NL East Draft Review
Atlanta Braves
Best Pick: Brett DeVall, who has three potentially plus pitches with the ability to command all of them.
Worst Pick: Ezekiel Spruill, who throws a hard fastball… inconsistently… with a weird delivery… and not much besides that.
Highest Risk/Reward: Spruill.
Overall: Their first three picks were high school pitchers. Even though I really like DeVall, how can I praise that?
Florida Marlins
Best Pick: Pete Andrelczyk, a productive 5th round college reliever who got consistently better as the season progressed.
Worst Pick: Brad Hand, who only throws two pitchers and doesn’t command either of them particularly well.
Highest Risk/Reward: Kyle Skipworth, who projects to have the best bat of any catcher in the draft with plus power and a plus arm.
Overall: Florida went for a lot of high school players, but they’re projectable and nobody except Hand has any glaring flaws. This draft will probably help out the Marlins in a few years.
New York Mets
Best Pick: Anthony Bass, a polished, productive college lefty in the 6th round.
Worst Pick: Reese Havens, who seems like one of those tweener types who doesn’t really have the bat for third or the glove for short.
Highest Risk/Reward: Javy Rodriguez, a Puerto Rican prospect with a lot of tools but is very raw both physically (needs to fill out) and at the plate.
Overall: Not a fan of the first three picks at all, but there’s a lot to like after that.
Philadelphia Phillies
Best Pick: Zach Collier, my 23rd overall player at #34.
Worst Pick: Anthony Hewitt… the comparison that’s been brought up is that it’s like some team brought in a Czechoslovakian superathlete who’s played baseball for about 6 months.
Highest Risk/Reward: The entire draft, really. Hewitt moreso than anybody.
Overall: Apart from Collier, I don’t really like anyone at all. Maybe Jeremy Hamilton.
Washington Nationals
Best Pick: Graham Hicks, who has great control and has the potential to add some velocity to his pitches.
Worst Pick: Aaron Crow, who’ll be very pricy and was in my opinion overdrafted at #9; I had him ranked 19th.
Highest Risk/Reward: Destin Hood, with a lot of offensive tools, raw speed that hasn’t really translated to playing speed, and no real idea how he’ll do when he’s converted to the outfield.
Overall: I don’t like the NL East. Even Graham Hicks wasn’t a particularly good pick.
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