The Official 2008 Draft Thread

[Jose7]

Anyway Hosmer drops to 18 being a Boras client?

[bigboy1234]

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[A.J.]

I will update each pick

1st round and Sandwich picks

(1) Tampa Bay Rays:
(2) Pittsburgh Pirates:
(3) Kansas City Royals:
(4) Baltimore Orioles:
(5) San Francisco Giants:
(6) Florida Marlins:
(7) Cincinnati Reds:
(8) Chicago White Sox:
(9) Washington Nationals:
(10) Houston Astros:
(11) Texas Rangers:
(12) Oakland Athletics:
(13) St. Louis Cardinals:
(14) Minnesota Twins:
(15) Los Angeles Dodgers:
(16) Milwaukee Brewers:
(17) Toronto Blue Jays:
(18) New York Mets:
(19) Chicago Cubs:
(20) Seattle Mariners:
(21) Detroit Tigers:
(22) New York Mets:
(23) San Diego Padres:
(24) Philadelphia Phillies:
(25) Colorado Rockies:
(26) Arizona Diamondbacks:
(27) Minnesota Twins:
(28) New York Yankees:
(29) Cleveland Indians:
(30) Boston Red Sox:

(31) Minnesota Twins:
(32) Milwaukee Brewers:
(33) New York Mets:
(34) Philadelphia Phillies:
(35) Milwaukee Brewers:
(36) Kansas City Royals:
(37) San Francisco Giants:
(38) Houston Astros:
(39) St. Louis Cardinals:
(40) Atlanta Braves:
(41) Chicago Cubs:
(42) San Diego Padres:
(43) Arizona Diamondbacks:
(44) New York Yankees:
(45) Boston Red Sox:
(46) San Diego Padres:

[Chach]

I don't see Hosmer dropping out of the top 10. Teams are pretty intent on blowing up this slotting system this year and if Alvarez is gone at 3, the Royals have a mega hard on for Hosmer so he's their pick.

Word last night was that Posey is looking for a $12 million bonus. No, that is not a mistake, twelve million. He wants to absolutely blow Wieters record out of the water. If I am Tampa, I'd consider taking him and forcing him to accept a reasonable offer and if he doesn't take it, they get the #2 overall pick next year. Of course, I don't really like Posey at 1:1, I'd rather take Beckman but if you are intent on taking Posey, who profiles as an above average starting catcher, first overall, call his bluff. The new draft compensation system makes it a lot easier to swallow. Tampa has the best system in baseball to begin with and next year's draft has some early indications of being superior to this year's so I don't see an issue. mahalo
~Chach~

[Jose7]

Bud wanted to say Devil Rays so bad.

[A.J.]

So much for me predicting Posey to the Rays lol.

[SportsWorld]

Keep dropping Buster. Come to the Cubs

[A.J.]

Posey to the Giants?

[A.J.]

Skipworth is gone.

I was hoping he fell to us.

[A.J.]

Beckham is gone.

crap.

[A.J.]

We got our guy in Castro.

[NH_soxfan14]

The sox did exactly what i wanted. They picked Ryan Westmoreland and landed a couple of great prospects that fell like a rock. In the 20th round (pick 622) they picked up Alex Meyer, RHP. He was ranked by Baseball America as the #25 overall prospect. His agent is Scott Boras. They also picked up Efrin Oropesa, 1B. They got him in the 24th round (pick 742). Oropesa was ranked as the #108 overall prospect by BA.