Draft 2015

[Frayed Knot]

Drafting with the compensation pick won from the Mets, the Roxx take Mike Nikorak of Stroudsburg HS in Pennsylvania. So maybe that pick comes back to haunt us, six years and Tommy John surgery down the road.

The more accurate follow is probably the guy the Braves drafted at the slot where the Mets would have been as opposed the the guy the Rox chose 13 picks later:
14) Atlanta Braves: Kolby Allard, LHP, San Clemente HS, California:
UCLA commit, candidate to go in top five until a stress reaction injury in his back sidelined him. When healthy, delivers easy 90+ heat with impressive curveball and low-effort delivery. Potentially a huge steal here for the Braves, could be top of rotation guy if it all comes together.

Of course if the Mets had that pick they might have drafted somebody totally different so who knows.
I remember someone back at the MoFo complaining about how the Mets could have had Jordan Zimmermann had they not given up their draft pick to sign Moises Alou. Problem was Zimmermann wasn't drafted until like 60 slots later so all the guy was doing was bitching about things a half-decade or more after the fact.

It's amazing sometimes how much folks "know" (and claim to have known at the time) years after a draft is over. I recently saw a piece 're-drafting' the 2010 draft. Unlike most drafts looked at with five years worth of hindsight, the #1 overall then (Bryce Harper) would still be the #1 overall. But now in the Top-10 were (in some order, I forget exactly) Matt Harvey (originally #7 overall), Jacob deGrom (9th round - 272nd overall), Noah Syndergaard (38th overall). Great now for us, not so good if you were the teams drafting the likes of James Taillon (2nd), Barret Loux (6th overall), Karsten Whitson (9th), Deck McGuire (11th) or any one of the more than half of that first round (16 of 30) who have yet to play a day in the majors.

[Benjamin Grimm]

MFS62 wrote: At least it appears that he hits right handed.

That's good! Because right-handed hitters are so rare!

[MFS62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: MFS62 wrote: At least it appears that he hits right handed. That's good! Because right-handed hitters are so rare!

The top position players the Mets have drafted recently have hit left handed. Nimmo, Conforto and Smith are lefty batters.

Later

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[Lefty Specialist]

It's all a crap shoot. You hope for the best, but with high school guys it'll probably be 2019 before we know if this panned out or not.

[Fman99]

Frayed Knot wrote: Better him (Nevin) than Mariano Rivera Jr.

You have to take me, I'm a legacy!

[A Boy Named Seo]

Mets draft a 6'3" herky-jerky high school lefty named Max Wotell.

MLB vid ----->>>> http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/67565098/v141615683

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Batters check in, but they don't check out.

Another kid threatening to go to college. Let's keep our guys dumb and out of frats.

[Edgy MD]

The Mets' insatiable appetites for Wotell have led them to go for Max Wotell.

What I don't know about kinesiology could fill a... well, a kinesiology library, frankly... but that video sure shows what looks to my untrained eyes to be a pretty violent motion.

[A Boy Named Seo]

It does look violent. He pitches like he's pissed at his own elbow.

[Edgy MD]

Jacob Nix, taken #86 by the Padres.

A year after million-dollar payday vanished, Jacob Nix set for MLB draft Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY Sports 7:36 p.m. EDT June 1, 2015 SAN DIEGO - A year ago, Jacob Nix was strolling around downtown Houston, proudly wearing his new Astros cap, trying to figure out what he was going to buy with his $1.5 million signing bonus. The signing bonus, verbally agreed upon by his representatives and the Astros, suddenly disappeared. The college scholarship to UCLA, offered by the school and readily accepted, was yanked by NCAA officials. Nix was a pitcher without a home. Nix, an innocent bystander in a dispute during last year's Major League Baseball Draft, is now set to try it again, anxiously sitting at home in Los Alamitos, Calif., with no place to go. "Last year pretty much sucked,'' Nix told USA TODAY Sports. "I was literally in the wrong place and the wrong time. It was a bad situation. The whole year was pretty difficult for myself and for my family. "I weeded a lot of people out of my life, friends who I didn't trust. So would just go to the gym every day and work all of the anger out. I stayed positive. Even now, I've got to think everything happened for a reason.''

Turns out that the Astros discovered an abnormality in the UCL, and because of stupid slot rules, reaching a compromise on the offer was impossible, but like Tom Seaver, he found he's suddenly couldn't take his talent to college either.

[Frayed Knot]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: It does look violent. He pitches like he's pissed at his own elbow.

Has a bit of an Alex Wood (Braves) thing going on there.
I like that his full name is actually Maximilian

[Edgy MD]

There are supplemental picks after round three now? WTFMLB?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Dammit! Twins got Trey Cabbage just a few picks ahead of us.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Jacob Nix, taken #86 by the Padres. Turns out that the Astros discovered an abnormality in the UCL, and because of stupid slot rules, reaching a compromise on the offer was impossible, but like Tom Seaver, he found he's suddenly couldn't take his talent to college either.

Actually it wasn't Nix's UCL that had the problem, it was 2014 #1 overall Brady Aiken that had the UCL problem.

Prior to that turning up in the physical, Aiken was set to sign with Houston for 'below slot' money. That, in turn, would give the 'Stros leftover money to sign others above slot. Nix was one of those someones, but when Aiken didn't sign they didn't have the leftover money (if you don't sign a player at all you lose that allowance) so Nix's offer got pulled on account of Aiken's elbow and both wound up getting tossed back into this year's draft pool. Aiken, who was picked 17th overall by Cleveland yesterday, started off his off year pitching for the IMG Academy but almost immediately tore the UCL and had TJ surgery.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: There are supplemental picks after round three now? WTFMLB?

Compensation for unsigned players from last year's draft most likely. I think 3rd round is as high as it goes for those.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

4th round: David Thompson, 3B, U of Miami

BR/TR, lots of power

Yikes! .333/.445/.658 19 HR, 87 RBI in 64 games

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[A Boy Named Seo]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: 4th round: David Thompson, 3B, U of Miami BR/TR, lots of power

Apparently a 3B who can't throw.

Vid --> http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/67565098/v132087183/draft-report-david-thompson-college-first-baseman

[Edgy MD]

Thompson: got a baseball body. Long torso, with relatively short limbs. Those guys stick. I'm putting $20 on this guy.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Round 5: Thomas Szapucky, LHP from a Florida high school

[Edgy MD]

Mets southeast regional staff better get a sweet bonus: Florida, North Carolina, Florida, Florida.

[seawolf17]

Edgy MD wrote: Mets southeast regional staff better get a sweet bonus: Florida, North Carolina, Florida, Florida.

IF ONLY THERE WAS A COLLEGE SOMEWHERE UP HERE IN THE NORTHEAST, DICKHEADS.

(Actually, I don't anticipate any of our guys going until tomorrow. But still.)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Round 6 another Florida guy, Hillsborough JC RHP Chase Ingram

[Edgy MD]

Because every team needs a Chase, to go along with the Tylers and the Codys.

Lousy cheapass Mets (LCAMs) just trying to save on travel expenses to get everybody to St. Lucie.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Mets call the Corey Hotline and this fat righthander from Texas Tech answers.



Corey Taylor. MLB guy thinks he could be a reliever.

[A Boy Named Seo]

He is hefty, 6'1", 250. Strikes out like 1 dude every 2 innings, but his ERA was 0.31. DUDES CANNOT HIT THIS GUY (I guess).

He's a 4-year guy, and 22, so maybe they want him in the bullpen next week.

[Frayed Knot]

Are we sure it's not Taylor Corey?

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: I think Mariano, Jr. is listed as a fourth-round talent, tops, so if they go for him at #54, they must have seen somebody other folks haven't.

4th round it is at #134 to ... the Nationals.
Was selected by the Yanx in the 29th round last year.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Back to Florida for Junior catcher Pat Mazeika from deGrom's alma mater Stetson U.

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Round 5: Thomas Szapucky, LHP from a Florida high school

Hopefully Szapucky will pitch to Plawecki at some point - just for the SCRABBLE points alone it would be worth it, or to hear Keith stumble over the pronunciations.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I think Mariano, Jr. is listed as a fourth-round talent, tops, so if they go for him at #54, they must have seen somebody other folks haven't. 4th round it is at #134 to ... the Nationals. Was selected by the Yanx in the 29th round last year.

I don't get this. The same thing happened with the Mets and Glen Johnson. You go to the trouble of selecting the son of an alum-in-good-standing, and you think you'd have a good-faith good idea beforehand how much money it's going to take to keep him out of college.