"For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal."
jpx7 (06-10-2020)
Longenhagen on whether Schuster is under slot: “Teams seemed on him in the comp round so maybe under slot but not by a lot.”
jpx7 (06-10-2020)
What part of this do you misunderstand?
"Exactly how high a ceiling do you expect to get picking 25th??? You really think there's a Trout-like situation waiting to happen in every draft?
Callis links the Dodgers to Kelley at #29 - with emphasis on how big a coup that would be."
Must've been a different Heyward posting about Kelley in post #174, sorry. You must've been hacked.
Has there EVER been a statement and question a certain someone should absolutely never have made and asked publicly more than...
Kinda pathetic to see yourself as a message board knight in shining armor. How impotent does someone have to be in real life to resort to playing hero on a message board?
Before anyone paints it otherwise, I don't hate the pick, it just doesn't excite me. It's a small reach, not a huge one.
Im just tired of non-elite ceiling picks. To have elite ceiling late in the first you have to go high risk but that's what prep arms are for.
Anyway, let's hope every dramatic improvement was real and he has some more. He's a Brave now so I'll pull for him.
clvclv (06-11-2020)
Could be a play to underslot the max amount. If he doesn't take it, you get another pick next year. If he does, you get good value and have a possibility to turn a 3 into a 2, a 4 into a 3 and a 5 into a 4.
I'm talking strategy not tactics.
I'm suggesting that the Braves would like to have him but only at an extreme slot discount. If they don't get that, then they would be comfortable punting the pick until next year when they have better scouting and likely a deeper pool.
I may be wrong in supposing that. Maybe they really like him and would have taken him under any circumstances. IDK. But, if there is any a year where clubs will have more leverage over draftees, I don't know when it would be. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm saying it's business.
Kiley has him as a 40+, a grade that spans #34-#72. So not some crazy reach at pick 25.
I was hoping the Braves saw something other didn't have time to see, and maybe this kid is exactly that.
jpx7 (06-11-2020)
"Well, you’ll learn soon enough that this was a massive red wave landslide." - thethe on the 2020 election that trump lost bigly
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