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Good stuff from The Hardball Times w/stats from the draft: http://www.hardballtimes.com/main/blog_article/2010-mlb-draft-by-the-numbers/ 2010 MLB Draft by the numbers Posted by Jeff Sackmann For most fans, it's easy to lose interest in the draft after the few couple of rounds. For the geekier of us, there are 1500 new players to analyze! A good starting point is to look at the overall trends of the draft. Not every team takes the same approach. Even the same front office might go in a radically different direction than they did the previous year. To start with, here's a look at how each team balanced their draft between pitchers and hitters, and which talent pools they drew from: TEAM Bat Pitch 4YR JC HS ARI 24 25 32 6 11 ATL 31 20 23 15 13 BAL 27 21 25 9 14 BOS 26 26 16 3 33 CHC 19 31 21 14 15 CHW 24 27 28 8 15 CIN 23 27 30 6 14 CLE 22 28 23 11 16 COL 24 27 25 7 19 DET 26 25 31 6 14 TEAM Bat Pitch 4YR JC HS FLA 22 28 29 11 10 HOU 26 26 24 3 25 KC 23 27 35 6 9 LAA 30 24 31 7 16 LAD 27 23 21 11 18 MIL 22 28 31 5 14 MIN 20 30 28 9 13 NYM 20 29 34 4 11 NYY 22 28 24 7 19 OAK 26 24 31 4 15 TEAM Bat Pitch 4YR JC HS PHI 21 29 27 8 15 PIT 18 32 17 7 26 SDP 26 24 27 8 15 SEA 20 28 29 3 16 SF 25 25 33 8 9 STL 26 26 35 6 11 TB 25 28 23 10 20 TEX 22 31 25 3 25 TOR 24 32 14 7 35 WAS 27 23 24 14 12 TEAM Bat Pitch 4YR JC HS Total 718 802 796 226 498 Average 23.9 26.7 26.5 7.5 16.6 The average team picked a few more pitchers than hitters, and got a little more than half of their new players from four-year colleges. The most noteworthy standouts are the Blue Jays and Pirates, two teams that went very pitching-heavy, and the Braves and Dodgers, who picked the most hitters. In the type-of-school breakdown, what strikes me is the huge number of high schoolers selected by the Red Sox (33) and Blue Jays (35). No one else picked more than 26! On the flip side, the Royals went very college-heavy, choosing only nine prep players. Batters and pitchers by type of school Here's a more detailed breakdown using the same parameters as the previous table: TEAM 4Y-Bat 4Y-Pit JC-Bat JC-Pit HS-Bat HS-Pit ARI 18 14 2 4 4 7 ATL 11 12 9 6 11 2 BAL 15 10 6 3 6 8 BOS 7 9 1 2 18 15 CHC 10 11 3 11 6 9 CHW 10 18 4 4 10 5 CIN 15 15 1 5 7 7 CLE 9 14 5 6 8 8 COL 12 13 3 4 9 10 DET 16 15 1 5 9 5 TEAM 4Y-Bat 4Y-Pit JC-Bat JC-Pit HS-Bat HS-Pit FLA 10 19 7 4 5 5 HOU 11 13 1 2 14 11 KC 16 19 2 4 5 4 LAA 15 16 4 3 11 5 LAD 12 9 7 4 8 10 MIL 15 16 1 4 6 8 MIN 7 21 3 6 10 3 NYM 13 21 1 3 6 5 NYY 9 15 1 6 12 7 OAK 12 19 3 1 11 4 TEAM 4Y-Bat 4Y-Pit JC-Bat JC-Pit HS-Bat HS-Pit PHI 11 16 2 6 8 7 PIT 11 6 1 6 6 20 SDP 16 11 3 5 7 8 SEA 12 17 1 2 7 9 SF 19 14 3 5 3 6 STL 17 18 4 2 5 6 TB 11 12 3 7 11 9 TEX 13 12 0 3 9 16 TOR 5 9 3 4 16 19 WAS 14 10 8 6 5 7 TEAM 4Y-Bat 4Y-Pit JC-Bat JC-Pit HS-Bat HS-Pit Total 372 424 93 133 253 245 Average 12.4 14.1 3.1 4.4 8.4 8.2 The Pirates didn't select nearly as many high schoolers as did the Jays or Red Sox, but man oh man, did they take some young pitching. Their draft suggests they are willing to take chances on raw arms�in addition to all the prep pitchers, in later rounds they chose Kelson Brown, a shortstop from Division 3 Linfield with limited pitching experience, and Stephen Lumpkins, a 6'8" lefty from American University, where he played basketball. (They don't have a baseball team there.) It's not India, but it's about as close as you can get in the Rule 4. Position by position Here's one more look at the draft as a whole. This time we break it down by position, as well as type of school. (I won't clog up THT Live with 30 posts doing this for every team, but you can find those starting today at the College Splits blog, where we're recapping the draft in a truly inappropriate amount of detail.) Pos 4YR JC HS Total RHP 296 98 187 581 LHP 128 35 58 221 C 81 9 45 135 1B 42 11 18 71 2B 38 6 11 55 3B 35 6 20 61 SS 54 10 62 126 IF 2 1 1 4 LF 29 9 4 42 CF 47 19 58 124 RF 23 10 22 55 OF 17 11 12 40 UTL 3 1 0 4 DH 1 0 0 1 Total 796 226 498 You're wondering about that lone designated hitter, right? It's Russell Moldenhauer, drafted 716th overall by the Nationals, a big lefty bat from the University of Texas and owner of a .503 adjusted wOBA this year. I wish him the best, but suspect that he probably isn't Washington's designated hitter of the future.

JCL: when you're at Roy's, you're near Fells Point. It's a very nice area with interesting stores and scenery. And it was the home of the classic TV show "Homicide." http://welcometobaltimorehon.com/things/television-and-film/homicide-life-on-the-streets

Fman99 wrote: bmfc1 wrote: If the Nationals pitch him every 5th GAME, yes, the Mets will miss him July 1, 2, 3, and 4. But if the Nationals pitch him every 5th day, as Boswell says they will, then he'll pitch on July 3. You said the exact same thing twice here. Oops. E, me. I've corrected it, above.

Johan's rusty after 8 days.

If the Nationals pitch him every 5th day, yes, the Mets will miss him July 1, 2, 3, and 4. But if the Nationals pitch him every 5th day, as Boswell says they will, then he'll pitch on July 3.

Strasburg's next start, Sunday @ Cleveland, is now going to be on TBS. Perhaps Ron Darling will call that game and report back on SNY. Ron will not be there: http://news.turner.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=5199

METS: Reyes-SS Pagan-CF Bay-LF Davis-1B Wright-3B Francoeur-RF Cora-2B Blanco-C Santana-P Padres: Eckstein 4 Headley 5 Gonzalez 3 S. Hairston 7 Hundley 2 J. Hairston 6 Denorfia 9 Gwynn 8 Latos 1

Going Saturday, June 12. Section 52, row 9.

Loved the low-keyed jump; loved the record setting helmet toss; loved Francoeur racing Cora out to home; loved Reyes establishing his place at home no matter who got there first; loved the beautiful camera work by SNY. And loved the walk-off game winner!!!

Same fan was probably doing the wave in the 8th. Idiot.

FOX added the 6/19 Nationals game v. White Sox. If the Nationals stay in rotation despite days off, the Mets will miss Strasburg July 1-4.

Is it asking too much for Bay to get a hit tonight with a runner in scoring position?

Frayed Knot wrote: I understand that the Wash DC sports media is so caught up in the Strasburg hype that they - just for today - have cut back their Redskins coverage to 60% of their programming day. You have to live here to know how accurate that comment is. For us, it means seeing the Mets in HD as the Nationals-Pirates game on MLB Network is blacked out so they have the SNY feed here.

I agree w/you LWFS; I like Sale's swing, too.

After that text poll I mentioned earlier and H. Ramirez's moronic comment about Mets fans, I classily say--suck it, Marlins.

The last time Warthan came out to talk to Frankie with 2 outs and the tying run at 2d, he gave up a hit. Leave him alone.

Good question MGIM. Ron said it was a good AB by Ike. You can say that since he didn't pop-up or strikeout and got the run in, yes it was a good AB.

There's no quit for this team.* *Road games not included

Francoeur looked like a WR there.

Extra Innings has the Marlins feed and their text poll is: "What is your favorite Marlins moment vs. the Mets? Eliminating the Mets in 07; Eliminating the Mets in 08; JJ over Santana; 4 game sweep in '10." B, C, and D are within a point or two of each other with A way behind. Grrrr.

METS: Reyes-SS Pagan-CF Bay-LF Davis-1B Wright-3B Barajas-C Francoeur-RF Cora-2B Takahashi-LHP Marlins: Ramirez Coghan Uggla Cantu Paulino Ross Sanchez Maybin Nolasco

SurfingTheMets Team source says Blanco had a cortisone shot (not clear where) will be out a few days.

This means that they can use Tatis more since he's down to 4th on the catchers depth chart. tobyhyde Mets finally DFA GMJ. That's good. Calling up Omir Santos, hitting a combined .143/.194/.222 in 63 AB btw AA & AAA is perplexing. tobyhyde OF Jesus Feliciano is hitting .388/.435/.488 in AAA Buffalo w/ 13 BB and 16 K in 50 G. He can play CF and LF. Santos can't.