Though He will likely be gone by that time since guys running those sorts of mocks tend to draft the guy they like best and not worry about bonus demands and stuff like that.

They aren’t just hurting in any area, imo, but I don’t know that I can point to any spot other than catcher where I wouldn’t mind an impact guy.

Pitching first, you have the hope that Hurley gets back on track and then basically back of the rotation type starting prospects down through High A, Kiker being the one guy who seems somewhat likely to break that mold one way or another. Murray, Harrison, Hunter, Reed, Phillips, Diamond, Poveda are all worthwhile arms, but none are going to move to the key part of the rotation. And frankly, Kiker probably isn’t either. Among young major league pitchers, Feldman, Mendoza and Gabbard are the same thing. McCarthy has the potential to be at least a #3 if he could turn around his fortunes, but I think that he’s the only one. And with Volquez gone, he and Hurley are really the only guys after Millwood and Padilla who have any realistic chance of filling a 1-3 starter role, and we know Millwood’s and Padilla’s shortcomings.

So if you are looking at need, a SP with the real potential to be a 1-3 starter, who can beat the likes of Main, Beavan, Feliz & Castillo to the majors by a year or so (in other words, a college pitcher) is definitely a need in my opinion. A HS pitcher really isn’t a need per se. The problem is that even when you’re picking 11, the likelihood that you can pick and sign a college pitcher who looks likely to join the front half of your rotation is really pretty low. EVERYONE at the top of the draft wants one of those.

I don’t think that the organization is necessarily loaded with MIF players, but unless a Beckham were to fall, I don’t know that what you would add would enhance your position very much. Arias and Andrus both offer defensively oriented guys, and they’re both as close as virtually any draft prospect would be. If there were an impact HS SS, I’d have positional interest, but the youth of Andrus and Kinsler, along with the riskiness of that sort of player after the very elite types, makes that less tantalizing to me.

The depth in CF isn’t too bad across the organization right now, and the only reason to take one based on need is if you like him better than Borbon/Beltre, because they have used pretty big assets to obtain each, and they are basically at the same stage a newcomer from college/HS would be.

You need help in every corner though. You have Davis, Mayberry, Whittleman and maybe Ramirez to add to the young major leaguers, but that isn’t enough, either in terms of quality or quantity. So if I were sticking to your grid I’d probably rank the needs from highest to lowest:

C-SP
C-corner bat
HS-corner bat
HS-middle of the diamond
HS-SP
C-middle of the diamond
C/HS-catcher

The two types of elite talent that this organization xould really use most are an advanced SP and any kind of impact, middle of the order bat.

Poll it like we do for our prospect lists.

Draw up a list of players, give some background and stats, and we can vote it down.

2/3 polls/day?

there’ll be a plethora of information out there to mine.

Right now the draft is still far enough off that there’s not a ton of info on guys outside, say, the top 100.

Sickels draft goes 5 rounds, right?

Got a GO to end the 8th, then got 3 K’s in the 9th surrounding a solo wind-blown HR.

How is his secondary stuff?

You realize he was on the 3 year path before his injury right?

i was at the game tonight, other than a double from Elvis and a walk from davis the offense was not very good tonight….11 strikeouts i believe!! Schlact did not have very good comand but was helped by some great defensive play (rf mawjeski, not sure how to spell it) made two web gem catches!!! The pitcher for midland looked really good though!

but I think he has only stuck out 3 or 4 times as well.