Tankathon draft pick watch

[CrimsonCowboy]

My whole thing on the MLB Draft is this: It’s an entirely different animal than the NFL or NBA draft. In those leagues, a top pick is expected to contribute to their new team immediately. Not the case in MLB. If it’s a high school player, we probably wouldn’t see him in the bigs for three years. If he’s a college player maybe a year and a half. The development in that time is going to be the key.

Also, the top pick is never a guarantee. For a Chipper Jones, there’s also a Brien Taylor. So for me, I’m not going to sweat being in the ninth slot. Chances are, there will be plenty of real good options for the Braves.

 

[thewupk]

Braves should have won 1 or 2 more games and got the #2 pick

 

[drewdat]

At least we didn't hire Snit 2.0 after finally getting the original out the paint. That's a positive.

 

[Hudson2]

Even the way they did the draft lottery was boring.

 

[Nerfherders]

Our pick in the old system would have been 9 (maybe 8? Not sure what the tiebreaker was).

 

[Hudson2]

We have the 9 and 26 picks so we are still in the best shape among everybody else. I don't see AA letting the 26 pick go.

 

[Nerfherders]

I guess I didn't understand quite how this worked. Only the top six picks are lotteried. The only way we couldve been moved lower than 9 would be if 4 or more teams with lower % jumped us. Three did, which means we stay where we would have been classically. The only thing I'm not sure about are if the ineligible teams are locked into 10-12 or are they always behind the top six.

 

[Enscheff]

Disappointing, just like the entire offseason so far.

 

[CJ9]

Braves should have won 1 or 2 more games and got the #2 pick

This is the funniest part of it. We’re complaining about the extra wins, but the best realistic odds we would’ve had was 4th. And that still would’ve been the 7th pick. The ideal outcome would’ve actually been to win two more games and then we would’ve got the second pick.

Oh well. 9th and 26th picks.

 

[thewupk]

This is the funniest part of it. We’re complaining about the extra wins, but the best realistic odds we would’ve had was 4th. And that still would’ve been the 7th pick. The ideal outcome would’ve actually been to win two more games and then we would’ve got the second pick.

Oh well. 9th and 26th picks.

Pretty much. 3 teams (Rays, Royals, and Giants) got lucky. That's all it boils down to. Braves have a top 10 pick and 3 total inside the top 50. Should be a good draft.

 

[Hudson2]

The top picks always have better odds but looking around at guys like Judge, Trout, Freeman, Betts, Gunnar Henderson and none of those guys were top picks. I was bummed at first but we still have a top 10 pick and that Baldwin pick is huge.

 

[striker42]

MLB draft is such a crapshoot it's often better to have more picks than super high picks. So getting the Drake pick was a bigger get than if we were picking five spots higher.

 

[bravesfanMatt]

lol.. the tankathon site has the 2027 draft tankaton sim up already and they have the Braves in the group of wildcard round losers.

 

[msstate7]

lol.. the tankathon site has the 2027 draft tankaton sim up already and they have the Braves in the group of wildcard round losers.

Pretty optimistic of them