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IdahoPilgrim First Round Pick

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Ryan Eades. BAs #37 prospect

 

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6'03" 200lbs DOB: 12/15/91 | Eades is everything you want from a pitcher: size, stuff and feel for pitching. A Cape Cod League All-Star back in 2011, Eades pitched in LSU's rotation last year and helped anchor it as the Saturday starter in 2013. He'll hit 94 mph with his fastball, and he has a good curve and changeup to go along with it to give him a good three-pitch mix that he knows how to use effectively. There is some question about his arm action, but the real concern might be about his medical record. Eades had labrum surgery as a senior in high school and any team interested in him in June will have to be convinced of his durability. The Cape Cod Pitcher of the Year in 2011 didn't go back there in 2012, resting up to try and improve on his sophomore season that saw him go 5-3 with a 3.83 ERA in 17 starts for LSU.

 

I'm sure glad the Twins have started incorporating medical analysis into their pre-draft work.

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Like, "Cheers!" drinking, or "pass the whiskey" drinking?

 

"Pass the Whiskey". While BA has him at #37 and Law has him at #30 he is a very low upside pick which I hate. From Law:

 

"Eades looked like a mid-first-rounder for the first seven weeks of the season, but started to fade a little in April, raising questions about his durability. He'll pitch at 91-94 without great life but gets some deception from his delivery that lets him put the fastball past college hitters up in the zone. He has a 79-81 mph changeup with very good arm speed and feel, using the pitch to left-and-right-handed hitters and showing it in unusual counts. His curveball is slurvy at 77-79, lacking the depth of a true curve or the plate-crossing tilt of a true slider, and lacks consistency on the pitch.His delivery starts with a high leg kick and big hip turn, but he's robotic about it with staccato movements as he comes back around toward the plate. He stabs his pitching arm downward behind his body, hip rotation is very sudden and he closes his front side late -- but he manages to get great extension out over his front leg, putting his release point a little closer to the plate. He suffered a labrum injury in high school but has been healthy since then.

Eades could get a little stronger, more for durability than added velocity, and needs to switch to either a true curve or a true slider for the next level, with the ceiling of a league-average starter."

Ceiling of a league-average starter doesn't exactly excite me at #43. Safe pick. Pitch to contact guy.

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How many signable guys have a ceiling of potential ace or top of the rotation starter at this point? If he ends up being a league average starter you would have to assume the pick was a success in the long run.

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How many signable guys have a ceiling of potential ace or top of the rotation starter at this point? If he ends up being a league average starter you would have to assume the pick was a success in the long run.

 

I'm an upside guy. Give me Denney, Boldt, Green, Reed, or several of the other upside guys.

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How are you guys so down on Eades? Hes got plenty of upside, and just because one guy says hes got the upside of a league average starter doesnt mean thats his cieling. This guy had a little slump otherwise he would of been a mid rounder. What if the Twins saw why he went on a slump and thought they got a steal?

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How are you guys so down on Eades? Hes got plenty of upside, and just because one guy says hes got the upside of a league average starter doesnt mean thats his cieling. This guy had a little slump otherwise he would of been a mid rounder. What if the Twins saw why he went on a slump and thought they got a steal?

In Keith Law We Trust.

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OMG is anyone else getting sick of Reynolds saying how great it is that black players are being selected? I mean come on hes being pretty racist, nobody is saying how good it is to draft white players. Nobody says that when white players are taken in the NBA either. Idk I just feel offended because he keeps saying it.

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cmb0252

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How are you guys so down on Eades? Hes got plenty of upside, and just because one guy says hes got the upside of a league average starter doesnt mean thats his cieling. This guy had a little slump otherwise he would of been a mid rounder. What if the Twins saw why he went on a slump and thought they got a steal?

 

Did Denney, Shipely, Clarksin, Boldt, Andy McGuire and several other guys who were once top 15 guys who fell just had slumps? Eades is a pitch to contact guy that everyone was excited to get away from last year.

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Let's make it clear. Eades isn't a bad pick value wise. I like him better than several of the guys that went before him. There were a lot of guys I liked that went after him though. I just prefer high upside risk guys.

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cmb, looks like some of your preferences will still be there at 78...

 

Boldt and Denney are both there. Hopefully they are still signable. Either would be a big win. I projected Andrew Mitchell at #80 before the draft and he is still around.

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