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Tristan Beck must have an insane number.

4 college pitchers in 4 picks. Honestly, didn't expect that and probably should have.

Keep forgetting about Toffey. He would have been nice.

He's actually very talented but the injuries have already sapped some of his stuff. Another guy who could end up being an elite reliever if he can't hold up as a starter and another guy with a plus curve. I was making fun of myself for mentioning Jake. The BA guys really like this pick. I think he was highly ranked coming out of HS too.

Wrong Thompson.

Jake Thompson is a great value, at this stage for someone.

I don't know anything about him, but he's ranked 296 by BA. So he'll get drafted. Likely today.

Skoug is about it for a bat that makes sense in the 3rd, for college hitters.

White Sox take Gonzalez.

There goes Allen.

Damn, Enlow gone immediately.

was he an old school overslot or just a great diamond in the rough find? Both, in a way. He wasn't THAT highly ranked, from what I remember. Maybe top 100ish or so? With a bonus in the 500-700k range? Too lazy to look it up.

https://twitter.com/hudsonbelinsky/status/874667844469968896

I'm OK with taking a few college hitters too. The problem though, is the scarcity of them. I don't want to be adding all-defense guys, just to add some position players. We may get lucky and have some semblance of a bat available in the 3rd, but after that, our best bet is an over slot HS kid, of some sort. I'm less convinced about the scarcity. The gap between player #100 and player #300 is far less than the gap between #1 and #100. I trust their evaluations, but at a certain point you don't want to split hairs over miniscule differences in preference when you're hurting for bats. It was no accident that they took pitcher after pitcher in the Top 10 after their high first rounders, I'm suggesting that doing the reverse(but not to that extreme) is worth doing. Yeah, we're splitting hairs. I'm definitely not saying to just not take bats. I'd even go as far as to say that the difference from 100 to 500, is far less than 1 to 100, when it comes to bats. I'm not going to say I want us take more bats than arms today, but if its even, I'll be OK with it.

Can't argue that. But, that way of thinking restricts you to taking college hitters too, which are super sparse, at this point in the draft. If your goal is to replenish prospects in full season ball. Most of what left at this exact point are positionless guys or all glove, no bat types. You've got Amaya, Ademan, maybe Gutierrez and/or Sierra coming up behind our current full season crop too. Its not ideal, but having the young group of position guys in the majors certainly makes it palatable. Ideally, Gonzalez falls to us in the 3rd, but I don't really see it. Most of the HS over slot types are pitchers, maybe Garrett Mitchell doesn't have an insane asking price.....Surely Allen does or he'd be gone. The idea isn't that they need to fill out full season lineups, but that there's an imbalance in the low levels. Sure there's IFA guys who will filter in, but that's always going to happen and they sign IFA pitchers too. HS hitters may be harder to come by because of bonus issues though, in which case, I'm more than okay with several college hitters. I'm OK with taking a few college hitters too. The problem though, is the scarcity of them. I don't want to be adding all-defense guys, just to add some position players. We may get lucky and have some semblance of a bat available in the 3rd, but after that, our best bet is an over slot HS kid, of some sort.

Can't argue that. But, that way of thinking restricts you to taking college hitters too, which are super sparse, at this point in the draft. If your goal is to replenish prospects in full season ball. Most of what left at this exact point are positionless guys or all glove, no bat types. You've got Amaya, Ademan, maybe Gutierrez and/or Sierra coming up behind our current full season crop too. Its not ideal, but having the young group of position guys in the majors certainly makes it palatable. Ideally, Gonzalez falls to us in the 3rd, but I don't really see it. Most of the HS over slot types are pitchers, maybe Garrett Mitchell doesn't have an insane asking price.....Surely Allen does or he'd be gone.

I'm very surprised at what's left and its really hard to tell what we've really got left to spend. If we've spent 5 mill,(my guess) then we've got about 2.8 left to spend total..... Let's say we want Allen or Enlow.....If they're number is 2 mill, it'd basically leave us able to take them in any round obviously, plus slot guys in the 4th and 5th, seniors in 6-10. Or, my personal favorite choice....Draft them in the 3rd, take seniors in rounds 4 and 5, then get slot guys in 6-10. If the number is smaller, you can see how easy it'd be to add a high price guy. Hell, I'm thinking I'd rather take a shot on a few over slots in the 500-700k range, to using it all on one. But, I can easily talk myself into Allen or Enlow at this point, if they made it to us. If we use our 3rd on a slot guy, here's my personal list of favorites..... C Riley Adams OF Luis Gonzalez 2B Riley Mahan SS Zach Rutherford RHP Jake Thompson RHP Blaine Knight RHP Tony Dibrell LHP Daniel Tillo Some other guys I'm interested in on over slots, besides Allen, Enlow, and Tristan Beck.... RHP Matt Tabor LHP Jacob Heatherly OF Garrett Mitchell RHP Chris McMahon RHP Tommy Mace RHP Kyle Hurt LHP Seth Corry LHP Shane Drohan C Steven Williams RHP Sam Keating RHP Hunter Ruth RHP Spencer Strider RHP Jordan Spicer LHP Asa Lacy LHP Riley Widely There's a few more I'm glancing past, I'm sure too. Realistically, I'm actually very surprised we took pitching at all 3 spots so far. I'm kind of suspecting college position players in 2 of the next 3 rounds. But, there's obviously no basis for that.

Not exciting, but seems like a guy that could move fairly quickly thru the system. At least to a point. Little-2.2, Lange-2, Abbot-.500......Just guesses. But, if correct, we've still got 2.7 plus overages to spend. 3-10 slot value for us is right at 2 mill. I definitely think we're trying to save up for something, after this pick.

God, it'd be cool to go over slot here.

https://twitter.com/Savermetrics/status/874465002253451264

So the Yankees under slotted Schmidt and got Sauer too. That's pretty solid.

Baseball players aren't exactly brilliant, based on this case.

If we're at slot right now, we've got 375k to play with for overages and any money we use on senior signs. So, technically, we could still grab a 1.5 mill type at 67. If we use 8-10 on seniors.....

Man, it'd be nice to find Gonzalez available at 67 now.

I really like the pairing of those two together. Very nice combo.