sucks.

Has any team done the new draft and follow?

I think it was particularly this angle but damn if he doesn't look exactly like JJ watt here?

RIP to the pfts and other content grifters that were praying for him to hold out to complain. As it stands JJ is the last QB not to sign.

No way there'd be enough turnover for that kind of boost.

cleveland literally take command guys with physical projection and find velo. it's their whole model.

this draft was bad, quite possible they had fewer players they were interested in, every team did, and it made sense to pay for a player they liked because presumably other teams also had fewer players they were honing in on. On top of that, a lot of the top high schoolers clearly were expensive and many other teams passed up on them. I don't know i'm not that offended by this draft. I wasn't excited for it, and don't expect to look back at this with fomo.

The 6-foot-6, 240-pound George has one of the most electric arms in college baseball but worked just two innings as a Texas freshman in 2023 and 11 1/3 as an Alabama sophomore this spring because he doesn't throw strikes. His fastball averages 99 mph and touches 102 but usually misses the zone badly, and most of the strikes he gets on his sharp upper-80s slider come on chases. There's nothing glaringly wrong with his delivery, but he's more physical than athletic. He has closer upside if he even can discover some feel for pitching. Pierce George: #213 on the BA500 Good pick.

Archer was named the MAC Player of the Year after slashing .300/.362/.599 with 18 homers and nine steals in 53 games this spring. He has decent power and is a plus runner, but evaluators say he needs to tone down his approach to generate more contact as a professional. re mlb pipeline

Angels got the big get, but even the high schoolers that went were nto the famous ones in round 11. On to the 12th

he probably does suck, but, as with gunnar kiel, why not?

He did pretty good in the mlb draft league, with 2 hit allowed, 11 ks in just 5.2 innings https://www.mlbdraftleague.com/player/824245

Blake Shepardson is the older brother of Grant Shepardson, who was a prep pitcher picked in the 5th round by the rockies. Grant's writeup had this on Blake: Shepardson trains with his older brother, Blake, who is a reliever at the University of San Francisco and flirts with triple digits, and if the Draft doesn’t work out, he’ll head to join the Dons pitching staff as well.

Angels pull first high schooler, Trey Gregory-Alford who was a virginia commit, ranked 98 on ba 500.

blake shepardson, not in ba500.

ugh damnit that's the second time i've called him zack franklin. Too much overlap between the name, the state, and the similar name to multiple sox players.

I have a hard time believing we can move any of those SEC commits. He's the kind of hitter we've talked about not succeeding with but Zach Franklin out of Mo State is a draft eligible sophomore who hits a lot of dingers and bats left handed. OTOH, he has a 25% k rate.

I just cant stress how much I think this is just you being familiar with the white sox so being impressed that they draft someone that made majors, but when looking at team draft performance over a 13 year period I'm pretty sure this may only beat the Angels, Rockies for number of long term starters. It also relies on being like really impressed we got a backup catcher or 2b but what stands out is the complete lack of impact hitters with the exception of Laumann.

from soxmachine. Doesn't sound like sox thought it was a two player draft.