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Drafted a balding first baseman we screwed smdh

I like Detroit’s drafts last two years. I think the central gonna be a battle in the 20s

No mine are good.

Tear this freakin league up Vaughn

Maybe it will make you feel better that Giolitos #1 believer in Law is also this high on Vaughn, putting him in same tier as Rutschman.

Gerardi brutal on camera

Dream is over

I like a lot of players rounds 2/3 but would be very psyched to get fletcher/A Kelly/Hampton and on oppo end sikkema or Ethan small

I would like fletcher too

Still love that

Did the mlb pipeline mock ever drop?

Damn this is the haul they give to Dbacks though: - Carroll - Baty - Lugo - Walston

Last BA mock, no real changes: Vaughn.

The BA round 1 rumors has been so dead. Gonna assume we get a pretty standard top 5 at this point. rutsch/witt/vaughn/bleday/green

It may be, but it's nice to be in SEC. He may be more like a 25% k rate guy but I would be really surprised if he was out of control over 30% if he makes it.

Yes that's a good point. This fits more with Kiley's "makeup" guy in a podcast who he didn't know how to write it up, but was more about how he was just silent and awkward in in-homes. I figured that's who this is about.

I, too, would like the perfect player with no uncertainty to be available at #3. But I have the same concerns about not particularly athletic mashers, whom recently I have seen hit more of a wall once they face AA and AAA pitching, while high schoolers who are improving their body and skills facing top competition fly by them. I really hope vaughn is a complete masher, I think he definitely is worth taking a chance on. But people are taking at face value the idea that college competition is essentially the pros and we can just expect that type of player in the bigs, whereas the high school players are also what they are now, with no improvement.

That's gotta be it. Crazy though, mostly read the opposite about him previously, especially on work ethic. Gonna have to put the nail in the abrams coffin to sox, too many tendencies that push them in a different direction.

Yes, but there are questions about everyone. What if Vaughn has to move to DH? Is a DH worth the #3 pick? For your last part, no, I don't think this board appreciates how hard it is to find a SS. One of the things about short stops is you can play anywhere. That makes you a very valuable prospect, because no matter what our team looks like in 2022/23/24 etc, you can provide defensive value where needed.

Yes, he played CF on Team USA to make way for Witt.

There have been a number of teams heavily criticized for "getting cute" in the draft that ended up getting the correct player. We should stop assuming we know the exact value of these players.

Not if he's capable of playing SS.

I think Anderson is probably safely a 20 hr guy, and Abrams is likely to be a 15 hr guy, but apparently that's an issue because Madrigal - which sounds like a Madrigal problem. You also don't have to play Abrams at SS, you can play him wherever you need him. You could play him at 2b and have madrigal flex everywhere. It would be like a deep team that's good operates.

That sounds like an Anderson/Madrigal issue, too. You should go look at a bunch of high school major leaguer scouting reports and how often "needs to add pounds to grow into power" are written about them. Francisco Lindor had a future 40 tagged to his power.

There's no guarantee in college players being there before high school players! As I've pointed out many times, the sox drafted 3 college players in 2016, and 28th overall pick Carter Kieboom beat them all to the majors. A reliever (fast mover!), a top bat (super polished), and a former top 10 projection. I like abrams a lot and would still take vaughn because of Keith Law being so high on him. But that doesn't mean Abrams is an idiotic choice. The defensive concerns read a lot like a reps issue and his hit tool means he can tap into at least decent power with approach changes. I'm just tired of the the constant bashing of jared mitchell as a example of why you shouldn't draft speed/athleticism or hawkins for not drafting prep, meanwhile copy/pasting college players into future lineups immediately as if we haven't had larger number of college busts.