Blue Jays Discussion: Save some runs for the other games, guys. (Jays score team record 28 runs in Friday night drubbing of Red Sox. Yes, that says 28. In one game)
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Woodman19
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Yes and it will go much much faster. We have 3 more picks today to make (Round 2 and our two picks in the Compensation Round between Rounds 2 and 3)
TheMadHatTrick
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The Jays have done well to get value from trades out of prospects they lost faith in. I doubt any of those guys amount to much.
phillipmike
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TheMadHatTrick
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dredeye
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Just watched the video of him on MLB saying does he have the height to remain a starter. Do we have another Stroman coming lol
2022 MLB Draft Order, Slot Values And Bonus Pools For All 30 Teams - Baseball America
2022 SLOT VALUES
Pick: 23
Round: 1
Team: Blue Jays
Slot Value: $3,076,900
2022 SLOT VALUES
Pick: 23
Round: 1
Team: Blue Jays
Slot Value: $3,076,900
AllDay28
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SDig14
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He's 6'2 according to his profile now, seems like he has grown over last year or so. He's like half a foot taller than Stroman already and he's 18 years old.
dredeye
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Phew lol. HDMH never forgetHe's 6'2 according to his profile now, seems like he has grown over last year or so. He's like half a foot taller than Stroman already and he's 18 years old.
Relax big man. It was a joke
thehockeysong
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trellaine201
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LOL the poke at StromanHe's 6'2 according to his profile now, seems like he has grown over last year or so. He's like half a foot taller than Stroman already and he's 18 years old.
SDig14
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All I want is lefty flamethrowers.
Now let's see if anyone falls to 60 if we try to pay up or not.
Now let's see if anyone falls to 60 if we try to pay up or not.
Canada4Gold
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Seems like a pick that could be overslot, which makes it unlikely we target another faller unless we really get punty later in the draft. But I like it.
Few guys still on the board who were tied to us. Doubt they get all the way to 60 but you never know.
Beavers, Toman, Prielipp, Beck
Few guys still on the board who were tied to us. Doubt they get all the way to 60 but you never know.
Beavers, Toman, Prielipp, Beck
TheMadHatTrick
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Pick 60 will be interesting. I'm hoping for any of Misierowski, Prielipp, Pallette (but those last two may be tough given we have to buy Barriera away from Vandy). I'll add Rushing, Walter Ford, Toman, or Melton.
How one pitching prospect could change the MLB draft forever -- by not pitching
Here's what a high school ace's decision to sit out part of his team's season could mean for the future of the draft process.
AROUND THE SAME time that Lesko left a start early with forearm soreness, the prep pitching prospect ranked right behind him was seriously thinking about cutting his own high school season short.
Brandon Barriera, a senior left-hander I ranked 13th in my April draft rankings, was "scout-famous" -- local, regional and national scouts and media have known his name for years. As a freshman, he was into the low 90s playing at American Heritage, a high-profile South Florida school that produced Padres first baseman Eric Hosmer and Red Sox top prospect Triston Casas. I saw Barriera pitch four times last summer, and he had multiple high-profile matchups this spring against pro prospects that drew dozens of scouts.
On April 12, six days after the outing in which Lesko was hurt, Barriera notified scouts that he would be making two more starts, then shutting down for the remainder of the season to prepare for July's MLB draft. (He is committed to play at Vanderbilt if he ends up not signing.) Barriera would still be a part of all team activities, he said, but was effectively skipping one regular-season start and the postseason (which could mean as many as five additional starts). No amateur pitcher had ever made this specific decision.
"I'm doing what's best for myself," Barriera said in an interview with ESPN last month. "You see all the Tommy Johns this year, even for college guys, they were so close. You have to ask yourself if it's worth it."
Although Lesko's injury certainly weighed on him, Barriera said this decision wasn't purely reactionary. "I had been thinking about this for a while," he said. "It wasn't just one morning I came up with it. Every night I was sitting with my parents and talking until we came to a peace about it."
A number of sources I spoke with think that Barriera will be an early domino to entice more pitchers to take their futures more into their own hands, much like college football players skipping their teams' bowl games has become practically the norm. Running backs have only so many hits they can take, pitchers have only so many fastballs in the tank, and we don't know what that number is, so they need to be timed well.
With pitchers throwing harder at younger ages and the incentives to throw nearly year-round, this attrition problem isn't going away. I asked an NL GM how much he'd pay for a magical algorithm that would tell him a pitcher's next five years of health. His answer: "Everything we have."
Eyedea
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Guys between now and the 3rd round can for the most part be interchangeable. Spencer Jones is as good as most of these guys taken in the latter half of the 1st round.
Didn’t expect the Jays to go for prep pitching but if a winter at the Dunedin complex turns Barriera into Tieds 2.0 then they’re on to something.
Longenhagen said they're expected to go well over slot for Barriera, so I wouldn't be surprised if one or two of these next picks tonight is punted to some extent. Should be interesting.
dredeye
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True enough. Baseball prospects are a unique breed of miss but it's just interesting to see how many go way off rankings. Although, there's also a lot of other ranking boards I haven't looked at
phillipmike
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Great pick for the Padres. A few months ago Snelling was a top 15 pick - both Lesko and Snelling were seen as the top 2 pitcher according to some. Preller doesn’t do a lot right but he drafts extremely well.
as Pure as Evil
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would it make more sense to punt the next pick on someone that wont sign so we can get a mulligan next season or will one of the compo picks do the same
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