MLB Draft (June 4-6)

[Edgy MD]

Who is Tucker Preston and why does his drafting at the top of Round Seven lead to an extended coffee break? Get to work, drafters.

(Oh, and fantasy angles in draft courage is very dis-spiriting.)

[Benjamin Grimm]

metirish wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Here's the draft-day thread from six years ago. Among others, this thread introduced us to Kevin Mulvey, Joe Smith, John Holdzkom, Stephen Holmes, Scott Schaefer, Daniel Stegall, Nathan Hedrick, Jeremy Barfield, Phillips Orta, Andrew Moye, Nick Giarraputo, Daniel Murphy, Duane Privett, Justin Dallas, Tobi Stoner, Stephen Puhl, Ritchie Price, Jason Jacobs, Joel Wells, Timothy Stronach, Nicholas Waechler, Valentin Ramos, and Steven Cheney. Murphy, a 13th round choice, was clearly the best of the bunch. wow, Pedro Beato was on the CPF radar going back to then and I assume before that. So, three of those guys made it to the bigs with the Mets, Smith, Murph and Stoner, anyone else do anything?

Well... Kevin Mulvey got us a portion of Johan Santana.

[Edgy MD]

Josh Stinson (Round 37) got a cuppa. John Holdzkom provided joy and hilarity.

Jeremy Barfield, I think, got arrested for trying to beat up his dad or something.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Round 7/230: Corey Oswalt, RHP, Madison High, San Diego.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Maybe some day we can have a rotation of Gee/Harvey/Oswalt.

[Vic Sage]

that's some funny shit right there, Grimmy.

[bmfc1]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Maybe some day we can have a rotation of Gee/Harvey/Oswalt.

Nicely done.

[Frayed Knot]

Some capsulized analysis from MLB.com (where available)

Round 3; Matt Koch, 6' 3" - 205 -- While Koch has shared closing duties with senior Derek Self at Louisville this season, he's still shown enough with a good two-pitch power repertoire to garner some attention. The lean, wiry and strong right-hander will throw his fastball up to 94 mph, sitting comfortably a tick below that. There's some good life to the heater as well, and he commands it well. He also throws strikes with a hard slider that has good bite and depth. Koch seems to have the right mentality for a life in short relief, showing a willingness to take the ball at the end of the game and go right after hitters. Two Major League average or better power pitches with good command should be enough to get Koch drafted early and should help him move up the ladder quickly.

Round 4; Branden Kraupe, 5' 7" - 175; [u:1gyoikt4]DOB: 4/10/94[/u:1gyoikt4]

Round 5; Brandon Welch, 6' 1" - 185 -- Welch is one of the more intriguing prospects in the Draft. His fastball sits in the mid 90s, and he also has a hard slider. He has excellent command of both pitches and rarely walks a batter. However, Welch is not the biggest guy in the world, leading some scouts to think he will be a reliever at the next level. Either way, Welch's aggressive nature and pure stuff are what will get him drafted.

Round 6; Jayce Boyd, 1B, 6' 3" - 200

Round 7; Corey Oswalt, RHP, 6' 4" - 200

Round 8; Tomas Nido, C, R/R; HS Florida, 6' - 200 -- "Serious raw power"

[Edgy MD]

Florida HS catcher Tomas Nido.

[metirish]

I may not remember the names but draft day threads are just great.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Maybe some day we can have a rotation of Gee/Harvey/Oswalt.

/Twists imaginary mustache in appreciation

Welch intrigues (as do all talented-but-less-than-ideally-sized guys who slip for that reason).

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Edgy DC wrote: Florida HS catcher Tomas Nido.

That's Real Ultimate Power!

[Edgy MD]

He apparently feels you need only one beefy arm. It's the Trogdor Rule.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy DC wrote: Florida HS catcher Tomas Nido.

Ah. Our Needs-A-Sandwich pick.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Round 9/290: Richie Rodriguez, another diminutive infielder. College Senior with sick numbers at Eastern Kentucky.

[Edgy MD]

Ah. Our Needs-A-Sandwich pick.

I found it at the ruins of his MySpace page, so I imagine it goes back a few years.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy DC wrote: Ah. Our Needs-A-Sandwich pick. I found it at the ruins of his MySpace page, so I imagine it goes back a few years.

Yeah, I was going to say, if that's six-foot tall that ain't 200 lbs.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Tiny-dude-stat-compilers: the new market inefficiency.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy DC wrote: I have other sources calling him a switchie. Maybe he quit in college. LJ's a twin, by the way. I think that gives Minnesota the right of first refusal.

And they exercised that right in the 9th round.

[Edgy MD]

Bam!

[Edgy MD]

Ceetar wrote: he's got his own website too http://www.brandenkaupe.com/ it has a phone number 808-463-4441

This one would be looking up at Chin-lung Hu.

[nymr83]

That phone number is going to have to change pretty quick now that he's been drafted and the entire met fanbase plus new york media can see it.

I dare one of you to call it and ask him to come join the cranepool!

[Frayed Knot]

Any of the Short-stops we drafted in the last day or so ready yet?

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: Round 4; Branden Kraupe, 5' 7" - 175;

His role, and uniform, model is most likely Freddy Patek.

Later

[ashie62]

Oh snap

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Twins get LJ Mazzilli. TWINS!

[Edgy MD]

Round 10 brings us Paul Sewald, a University of San Diego righthander with a great British Invasion head of hair.



Round 11 gives the Mets and baseball yet another double-last-namer in Logan Taylor, a righty out of Eastern Oklahoma State JC, who lives in a dank fallout shelter.



Round 12 gives us yet another righthanded pitcher in Robert Whalen. He didn't look down when signing to play at Florida Atlantic. And he's kind of homely in the way all the men in my family are homely. Baby Bro... is that you?!

[Edgy MD]

You were asking about Round 13? Well, the Mets shocked the world that round by selecting... a righthanded pitcher! This one is one Matthew Bowman of Princeton. He's unlikely to be particularly related to Shawn Bowman who was born 4,000 miles away, but who knows, right? Chris Young helped with the scouting.



One more time to the righty bag for Round 14, selecting selecting California high school Chris Flexen, who seems to have come from the Buddy Harrelson line of human/imp hybrids.



And the Tour de Righties continues in Round 15, with Delaware schoolboy Nicholas Grant. Which do you think is the before photo and which is the after?



Hard not to see some Dykstra in that puss.

[Frayed Knot]

Much of the speculation coming up on this draft was how and if teams would attempt to manipulate or do end-runs around the new cap rules.
Early analysis from those who tally these things is noticing a trend towards a larger than normal run on college seniors. Normally they're sort of the red-headed step-children of the draft because the real good ones never get to that point and even a late bloomer is older and therefore has less time to make it or flop. So seniors, because they have always had no real fall-back position except maybe independent leagues and therefore have less leverage and are more likely to be herded into below-slot deals, become more attractive this year because every below-slot dollar a team saves on one guy is an extra dollar that can be spent on someone else, most likely a HS-er with a scholarship offer, who may be a tough sign.

[seawolf17]

Jasvir Rakkar to the Cubs in the 26th, our first player of the day after we had FIVE Seawolves taken in the first 12 rounds.