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The draft is starting right now.


Who you got?

Harper? Machado? Taillon?

Harper picked 1st and announced as an outfielder.

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.

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

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

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

Wow, they went Loux, rather than Josh Sale.

Jersey Generals wrote: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 wrote: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.

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

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.

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.

SportsWorld wrote: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.

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

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.

sunshinekids99 wrote: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.

Absolutely soaked by the Angels draft.

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.