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1. Tampa Bay Devil Rays - Pedro Alvarez, 1B/LF - Vanderbilt 2. Pittsburgh Pirates - Tim Beckham, SS - Griffin HS (GA) 3. Kansas City Royals - Aaron Crow, RHP - Missouri 4. Baltimore Orioles - Brian Matusz, LHP - San Diego 5. San Francisco Giants - Eric Hosmer, 1B - American Heritage HS (FL) 6. Florida Marlins - Tim Melville, RHP - Holt HS (MO) 7. Cincinnati Reds- Ryan Perry, RHP - Arizona 8. Chicago White Sox - Christian Friedrich, LHP - Eastern Kentucky 9. Washington Nationals - Kyle Skipworth, C - Patriot HS (CA) 10. Houston Astros - Gerrit Cole, RHP - Orange Lutheran HS (CA) 11. Texas Rangers - Alex Meyer, RHP - Greensburg HS (IN) 12. Oakland A's - Justin Smoak, 1B - South Carolina 13. St. Louis Cardinals - Jacob Thompson, RHP - Virginia 14. Minnesota Twins - Harold Martinez, SS/3B - Braddock HS (FL) 15. Los Angeles Dodgers - Aaron Hicks, RHP - Wilson HS (CA) 16. Milwaukee Brewers - Cole St. Clair, LHP - Rice 17. Toronto Blue Jays - Yonder Alonso, 1B - Miami 18. New York Mets- Brett Hunter, RHP - Pepperdine 19. Chicago Cubs- Sonny Gray, RHP - Smyrna HS (TN) 20. Seattle Mariners - Tyson Ross, RHP - Cal

1. Sonny Gray, RHP - Smyrna HS (TN) 2. Michael Palazzone. RHP - Lassiter HS (GA) 3. Isaac Galloway, OF - Los Osos HS (CA) 4. Ethan Martin, 3B - Stephens County HS (GA) 5. Kyle Long, LHP - St. Anne's-Belfield School (VA)

not really but w/e

1. Tampa Bay Devil Rays - Pedro Alvarez, 1B/LF - Vanderbilt 2. Pittsburgh Pirates - Tim Beckham, SS - Griffin HS (GA) 3. Kansas City Royals - Aaron Crow, RHP - Missouri 4. Baltimore Orioles - Brian Matusz, LHP - San Diego 5. San Francisco Giants - Eric Hosmer, 1B - American Heritage HS (FL) 6. Florida Marlins - Tim Melville, RHP - Holt HS (MO) 7. Cincinnati Reds- Ryan Perry, RHP - Arizona 8. Chicago White Sox - Christian Friedrich, LHP - Eastern Kentucky 9. Washington Nationals - Kyle Skipworth, C - Patriot HS (CA) 10. Houston Astros - Gerrit Cole, RHP - Orange Lutheran HS (CA) 11. Texas Rangers - Alex Meyer, RHP - Greensburg HS (IN) 12. Oakland A's - Justin Smoak, 1B - South Carolina 13. St. Louis Cardinals - Jacob Thompson, RHP - Virginia 14. Minnesota Twins - Harold Martinez, SS/3B - Braddock HS (FL) 15. Los Angeles Dodgers - Aaron Hicks, RHP - Wilson HS (CA) Hicks profiles best on the mound, in my opinion. He has tons of projectability, the makings of a plus curveball which may be the best prep version in the draft and a plus fastball. The Dodgers will continue their run on two pitch prep guys.

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1. Tampa Bay Devil Rays - Pedro Alvarez, 1B/LF - Vanderbilt 2. Pittsburgh Pirates - Tim Beckham, SS - Griffin HS (GA) 3. Kansas City Royals - Aaron Crow, RHP - Missouri 4. Baltimore Orioles - Brian Matusz, LHP - San Diego 5. San Francisco Giants - Eric Hosmer, 1B - American Heritage HS (FL) 6. Florida Marlins - Tim Melville, RHP - Holt HS (MO) 7. Cincinnati Reds- Ryan Perry, RHP - Arizona 8. Chicago White Sox - Christian Friedrich, LHP - Eastern Kentucky 9. Washington Nationals - Kyle Skipworth, C - Patriot HS (CA) 10. Houston Astros - Gerrit Cole, RHP - Orange Lutheran HS (CA) 11. Texas Rangers - Alex Meyer, RHP - Greensburg HS (IN) The Rangers would love to continue stockpiling power arms with front of the rotation potential. After drafting Kasey Kiker 12th overall in 2006 they've seen him develop into one of the premier mid-level pitching prospects in the game. Kiker's a true power lefty who projects as a potential #2 starter, although he's a little on the small side. Scott Kazmir is a great comp for him. The 2007 draft saw the Rangers taking three talented prep pitchers. Blake Beavan's a big guy with electric stuff who also profiles as a number 2 starter. Jake Peavys still the best comp for him. They then grabbed Michael Main, whose a tremendous talent and could easily end up at the front of a major league rotation or an elite back end of the pen kind of guy. Neil Ramirez is more of a middle of the rotation guy, but they will probably go power prep arm again. Meyer *may* be the best available, but they'll certainly jump on Cole, Melville if they last. They tend to love the athletic prep pitchers. Aaron Hicks is also a candidate here. Smoak is tough for them to pass up. If he falls, they may jump on him. However, with the A's on the clock. Beane gets his second crack at Smoak, and will certainly take him. If Smoak is gone, the A's could look at Ross, Alonso, but also don't be surprised to see them take a good long hard look at Aaron Hicks. He's the kind of prep pitcher that Beane would pick.

at this point i think the reds would take meyer, melville or cole. the sox have taken pitching extensively in the early rounds the last three years. They havent taken a position player in the first three rounds since 04 with Josh Fields. This year they have to address that and they do have quite the stockpile of decent arms in their system. The offensive side is desolate. theyll go best position player available, regardless of hs/college. theyd probably jump on alonso. the marlins won't go after melville. they'd take cole over him. melville will probably be the matt harvey of this draft. he hasnt signed with boras, but the nc commitment is going to make teams hesitant regardless of who his agent is. cole will be cheaper (and isnt a downgrade really). and with the next pick the astros would scoop up either melville or cole after being MIA for the draft last year.

hilariously for all the obp love. no one mentions he (greene) is a better OBP guy than theriot....and slugs 150-200 higher. you compare greene to SSs nothing else.

1. Tampa Bay Devil Rays - Pedro Alvarez, 1B/LF - Vanderbilt 2. Pittsburgh Pirates - Tim Beckham, SS - Griffin HS (GA) 3. Kansas City Royals - Aaron Crow, RHP - Missouri 4. Baltimore Orioles - Brian Matusz, LHP - San Diego 5. San Francisco Giants - Eric Hosmer, 1B - American Heritage HS (FL) 6. Florida Marlins - Tim Melville, RHP - Holt HS (MO) 7. Cincinnati Reds- Ryan Perry, RHP - Arizona 8. Chicago White Sox - Christian Friedrich, LHP - Eastern Kentucky 9. Washington Nationals - Kyle Skipworth, C - Patriot HS (CA) After two drafts loaded with prep pitching, the Nationals will probably go with a similar draft that they had in 2005. This pick will come down to the best remaining bat, most likely at the prep level. They would love for Hosmer to fall, but he won't. The decision will likely come down to either Harold Martinez or Kyle Skipworth. Skipworth has the tools to stay behind the plate and has impressive power potential - as does Martinez, but the position premium trumps. If the Nats don't believe Skipworth can stick behind the plate, they would go with Martinez.

1. Tampa Bay Devil Rays - Pedro Alvarez, 1B/LF - Vanderbilt 2. Pittsburgh Pirates - Tim Beckham, SS - Griffin HS (GA) 3. Kansas City Royals - Aaron Crow, RHP - Missouri 4. Baltimore Orioles - Brian Matusz, LHP - San Diego 5. San Francisco Giants - Eric Hosmer, 1B - American Heritage HS (FL) The Giants have a pitching laden farm system and a pitching laden major league team. With the exception of Villalona they have no impact power bats on the horizon. Eric Hosmer could be the perfect guy to complete their 2011 infield of Villalona-Burris-Noonan.

Even if he's not highly regarded by major league teams, he's going to be highly regarded by San Diego. They're not the Pirates. They are contenders and they're not going to give away their starting shortstop unless they get a decent replacement one in return and some other stuff. The Padre depth chart at short is 1. Khalil Greene 2. Oscar Robles 3. Luis Rodriguez Last year only two guys played short all season long. Khalil and Geoff Blum. Not only that their best SS prospect pitches (Matt Bush) and their second best SS prospect is an 07 draft pick (Cumberland).

1. Tampa Bay Devil Rays - Pedro Alvarez, 1B/LF - Vanderbilt 2. Pittsburgh Pirates - Tim Beckham, SS - Griffin HS (GA) 3. Kansas City Royals - Aaron Crow, RHP - Missouri FYI: I hope to have my first mock the year done by monday Right now I think the top five will probably go something like this: 1. Rays: {Beckham, Alvarez, Matusz} 2. Pirates: {Alvarez, Beckham, Hosmer} 3. Royals: {Crow, Melville, Matusz} 4. Orioles: {Alvarez, Beckham, Crow, Matusz} 5. Giants: {Alvarez, Beckham, Hosmer, Smoak}

Yeah, he's an interesting case. Mixed results in college, but dominant at the Cape. I think alot of people are (possibly prematurely) projecting him to dominate for Mizzou next season. Similar to Brandon Morrow two years ago. Morrow had a 9+ ERA his sophomore year at Cal. Blew up in the Cape that summer. Continued to mow down hitters the next season (14ks in his first start iirc).

So this year is the year of Robert Stock though

The cherry and pie jokes need to stop. They were lame when they began and they're even worse now. oh wow his name says pie. big deal

Haven't you been paying attention? It's now about a blockbuster Santana-Lincecum-Cain-Bedard-Roberts-Griffey-Crawford-ARod for Patterson-Murton-Cedeno-Gallagher-Marshall-Lieber-Colvin trade Man, I'm glad we're going to get this done without giving up Pie and Hill..... Hendry truly is amazing. Yeah, but is Griffey that much of an upgrade over Pie? He's at least a marginal upgrade over Pie, maybe even a significant upgrade - it just depends on what you define marginal and significant as. He's definitely not a minor upgrade, though. :wink: He's like a -20 defensive CF these days. Pie's at least +10. If we assume a .295 EqA for Griffey (hes done that once in the least four years) and assume a gets enough PT for 400 outs (he hasn't topped that figure in the last NINE seasons), as long as Pie EqA's .250 it's a tie. In other words, if Pie hits like Ryan Theriot he's an upgrade over Griffey in CF. See I don't hate Pie.

i dont think depo would let murton go in that deal...

Nady has 356 career innings in CF. I had hoped you would have known that. Heres the thing about Nady, he has a decent amount of playing time in CF, so someone like Jim Hendry would probably be comfortable platooning him with Pie. However, that time has showed that he is pretty godawful in CF. Not to mention Fukudome has more experience in CF than Nady and is much more than "passable" there.

I would jump at the opportunity to bring him back as an insurance policy for if Soto craps out. We don't want Blanco/Hill now do we.

I see us ending up with Josh Bard.

and more innings at 1B than in CF. Jesus christ.

Wade LeBlanc is a lesser version of Sowers.

The hell is the point of replacing one corner outfielder who won't play with another corner outfielder who won't play? Give me a break man. Tim Stauffer was a #3 at best when he was drafted. I liken him to a better Kyle McCulloch when he was drafted.

Murton + Anything for Greene.

A few pitchers can repeat it. Usually your pitchers that live in on the high side of the strike zone. Barry Zito is one of them. His BABIP magic is real. It's relatively rare. Rich Hill might actually possess it. Lilly to a lesser extent.