will sniff the majors? 2? 3?

More draft stuff….

From Orange, Tx

31st round selection

Hometown Tampa, Florida

Son of former major leaguer

who i mentioned in yesterday’s thread, went in the 31st to the Cubs. He is a walk machine, but more than likely he tops out about where Jordan Brown did in the Indians system.

I am a little bummed they didn’t ever grab Diego Seastrunk from Rice, who went in the 31st also. I just like him as a player.

The fact that they are still taking HS kids on the third day makes me think they simply aren’t looking to sign very many from this draft class.

when they draft college kids, because i can actually find a couple things on them.

Great baseball name.

Greenbriar Christian Acadamy (VA)

but i am still surprised we haven’t taken another catcher or two, especially with all the pitchers we’ve drafted.

we’ll be lucky to sign 25 kids in this draft class.

Reggie Williams was ranked 119th overall by BA going into the draft.

He may be a tough sign.

Carasiti also made BA’s list of best available for day three.

but i had not put it together that they were the ones scrolling along the side of the draft. it is pretty awesome that they provide a quick comment on every kid they draft with info like “young for a college draftee, we think he could add velo”.

i hate having to admire and respect an org that i also have to hate.

that Sierra Jr. has reportedly run a 4.18 40? that is just incredible. don’t let Jerry Jones find that out, or he’ll sneak over and steal him.

in the article on the team’s website, that they are really only targeting kids who they believe have ML talent. I know teams say that every year, but this year i believe it. They seem to be drafting very few guys who will merely flesh out a roster.

A&M’s Kyle Thebeau hasn’t gone yet. He’s no stud, but he’s a senior sign and he had a pretty nice career at A&M.

1 Purke 7
1s Scheppers 3
2 Mendonca 96
3 Erlin 185
4 Doyle 119
5 Mc Bride N/A
6 Sierra 123
7 Lane N/A
8 Tullis 242
9 Blash 116
17 Paul Strong 152

BA writeups that weren’t there yesterday

5 Nicholas McBride
McBride, an East Carolina recruit, showed an average (87-90 mph) fastball and mid-70s slider at his best this spring, coupled with a projectable 6-foot-4, 180-pound frame.

7 Braxton Lane
Another athletic outfielder, Braxton Lane, had a down spring. He’s a 70 runner on the 20-80 scale and has committed to play football at Oregon. His father played football at Oregon State, and he’s the nephew of former NFL running back MacArthur Lane. He switch-hits and would fit the profile of a center fielder if he could hit, though he has a below-average arm. The scouting consensus was that Lane can’t hit enough to buy him out of his football commitment.

8 Braden Tullis
Skagit Valley righthander Braden Tullis flew way under the radar at Timberline High in Boise as a first baseman and closer. The 6-foot-2, 190-pound Tullis is a great athlete who also played linebacker on his high school football team and ran the fastest 60-yard dash for Skagit Valley this year. His future is on the mound. On the season, Tullis went 4-0, 0.33 with 27 strikeouts and 11 walks, good enough to earn him NWAACC MVP honors. Tullis has a fastball that sits 88-91 mph with armside run and sink. He has a good feel for a changeup that could be a plus pitch down the line and is working on his breaking ball. He keeps everything down in the zone and throws all three pitches for strikes. The stuff isn’t exceptional, but he has good command and you know what you’re getting—which is a rarity in the Northwest this year.

9 Jabari Blash
Blash played some high school baseball in the Virgin Islands, enough to try to use baseball to go to college in the U.S. mainland. He attended Alcorn State for a year but wasn’t academically eligible, due to transcript issues. He redshirted that season, then wound up transferring to Miami-Dade JC, where he didn’t even earn a starting job when the season started. He’s quite raw and has holes in his swing, owing in part to his large 6-foot-5, 210-pound frame. He also has big-time tools, and several observers called him Florida’s best five-tool prospect. Blash has plus raw power, with 10 homers in just 102 at-bats this season, and above-average speed (he runs the 60 in 6.7 seconds) and throwing arm (it’s a right field arm, if not the cannon reported earlier this spring). Some scouts dream on Blash’s frame and see a future Jermaine Dye, who also was a JC player.

10 Thomas Lemke
Righthander Thomas Lemke stares down at hitters from atop the mound. He has a great pitcher’s frame at 6-foot-7 and 205 pounds, but has gone backward this season. Sitting at 89-92 mph in the fall, his fastball was down to 85-88 this spring. He doesn’t use his height well, and his fastball comes in flat. Scouts also question his passion and say he looks lethargic on the field. He’s reportedly asking for $500,000, so teams will likely let him head to Nebraska and check back in three years.

http://baseballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=1309

this guy may be familiar to some of you, but it is new to me so i thought i’d share.

Willams and Carsatti wher3e both on BA top platers left for Day 3 list

My internet goes out for a week and finally they dig a trench in the yard and finally fix it.
Now my power keeps dropping out for dark boring half-day stretches. Really having trouble with the infrastructure lately. arrrgh

The left-handed pitcher recently completed his senior season at St. Joseph’s College of Indiana where he went 5-4 with a 4.09 ERA in 11 starts for the Pumas. Zegarac led St. Joseph’s and was fifth in the GLVC in strikeouts with 72 in just 61.2 innings. A durable pitcher, Zegarac tossed three complete games with two shutouts.

Kyle Smith 1 and 2, according to mlbtraderumors. I bet neither are a patch on Guillermoses.

may be the slowest person ever coming out of the box:

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?topic_id=4961152&content_id=4674533

right in line with how i like it. draft the highest ceiling guys regardless of round and pay them all, sign them all and screw the world, screw the yankees, screw the sawks, and most of all screw bud.

i just dont know why a club like Pitt doesnt just spend 30M on the draft one year and get every awesome guy in the draft. sign them all and do it a couple seasons in a row and you have a dynasty on your hands. i always hear MLB draft is a crap shoot, but if you spend big money throughout the draft its more of a sure thing than any1 can imagine

He’s answering questions and has spoken to several players who have been drafted.

He’s said these players have told him they will sign:

Erlin, Doyle, Gunter, DiFazio, Castner, Landry

Live Blog Link

wraps up this years draft for the Rangers. What a complete dearth of 4 yr college guys.

Considering his options

The family had hoped for Braxton to be taken somewhere in the top five rounds, so falling to the seventh was something of a disappointment.

"Yes and no," Carl Lane said. "You’re disappointed because he feels he’s the best athlete in the draft. I know he believes that, so from that standpoint he probably should have went earlier. But if that’s the road he takes, that’s fine. Now it’s about production, whether it’s at Oregon or with Texas, proving all this attention you got (was merited)."

As a Beaver, Carl Lane won’t actually utter the mascot of Braxton’s potential college destination: He spelled out D-U-C-K-S twice during a phone conversation today. But he said Braxton still follows the D-U-C-K-S, and still wears their apparel.

Still, the family doesn’t have a strong sense of whether Braxton will ever actually play for Oregon, or sign with the Rangers.

"You don’t know—with the economy the way it is, you want value," Carl Lane said. "If it’s not there (from Texas), we have our options to do something different."