2022 MLB Draft Thread

IslandBrave said:
20. Atlanta Braves — Brandon Barriera, LHP, American Heritage HS, Plantation, Fla.

After trading a couple of pitching prospects to Oakland in the four-player package for Matt Olson, and after having a couple of other prospect stall in their development, the Braves want to add some young arms with big upside. Barriera fits that mode. A wiry, long-limbed Vanderbilt commit from the Fort Lauderdale area, he sits at 94-95 mph with his fastball and has touched 98 mph, and complements it with a sharp slider and improved changeup. — David O’Brien
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Like the sound of some prep upside. Think I'm growing to like the sound of Rocker even more—though either case would mean the team going against the Anthopoulos MO of pushing early-round savings down to later in the draft. However, with the Comp Pick from Freeman's departure, maybe they stay around slot with their first pick, then go underslot in the Comp round.
 
IslandBrave said:
20. Atlanta Braves — Brandon Barriera, LHP, American Heritage HS, Plantation, Fla.

After trading a couple of pitching prospects to Oakland in the four-player package for Matt Olson, and after having a couple of other prospect stall in their development, the Braves want to add some young arms with big upside. Barriera fits that mode. A wiry, long-limbed Vanderbilt commit from the Fort Lauderdale area, he sits at 94-95 mph with his fastball and has touched 98 mph, and complements it with a sharp slider and improved changeup. — David O’Brien
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As much as I love the idea of picking high school kids with high ceilings DOB is one of the last "sources" I look to for inside info come draft time.
 
With the addition of the 35th pick, that adds $2.2 million to the pool. It pushes the draft pool to $10.2 million, which jumps us from 19th biggest pool to 10th biggest. Sunday night will be fun with four picks now.
 
Also gives us five of the top 96 picks now (20, 35, 57, 76, 96).

I'm just excited for us to have a big draft again, it's been a while.
 
msstate7 said:
Garbage. I just posted something similar in the other thread. Mlb draft is a snooze fest
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It does suck. But the big difference here is that top picks in the NFL and NBA drafts are going to be playing the following season. The value of these picks are a much more known commodity. The #1 pick in the MLB draft usually doesn't see the show for 3 years. Just a different animal.
 
Keith Law's new mock today has us taking Justin Crawford at 20. His notes:

"I think Crawford’s market is somewhere between the Mets’ second pick and here. The Padres could be on him, the Guardians and Atlanta also seem most likely. Atlanta hasn’t taken a high school player in the first round since 2018 (Carter Stewart, who didn’t sign), though."
 
CJ9 said:
Keith Law's new mock today has us taking Justin Crawford at 20. His notes:

"I think Crawford’s market is somewhere between the Mets’ second pick and here. The Padres could be on him, the Guardians and Atlanta also seem most likely. Atlanta hasn’t taken a high school player in the first round since 2018 (Carter Stewart, who didn’t sign), though."
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Two-way player, so he checks that box, with elite skills and room for improvement once he focuses on hitting exclusively (à la Michael Harris). Bloodlines are obviously there. I'd be excited if he were one of our top picks.
 
CJ9 said:
Keith Law's new mock today has us taking Justin Crawford at 20. His notes:

"I think Crawford’s market is somewhere between the Mets’ second pick and here. The Padres could be on him, the Guardians and Atlanta also seem most likely. Atlanta hasn’t taken a high school player in the first round since 2018 (Carter Stewart, who didn’t sign), though."
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Really wonder if the added pool money doesn't mean they'll go over-slot with a big offer for Lesko if they can get him to slip to #20. They could follow that up with whichever of the college arms (Prielipp/Hjerpe/Harrington/Pallette is there at #35 with extra money available to take anyone (college or HS) that slips with the #57 pick.
 
clvclv said:
Really wonder if the added pool money doesn't mean they'll go over-slot with a big offer for Lesko if they can get him to slip to #20. They could follow that up with whichever of the college arms (Prielipp/Hjerpe/Harrington/Pallette is there at #35 with extra money available to take anyone (college or HS) that slips with the #57 pick.
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You’d have to think the Braves have a guy they think they can buy down to 20.
 
I wonder if the extra money makes Lesko at 20 more likely. He had TJ in late April, so probably late next season at the earliest for him to make his pro debut. It would probably be pretty costly, too.

But he’s was pretty unquestionably viewed as the best pitcher in this draft before TJ.
 
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