1. The first four picks, Scheppers, Mendonca, Erlin and Doyle, all of whom should move pretty fast and constitute most of the promise at this point. Scheppers obviously seems to be what this draft will be tied to.

2. The young pitchers, several of whom they spent above slot for: McBride, Tullis, Bell, Strong, Blackwell. Tullis and Bell look to have the best opportunity to make a quick impact, but the other three are projectable HS arms, the kinds of guys I like to see picked in the middle rounds – and signed. I’m also tempted to put Keith Campbell in this group based on his draft capsule:

After having Tommy John surgery and missing his senior year of high school, he rehabbed at a facility in sleepy Monroe, Wash., and got to know Everett head coach Levi Lacey. Campbell has shown he is healthy now by flashing an 89-93 mph fastball, along with a power slider and plus curveball. At 6-foot-2, 195 pounds, Campbell is a good athlete who runs a 6.9-second 60 and can dunk a basketball. He’s also a fierce competitor who wants the ball in big-game situations. Coming from an over-the-top arm slot, Campbell’s fastball shows good life. He repeats his arm slot when he throws his slider, and at 80 mph it looks like a fastball for the first 50 feet before taking a hard, sharp turn. He’s working on his fastball command and developing a better changeup. Campbell has just six college starts under his belt, but he has already shown good velocity with tight breaking pitches and has room to improve.

He struggled in his starts and generally with his control in his debut, but that sounds like an intriguing guy.

3. The athletic outfielders: Sierra, Lane and Cooper – none of them look like they can hit.

You could add a category for hard throwing relief types (Gunter, Jamison, Brown, Castner), and DiFazio had a nice enough debut to have some attention paid to him, but those first two groups in particular look like what will define this draft’s successes, should there be any.

Evan Reed and Tim Murphy beat up the NWL, too. Doyle’s no Tommy Hunter.

we gave up little for a very promising arm. The early rewards from Scheppers’ and Gutierrez’s AFL outings get my juices flowin’

Scheppers cements it to be a 10-15 class. If Mendonca and Vin DiFazio pan out like I hope, this class could really jump up the charts by the midpoint of next year. To me those are the 2 most bats most likely to produce quickly. And lets also not forget that Riley Cooper is a pretty good tools prospect in his own right.

If we signed Purke I would call it a top 8 or so draft, but there is enough talent currently to do be an excellent draft is some of these tools guys make the leap from being an athlete to a baseball player