Thursday Morning Rockpile:
by Rox Girl on Jun 5, 2008 8:57 AM MDT
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Baseball America says we prefer Ryan Perry, who won't be available
Almost everybody has us taking Jake Odorizzi with the first selection. Hewitt's still an interesting sleeper, though.
In non-draft news, Tulo might be back soon.
[UPDATE] As Tom (RFTN) mentions in the comments, Torrealba received a three-game suspension.
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Odorizzi watching the draft on a teammate's cell phone
On a bus, apparently. His high school team is still in Illinois’ playoffs, so he’s not going to be around a phone of his own it looks like.
Interesting
I didn’t know that any high school playoffs were still going on. I thought school was out for the summer most places.
It's not going to be Weeks.
If the Rockies take a position player, it will be one who projects to have a middle of the order bat.
Agreed but..
Weeks solves the leadoff and secondbase problem fairly quickly because he could work his way up through the system by Sept 2009.
At that point (September 2009)
Eric Young Jr. or Chris Nelson would be just as capable of filling second and our leadoff spot as Weeks would, perhaps better. Weeks’ ceiling would still be lower than Nelson’s and could be only equal to EY2’s, who continues to be under-rated. I think drafting for this particular need wouldn’t work out too well.
NEVER
draft for a need. EVER.
Draft the best player available from rounds 1-50.
I almost completely agree.
Except that “the best player available” isn’t usually that clear at any given time. Rather you’ll have tiers of players that are roughly equal in value, and when there’s no discernible separation, need or money could be taken into account. In this case, I think Weeks and Perry, for that matter, are in a tier below some of the others we’re supposedly targeting. Plus, by “best player available” do you mean “best MLB player eight years from now” or “best MLB player three years from now” because there will be two different answers to those questions for most of the first round.
True
I suppose a better way to look at things is to say, don’t draft on a need. Throw positions out the window. If that means you draft 18 pitchers in the first 18 rounds, then so be it. Last I checked, trades are still allowed.
If there's any position where we have a need
it’s starting pitcher, anyway. I like Rodriguez and Chacin, but have you seen how many of our pitching prospects have struggled in the higher levels? You can never have too many, and as short as our system is on starting pitching, if we’re drafting based on need that’s where we should be looking.
Second base is not a position of need, system-wide. We have Young, and we can always move Nelson, Gomez, etc. there if needed.
Again
Don’t draft for need. How hard is that concept? No professional team in any sport should EVER draft for a need. EVER.
I know.
I’m just pointing out that starting pitcher is more of a position of need than second base.
In any case, the Rockies’ problem in recent years has been drafting based on signability, not drafting based on need.
Melville is indeed falling...
According to BA’s John Manuel. He wants top fifteen money, if he’s really dropping the Rockies would have to go over slot to sign him, but this could mean that some team is more keen on Odorizzi than reported.
When are you putting the
draft discussion thread up?
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Just asking.
Didn’t want to put one up if you had something ready to go.
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