2012 Draft Day Thread + Cubs Picks Discussion

[Tryptamine]

Being completely unrealisitc, but if Giolito is considered too risky/unsignable can he slide all the way to #43? Do you spend the rest of your cash to get him and deal with the rest of the draft being trash?

[Guest]

Being completely unrealisitc, but if Giolito is considered too risky/unsignable can he slide all the way to #43? Do you spend the rest of your cash to get him and deal with the rest of the draft being trash?

I'd be on the phone with him now and suggest that the track record of kids who turn down a guaranteed $1M isn't so good.

[Exile on Waveland]

Woohoo we drafted Michael Borne

 

I'd be thrilled if he becomes as good as Michael Bourn. This ain't the NBA draft.

[UMFan83]

My guess is the Pirates just decided they're the team that's taking the penalties this year.

 

Or they are gambling that Appel won't refuse to sign and sit out a year? It will be very interesting to see who wins battles like this in the new draft environment, the agent or the team. Previously, the team had nothing but their own budget stopping them from caving to get the kid signed.

Edited June 5, 2012 by UMFan83

[Guest]

That said...

 

He's going to college unless someone like the Blue Jays take him and then allocate money from quite a few picks to him.

[Guest]

CHICAGO – The Chicago Cubs tonight selected outfielder Albert Almora out of Mater Academy Charter in Hialeah Gardens, Fla., with the sixth overall pick in the 2012 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft.

 

Almora was recommended by area scout John Koronka.

 

“We scouted Albert extensively throughout his career and he fit the criteria we were looking for,” said Jason McLeod, Cubs Vice President of Scouting and Player Development. “He has multiple tools across the board, and an incredible work ethic. We are looking forward to seeing him start his career.”

 

Almora, 18, was named by Baseball America as the second-best outfielder available in the draft, and the third-best high school player in the 2012 draft class. In addition, the publication ranked him as the best defensive player and the second-best pure hitter with the third-best strike zone judgment among high school eligible players in the draft.

 

The six-foot-two, 180-pound Almora batted .603 (44-for-73) with 13 doubles, five triples, six home runs and 34 RBI in 25 games for Mater Academy last season. He recorded a 1.164 slugging percentage and a .667 on-base percentage thanks in part to 14 walks compared to just three strikeouts in 87 plate appearances. Almora, who made the Mater varsity squad as an eighth-grader in 2008, last season stole 24 bases in 25 attempts.

 

Almora, who bats and throws right-handed, has an extensive resume with Team USA Baseball. In 2011, he was named USA Baseball’s Athlete of the Year after helping the 18-under squad go 9-0 and earn the gold medal in the Pan-Am Games, an event in which he was named tournament MVP. He has been part of six USA national teams, tied for the most by any player with former major league catcher A.J. Hinch, and has earned five gold medals.

 

Almora committed to the University of Miami. He is the cousin of Baltimore’s 2010 first-round pick (third selection overall) Manny Machado.

 

The 2012 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft continues this evening with the compensation round, in which the Cubs have pick No. 43 (compensation for Aramis Ramirez) and No. 56 (compensation for Carlos Peña). The draft proceeds tomorrow with rounds two-through-15 and concludes Wednesday with rounds 16-through-40.

There's so much goodness there.

[sneakypower]

John Koronka?!?

[Little Slide Rooter]

Woohoo we drafted Michael Borne

 

Michael Bourn is really good

 

If a guy ends up becoming another Micael Bourn, that's fine, but if we're talking the ceiling for a 5 tool top 10 pick, shouldn't we be aiming a touch higher? Say Shane Victorino, Austin Jackson or even vintage Grady Sizemore?

[Guest]

John Koronka?!?

Yup. Same guy.

[Brian]

THAT John Koronka or another John Koronka?

 

I was at John Kornoka's major league debut.

[Brian]

I also believe John Koronka is immortalized in the Cubs Legends box set as the starting pitcher of the game they chose for Derrek Lee to represent his crazy season.

[EhDubya]

I also believe John Koronka is immortalized in the Cubs Legends box set as the starting pitcher of the game they chose for Derrek Lee to represent his crazy season.

 

Wut

[Brian]

I also believe John Koronka is immortalized in the Cubs Legends box set as the starting pitcher of the game they chose for Derrek Lee to represent his crazy season.

 

Wut

 

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515kxDpTznL.jpg

[Guest]

I also believe John Koronka is immortalized in the Cubs Legends box set as the starting pitcher of the game they chose for Derrek Lee to represent his crazy season.

 

Wut

 

 

DVD set has a DLee game from 2005... i think the crazy 5/5 game

[Guest]

Woohoo we drafted Michael Borne

 

Michael Bourn is really good

 

If a guy ends up becoming another Micael Bourn, that's fine, but if we're talking the ceiling for a 5 tool top 10 pick, shouldn't we be aiming a touch higher? Say Shane Victorino, Austin Jackson or even vintage Grady Sizemore?

 

 

Michael Bourn has been worth 4+ wins (almost 5 in two of them) the last 3 seasons and this year is already at 3.1

[Vinestal]

Are they televising the entire supplemental round? I'm happy with the Cubs pick I guess, Almora looks solid.

[Sammys Boombox]

List of the Cubs first picks since the draft began. Just in case anybody else was wanting to take a look.

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/draft/history/_/team/chc

[imb]

Just got home. Like everyone else, I wanted Correa, but Almora is a nice consolation prize. Michael Bourn with less speed and more power sounds effing awesome.

[davell]

I asked Chris Crawford of MLBDraftInsider if 300/375/475 and 20/20 was too unrealistic for Almora's prime and he said no, not at all. Kiley McDaniel has thrown out Beltran as a comp and KG and Law both like him more than Baez. Kind of hard not to be excited on some level.

[davell]

Are they televising the entire supplemental round? I'm happy with the Cubs pick I guess, Almora looks solid.

Yep.

[El Duderino]

Is Almora going to go to Peoria or Boise?

[CubsInNC]

List of the Cubs first picks since the draft began. Just in case anybody else was wanting to take a look.

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/draft/history/_/team/chc

 

 

I wonder how that sad list of names compares to other teams percentages of successful first rounders.

[Guest]

Is Almora going to go to Peoria or Boise?

Mesa.

[Guancous]

Woohoo we drafted Michael Borne

 

Michael Bourn is really good

 

If a guy ends up becoming another Micael Bourn, that's fine, but if we're talking the ceiling for a 5 tool top 10 pick, shouldn't we be aiming a touch higher? Say Shane Victorino, Austin Jackson or even vintage Grady Sizemore?

 

 

Michael Bourn has been worth 4+ wins (almost 5 in two of them) the last 3 seasons and this year is already at 3.1

 

If Almora has Bourn's career that would make him one of the best #6 overall picks of all time.

[Irrelevant Dude]

List of the Cubs first picks since the draft began. Just in case anybody else was wanting to take a look.

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/draft/history/_/team/chc

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Edited June 5, 2012 by Irrelevant Dude