International Signing Day: Results, Rumors, Spec

Are you sure you aren't referring to Opening Day 2002? Or OD 2013? I was not looking forward to OD2003. We lost Glavine, Millwood, Hammond, and our offense from 2012 was meh. Maybe you were excited about Robert Fick?
 
Forever Fredi said:
Are you sure you aren't referring to Opening Day 2002? Or OD 2013? I was not looking forward to OD2003. We lost Glavine, Millwood, Hammond, and our offense from 2012 was meh. Maybe you were excited about Robert Fick?
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2003 is the first Opening Day I remember. I am relatively young.
 
SJ24 said:
I firmly believe the 2016 IFA class has a chance to be legendary relative to the history of the Atlanta Braves.

We get a little bit of everything. We landed catchers, headlined by a guy compared to Piazza. We had a tremendous infield haul, headlined by a guy compared to Sano, Cabrera, and Chipper Jones. We landed three young outfielders. We landed 4 young arms.

I made this list because I didn't see a comprehensive list in this thread (and I like making lists):

C- Abrahan Gutierrez

C- Adrian Adrianza

C- Victor de Hoyos

2B/SS- Livan Soto

SS- Yunior Severino

SS- Braulio Vasquez

SS/3B- Kevin Maitan

SS/3B- Yenci Pena (not official yet because he's still 15)

OF- Antonio Sucre

OF- Jefry Ramos

OF- Franger Carrillo

RHP- Juan Contreras

RHP- Yefri Del Rosario (not official yet because he's still 15)

RHP- Guillermo Zuniga

LHP- Lisandro Santos

I think we should term this group, "The Fabulous Fifteen."

Add these guys on top of the 2016 draft class (Ian Anderson, Joey Wentz, Kyle Muller, Brett Cumberland, Drew Harrington, Bryse Wilson), the 2015 IFA class (Derian Cruz, Christian Pache, Juan Morales, Randy Ventura), the 2015 draft class (Kolby Allard, Mike Soroka, Austin Riley, Lucas Herbert, A.J. Minter, Anthony Guardado, Patrick Weigel, Jonathan Morales) and all of the guys for whom we've recently traded (Dansby Swanson, Sean Newcomb, Touki Toussaint, Max Fried), and we're staring a World Series right in the face.

That's not even mentioning the following prospects:

Aaron Blair, Ozzie Albies, Braxton Davidson, Isranel Wilson, Juan Yepez, Ronald Acuna, Raysheandall Michel, Max Povse, Dustin Peterson, Lucas Sims, Steve Janas, Chris Ellis, Rob Whalen, John Gant, Rio Ruiz, Ricardo Rodriguez, Akeel Morris, Ricardo Sanchez, Joey Meneses, Zachary Bird, Paco Rodriguez, Shae Simmons, Johan Camargo, Andrew Thurman, Wes Parsons, Leudys Baez, Connor Lien, Matt Marksberry, Jason Hursh, Kyle Kinman, Sean Godfrey, Phillip Pfeifer, Caleb Dirks, Adam McCreery, Sean Ratcliffe, Jed Bradley, Jordan Edgerton, Brad Roney, Luke Dykstra, Ray-Patrick Didder, and Chad Sobotka.

Then consider the young guys already on the roster: Mike Foltynewicz, Matt Wisler, Tyrell Jenkins, Ian Krol, Mauricio Cabrera, Hunter Cervenka, Daniel Winkler, Mallex Smith, and Jace Peterson.

And we are going to get a HAUL for Julio Teheran and possibly some other guys.

And then we are going to have the number 1 pick in next year's draft, most likely.

I haven't been this excited since Opening Day 2003. We have the best farm system in baseball. The only thing we are really lacking is a can't miss ace like a Kershaw (there aren't many) or a generational power threat like Bryce Harper (there aren't many)
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Really great post. Like it or not, this PLAN has been well executed minus a few missteps, but this depth is unparalleled in Braves history. Now we just need about 5 HOF'ers to emerge and BAM! History in the making!
 
mqt said:
He's 16, so the answer is maybe. He is considered one of the best pitchers available in the traditional J2 class this year.
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Actually, he's still 15. That's why he hasn't formally signed.
 
SJ24 said:
I firmly believe the 2016 IFA class has a chance to be legendary relative to the history of the Atlanta Braves.

We get a little bit of everything. We landed catchers, headlined by a guy compared to Piazza. We had a tremendous infield haul, headlined by a guy compared to Sano, Cabrera, and Chipper Jones. We landed three young outfielders. We landed 4 young arms.

I made this list because I didn't see a comprehensive list in this thread (and I like making lists):

C- Abrahan Gutierrez

C- Adrian Adrianza

C- Victor de Hoyos

2B/SS- Livan Soto

SS- Yunior Severino

SS- Braulio Vasquez

SS/3B- Kevin Maitan

SS/3B- Yenci Pena (not official yet because he's still 15)

OF- Antonio Sucre

OF- Jefry Ramos

OF- Franger Carrillo

RHP- Juan Contreras

RHP- Yefri Del Rosario (not official yet because he's still 15)

RHP- Guillermo Zuniga

LHP- Lisandro Santos

I think we should term this group, "The Fabulous Fifteen."

Add these guys on top of the 2016 draft class (Ian Anderson, Joey Wentz, Kyle Muller, Brett Cumberland, Drew Harrington, Bryse Wilson), the 2015 IFA class (Derian Cruz, Christian Pache, Juan Morales, Randy Ventura), the 2015 draft class (Kolby Allard, Mike Soroka, Austin Riley, Lucas Herbert, A.J. Minter, Anthony Guardado, Patrick Weigel, Jonathan Morales) and all of the guys for whom we've recently traded (Dansby Swanson, Sean Newcomb, Touki Toussaint, Max Fried), and we're staring a World Series right in the face.

That's not even mentioning the following prospects:

Aaron Blair, Ozzie Albies, Braxton Davidson, Isranel Wilson, Juan Yepez, Ronald Acuna, Raysheandall Michel, Max Povse, Dustin Peterson, Lucas Sims, Steve Janas, Chris Ellis, Rob Whalen, John Gant, Rio Ruiz, Ricardo Rodriguez, Akeel Morris, Ricardo Sanchez, Joey Meneses, Zachary Bird, Paco Rodriguez, Shae Simmons, Johan Camargo, Andrew Thurman, Wes Parsons, Leudys Baez, Connor Lien, Matt Marksberry, Jason Hursh, Kyle Kinman, Sean Godfrey, Phillip Pfeifer, Caleb Dirks, Adam McCreery, Sean Ratcliffe, Jed Bradley, Jordan Edgerton, Brad Roney, Luke Dykstra, Ray-Patrick Didder, and Chad Sobotka.

Then consider the young guys already on the roster: Mike Foltynewicz, Matt Wisler, Tyrell Jenkins, Ian Krol, Mauricio Cabrera, Hunter Cervenka, Daniel Winkler, Mallex Smith, and Jace Peterson.

And we are going to get a HAUL for Julio Teheran and possibly some other guys.

And then we are going to have the number 1 pick in next year's draft, most likely.

I haven't been this excited since Opening Day 2003. We have the best farm system in baseball. The only thing we are really lacking is a can't miss ace like a Kershaw (there aren't many) or a generational power threat like Bryce Harper (there aren't many)
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Tell ya what - "The Johns" sure are doing a *hitty job!!
 
Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com says we signed RHP Yefri Del Rosario for $1 million. Glad to see him put that out there. There hadn't been anyone extremely credible that said anything about him before tonight.
 
CJ9 said:
Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com says we signed RHP Yefri Del Rosario for $1 million. Glad to see him put that out there. There hadn't been anyone extremely credible that said anything about him before tonight.
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What? That he was 15 and could not sign until he turned 16?
 
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