Today is Draft Day...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Round ten is...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Phillips Orta, righthanded pitcher with two last names out Western Nebraska Community College.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Player	#	IP	#BAT	RS	ER	Bk	BB	SOL	HITS	HR	IW	SACF	SACB	HP	WP	W	L	S
Phillip Orta	22	54.00	255	38	22	1	22	21	58	0	0	1	2	8	3	3	6	0
AVG	HR%	ERA	WIN%	GP	G	RATIO	CG	GS	B	St	Shut	TP	K/G	W/G	P/G	S/B	SOS	ND	SO
.261	0	2.85	.333	12	12	1.48	1	11	359	633	0	992	9.07	2.85	128.59	1.76	49	2	70

That's more data than you get on big league players from most sites.

[Guest sharpie]

3-6 with 8 HBP, 22 walks and 21 strikeouts in 54 innings. Sounds like a keeper!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Don't be a wise guy.

Those are just the SOLs, the strikeouts looking. He had 70 strikeouts.

They conveniently publish a key for all those abbreviations. I inconveniently overlooked it.

"[iP]-Innings Pitched
[#BAT]-Batters Faced
[RS]-Runs Allowed
[ER]-Earned Runs Allowed
[bk]-Balk
[bB]-Walk
[sOL]-StrikeOut Looking
[HITS]-Tot Hits

---

-Home Run
[iW]-Intent Walk
[sACF]-Sac Fly
[sACB]-Sac Bunt
[HP]-Hit by Pitch
[WP]-Wild Pitch
[W]-Won
[L]-Loss
-Save
[AVG]-Batting Avg
[hr%]-HR/Batters Faced
[ERA]-Earned Run Average
[WIN%]-Win%
[GP]-Games Pitched
[G]-Games
[RATIO]-(Hits + Walks)/IP
[CG]-Complete Games
[GS]-Games Started
-Ball
[st]-Strike
[shut]-Shut Outs
[TP]-Pitches
[K/G]-StrikeOuts/Game
[W/G]-Walks/Game
[P/G]-Pitches/Game
[s/B]-Strikes/Balls
[sOS]-StrikeOut Swinging
[ND]-No Decision
[sO]-Total Strike Outs

[Guest Edgy DC]

Round 11 nets us the rights to...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Andrew Moye, a 6'5" 190-pound (you guessed it) right-handed pitcher out of Alpharetta HS in Georgia. The Braves were convinced they had exclusive scouting rights to Georgia. They were mistook.

I've got nothing on him on first glance.

[Guest Edgy DC]

He may be of bad stock. I found this clipping from the Dublin (GA) Post

July 11, 1878 P. 3

SHOOTING AND STABBING, ONE
MAN KILLED, ANOTHER'S THROAT CUT,
AND TWO KNOCKED DOWN
A General Melee at M. J. Colley's Store 13 miles Above
Dublin

Last Saturday night about dark, while Mr. Colley and Mr.
Chester were engaged in Colley's store selling whisky, etc.,
a report reached their ears that Mr. Henderson Tucker had
been knocked down and killed. Mr. Colley remarked to Mr.
Chester that it would be well to go out side and see about
it. Mr. Colley was detained at or near the door by someone
speaking to him. Mr. Chester advanced in the direction of
Mr. Moye, who, it was thought, struck Tucker; he was about
ten steps in advance of Colley when he, Colley, saw Andrew
Moye presenting his pistol at Chester - a report, and
Chester put his hand to his bosom and turned in the
direction of the yard gate. When he reached the gate, he
caught the post with his hands and remarked: "I am a dead
man," whereupon he fell dead in the yard. Mr. Colley
advanced toward Mr. Moye, and upon asking him what was the
matter he, Moye, presented his pistol and fired at Colley -
was foiled in his attempt to kill Colley by Willie Hightower
knocking his pistol upward. At or about this time, Ike
Walter (white) stabbed Jack Webb (colored) inflicting a
frightful wound in the neck, near the carotid artery
wounding the jugular vein, and thereby almost producing
instant death, which was warded off by the timely
interference of Dr. H. Hicks who was called in time to
arrest the hemorrhage. Jack Tucker, another negro, was
knocked down, but retained enough of his senses to make his
escape. The county coroner's inquest over the dead body of
Mr. Chester, rendered the following verdict: "Mr. W. C.
Chester came to his death from a pistol shot, held in the
hands of Mr. Andrew Moye."

The foregoing facts were furnished us by one of the
coroner's jury. He did not give the cause of the row. But
we learn from another source that Mr. Walters and Jack
Tucker got into a quarrel about a dipper of water, and that
Henderson Tucker took stock on general principles. We heard
that Moye had no intention of killing Chester - that he and
Chester were good friends. Then again we hear this
contradicted, and that he had made threats that he intended
to kill Chester and then go to Texas. But we give these
only as rumors. Colley says that he knows no reason that
Moye could have for shooting him. The whole affair seems to
be veiled somewhat in mystery.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Round 12 coming around. All righthanded pitchers in the country are getting excited.

[Guest Edgy DC]

And our pick is Nick Giarraputo, thirdbaseman out of Simi Valley HS in Cali. he's listed at 6'4" and 194.

I'm not sure of my Italian, but I think Giarraputo translates roughly into "Already looks like a pear."

[Guest Edgy DC]

Learn about Nick.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I wrote to Nick and asked for an interview.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Poor Nick. Undercutting him already. Their next pick was another third-sacker, Daniel Murphy (6'1", 210) out of Jacksonville U.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Danny Boy.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm sitting here all alone and Selection from Round 14 is totally coming up...

[Guest Edgy DC]

The round-14 pick, number 424 overall, is...

Duane Privett, a lefthanded pitcher from the College of Southern Idaho. Didn't that school come up here recently?

Yeah! They're the CSI school. Anywood, he's 6'1" and 185, and he looks like this:

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Look at the Rockies in the background.

G'wine home now.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Round 15 pick is a 6'2" 205-lb. catcher out of Park Vista Community High School named Justin Dalles.

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[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Did Duane Privette ever get a batter out in that sequence? Hell, he hardly ever threw a strike, other than the pitches that got hit.

[metirish]

From Scouts Inc.

] Keith Law, senior baseball analyst for Scouts Inc., breaks down the first round of the 2006 MLB draft. Formerly, he was the special assistant to the general manager for the Toronto Blue Jays. Best picks Daniel Bard, No. 28, to the Boston Red Sox: I had the North Carolina right-hander at the top of my list from the Cape Cod League last summer. He featured two plus pitches, held his velocity and threw strikes. Bard's command came and went this spring, but it was due to his struggles to maintain his arm angle rather than something more concerning like a medical issue. Travis Snider, No. 14, to the Toronto Blue Jays: At the risk of sounding biased, I like this pick quite a bit, because it reflects flexibility in the club's thinking and a correct reading of the available talent. Other than Bard, there was no college player worth taking in this spot ahead of Snider (Everett, Wash.), one of the draft's top three high school bats and the Jays' first shot at having an impact bat in their system in five years. And while this wasn't in the first round, the Baltimore Orioles may have gotten a steal at No. 32 in Pedro Beato, a junior college kid with a first-round arm. Beato wasn't seen much this spring, as the Mets had the rights to him as a draft-and-follow. And since they didn't have a first-round pick this year, the Mets were expected to sign him.

People seem high on Beato.

http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/draft2006/insider/columns/story?columnist=law_keith&id=2472995

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, well, maybe this year's 14th rounder is next year's Beato.

[Frayed Knot]

Round 16: Tobi Stoner - RHP, Davis & Elkins (WVA) College

Round 17: Stephen Puhl - C, St. Edwards (Tx)
(Son of Terry?)

Round 18: Richie Price - SS, Kansas

[Gwreck]

Frayed Knot wrote: Round 17: Stephen Puhl - C, St. Edwards (Tx) (Son of Terry?)

Pretty sure

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

2. Kevin Mulvey


3. Bazooka Joe Smith


4. John Holdzkom


5. Stephen Holmes


6. Scott Schafer
--couldn't find a photo but did find an email address on a web page for Honda Gold Wing motorcycle enthusiasts: Scott1520 (--at--) aol

[soupcan]

="Johnny Dickshot"]5. Stephen Holmes

FWIW - a friend of mine was a councilman in Lincoln RI (Holmes hometown) has known the kid since he was in Little League, here's what he has to say...

"His mom is older sister to a good friend of mine. The good news is that he has gotten better every year since he was about 10. He was a second team All-State his senior year in high school which isn't saying much for RI except the first team pitcher, Jay Rainville, went in the first round to the Twins that year straight from High School. And the Yankees took a kid named Norton in the 7th round from UConn who was also second team All-State the year before Holmes. What happens in RI is we don't have the level of competition that Florida has when the kids are younger so they start to blossom in college. Dan Wheeler of the Astros is another kid who was ok in RI high school but got better as he got older."

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

He looks like Steven Tyler were he an athlete.

[seawolf17]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: He looks like Steven Tyler were he an athlete.

I was thinking Jerry Seinfeld.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Now, the Mets site is calling seventh-rounder Daniel Stengell Stengall Stegall "Dave." I'm pretty sure it's this kid, unless we drafted his brother.


Daniel Stegall , OF, Greenwood (Ariz) HS

Round 8:


Nathan Hedrick, RHP, Barton County Community College (Mo.)

Round 9:

Jeremy Barfield, OF, Klein (Texas) HS, Size 15 Shoes


Round 10: Phillips Orta, RHP


Round 11: Andruw Moye, RHP, Alpharetta (Ga.) HS (I think this is another typo, and it's actually "Andrew."

Andrew is camera -shy.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Jeremy bats right and throws left. Like Rickey.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Jeremy's favorite book:

[Elster88]

Note to Jesse's son: Jessica Alba is not a good actress. She is hot, I guess, if you like that thin, long-legged, full-breasted, smooth-skinned type.