50PoundHead
Hessmania Forever
I love listening to the third day of the draft. You'd swear you're in a bingo parlor with the names being rattled off so fast like B-6 and O-63.
Dana Brown on the 5th round OF we took that Baseball America reported most teams hadn't heard of: “We were shocked when Paolini was still available, and that’s why we grabbed him.”
We took 5 players ahead of him including a college RP.
We took 3 players ahead of Freddie Freeman and 3 ahead of Kimbrel. I see a pattern.
Wow, Grissom is actually 106 on Fangraphs' overall board: "Teammate of Riley Greene has been scouted a lot right when he came on this spring. He's a likely third baseman with solid average tools and good actions that can start in pro ball at shortstop." That means he's our third highest pick on their board behind Langeliers and Shewmake.
I love listening to the third day of the draft. You'd swear you're in a bingo parlor with the names being rattled off so fast like B-6 and O-63.
I don't know what's left to throw at him monetarily from the first ten rounds, but my guess is it will take beyond slot--perhaps considerably--to land him.
I don't know what's left to throw at him monetarily from the first ten rounds, but my guess is it will take beyond slot--perhaps considerably--to land him.
That wasn’t meant as a critique of the pick or his future, but rather the “I can’t believe this amazing player fell so far!” thing that executives do all the time.
His commitments to FIU, not bigger-time school, which makes me think the team has a good chance to lock him down.
Could be, but these guys can always jump their initial commitment and go the JUCO route ala Carter Stewart if they view themselves as a late-riser. I'm just thinking they went $200,000 or $300,000 over to land Matt Rowland a few years back and that might be a scenario here.
Samuelson's first stop was Valparaiso (didn't play his freshman year) before transferring to Wabash Community College. Braves have always tended to follow the Illinois JUCO circuit pretty hard.