MLB Draft, Live

[Jersey Generals]

The draft is starting right now.


Who you got?

Harper? Machado? Taillon?

[SportsWorld]

Harper picked 1st and announced as an outfielder.

[Jersey Generals]

I'm not really surprised by that...they want him up in the bigs asap, and even as an outfielder, he won't be up for at least two years. I mean, he's only 17.

[SportsWorld]

Taillon goes to the Pirates and Muchado goes to the Orioles.

[Jersey Generals]

Taillon going before Machado was a bit of an eyebrow raiser, though Taillon has huge, huge upside.

[Jersey Generals]

Sale should be the pick here for the D-Backs.

[Jersey Generals]

Wow, they went Loux, rather than Josh Sale.

[craig01]

I'm not really surprised by that...they want him up in the bigs asap, and even as an outfielder, he won't be up for at least two years. I mean, he's only 17.

Probably not, as far as getting to the show.

The OF move was totally expected.

[Jersey Generals]

Wow, they went Loux, rather than Josh Sale.

Haha, I realized I said Josh, rather than Chris. Chris Sale was who I thought the D-Backs would pick.

Chris went 13 to the White Sox.

Josh Sale went 17 to the Rays.

[SportsWorld]

The Cubs might have made world history with the biggest reach in any draft's history.

[Jersey Generals]

Yeah, Hayden Simpson is a real head scratcher. He wasn't even in the top 150 of prospects according to Baseball America. They could have gotten him later on if that's who they really wanted.

[Schad]

The Rays had a great first round...Sale, O'Conner and Vettleson is a great haul. Love what the Angels managed to do with their boatload of picks, as well.

[Sebastian]

The Cubs might have made world history with the biggest reach in any draft's history.

That's funny -- I was about to ask if anyone could remember a team reaching this much for a player. Shocking.

Meanwhile, the White Sox get a top 5 talent at 13.

[studcrackers]

just another example of tom hicks f*cking the rangers, we're broke as hell and have to reach on every damn pick we had to sign them. f*cking die in a fire, this was supposed to be the draft to restock the system

[sunshinekids99]

I thought after reading the write ups that the Red Sox did pretty well for themselves. With that said I don't know much of anything about the MLB draft.

[Schad]

I thought after reading the write ups that the Red Sox did pretty well for themselves. With that said I don't know much of anything about the MLB draft.

Red Sox are having a terrific draft, as it sounds like they'll get most of the guys signed. I don't really like Ranaudo's price tag given his struggles this year, but he's a guy that was in top-5 consideration that fell, and it's hard to hate on that. Brentz and Vitek are solid, fairly safe picks, and Workman/Cucchini are excellent value given where they were taken; both fell a little bit based on expected price, but that shouldn't be a problem for the Sox.

[TyCobb]

Absolutely soaked by the Angels draft.

[Rafael122]

They need to move the MLB Draft somewhere. I dunno, maybe at a hall in Cooperstown or something? It looks so cheap having it in a studio and Bud Selig announces the picks like he's in a library reading books to children.

And the O's look like they got their shortstop of the future. About time.