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I'm not sure how experienced the scout is, but one of the Twins bloggers recently wrote that a scout described Buxton as "the best player that he has ever seen play".
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For some reasone Gray really scares me, guys that come out of nowhere their Junior year with volocity being their biggest asset is a red flag in my opinion. He could very well end up an ace, but feels like one of those pitchers who can never put it together as a starter in the majors then has to get moved to the pen and before you know it he is in his late 20s.Appel feels like the safest pick in the draft if you are willing to pay him the money. I'm not sure he will ever be an ace but should be in the majors sometime next year and if everything goes well sure looks like a solid major league starter.Bryant kind of falls in line with Appel in terms of risk for me. Worst case appears he is a major league first baseman that hits for power with an acceptable average. Best case he is able to stay at third and can be an all around hitter in the majors. But like they say in the NBA draft, he has a transferable skill now so that always makes you feel better about risk.
Shocking stat that I learned last night: Only 3 pitchers that were selected #1 overall in the draft are pitching in the Majors currently. David Price, Stephen Strasburg, and... Luke Hochevar.
Edit: I should say it's shocking because a lot of the time, the experts talk about pitchers being the number 1 pick, yet only 3 of them are pitching in the majors right now (and 1 of those 3 is arguably one of the worst starting pitchers in baseball history).
Edit: I should say it's shocking because a lot of the time, the experts talk about pitchers being the number 1 pick, yet only 3 of them are pitching in the majors right now (and 1 of those 3 is arguably one of the worst starting pitchers in baseball history).
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For the Twins I hope either Bryant or Appel fall to them. If Gray falls to them you have to take him and I'll hope this year was when things clicked for him and not some fluke or something else going on and he continues to develop into an ace in a couple years. If all three are gone like they should be I would take Moran or Stewart, I really like both of them. Upside on Stewart is really high, only problem is it will be quite ahile before he could be in the majors. And Moran really feels like he will be a solid third baseman in the majors.
Shockinger stat that I read this week: No player selected #1 in the draft is in the Hall of Fame!
That will likely change in 2016 when Griffey Jr becomes eligible. Chipper Jones becomes eligible the next year.
um, that would be pretty good considering 5 starting pitchers have been taken #1 overall since 2000 and one of them was in 2011 and hasn't been in the minors very long.
List of first overall Major League Baseball draft picks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The "out of nowhere" thing seems a little blown out proportion to me. Gray is a junior and Appel is a senior. Appel was drafted in the 15th round out of high school, and Gray was drafted in the 13th. Appel was considered for the number 1 overall pick as a junior and ended up top 10. Gray is now being considered for number 1 overall as a junior and will be picked top 10. So, it seems like they've actually followed pretty similar paths.
I don't want the Cubs to take a pitcher, because all we are going to hear about is he is the next Mark Prior.
I just don't think the Cubs will take an arm. I think they trust Theo to find them arms at bargain prices.
Which is why I said it's shocking because a lot of the time, you hear experts talk about taking pitchers number 1. Like last year, everyone thought leading up to the draft that Houston would take a pitcher, until a couple of days before where it was leaked they were most likely going to pick Correa.
But thanks for trying to be a condescending ***. Apparently you only want to read part of my post and not all of it.
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Out of nowhere as in his velocity spiked this year compared to last year which has at least in part made him a top 5 pick.After HS he was picked 10th round in '11 out of juco and every report I read is that if he was elgible in '12 there is no way he was on the first round radar. He went from being a first two day pick to a top 5 pick from '12 to '13. That is different than Appel who has been talked about as a future top overall pick since early in his career at Stanford.
Wasn't trying to be condescending. Pitchers don't usually go #1 because hitters are generally safer injury wise. Even the "no doubt" pitchers come with a lot of injury risk.
