2019 Draft Thread

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This is one college player I really like and think he will get taken pretty high in next year's draft. His stats are really good for his first two years in college. The problem is his stats in the Cape Cod League aren't that impressive so I wonder how Cubs' scouts and their scouting department feel about him.

 

He also might not stick at 3B and his overall speed isn't great. The bat seems pretty special to me though.

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1. Adley Rutschman, C, Oregon State

2. Andrew Vaughn, 1B, California

3. Shea Langeliers, C, Baylor

4. Graeme Stinson, LHP, Duke

5. Josh Jung, 3B, Texas Tech

6. Carter Stewart, RHP, Eastern Florida State

7. Zack Thompson, LHP, Kentucky

8. Nick Lodolo, LHP, TCU

9. Alek Manoah, RHP, West Virginia

10. Bryson Stott, SS, UNLV

 

Huh, I didn't know Carter Stewart is going to Eastern Florida State. I'm assuming this is a junior college so this should allow him to re-enter the draft in 2019. I'm surprised he didn't go to Chipola junior college or some other well-known JC.

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The Cubs have the 28th pick in next year's draft.

[Tim]

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The Cubs have the 28th pick in next year's draft.

Tomorrow's game will decide between 27th and 28th. Game 163 will be part of the regular season record.

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The Cubs have the 28th pick in next year's draft.

Tomorrow's game will decide between 27th and 28th. Game 163 will be part of the regular season record.

 

Oh right. Good catch.

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Cubs have the 27th pick.

 

Looking at last year's MLB draft slots and pool amounts right now. The Nats picked 27th last year and that draft slot was $2,472,700. Assuming the pool amounts increase a little bit the Cubs total draft pool should be around $5.75 mil.

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Time to feel old again: Craig Hodges' son is a prep prospect expected to be picked high in the 2019 draft.

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From the latest chat on Fangraphs:

 

Kiley McDaniel: Manoah is a big dude that showed big stuff on the Cape but needs to watch the frame and looks like a reliever. Lodolo is one of a handful of guys that we would move up now, but we’ll wait for a couple fall events to occur to make an update. He threw harder in a scrimmage this week. We had him lower bc he’d been mostly 88-91, touching 92 or 93 just like in HS two years ago and that’s where we’d rank that guy. If he’s consistently 91-94 like he was this week, then he’s in the top 30. Jason Hodges (HS LF, Illinois) is another guy that probably moves up and Michael Harris (HS LHP/RF, Georgia) would move on the list.

 

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Kiley McDaniel: and for the hoops fans, Jason is the son of Craig Hodges from the MJ Bulls teams

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Time to feel old again: Craig Hodges' son is a prep prospect expected to be picked high in the 2019 draft.

 

 

Being Hodges' kid, hopefully he's not a flamethrower....

 

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Geez, this kid is a beast. I guess the A's are planning on taking him in the 1st round next year lol.

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We know the Cubs like UVA players/pitchers and scout them well.

 

He was eligible for this year's draft, but sent a letter asking teams not to draft him. I think he could've gone in the late 1st round/early-mid 2nd round area. He'll be eligible for the 2021 draft. I think his fastball was better in HS. That's not great velocity for a SP, but maybe he's just taking it easy and building up arm strength. Should be a high draft pick in a few years.

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Hope he stays healthy and gets paid in 2021.

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So the Cubs drafted players with the last name Hoerner and Roederer. This Fitterer guy seems to fit (no pun intended) that pattern...

 

No clue where he's rated among prep prospects. Good arm and a nice delivery.

 

EDIT: He's committed to UCLA so I'm sure Raisin knows more about him.

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There is so much content available now on draft prospects. It's kinda crazy. The 2018 WWBA World Championship event just took place and there were so many elite HS players/pitchers.

 

This kid seems pretty interesting, but I could list a bunch right now. Good, simple delivery and I think he's very projectable:

 

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Reggie Crawford (2019, Frackville, Pa.) has made some serious noise in the past few months as a physical lefthanded pitching prospect who has reached as high as 94 mph with his fastball at PG events. He got the ball for Blackhawks National on Thursday in their opening game of the WWBA World Championship and didn’t disappoint, shutting out Palm Beach Select over 3 1/3 innings, scattering three hits and a walk while picking up four strikeouts. Crawford has excellent size, looking every bit of his listed 6-foot-4, 206-pounds. There’s a fair amount of looseness to his arm stroke to go along with above average arm speed, and he sat in the 88-91 mph range for the most part with his fastball, creating outstanding angles to the plate from a very extended three-quarters slot. His best pitches of the outing came on fastballs located to his glove side against righthanded hitters, an almost impossible pitch to hit given the angle it comes in at. The breaking ball will need improvement, but if there’s one thing we’ve learned about the UConn coaching staff over the past few years it’s that they have no trouble teaching talented lefthanders how to spin the baseball. -- Brian Sakowski

 

Rece Hinds is already a top prospect leading up to the 2019 MLB draft. Tremendous power, but he has a good swing as well:

 

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Moving from one of the better hit tools in the class to Rece Hinds (2019, Niceville, Fla.), who has almost inarguably the best power in the prep ranks, as the LSU commit had himself a big afternoon during an opening win for the East Coast Sox. By now Hinds is one of the most well-known prospects for this year’s high school class of draft-eligible prospects, and he’s hard to miss at a super-physical 6-foot-4 and 210-pounds as the No. 7 overall prospect, and the main reason for this is his prodigious power. He has double-plus raw power, and the ball carries like no other to all fields and what he showed during this game wasn’t just his ability to impact the baseball, but the ability to drive the ball with power to the opposite field. After getting down 0-2 early in the count, Hinds fouled off a couple tough pitches until he drove a 90 mph fastball deep to the opposite field and carried out with an exit velocity of 99 mph. The East Coast Sox are a must watch with the amount of talent they have, and Hinds certainly added to that entertainment value with a long home run and a couple of knocks on the day. -- Vinnie Cervino

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I don't understand the point of doing a mock draft this early, but they're fun to look at I guess. This one isn't terrible and they contain short blurbs on the players.

 

In this mock draft they have the Cubs taking 3B/1B Brett Baty. Yes, his last name is Baty and I know next to nothing about this prospect.

 

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I don't understand the point of doing a mock draft this early, but they're fun to look at I guess. This one isn't terrible and they contain short blurbs on the players.

 

In this mock draft they have the Cubs taking 3B/1B Brett Baty. Yes, his last name is Baty and I know next to nothing about this prospect.

 

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Clickbait. Any mock before May 1st is clickbait.

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I don't understand the point of doing a mock draft this early, but they're fun to look at I guess. This one isn't terrible and they contain short blurbs on the players.

 

In this mock draft they have the Cubs taking 3B/1B Brett Baty. Yes, his last name is Baty and I know next to nothing about this prospect.

 

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Clickbait. Any mock before May 1st is clickbait.

 

Yeah, I agree with that idea, but there are good useful mock drafts before May 1st. I think in the spring once college baseball gets going and once more information is available then the mock drafts start becoming better.

 

This one is pretty good, and that's why I included it here. I've seen some really terrible ones online (or at least I think they're terrible and way off).

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Yeah, it’s obviously going to be wildly inaccurate but I always eat up early mocks because they’re fun and provide a picture of a certain scenario.

 

Not that it matters, I fully expect the Cubs to lose their first round pick for signing Bryce.

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Yeah, it’s obviously going to be wildly inaccurate but I always eat up early mocks because they’re fun and provide a picture of a certain scenario.

 

Not that it matters, I fully expect the Cubs to lose their first round pick for signing Bryce.

 

Again, I'm almost positive the Cubs will NOT lose their first round pick for signing Bryce Harper (after he receives the QO from the Nats). I'm pretty sure I'm right. I'm doubting myself because multiple posters here keep saying this...

 

I believe the Cubs would lose their 2nd round pick + $500K in IFA money for the next signing period. If they finished the season over the luxury tax threshold I believe they would lose their 2nd round and 5th round picks + $1 mil in IFA money. I don't think the Cubs finished the season over the luxury tax and just managed to stay underneath it.

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Yeah, it’s obviously going to be wildly inaccurate but I always eat up early mocks because they’re fun and provide a picture of a certain scenario.

 

Not that it matters, I fully expect the Cubs to lose their first round pick for signing Bryce.

 

Again, I'm almost positive the Cubs will NOT lose their first round pick for signing Bryce Harper (after he receives the QO from the Nats). I'm pretty sure I'm right. I'm doubting myself because multiple posters here keep saying this...

 

I believe the Cubs would lose their 2nd round pick + $500K in IFA money for the next signing period. If they finished the season over the luxury tax threshold I believe they would lose their 2nd round and 5th round picks + $1 mil in IFA money. I don't think the Cubs finished the season over the luxury tax and just managed to stay underneath it.

 

Yes, the Cubs finished below the luxury tax this year. Guess it’s time for me to research the CBA stuff, I might be operating on old information from the Heyward/Lackey offseason.

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I was looking up more info on Brett Baty and came across this old tweet lol:

 

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Mock draft: https://www.baseballamerica.com/rankings/mlb-mock-draft/

 

27 Cubs: Kameron Misner Missouri OF

 

Why It Makes Sense: The Cubs built their team on the back of productive college bats selected early in the draft, and Misner has a track record of hitting in the Southeastern Conference that stacks up with anyone. He’s coming off of a .360/.497/.576 campaign that would have been even more impressive if not for a foot injury that cut his season short by six weeks. Misner also has a solid wood bat track record and showed he could hit for power without aluminum in his hands when he hit eight home runs in 38 games during the summer of 2017 in the New England Collegiate League.

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I don’t have BA subscription. Can you post the top 10? Thanks