Marc the Habs Fan
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Because when you can do your draft on a Sunday night in the middle of July, you gotta do it.
No one seems to know who CLE takes at 1st overall.
No one seems to know who CLE takes at 1st overall.
That was hysterical.That A's fan did NOT like that Kurtz pick and then he realized he was on camera, lol.
Aussie Aussie AussieGuardians select at #1: Travis Bazzana
First time a 2B goes 1st overall, apparently.
When I was watching I thought, Darko is smiling somewhere.Aussie Aussie Aussie
This is so true. I never gave a damn about the MLB draft until the last decade or so, nor paid any attention to it. And I think it's only been the last few years since the draft has been aired on TV (up here in Canada at least).The MLB draft has to be absolutely the least hyped thing in all of sports.
This is so true. I never gave a damn about the MLB draft until the last decade or so, nor paid any attention to it. And I think it's only been the last few years since the draft has been aired on TV (up here in Canada at least).
When I was watching I thought, Darko is smiling somewhere.
It was a conference call in the early 2000's.Yeah, the current "least hyped" version is about a thousand times more hyped than it used to be
It was a conference call in the early 2000's.
It's also just not much to pay attention to - everyone knows almost all of these players will be minor league washouts, including the high picks.
It seems the White Sox know how to identify talent, it’s what happens when they get there.All I can say is White Sox have fairly strong recent track record of drafting and developing lefties
Hagen Smith - 2024 1st
Noah Schultz - 2022 1st (looks promising but is years away)
Garrett Crotchet - 2020 1st (Allstar)
Carlos Rodon - 2014 1st (2x Allstar)
Chris Sale - 2010 1st (8x Allstar)
Sox also identified Jose Quintana as someone worth signing after Yankees didn't put him on 40 man and he became FA
Turned out to be coup by Sox scouts on that one
Something weird about the MLB draft is always fanbases will say, when their teams pick a HS guy, "I'm so glad we went for the player with the higher ceiling instead of the proven commodity." What?
Aaron Judge, HR leader. College baseball player. Tarik Skubal. College baseball player. Paul Skenes. College baseball player. Corbin Burnes. College baseball player. Alec Bohm. College baseball player. I'm not making the affirmative argument that college players have higher ceilings, I just think it's a bad and tired refrain.
Something weird about the MLB draft is always fanbases will say, when their teams pick a HS guy, "I'm so glad we went for the player with the higher ceiling instead of the proven commodity." What?
Aaron Judge, HR leader. College baseball player. Tarik Skubal. College baseball player. Paul Skenes. College baseball player. Corbin Burnes. College baseball player. Alec Bohm. College baseball player. I'm not making the affirmative argument that college players have higher ceilings, I just think it's a bad and tired refrain.