2014 Draft Discussion

[davell]

Technically, he'd give us flexibility. Wouldn't have to carry a backup C. He could play there once a week and LF the rest of the time, which would be kind of cool.

 

Hopefully we hear money on this soon.

 

I bet you'd still carry a backup catcher. I really can't see a team letting their second catcher be a guy playing the field every day.

 

I don't think you'd have to. Just have that Baker/Whitesides waste of a roster type guy in AAA, in case there needed.

[mul21]

I want Nola.

 

if you want a good future relief pitcher

 

Would you have said the same thing after the Cards drafted Wacha?

[ScrubMD]

Castro, Rizzo, Bryant, Baez, Soler, Schwarber.....hard as a rock.

[Guest]

these guys are a-holes

[rawaction]

Cubs could have a [expletive] of power in the not too distant future.

[Guest]

Schwarber is not a Vogelbach body.

 

He's a Big 10 middle linebacker in a baseball uniform.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Everyone needs to shut up forever trying to project us getting long-term rotation solutions until they are *actually* in the system. We didn't get one at No. 2 2013, we didn't get one in the Garza trade, we didn't get one No. 4 in 2014.

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Schwarber is not a Vogelbach body.

 

He's a Big 10 middle linebacker in a baseball uniform.

 

That's what makes him the good version.

[Guest]

Everyone needs to shut up forever trying to project us getting long-term rotation solutions until they are *actually* in the system. We didn't get one at No. 2 2013, we didn't get one in the Garza trade, we didn't get one No. 4 in 2014.

I still have faith in CJ

[imb]

the low rent nature of this draft is hilarious every year

[davell]

Law brought up Flaherty again for us at 45. So did Mark Gonzalez.

[Fro]

\:D/ :yahoo: :clapping:

 

Really excited. I think it's a slam dunk that he'll be a productive big leaguer (again, full disclosure, I'm an IU alum & lifelong IU fan).

[imb]

the low rent nature of this draft is hilarious every year

 

picked number 5th

[Hairyducked Idiot]

Everyone needs to shut up forever trying to project us getting long-term rotation solutions until they are *actually* in the system. We didn't get one at No. 2 2013, we didn't get one in the Garza trade, we didn't get one No. 4 in 2014.

I still have faith in CJ

 

So do I. He's gonna make a lights-out reliever.

[HendryWallet]

Like it.

[KingCubsFan]

the low rent nature of this draft is hilarious every year

 

picked number 5th

Glad I'm not the only one who caught that.

[CyHawk_Cub]

Yay. We get to watch the big club suck balls so we can draft near the top, and then the FO decides to....under-slot. So much for "McLeod LOVES Alex Jackson."

[jumbo]

the low rent nature of this draft is hilarious every year

 

picked number 5th

Glad I'm not the only one who caught that.

 

my wife: picked number fifth!

me: we can change it now

[A New Era]

Petition to nickname Schwarber "Good Vogelbach"

 

Lol I thought this to myself earlier. I hope he's the "much much better Vogelbach". Time will tell I guess. If his bat works we have quite the wave of big bats.

[Bruno7481]

Not sure if it played any role or not, but Indiana's baseball coach Tracy Smith is a former Cubs minor leaguer and the a cubs sent him to MLB scout school after his playing career.

[imb]

http://i.imgur.com/tU67VVW.jpg

[witty alias]

MLBN just showed the Cubs last few 1st round picks. That Hayden Simpson pick was brutal. Could have had Yelich, Syndergaard, Ranaudo, Walker, Castellanos, Gyroko, Smyly, Simmons.

[Guest]

the low rent nature of this draft is hilarious every year

 

picked number 5th

 

Los Angeleeze

[Guest]

Lol The first thing Harold said about Gordon was that he grew up in the dugout

[Brian]

Yay. We get to watch the big club suck balls so we can draft near the top, and then the FO decides to....under-slot. So much for "McLeod LOVES Alex Jackson."

 

I'm no expert but I call under slotting (if it even what this will be) what some experts are calling the best bat in the draft a great thing.