2019 MLB Draft Thread

Deester11 said:
Yeah. It's why I'm thinking Bishop and then Espino or another high school arm. This draft has me changing from day to day.
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we could try to work a deal to have one of the top 6 guys drop to us...there are a couple from the south who might prefer the braves...we apparently worked something like that with Wright
 
BA's Best Tools article is out...

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2019-mlb-draft-prospects-with-best-tools/

If you want to make the argument that it'd be prudent to lean toward high schoolers that are a little further away since we can stand to replenish the lower levels, it's not exactly bad news. Carroll ranks as their #2 HS hitter, #1 HS strike zone judgement, and #1 HS defensive OF. Jack Leiter ranks #2 on their HS breaking ball list, #3 on their HS changeup list, and #1 on their HS control list. Allan was #3 on their HS fastball list and #1 on their HS breaking ball list, and the scout's take they posted says "Guys who can throw a good curveball, they have feel and wrist flexibility ... He might have two 70-grade pitches with the fastball and curveball."

Based on FG's board, grabbing Carroll for a little under slot and trying to float Allan (or Leiter) to #21 might really not be such a bad idea.
 
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i'd be 100% in on carroll.
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Still not really sure why we haven't been connected to him much. I think Baseball America connected us to Carroll in their first mock and said we were all over him, but there hasn't been anything since then. The only thing I can think of is that Kiley mentioned Carroll as a guy who was asking for a good amount of money, so maybe that's it? Not totally sure. I'd be plenty happy with him at 9.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
But can we handle 4 years of thethe hyping him as the next big thing. These things have to be considered when making choices like this.
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I find it amusing that he tries to start a daily circle jerk about every single Braves player, and then goes silent when they predictably regress.

He never waivers, and it's hilarious. I hope he keeps it up until the interweb shuts down.
 
Hudson2 said:
I like Carroll too. I wouldn’t mind him at 9 at all and maybe Leiter at 21
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I wouldn't bet on Leiter. Believe it was Kiley who said that he's asking for 4+ million and has the Mets and Yankees as the only teams he'd sign with if he's taken.
 
CJ9 said:
I wouldn't bet on Leiter. Believe it was Kiley who said that he's asking for 4+ million and has the Mets and Yankees as the only teams he'd sign with if he's taken.
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That’d be dumb on his part. He better look at Carter Stewart and realize that if the money is there you better take it.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
Probably not. But I wonder if we could still sign two good HS players and punt pick 60.
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That was kinda the idea I was pushing with the thought.

Of course, the question then becomes "if you're going to punt that pick, why hasn't Kimbrel been a Brave for a month already"?

If you were going to more or less pass at #60, you could've just signed him, drafted two HS kids, and drafted college guys from Rounds 4-10 like last year.
 
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clvclv said:
That was kinda the idea I was pushing with the thought.

Of course, the question then becomes "if you're going to punt that pick, why hasn't Kimbrel been a Brave for a month already"?

If you were going to more or less pass at #60, you could've just signed him, drafted two HS kids, and drafted college guys from Round 4-10 like last year.
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Punting and not having slot money are 2 different things.
 
bravesfanMatt said:
Punting and not having slot money are 2 different things.
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With all picks - $11,532,200. Take away the slot value at 60 and you'd still have $10,374,800. That would only drop them from having the sixth-most to spend to having the eighth-most to spend. Pretty sure it wouldn't have hurt terribly - IF the plan was to go with HS kids with the first two picks.
 
clvclv said:
With all picks - $11,532,200. Take away the slot value at 60 and you'd still have $10,374,800. That would only drop them from having the sixth-most to spend to having the eighth-most to spend. Pretty sure it wouldn't have hurt terribly - IF the plan was to go with HS kids with the first two picks.
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that amount of money could definitely hurt....
 
clvclv said:
With all picks - $11,532,200. Take away the slot value at 60 and you'd still have $10,374,800. That would only drop them from having the sixth-most to spend to having the eighth-most to spend. Pretty sure it wouldn't have hurt terribly - IF the plan was to go with HS kids with the first two picks.
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1.2 million can buy you good value. That also equates to 10% of you slot money lost.
 
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