I'm pretty underwhelmed by our draft so far (I loved the Allard pick FTR). But I will also admit I am relying on Internet scouts that haven't seen these players in person.
I'm pretty underwhelmed by our draft so far (I loved the Allard pick FTR). But I will also admit I am relying on Internet scouts that haven't seen these players in person.
Is this some of your first times following the draft? The Braves almost always reach for players compared to the "experts" draft rankings. They took Mike Minor 7th and he was ranked 30th. Its every single year. Why expect anything different?
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Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
do you care to disagree with what i said though?Originally Posted by sturg33
please tell me what part of it doesn't make sense. it wasn't a genius move for the cubs to get schwarber and bryant. it was a combo of being a bad team for a while, getting a little lucky (after being bad), common sense and yes, making the right pick. if we were bad like them and got those picks, i bet we'd have taken those hitters, too. who knows what they'd do if they had our picks? it's entirely possible they take pitching if in our position. they're drafting hitters because those hitters are obvious picks with their high draft picks. we haven't had that "luxury."
Agreed. It's looking more and more likely that this is the strategy (going over slot later in the draft). Might not know for sure until tomorrow.
Braves1976 (06-08-2015)
Yeah. Our draft board tends to depart from the consensus. And we have a good enough record when picking someone higher than the consensus.
Sure... but I'd easily counter sand say Daz Cameron was a no brainer pick over the Canadian dude. We passed on him. You can say it was money, you can say it was our board, our philosophy, our whatever. But we passed on a much superior player in favor a pitcher
jpx7 (06-08-2015)
I don't mind reaching some if you really believe in a guy.
But reaching 50+ spots when you have this many picks doesn't really make a ton of sense. If you really believe in a guy and can get him at 54, why would you take him at 28? Even if you really, really want him, that's still bad value.
Dang. Rays get Betts. I would still try to get another HS hitter with the next pick. Then a college pitcher.
We dont have the signing amount that Houston has. Its not even close. We have like 8 million total for all our draft picks. The Astros have 17 million. Daz wants 5 million.
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The thing is we don't know what the other teams' draft boards look like. We can't assume that some other team didn't rate Soroka and Riley highly. If they were the top guys on our board, we have to take them at this point in the draft.
50PoundHead (06-09-2015)
The Cubs have drafted plenty of pitchers recently. How recent are we talking? They've taken two early hitters because of who those hitters were, not just because they were hitters.
How do they know they could still get him with the next pick? Because MLB.com says he is ranked lower than the projected pick? MLB teams dont operate off the experts draft rankings.
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Little Thethe Nov 19, 2020.
You called it on Herbert, KB!
cubs and braves can just trade back and forth and meet each other in the NLDS every year.
.....and they took Allard's catcher, Lucas Herbert
I'm counting on that #75 Cahill pick to be a future hall of famer
Seems like a decent pick. Also seems like another under slot guy, though.
Ok, and I'd have liked to have him. But 36 teams passed on him based on money. If that didn't matter, he wouldn't have even been there. That's not drafting pitching vs. hitting, it's drafting a guy you can sign that you like (hopefully a lot) vs. signing a guy you might not be able to. it's not an easy choice to take the guy.
We clearly targeted pitching from the get-go, but I'm guessing they like these guys a lot, and especialy for their potential value (which is really important to them, it has to be). maybe they didn't see the value money or talent wise at their picks except at pitcher.
I also just don't see that the Cubs are clearly targeting hitting. Their picks were pretty obvious to take and they had little, if any, limitations. We have not been in that spot.
We have like 8 million to sign our entire draft, not sure what you expect.
Nearly 1/3 of that would go to Allard but keep crying.
If what he is saying is considered crying than what about your posts in this thread?
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