AL Central Draft Review
Chicago White Sox
Best Pick: Gordon Beckham. Just an excellent power bat that could potentially play at short or second.
Worst Pick: Kenny Williams Jr. Nepotism is bad.
Highest Risk/Reward: Not much to see here. All safe college picks.
Overall: Going the college route with all first day picks, and besides Gordon Beckham, not getting anything all that great. […]
I love you, Jay Bruce
Hat-tip to the hat-tippers at FJM:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/jon_heyman/06/06/heyman.bruce/?eref=sircrc
Asked to explain his Red-hot start, Bruce said simply “Sample size.”
Do you think he’s married?
AL East Draft Review
If you haven’t guessed from the title, you’ll be seeing division-by-division draft reviews for the next week-plus. I’ll only be reviewing the first day (6 rounds), since everything after that is a massive question mark. Best pick/worst picks are relative to where they are drafted, so while Brian Matusz may be the best player the […]
2008 Amateur Draft Value Board
This board only consists of players I’ve profiled, and unfortunately, I started these profiles late. I wasn’t able to get through everybody I might’ve liked, so I’m sure there are good players left off for no better reason than I just don’t know that much about them right now. If there’s a player I covered […]
Isaac Galloway, Dan Schlereth
Last two profiles today. Value board’s going to be 25-deep, these are the last two I’m adding.
Isaac Galloway
Isaac Galloway is another five-tool high school outfielder, sort of. He possesses all five of the usual tools, but he doesn’t possess any one of them in a particularly large quantity.
Galloway is likely projected for something around 20ish […]
Ethan Martin, Andrew Cashner, Zach Collier
Ethan Martin
Martin’s another two-way high school player (can play 3B), but is most likely going to make a career as a starter.
This is one high school pitcher who I could see taking in the first round. If he fails as a pitcher, he has a very real chance to be a major league 3B, with […]
Tanner Scheppers, Anthony Hewitt
Just a two-fer today, a lot to do.
I’m going to cover three guys who are making United Flag Emporium (note: may or may exist) place double orders of red. God, that was a lot of effort to go to for something so stupid.
Tanner Scheppers
Lately, Scheppers has resembled Edward Nigma. Nobody knows what in the world […]
Casey Kelly, Josh Fields, Jason Castro
Casey Kelly
Casey Kelly may be the most overall athletically gifted athlete in the draft. Casey Kelly could be:
a) Drafted as a shortstop,
b) Drafted as a pitcher,
c) The new star quarterback for the Tennessee Volunteers (if that means nothing to you, they’re one of the top football programs in the nation; does the name Peyton Manning […]
Jake Odorizzi, Kyle Skipworth, Aaron Hicks, Jemile Weeks
A lot of high school guys today, which I don’t like, so bear with me.
Jake Odorizzi
I told myself that I’d try to make a legitimate profile of Odorizzi, without just focusing on the fact that he’s a high school pitcher, but it’s very hard. I can’t in good conscience hint in any way that this […]
The All-Pitching One
Two in one day? ZOMG!
Shooter Hunt
Shooter’s an interesting prospect who I kinda like; plus, he has the perfect baseball movie name. I wish my name was Shooter Hunt. Can you imagine growing up with a name like Shooter? Oh well.
Shooter is a righty with solid fastball in the low-mid 90s range, and a decent changeup. […]
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