2024 MLB Draft Day 2 Thread

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Tryptamine]

There's your 5th year SR under slot

[Rob]

9 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

One would think that they have enough saved to pop a pretty big name, no?

Depends. Wetherholt could have been asking the moon. He was in consideration at 1.1, after all.

[Hrubes20]

Dang.  Red Sox popped Cason in the 8th.  I really like that kid's upside.  

[Tryptamine]

Edgar Alvarez did have an 1.192 OPS at Nicholls stat. 18.4BB%, 11.11k%, .405/.514/.678 slash.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

4 minutes ago, Rob said:

Depends. Wetherholt could have been asking the moon. He was in consideration at 1.1, after all.

Also they didn't have a comp or 2nd rounder, so the magnitude of savings beyond potentially Wetherholt(who has decently strong leverage at 7) only adds up to so much.

[sneakypower]

7 minutes ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

 

oh no how can we prevent tom from reading that write-up

[Tryptamine]

Safe to assume Carson Wiggins is going to school at this point?

[Bertz]

Definitely feels like they're saving money for someone.  Not sure if they're popping someone fun in the 11th or maybe Cam Smith required more than slot, but I'd be very surprised if these guys ranked outside of the top 200-300 aren't collectively well under slot (even if one or two of them aren't).

[CaliforniaRaisin]

 

[Irrelevant Dude]

Remember when the Cubs only drafted SS's? 

Now, they only draft corner infielders who are unlikely to stick at any position outside of 1B/DH.

[CaliforniaRaisin]

Did the White Sox pull a Vikings and miss their pick?

[CaliforniaRaisin]

9th rounder is RHP Brooks Caple, Lamar (a senior).

[CaliforniaRaisin]

10th rounder is 3B Matt Hallbach from UCSD

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Halbach seems like more fun than your average 10th round college pick.  Hit really well in the Cape but missed most of the college season (I'm assuming due to injury).  Also he makes 3 Big West signings in 10 picks with the UCSB guys.

[Tryptamine]

Hot take, but I rather hate this draft. 

[Hrubes20]

1 minute ago, Transmogrified Tiger said:

Halbach seems like more fun than your average 10th round college pick.  Hit really well in the Cape but missed most of the college season (I'm assuming due to injury).  Also he makes 3 Big West signings in 10 picks with the UCSB guys.

I was going to say the same thing, and add that he doesn't look like a guy who would take underslot.  Cubs really do love them some Cape Cod performers.

[Rcal10]

Don’t really understand this draft. Appear to be many underslot picks. But for what? For who? Or are the Cubs now going to go cheap in the draft? That was never a concern since Theo got here. But after seeing these picks, who are they spending the money on. It does not appear the publications who do rankings agree with most of the guys the Cubs picked. To be clear, I don’t know any of those guys. I am just basing my comment on how many are either not ranked in the top 500, or are picked way before where they are ranked. Maybe 1908 or someone else who really follows theee guys can explain why it appears the Cubs too so many guys way before they were projected. 

Edited July 15, 2024 by Rcal10

[Hrubes20]

Just now, Rcal10 said:

Don’t really understand this draft. Appear to be many underslot picks. But for what? For who? Or are the Cubs now going to go cheap in the draft? That was never a concern since Theo got here. But after seeing these picks, who are they spending the money on. It does not appear the publications who do rankings agree with most of the guys the Cubs picked. To be clear, I don’t know any of those guys. I am just basing my comment on how many are either not ranked in the top 500, or are picked way before where they are ranked. 

Yeah, it's clearly a draft where the braintrust does not agree at all with the public rankings.  I wonder if Southisene is going to be taking a bunch of the overslot funds.  Tennessee just won the NC and I could see it costing a fair bit to buy him out.

[Outshined_One]

3 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

Hot take, but I rather hate this draft. 

They were picking mid-round without any extra picks in what has generally been seen as a mediocre draft overall.  I didn't come into today with high hopes, but I actually didn't mind that they targeted EVs and swing speed guys, since this system hasn't exactly been great at churning out power bats,

It's possible they pop someone like Wiggins or Franco tomorrow to spice things up, but we'll see.

[Stratos]

2nd and 3rd round picks sound pretty lame.

[stitchface]

from a names standpoint, it's very high quality. Cam Smith and Brooks Caple are HOF type names

 

[Eeyore]

Let's get on the interwebs and search for good things about these kids so that we can convince ourselves that it wasn't that bad of a draft 

Edited July 15, 2024 by Eeyore

[stitchface]

15 minutes ago, Eeyore said:

Let's get on the interwebs and search for good things about these kids so that we can convince ourselves that it wasn't that bad of a draft 

what were you expecting? Seems like the Cubs targeted players they believe may develop. Couldn't really expect a bunch of known superstars.

[Cubs420psd]

55 minutes ago, Tryptamine said:

Hot take, but I rather hate this draft. 

Don't like them not taking an arm in round 2.