The 2020 Draft Thread

[CJ9]

Perfect Game mock:

25. Atlanta Braves | Jared Kelley, RHP, Refugio (Texas)
The Braves have been rumored to be interested in local product Cole Wilcox as well as potential under slot deals but they’ll take Kelley if he’s available at 25.

[CJ9]

Been waiting on the Fangraphs mock, and it’s the biggest woof of them all:

25. Atlanta Braves- Nick Loftin, SS, Baylor
Atlanta puts a premium on defensive fit and Loftin plays short and is model-friendly.

[CJ9]

Funny looking back at our 2017 draft. We took three high school arms late who went to college, two who are first round locks tonight and a third who could be. Reid Detmers, Cade Cavalli and Chris McMahon.

Bridges could certainly evaluate high school arms.

[zbhargrove]

Perfect Game mock:

25. Atlanta Braves | Jared Kelley, RHP, Refugio (Texas)
The Braves have been rumored to be interested in local product Cole Wilcox as well as potential under slot deals but they’ll take Kelley if he’s available at 25.

Man... if Kelley is available that could be a huge pick. I can't imagine him being there at 25.

[zbhargrove]

Been waiting on the Fangraphs mock, and it’s the biggest woof of them all:

25. Atlanta Braves- Nick Loftin, SS, Baylor
Atlanta puts a premium on defensive fit and Loftin plays short and is model-friendly.

Gross

[clvclv]

I don't think the Braves' bonus pool is large enough to low-ball in the first and then get an above-slot guy somewhere in the third through fifth. You can't do in five rounds what the Braves did in the first 20 last year. There's just not that money to move around. Maybe it can be done, but you'd have to basically surrender the slot money in rounds four and five and push that forward to the third along with any savings from the first round. The other thing to consider is that even if you go considerably lower with bonus considerations in the first, who is going to be there in the third to warrant going over slot?

Yeah - mainly pointing it out because it actually makes a bit of sense if there's someone there they REALLY like and after listening to Collazo describe that type of situation it at least sounds intriguing. The chances that someone slips to #96 that they like enough is somewhere on the south side of the center of slim and none, but we've all learned to never say never. Having a situation as strange as this pop up this year complicates things even further, so I'm fully prepared for just about anything to happen after the first 5 or so picks are off the board.

[Enscheff]

I would do that without any hesitation. I’d much rather have two top talents than one and depth pieces.

The problem will be getting an impact talent to fall to 96. I just don’t know how to realistically do that when they’d have to fall past multiple teams that have multiple picks and gigantic bonus pools. Totally on board if we can do it though.

Meh, so called "high impact HS arms" flame out so often it doesn't seem wise to put extra eggs into one of those baskets.

I'm hoping the Braves got scouting info on a few kids nobody else had time to see, and are going to draft them based on knowing something others don't. In that case they just draft BPA and be done with it.

This year in particular seems like a terrible year to put any stock on places like FG and BA...they literally have no current info.

[CJ9]

More connection with us and Bitsko: https://twitter.com/baseballamerica/...039372801?s=21

[50PoundHead]

Meh, so called "high impact HS arms" flame out so often it doesn't seem wise to put extra eggs into one of those baskets.

I'm hoping the Braves got scouting info on a few kids nobody else had time to see, and are going to draft them based on knowing something others don't. In that case they just draft BPA and be done with it.

This year in particular seems like a terrible year to put any stock on places like FG and BA...they literally have no current info.

Agree. It's just not a year to try and get too creative. The range of options is pretty tight.

I'm not arguing for Loftin, but it's obvious that the scouting press appears to be much more enamored with him than a lot of the posters here. I see him late first round in most mocks.

[SJ24]

I want that 3B out of Decatur that's committed to Duke.

High potential local bat > > > >

[thewupk]

There's a draft going on?

[ixiXSolidXixi]

There's a draft going on?

Yes espn and Mlbtv!

[IslandBrave]

Gonna be a couple good ones to pick from here soon.

Wilcox
Bitsko
Kelley

[Heyward]

Bitsko or Kelley will be there at 25 if we want them.

[Heyward]

Rays snag Bitsko, welp.

[Eyeman]

No Bitsko. Kelley or Soderstrom, but i doubt we take either.

[ixiXSolidXixi]

Lets go Kelley!

[Heyward]

Hoping for Kelley, guessing we go underslot.

[Skeeter31]

Jared Shuster

[ixiXSolidXixi]

We got Jared!! 🤣