I.D.T. -- In-Draft Thread 2010

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

4th round: Matthew Den Decker, come on down!

[seawolf17]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: 4th round: Matthew Den Decker, come on down!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I can has hilite reel

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

BA twats:

Mets 5th rounder is one of better Srs. available, Fla. OF Matt den Dekker, plus defend, good tools, though he'd go higher

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: 3rd round, pick 122: Cory Vaughn, outfielder from San Diego State

From late last summer:

Cape Cod Scouting Dude wrote: Cory Vaughn is what we call a "gunshot guy." A gunshot guy is a hitter whose wood bat makes a sound like a gunshot when he makes solid contact, as opposed to the wet newspaper sound. Show up for BP or early work and you�ll hear it. I had the park to myself. The scouts were sleeping it off. Vaughn, the son of the Greg Vaughn, has a leaner and more athletic body than his father had when he first came to the major leagues. Cory Vaughn hits from a wide stance and has a short trigger. He has fast hands and keeps the firm front side even when he is fooled. He�s going to have the power to play a corner and I think he�s going to be athletic enough to steal some bases if he wants to. He�s a first-round talent in 2010. His numbers weren�t much to look at on the Cape, but I�m not scouting results. You can�t hide the power and you can�t hide this guy�s body and athleticism. If I were looking for a comparison at this stage, Matt Kemp might work.

Yow, that's optimistic.

[Valadius]

Let's hope Cory hasn't found his father's stash of testicle-reducing drugs.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yow, that's pessimistic.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Austin Wilson's still lurking out there, isn't he?

Worth going (significantly?) over slot for that?

[Benjamin Grimm]

If in fact the Mets sign him, then we'll know for sure, without a doubt, that he's never had PED's. Because that's how it works!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Round 6: Greg Peavey, Oregon State


I'm like Greg Vaughn and Jake Peavy combined yo

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Interesting Round 10 pick: Akeel Morris a high schooler from the US Virgin Islands reportedly brings it in the mid-90s

Pro teams targeting V.I. talents BY AARON GRAY Daily News Staff ST. THOMAS � Akeel Morris pitched a perfect game past season for the Charlotte Amalie High School baseball team, which is just one accomplishment on a baseball resume the 17-year-old is hoping will attract interest from a professional baseball team. Morris is one of a handful of baseball players from the U.S. Virgin Islands who should be selected during next week�s Major League Baseball Draft, V.I. Future Stars Baseball founder Darren Canton said. �The Virgin Islands isn�t exactly known for baseball, but right now, we�re developing a little name for ourselves,� said Canton, who started the baseball recruiting organization five years ago. �Nationally, we�re making strides. We are putting out talent that can compete and it�s just going to get better and better.� The MLB Draft starts Monday and goes through Wednesday, but Canton and the players involved should find out which team will draft them beforehand. As the players participated in daily workouts at the University of Virgin Islands this week to prepare for upcoming summer leagues, the excitement was starting to build. �I think I have a good chance to go in the middle rounds,� said Morris, a 6-foot-2, 175-pound right-handed pitcher. �It�s been a long process as far as being scouted. I�ve been to so many tournaments and I�ve followed up on all the scouts and coaches I�ve met. It�s been quite a ride.�

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"When you think of perfection... think of Akeel."



The intervening picks-- Peavey, Walters, McDowall-- have all been increasingly less interesting versions of the same Kunz-ian prototype (meaty righties, with some velocity, iffy-to-bad command, and okay-to-bad college results/K-to-BB ratio).

The ninth-round guy DeGrom (Jacob DeGrom, RHP/SS, Stetson) looks interesting-- superlative control, with just 16 BB all last year.

[Guest Edgy DC]

They are the sons of Joe Christopher.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Adam Kolarek in Round 11 (6.06 ERA, 13 G, 5 starts, 35 IP, 34 K, 21 BB). Ugh.

Bret Mitchell (94 IP, 37 BB+HBP, 108 K last year) in Round 12. Hmm.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Chin up, man. Bobby Parnell had "ugh" numbers coming out of school, too.

[Benjamin Grimm]

So many new names! This is kinda like the first day in a new school.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: So many new names! This is kinda like the first day in a new school.

Nice to meet you too. I'm 14th round selection J.B. Brown from Pacific U.

Yeah, I never heard of that school myself.

[Vic Sage]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Chin up, man. Bobby Parnell had "ugh" numbers coming out of school, too.

and he's maintained them ever since --

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: So many new names! This is kinda like the first day in a new school. Nice to meet you too. I'm 14th round selection J.B. Brown from Pacific U. Yeah, I never heard of that school myself.

Alma mater of L.A. Clipper center/first-overall-pick/bust Michael Olawakandi (this I knew), actor/self-parodizer Robert Culp, actress/possible hermaphrodite Jamie Lee Curtis, onscreen showerer Janet Leigh, warbler/feeler-upper-of-Helena-Christensen Chris Isaak, jazzbo/taker of sixes Dave Brubeck...

... and Scott Boras.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Check out our new left fielder, Tillman Pugh (round 15)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Rusty Tillman meets Rich Puig.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Den Dekker... Pugh... is the team actively trying to draft the next GMJ catch?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Did the Mets just draft someone from the astronaut school?

[Guest Edgy DC]

I like that the Red Sox went with a first rounder named Vitek, cornering the market on... players whose name kind of sound like that.

[Guest Edgy DC]

For comparative purposes, the Sox took 2B Vitek (20th overall) and RHP Anthony Ranaudo (39th overall) with the compensation picks for Wagner.

They also took OF Bryce Brentz (36th overall) and RHP Brandon Workman (57th overall) with the comp picks for Bay.

The Jays took RHP Asher Wojciechowski from the Citadel with the compensation pick for Rod Barajas.

[Guest Edgy DC]

seawolf17 wrote: 4th round: Matthew Den Decker, come on down!

What do you say to that, 15th rounder Tillman Pugh?

[Frayed Knot]

Round - Pick - Name - Pos - School - State
1 -- 7 -- Matt Harvey -- RHP -- North Carolina, N.C.
3 -- 89 -- Blake Forsythe -- C -- Tennessee, Tenn.
4 -- 122 -- Cory Vaughn -- OF -- San Diego State, Ca
5 -- 152 -- Matt den Dekker -- OF -- Florida, Fla
6 -- 182 -- Greg Peavey -- RHP -- Oregon State, Or
7 -- 212 -- Jeff Walters -- RHP -- Georgia, Ga
8 -- 242 -- Kenny McDowall -- RHP -- JC of Southern Nevada, Nv
9 -- 272 -- Jacob Degrom -- RHP -- Stetson -- Fla
10 -- 302 -- Akeel Morris -- RHP -- Charlotte Amaile HS, St. Thomas, V.I.
11 -- 332 -- Adam Kolarek -- LHP -- Maryland, MD
12 -- 362 -- Bret Mitchell -- RHP -- Minnesota State-Mankato, Minn
13 -- 392 -- Brian Harrison -- 3B -- Furman, SC
14 -- 422 -- J.B. Brown -- 2B -- Pacific, Ca
15 -- 452 -- Tillman Pugh -- OF -- Sonoma State, Ca
16 -- 482 -- Ryan Fraser -- RHP -- Memphis, Tenn
16 -- 505 -- Evan Rutckyj -- LHP -- St. Joseph's HS, St. Thomas, Ont
17 -- 512 -- Chad Sheppard -- RHP -- Northwestern State, La
18 -- 542 -- Alex Pinera -- RHP -- Tampa, Fla
19 -- 572 -- Jonathan Kountis -- RHP -- Embry-Riddle, Fla
20 -- 602 -- Luke Stewart -- 1B -- Alabama-Birmingham, Ala
21 -- 632 -- Dabias Johnson -- 2B -- Cook HS, Adel, Ga
22 -- 662 -- Brandon Brown -- SS -- South Alabama, Ala
23 -- 692 -- Drew Martinez -- OF -- Memphis, Tenn
24 -- 722 -- Erik Goeddel -- RHP -- UCLA, Ca
25 -- 752 -- Matthew Birdwell -- RHP -- Vanguard, Ca
26 -- 782 -- Jet Butler -- SS -- Mississippi State, Miss
27 -- 812 -- Michael Weldon -- RHP -- Wayland Baptist
28 -- 842 -- Jeremy Gould -- LHP -- Duke, NC
29 -- 872 -- Hamilton Bennett -- LHP -- Tennessee Wesleyan CC, Tenn
30 -- 902 -- Josh Edgin -- LHP -- Francis Marion, SC


And just 20 more rounds to go.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It must be a tough economy to find a job as a jet butler.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy DC wrote: It must be a tough economy to find a job as a jet butler.

If he'd gotten a proper aeronautical learnin' like Kountis, he could have snagged a nice, recession-proof living as a Jet Accountant or Jet Nurse.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Evan Rutckyj

This must have been fun to hear Mookie pronounce.