Goldstein Q&A over at Inside Corner

Evan Grant breaks out his rolodex and gives us a Q&A with Baseball Prospectus' Kevin Goldstein.

The tease...

Was Scheppers at #44 the best value pick, vis-a-vis talent level, in this draft for the Rangers?

No. Matthew Purke was. He was the fifth or sixth best talent in the draft and to get a guy like that at 14, one year after getting the third or fourth best talent in the draft at 11, is robbery. Again. He’s going to sign. There’s no doubt in my mind about that. They had him in for a workout before the draft, they talked to his reps before the draft. They obviously knew what it was going to take to sign him before they took him. There won’t be any surprises there for either side. But it’s going to be way above slot and so they can’t do it until near the deadline.

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He touted the Williams pick today in his stuff. He also reminds us which names to watch for in the DSL boxes.

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by shroomer on Jun 12, 2009 2:38 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Good stuff, thanks for the link

I only thought I couldn’t get more excited about Scheppers and Purke…

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by WestTxAg06 on Jun 12, 2009 3:50 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Actually it was Hindman breaking out the rolo

good stuff, indeed. One of the top drafts 3 years running.

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by t ball on Jun 12, 2009 4:01 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Something that I'd be interested in hearing

is someone who knows a lot more about shoulder anatomy than me reconcile what I heard Daniels (and Hopkins) say the night of the draft with all of these comments and reports (like from Goldstein here) that state very matter-of-factly that his injury was a stress fracture last year. Daniels said plainly, and Hopkins echoed, that it was never a stress fracture injury. Evan Grant asked him very directly and referenced the problems that Brandon McCarthy has had with that injury, and JD said that it wasn’t a stress fracture but a muscular injury, that they did all of their homework last year before the draft and knew his situation then, and that they did their full on medical review when he visited before this draft.

I suspect that there is might be an explanation as to how there is truth in both of these statements, but on the surface they seem completely contradictory.

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by Brett Perryman on Jun 12, 2009 9:02 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Signings...

http://rangersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/06/sierra-jr-among-six-draftees-to-sign.html

Texas has signed the following six selections from the 2009 June draft, the club’s first batch of signings: OF Ruben Sierra Jr. (6th round), C Vincent DiFazio (12), RHP Sam Brown (22), SS Danny Lima (23), SS Shon Landry (31), and 3B Taylor Vail (40).

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by hightowersmith on Jun 13, 2009 8:40 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs