In-Draft Thread - 2011

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Roberto Hernandez, Robbie Alomar also celebrity x-Met cue card readers here.

Frank Viola gonna represent Flushing.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: My new hope-he-drops crushes: Norris, Jackie Bradley, Jr. (well-rounded College WS hero/SC OF).

Trying on red socks as we speak.

Quick get a new crush.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Dickerson, maybe?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Or something called Michael Fulmer, a "projectable" right-handed HS pitcher.

Hey! Daryl Boston!

Edited June 6, 2011 by Guest

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Brian Cashman's fetish for abused lefties results in this guy:

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Dante Bichette Junior? Holy shit, do I feel old.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

BT giving the thumbs-up to the O's getting Dylan Bundy.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Or something called Michael Fulmer, a "projectable" right-handed HS pitcher. Hey! Daryl Boston!

Nimmo and Fulmer are both commits to Arkansas. College baseball recruiting must be a frustrating venture.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Dante Bichette Junior? Holy shit, do I feel old.

Last year a CPFer told me they thought you looked like Dante Bichette.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

With Nieuwenhuis and Nimmo in the system, we're just a Hook or America shy of projecting an All-Captain outfield.

[MFS62]

OlerudOwned wrote: Nimmo and Fulmer are both commits to Arkansas. College baseball recruiting must be a frustrating venture.

Its going to be a fight between the Mets and the Arkansas alumni to see who can come up with more money to sign the Mets' picks.

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hey, be fair, Key Flaw. Picking Milledge was "drafting for ceiling."

Oh, the nights I've laid awake in bed praying, "Please, Lord, let them pick someone with barrell awareness."

So sick of these barrell-ignorant stooges they run out night after night.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Barrel awareness is critical if you're going to get anywhere in Donkey Kong.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I get the impression Law's a bit of a douche. Least surprising thing in the world that he gives DePodesta's Met draft a standing O while reveling in smug ignorant dismissiveness when the Mets under Omar selected Cory Vaughn. I'm not strongly on one side or the other, there's always an argument to be made for the choices you make in the draft.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Or if you're playing pickup basketball at a cooper's.

Meanwhile, Tracksuit hits a Twitter lasershot:

David Wright called Nimmo tonight. Told him he sounds like a great kid. Very good player. Not a superstar. 28 minutes ago via web

[ashie62]

Shoulda taken Gray or Mahtook..ugh..

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Ashie62 wrote: Shoulda taken Gray or Mahtook..ugh..

while I tend to agree with you, the baseball draft is such a crapshoot that's it hard to get worked up about it.

Edited June 7, 2011 by Guest

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I get the impression Law's a bit of a douche. Least surprising thing in the world that he gives DePodesta's Met draft a standing O while reveling in smug ignorant dismissiveness when the Mets under Omar selected Cory Vaughn. I'm not strongly on one side or the other, there's always an argument to be made for the choices you make in the draft.

Why does Law like it but Bowden doesn't , apart form the idea that Law probably knows Depodesta or at least has a thing for him.

[bmfc1]

I was hoping that the Mets would take college players as they are theoretically closer to the majors than HS players but Sandy and DiPodesta know more than I do, and they haven't screwed up a Mets draft yet, so I gotta trust them.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The thing is, whatever steps forward the Mets have had this year have mostly come from Omar's leftovers.

Looking at Sandy/Riccardi/J.P.s work so far, you've got:

Bingos: Beato.

Mixed Results: Paulino, Capuano, Byrdak, and O'Connor (speaking charitably on those last two).

Phonies: Emaus, Young, Harris, Hairston, Hu, Boyer, and Carrasco.

None of which is to say that, given the limited maneuverability they've had, they've crashed and burned, only to suggest that these things are more nuanced, and a draft class has to be sliced 10 different ways over 10 years to analyze.

I'm totally against the idea of shitcanning all of Omar's legacy, but would rather try and see where it went well and went poorly and factor that into the future.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: I'm totally against the idea of shitcanning all of Omar's legacy, but would rather try and see where it went well and went poorly and factor that into the future.

That's the game though, obviously the old guy was totally incompetant and the new guy is the savior.

It's unfair the compare the end of a tenure to the beginning of a new one too. Where Omar was operating at the end of a plan and trying to fix/mend/expand on things he'd done earlier, Sandy hasn't made any huge blunders yet and is still setting things in motion.

Also, we can't forget how much we love Ike/Gee/Niese or even Tejada/Meija/Thole/Pelfrey and trash Omar either.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

I don't recall reading anywhere that there was some deficiency in Omar's scouting/drafting. It was his inability to gauge the proper future value of FAs that fucked this organization.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't think it's the game at all, and Sandy in fact sought to keep Omar in the organization. I think it's the pressure with storyline-desperate critics of the organzation, but it's never so black and white as the back page would have you believe, even when it's a black guy replaced by a white guy. (Two and two, actually.)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Pirates open day 2 by taking Josh Bell, uber OF prospect but considered a very very tuff sign.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Mets go with Cory Mozzoni, RHP from NC State.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Pirates open day 2 by taking Josh Bell, uber OF prospect but considered a very very tuff sign.

Well, yeah, he did write a letter to Major League Baseball asking them to ask all teams NOT to draft him, since he wants badly to go to school and play for Texas.

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Mets go with Cory Mozzoni, RHP from NC State.

Sickels: "Slightly above average stuff ... outstanding command ... I like him a lot"

[Benjamin Grimm]

Sometimes Josh Bell's name makes me think of Josh Gibson and Cool Papa Bell.

And sometimes it makes me think of Drake and Josh.

[Frayed Knot]

That Williams Jerez kid from NYC goes at #81 to ... the Red Sox.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Oh, that's funny.