2013 Draft Discussion

[Guest]

Kiley McDaniel with an in depth breakdown of what is likely Mark Appel's best start ever: http://sbb.scout.com/2/1270307.html

 

He highlights a lot of things different from his normal starts, identifying many scouts' complaints from last season.

[Guest]

FYI, McLeod was at Manaea's dominant start last Friday.

[Guest]

Indiana State snowed out, no Sean Manaea today. Hopefully the weather will cooperate and he'll go tomorrow.

[davell]

Austin Kubitza vs Kent Emanuel going on right now. Both guys could be inside the 2-3 round range.

[Guest]

Kubitza is back working in the 80s. He was in the low 90s against Stanford a few weeks ago (and during his freshman year).

 

I'm not very interested in him in round 2 if his velocity isn't back and consistent.

[davell]

Scott Frazier-Dillon Overton matchup today as well, but both have been rocked. Overton has pitched himself into the 1st round, hard throwing lefty, that I'd love to see drop.

[Guest]

Kiley McDaniel is at Chris Anderson's (Jacksonville) game. Wonder how much higher his stock can go? I'm guessing he's nearly a top 15 prospect overall now.

[Guest]

Phillip Ervin with 2 HRs today for Samford.

[Guest]

Ziomek with a complete game 1-hitter with 15 Ks in a light but steady snow.

[davell]

Love Ziomek, but that was against pretty weak competition. At any rate, he's pitched himself out of our range. He's likely a top 30 pick right now, I'd think.

[Guest]

Love Ziomek, but that was against pretty weak competition. At any rate, he's pitched himself out of our range. He's likely a top 30 pick right now, I'd think.

 

Definitely has.

[Guest]

Appel with a no-hitter through 5, 8 Ks. Against a quality opponent too, Texas.

[Guest]

And Trevor Williams goes the distance, striking his last batter out with a 96 mph FB.

[davell]

Tony Rizzotti K'd 10 in 7 shutout innings today. He'd be a very solid guy in the 2nd, again, if he hasn't worked his way past that.

[Guest]

Appel lost his no-hitter on a very questionable scorer's decision in the 6th. Still scoreless and now 12 Ks.

[davell]

To me, a factor in picking 2nd is we have lots of leverage with whoever we pick. It's a million dollar discrepancy from 2nd to 3rd. If we're negotiating, just hold it over the players head a bit and you should be able to sign your guy at least a tad under slot. At 3, if the team used their entire 3rd pick allotment and the overslot for their entire draft, its still coming up around 500k short of just our 2nd pick allotment. It should be a way to get our guy to agree very early, because it won't be like Almora. Who could have used the "I can possibly make 3 mill more approach" by going to college. Its one million at this pick and I doubt the risk outweighs the reward.

[Guest]

Appel gets the CG shutout, a 3-hitter with 14 Ks (tying a career high).

[Redfoot]

Marco Gonzales: 9 IP 8 H 0 R 0 BB 9K's against a very good Arkansas team.

[Tryptamine]

Never been a big Appel fan, but I'm slowly being converted.

[Cubswin11]

Never been a big Appel fan, but I'm slowly being converted.

Same

[Guest]

Clint Frazier hit a HR yesterday. Here's the video of it:

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Appel gets the CG shutout, a 3-hitter with 14 Ks (tying a career high).

 

*hops on the bandwagon*

[Guest]

Manaea today: 4+ IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 6 K

[Cubswin11]

Manaea today: 4+ IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 6 K

Not terrible taking everything into account. If they got snowed out yesterday I have to imagine it was below 40 degrees at game time and not ideal conditions.

[Guest]

Manaea today: 4+ IP, 4 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 6 K

Not terrible taking everything into account. If they got snowed out yesterday I have to imagine it was below 40 degrees at game time and not ideal conditions.

 

Sounds like it: high of 38, low of 33 today in Huntsville, Alabama.