GDT: 2024 MLB draft

[Marc the Habs Fan]

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.

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[Marc the Habs Fan]

Guardians select at #1: Travis Bazzana

First time a 2B goes 1st overall, apparently.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

RHP Burns goes #2 to the Reds.

 

[Ben Grimm]

Wow! I realize signing bonus demands are a factor in draft order. I like Burns but didn't think he'd go #2.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

The team that refuses to make trades selects at #3: OF Charlie Condon

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

That A's fan did NOT like that Kurtz pick and then he realized he was on camera, lol.

 

[SoupNazi]

That A's fan did NOT like that Kurtz pick and then he realized he was on camera, lol.

That was hysterical.

 

[John Price]

Pirates draft Konnor Griffin

 

[No Fun Shogun]

The MLB draft has to be absolutely the least hyped thing in all of sports.

 

[darko]

Guardians select at #1: Travis Bazzana

First time a 2B goes 1st overall, apparently.

Aussie Aussie Aussie

 

[squashmaple]

Guards fan here who wanted Condon because big boom, but can't deny that Bazzana feels like Cleveland designed him in a lab. I grew up a baseball fan, but I stopped watching after the 2016 World Series and only just got back into it last season. It feels almost alien to me now.

 

[td_ice]

Aussie Aussie Aussie

When I was watching I thought, Darko is smiling somewhere.

 

[TheTotalPackage]

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).

 

[Unholy Diver]

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).

Yeah, the current "least hyped" version is about a thousand times more hyped than it used to be

 

[darko]

When I was watching I thought, Darko is smiling somewhere.

I was. Didn't think I was going to see it in my lifetime.

 

[Cas]

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.

 

[Unholy Diver]

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.

That and people just don't know these guys like they do the NFL and NBA draft prospects, College BB is more popular than it used to be, but still way way behind the other two sports

 

[kabidjan18]

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.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

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

 

[GKJ]

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

It seems the White Sox know how to identify talent, it’s what happens when they get there.

 

[HoseEmDown]

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.

Bobby Witt, CJ Abrams, Riley Greene, Corbin Carroll and Gunner Henderson all from high school in just 1 draft alone. The MLB draft is the most unpredictable draft of any of the major leagues. So you can't just say College players are the way to go and avoid high school and vce versa. College pitching seems to definitely be a better way to go than high school so I would lean that way if I was drafting but position players it's 50/50. Also those names I mentioned are all around the age those names you mentioned when they were drafted. So if you hit on a kid you get him in the show at a much younger age. Some of these College kids aren't hitting the majors till mid to late 20's.

 

[darko]

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.

Greatest player of this generation Mike Trout was drafted out of high school. It's a crap shoot.