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2021 MLB Draft Thread

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I'm claiming SS Luke Leto right damn now.  

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    Squirmin' for Yermin

    Wow,.... That would be the dumbest thing ever.. 

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  • Harold's Leg Lift
    Harold's Leg Lift

    Absolutely.  Hoglund is my 2nd best pitcher behind Leiter.  

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IF no season.... Do they just do the same draft order?!  lol

1 hour ago, Squirmin' for Yermin said:

IF no season.... Do they just do the same draft order?!  lol

I think they should consider lockIng in the draft order regardless. 

Edited by Joshua Strong

2 hours ago, Harold's Leg Lift said:

I'm claiming SS Luke Leto right damn now.  

Im going with this guy today. 

15 minutes ago, Joshua Strong said:

I think they should consider lockIng in the draft order regardless. 

Agreed.

This 2021 draft will be the last under the current CBA.  In the new CBA, I certainly hope there is the addition of tradeable draft slots.  Also I think the overslot/underslot crap should go away.  Everyone gets slot, no more and no less, and you can trade the slots.  Make it easy.  Bump up the values in the 2nd round so it's not such a precipitous drop pick to pick from 1 overall to the end of the 2nd round.  

Edited by HollywoodTim

3 hours ago, soxfan2014 said:

Agreed.

Doing so ensure there’s no tanking in a short season

Edited by Joshua Strong

Way too early BA 2021 mock. First 10 picks. Order determined by Fangraphs projected standings.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2021-mlb-mock-draft-way-too-early-top-10-picks/

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1.) BAL - Kumar Rocker

2.) SEA - Jack Leiter

3.) DET - Brady House

4.) MIA - Adrian Del Castillo

5.) PIT - Matt McLain

6.) SF - Jud Fabian

7.) KC - Jaden Hill

8.) TOR - Colton Cowser

9.) COL - Luke Leto

10.) TEX - Braylon Bishop

 

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18 hours ago, Joshua Strong said:

Doing so ensure there’s no tanking in a short season

They should alternate Detroit and Baltimore. Or do a lottery with the top three picks. 

On 6/12/2020 at 10:50 AM, Harold's Leg Lift said:

I'm claiming SS Luke Leto right damn now.  

Can I have Brady House?

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1 hour ago, DirtySox said:

Can I have Brady House?

He's all yours.

21 hours ago, Joshua Strong said:

Doing so ensure there’s no tanking in a short season

MLB doesn't ever do anything to dissuade tanking correct?  

2 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

Can be as few as 20 rounds

 

Good faith.

Oh boy.

2 minutes ago, Quin said:

Good faith.

Oh boy.

Well I personally don’t want Detroit to be able to clean up in two of the better draft classes of last several years

19 minutes ago, bmags said:

Well I personally don’t want Detroit to be able to clean up in two of the better draft classes of last several years

Neither do I.

I also don't trust Manfred.

I think they should keep the draft order the same for next year or do like a lottery and switch up the top 5. I don't think you can take records from a 54 game season to determine the draft order. 

1 hour ago, Y2Jimmy0 said:

I think they should keep the draft order the same for next year or do like a lottery and switch up the top 5. I don't think you can take records from a 54 game season to determine the draft order. 

A good  team in a short season may be tempted to Tank for the top pick. That's not fair .

They should do something like take the average draft position from the previous 3-5 years including the shortened season and set the order accordingly.

9 hours ago, HoosierSox said:

They should do something like take the average draft position from the previous 3-5 years including the shortened season and set the order accordingly.

3-5 years is way too big of sample size, IMO. Teams have changed a lot in 5 years. But maybe doing something like the combined records of 2019 + 2020 would be fair. Basically a 220ish game sample size.

10 hours ago, HoosierSox said:

They should do something like take the average draft position from the previous 3-5 years including the shortened season and set the order accordingly.

I think the most fair thing would be combined 2019 and 2020 record. That way you do consider 2020 results but you are getting a decent sample size and the worst teams draft highest.

For the sox that would of course be great as they were bad last year but projected to be better so with a combined record they could get like the 16th picks despite let's say their 2020 record giving them the 22nd  pick (if they are that good hopefully).

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