MLB Draft Tonight

[SportsWorld]

Just Hendry's way of leaving dog crap before he's fired. #191 on Baseball America's board. AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

[ChronicKerr]

What a joke

[SportsWorld]

I've had it with this organization. Nobody on MLB Network even knows who this guy is. What a joke of a franchise.

[ChronicKerr]

Keith Law:

My phone is blowing up with texts like "are you kidding?" re Cubs

[WAYSA]

Equivalent of the Knicks taking Renaldo Balkman in the first round a few years ago.

Jaw dropper.

I like how the Rays take no time to get it right. Josh Sale. Very next pick.

I am in shock.

[WAYSA]

I like how Peter Gammons is trying to compare this to Colvin.

Colvin was known and was going to be taken a pick later. No one was taking Simpson anytime soon. Unreal.

And as if Colvin is some star or something lmfao. He sucked in the minors for the most part and has had 85 freaking ABs in the majors..

[cold5]

You guys are harsh on this pick. No one had any idea who Colvin was three years ago.

[SportsWorld]

I'm not in shock at all. Until Jim Hendry is fired, this team will never be successful. Oh and I think the Ricketts have done a sh**y job as well. Looks like another group of cheap owners in this city.

[Fukudome1]

[WAYSA]

You guys are harsh on this pick. No one had any idea who Colvin was three years ago.

He was going to be drafted a pick or two later.

And no one knows who Tyler Colvin is now. He's a freaking 4th OFer and has only had 85 ABs in the majors.

[WAYSA]

You guys are harsh on this pick. No one had any idea who Colvin was three years ago.

He was going to be drafted a pick or two later.

And no one knows who Tyler Colvin is now. He's a freaking 4th OFer and has only had 85 ABs in the majors.

[SportsWorld]

Baseball America said he could go as high as the 4th round or the 5th round. We could have taken him later.

[WAYSA]

Is Simpson even left handed?

Kid from Minooka drafted #19 overall. Should have taken him at #16.

[cold5]

Baseball America said he could go as high as the 4th round or the 5th round. We could have taken him later.

Perhaps but I really don't think Hendry is laughing on his desk right now saying **** the Cubs and **** their fans. The scouting team has been solid the last couple of years outside of Samardzija (maybe this is another thing like this).

[SportsWorld]

Everyone is saying this guy could have gone from the 4th to the 7th round so we could have taken a better talent and still take this kid later. It was a pathetic move. This is a big market club that has a bunch of monkeys running it. Highest ticket prices in baseball and we get rewarded with a piss-poor product and moves like this.

[cold5]

Everyone is saying this guy could have gone from the 4th to the 7th round so we could have taken a better talent and still take this kid later. It was a pathetic move. This is a big market club that has a bunch of monkeys running it. Highest ticket prices in baseball and we get rewarded with a piss-poor product and moves like this.

Listen. I don't want to judge this pick before we even know this player. He could be a stud. It's the draft and we don't know how players will turn it out. My worry is that Ricketts wanted to save money and forced us to pick a guy we had our eye for the later rounds first in order to save money.

[WAYSA]

Kevin Goldstein: Our first complete and utter shocker in the draft as the Cubs take Heyden Simpson, a D-II pitcher from Arkansas. Just floored. Undersized righty with very good velo, but not a ton of other stuff.

Kevin Goldstein: As the scouting cliche goes, it just takes one team to like a guy. I am totally floored on this one.

Kevin Goldstein: I don't know what it was. Just totally dying here on that one. Biggest first round shocker since Matt Thornton? Wow, as if the Rays needed a break here, they get the best high school hitter in the draft at 17. Teams with previous picks with regret this one.

[WAYSA]

LMFAO guys on MLB Network keep calling him a left hander..

[cold5]

Hayden Simpson, rhp, Southern Arkansas - "He's putting together about as good of a college career as you can. I think he's 28-1 or 29-1 in college now. I'm not sure what year he lost a game, I know it wasn't this one. I haven't seen him a second time, but I saw his first start of the year and. . . they left him in a little longer than you'd like to see—I think he threw 115 pitches in his first start—but he was sitting 92-94 and touching 96 for the first couple innings. It fell off a little bit but he can spin a curveball too. He's not a big guy—I would say he's about 5-11, 175—but he's got a good arm and his numbers are backing it up. His delivery gets out of whack every once in a while and he struggles throwing strikes, but he can usually put it back together. His stuff is just overpowering at that level. I think he's striking out 13 or 14 per nine and guys aren't making solid contact off of him at all. I think he's a bullpen guy. That first outing, he fell back down to 90-92 late in the game. He never dipped below 90 on my gun and he reached back a couple times when he saw the finish line. I know his second start of the year, his velocity did fall a little bit—I think he was 88-93, working much more with an average fastball, so I'm interested to see him when I get back in there a second time and see how he's holding up over the course of the year. I heard last year he finished the season as strong as he started it, but it seems this year there's a little bit more variation in the velocity." Dude did throw a no-hitter. http://muleriderathletics.com/2009/mens ... au-splits/

[cold5]

jcrasnick: Judging from the Cubs' first round selection, most of the people here wouldn't know Hayden Simpson from Homer Simpson. But I'd never bet against Cubs scouting director Tim Wilken.