Jonah Keri podcast with Coppy

Said we will probably take a high school kid in the first round, like the first 4 picks last season.
 
Diesel said:
Said we will probably take a high school kid in the first round, like the first 4 picks last season.
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I posted that in the draft thread. The context made it sound like he was talking about the first pick. He was talking about teams taking to get a top pick and how that doesn't work in baseball because the players are so far away.
 
Definitely worth listening to. I never knew how strong his relationship was with Gordon Blakeley. I also thought the HS kid draft comment was interesting, given that he had mentioned previously how we want to go with a college bat.
 
mqt said:
Definitely worth listening to. I never knew how strong his relationship was with Gordon Blakeley. I also thought the HS kid draft comment was interesting, given that he had mentioned previously how we want to go with a college bat.
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I'm guessing that means Groome is probably their guy.
 
UNCBlue012 said:
I'm guessing that means Groome is probably their guy.
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I don't think Coppy would be so careless as to tip off the teams drafting ahead of us as to which player we like the most. I know this is not like the NFL draft where there is jockeying to be in position to draft a particular player. But you still don't want to give the competition insight into how you rank the players.
 
nsacpi said:
I don't think Coppy would be so careless as to tip off the teams drafting ahead of us as to which player we like the most. I know this is not like the NFL draft where there is jockeying to be in position to draft a particular player. But you still don't want to give the competition insight into how you rank the players.
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It's not necessarily which player we like most. It might be which player we expect to fall to us. It's entirely possible we have Lewis and Puk ranked 1 and 2 but fully expect both to be gone. A statement like that doesn't actually tell very much about our board.
 
Enjoyed listening to this. I got a chuckle when Coppy randomly dropped the F-bomb. It's a good format for him. Hard to tell how to interpret the comment about drafting HS players. I think it should be take with a grain of salt given the context of the conversation.

I also found it interesting how hesitant he was to give an on-the-record assessment of how good the 2017 team would be. He seems to have learned something after his comments this past offseason about the 2016 team.
 
UNCBlue012 said:
I'm guessing that means Groome is probably their guy.
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Could be, but it could also be Riley Pint, Blake Rutherford, or Mickey Moniak, who seems to be rising.

I do know this. Kiley McDaniel felt that Rutherford was the best overall potential bat in the draft before he was hired by the Braves. I don't know how much input he has, but I'm betting that Coppy being a big reason McDaniel was hired, McDaniel will have some voice.
 
Would have loved a deeper dive on some of the minor leaguers..... but Coppy did say that Fried got up to 97 mph in one of his starts. I know his last couple outings haven't been great, but if he's dialing up a mid-90s fastball.............. :)
 
I agree with copy about winning 80 games...nothing worse in pro sports than being avg. really hard to get better from avg draft position
 
KB21 said:
Could be, but it could also be Riley Pint, Blake Rutherford, or Mickey Moniak, who seems to be rising.

I do know this. Kiley McDaniel felt that Rutherford was the best overall potential bat in the draft before he was hired by the Braves. I don't know how much input he has, but I'm betting that Coppy being a big reason McDaniel was hired, McDaniel will have some voice.
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I don't think Kiley McDaniel is in much of position to have influence even if he retains that opinion of Rutherford (a lot of people have backed off that valuation). I mean he's in New Zealand scouting players one month before the draft. I don't think his one year dated scouting board really means all that much.
 
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