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  1. nicksaviking
    Hooray! We will not be starting Day 2 with riots!
  2. nicksaviking
    Yeah, but the Twins pick first. So there's no teams for them to slide past unless the Twins are the team these guys are trying to scare away.
  3. nicksaviking
    Well the Twins have had 12 hours to find out. Probably easier to get a read when the clock isn't ticking. I think I prefer Weatherly but the Twins might have saved enough cash to get both.
  4. nicksaviking
    I didn't want Leach at 37, but didn't want Carlson or Canning either. I really don't like saving money for 4th round talent that falls to the 10th or whatever the plan is. I don't get excited about 4th round talent. There are still a lot of prep pitchers I like though. And by "like" I mean they have nice bios and profile pics; I got little to go on personally
  5. nicksaviking
    Try September. We're talking about Rooker here! He's DH'ing this club to the ALCS!
  6. nicksaviking
    Yee Haw! Rooker! I mean, yeah pitching, but..... wooo hooo Rooker!
  7. nicksaviking
    I want Lange.
  8. nicksaviking
    Damn itt Pittsburgh. There's not a ton of guys I cared to try the underslot/overslot but with.
  9. nicksaviking
    I wanted Greene, but since I absolutely didn't want McKay I guess this is a push for me. Not many teams have whiffed taking a shortstop at or near the top of the draft lately. I'm already aboard the Lewis bandwagon I guess. Now let's toss the rest of the cash at Baz.
  10. nicksaviking
    Or their unwillingness.
  11. nicksaviking
    No one is saying that, but both of those pitchers were drafted ahead of the batter anyway. All I'm suggesting is that someone who argues that you should draft pitching has a merited argument. You're not winning a WS without it.
  12. nicksaviking
    Just to play Devil's Advocate (because I agree with taking the best player available if it is discernible): Mike Trout has played in one playoff series in his career, largely due to the fact that the Angels have had awful pitching for about a decade. So even the best player in baseball can't save a team without good arms.
  13. nicksaviking
    One more. 1st college bat taken since 2008: Pedro Alvarez Dustin Ackley Christian Colon Anthony Rendon Mike Zunino Kris Bryant Kyle Schwarber Dansby Swanson Nick Senzel
  14. nicksaviking
    1st RH HS pitcher taken since 2008: Aaron Crow Matt Hobgood Jameson Taillon Dylan Bundy Nick Travieso Kohl Stewart Tyler Kolek Ashe Russell Ian Anderson
  15. nicksaviking
    1st LH HS arms since 2008: Mike Montgomery Tyler Matzek Jesse Biddle Kevin Matthews Max Fried Trey Ball Brady Aiken Kolby Allard Braxton Garrett
  16. nicksaviking
    I'm just posting these for fun, FYI. Not to sway any arguments.
  17. nicksaviking
    First RH college arms taken since 2008: Andrew Cashner Stephen Strasburg Barret Loux Gerrit Cole Kevin Gausman Mark Appel. Aaron Nola Dillon Tate Cal Quantrill
  18. nicksaviking
    First prep bats taken since 2008: Tim Beckham Donovan Tate Manny Machado (as Bryce Harper was technically a 17-year-old Juco guy) Bubba Starling Carlos Correa Clint Frazier Nick Gordon Brendan Rodgers Mickey Moniak
  19. nicksaviking
    LH college pitchers drafted in the top 10 since 2007: David Price Daniel Moskos Ross Detwiler Brian Matusz Mike Minor Drew Pomeranz Danny Hultzen Andrew Heaney Carlos Rodon Kyle Freeland Tyler Jay A.J. Puk
  20. nicksaviking
    Well looking at the odds of draft pick success, that's probably the most realistic outcome for any pitcher drafted at or near the top of the draft. Plenty better, plenty worse. Plenty exactly that. Looking at McKay, his velocity, handedness, draft position, repertoire and level of competition look most like Brian Matusz to me; both had huge college numbers also. Matusz was always a top prospect but his stuff never translated, even in the minors. That's only one sample point so it's nothing to base a projection on and I haven't heard any of the draft wonks use the comparable, it's just who I see.
  21. nicksaviking
    OMG. My brain is about to explode. Dear lord help me, I'm siding with the scouts over the analytics department. The analytics department which I was begging to be improved for a decade. But seriously, is Lewis really the scouts top choice? And is McKay really the analysts top choice? Or are they only the top choices of the two being offered to them because Greene/Gore/Wright aren't on the table? Seems like the Cubs would approve though. They go for the bats early. Of course they can afford to spend on pitchers in free agency.
  22. nicksaviking
    Warren Spahn was an all time great. But despite what Bob Feller liked to claim, no one was throwing all that hard back then. There were probably only a handful of guys who regularly hit 90MPH prior to 1960s. Which was also why those guys could go 8-9 innings every start every 4th day.
  23. nicksaviking
    Also, I think the Boras stuff might be overblown. He doesn't tell his client what to do, he only advises, and there's a strong likelihood that both the player and the agent have considerable interest in striking a deal to be known as the first overall pick. And of course the boatloads of money that he'd get instead of going 4th or 5th. Greene and Gore are likely going 2 and 3, a Lewis selection by the Twins hurts McKay and Wright, not any other prep guys and likely not Boras' other guy Gore.
  24. nicksaviking
    All things being equal, I think I'd prefer Lewis over McKay. If it is Lewis though, it won't be equal; if it's so they can get Baz at 35 I'd be OK with the pick. Baz would be my fourth choice for pitcher after Greene, Gore and Wright. Watching the top prep bat and the 3rd best prep arm develop would hold my interest for quite awhile. And then Rooker at 37. And stick him at DH in September.
  25. nicksaviking
    I've heard others say this, however there is no way for the team to know if playing only one position will make an impact; it would be a total guess. And frankly, seeing as guys start to lose velocity around 22-23 years old, any gains made by a new approach may quickly be lost to age. If they pick McKay they are doing so assuming they are picking a guy who throws 89-91 with pick 1:1. I've been waiting to get an ace for a decade. I'm going to be really bummed if they don't get a guy who has a legit chance to become one.
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