2015 Winter Draft Discussion

With no consensus pick here, I may need the entire 12 days to figure it out. This is tough. Who to pick, who to pick?

And I am always in favor of Jim getting hosed.

Get a $34MM salary cap increase and have to play by the same rules as everyone else? Oh Jim, quit victimizing yourself.

I know Moncada was the obvious choice, but there was still another guy I want so that made the decision harder than it had to be. I fully expect the other guy to get drafted today by Frisco or whoever drafts third.

I'm really hoping it's Espinoza or I totally missed someone. Gotta take a potential front line starter. Always. My young pitchers always blow their arms out - so I've got that going for me.

Is he Yordano Ventura with better feel?

Espinoza was the other option I was considering. I think a front line starter is more valuable than a 2B, but with TINSTAAPP and a Mike Trout comparison for Moncada, I had to take him first.

I agree with Matt though, that's exactly how I envisioned the first three picks, and any deviation would've been a mistake by Travis, Matt, or myself.

Because you are a silly silly man.

Obviously

PS And I have no idea who these first 3 guys are, although I do like the OBP of the guy Matt took at #3. To think that almost everyone not only knew these guys- but knew the order in which they would go- blows my mind on multiple levels.

The guys I look at are so, so far removed from these types of guys that I don't even need to worry about my grinders being picked until at least pick #14, when Kenneth J. Kelly, Esq. is up. He likes grinders too.


JIm

I had the first 2, but Robles wasn't my 3rd. There are a couple of guys I like better there. Unfortunately I am sure that even if most (all except Jim) had my guys outside your top 5 they are almost assuredly in your Top 27 and not likely to make it to pick 28.

I think this about sums up why Jim can't win the big one. Not knowing who Robles is, is a defensible mistake. Not knowing who Espinoza is, is not. He's maybe the hottest young pitcher in baseball who is being compared to Pedro Martinez quite often.

But not knowing who Yoan Moncada is, makes me doubt your baseball fandom and ability to run a team. He's a top 10 prospect. That would be like Miguel Sano being available and you having no idea who he is.

I had Moncada-Espinoza first and second on my list as well, like most people did by the sound of it (except Jim). But I had Robles further down. If I were making a list to publish, Robles would have been third, but as for the players I personally like to draft, he would've been lower. Still probably Top 8 though.

I'm starting to think that the player I wanted won't get to me. Drafting 29th sucks.

I couldnt find anybody that I thought was close to Robles, Im really curuious to see who Joe and Hayes would want instead (once their drafted)? Still good players left, but I think last years winter draft had more depth to it (or maybe I just researched last year alot more than I did this year). I would have rather had one of Moncada/Espinoza, but I never was able to convince myself one of them would fall. I think Robles has as much upside as them two, but also has a lower floor then them. Im hoping for a Starling Marte with a better eye...

To me, this post crosses the line of "ball busting" and wades pretty deeply into the "being a huge prick" territory.

Nice Ty.


JIm

I'm not worried about my ability to run a team. I have one of the higher win totals in the league over the past 5 years, despite having one of the smaller payrolls during that time. I'm able to fill most of my spots internally without having to rely on any free agents. And despite not knowing the Yoan Moncadas of the world, I've apparently drafted well enough that I have a few All-Stars on my current roster to show for it. I'll learn who the next Yoan Moncada is the next time I have to pick at the top of the draft, which shouldn't be any time soon.

In other words, go fuck yourself Ty.


JIm