06/06: Draft? I'll Take One
Posted by: James
Update: With the 21st pick, the Yankees take Fredrick Weiss (ahhh - wait, just a nightmare! whew!) USC RHP Ian Kennedy. Pretty good pitcher from what I've heard. For those interested, here's the breakdown from Baseball America, Team USA, USC and IGWT.
With the 41st pick, the Yankees picked up RHP Joba Chamberlain from U of Nebraska (Lincoln). He's a big kid (6'2", 230 lbs) who dropped a bit due to what's being billed as a "minor triceps injury". For what it's worth, a month ago Jim Callis had Chamberlain listed as the 9th best prospect (not just pitcher) in the draft. He fell down to 18 in the last draft tracker prior to today due to "to injury concerns and a shorter track record when compared to other top college arms." There are also some questions about his "conditioning"...and I'm assuming they don't mean what he uses on his hair. Here's a basic accomplishment list from U of Nebraska, a recent article on MLB.com and a breakdown from IGWT and if you look at the pictures, he definitely looks like a big guy.
With the 254th pick, the Yanks picked up Dellin Bettances so Mike A. over at IGWT should be plenty happy. He's very high on this very large (6'8", 215 lbs.) kid (DOB: 3/23/88) who, while very raw, apparently projects well. I'll leave the analysis to him when he gets a chance.
I hate to repeat some of the things that Patrick just mentioned but originally, this post was gonna go up a long time ago but with my laptop dying (hard drive shot to heck - just lost about 55 Gbs of data). Here's an ironic twist - the computer died the day before I was going to Best Buy to buy an external hard drive to back everything up. Oh, the irony...add to that a bunch of fire drills at work and I stand before you a broken and bitter man.
As an aside, TJ Beam, who I've been praising at length here, has been promoted to Colombus and did pretty well in his first appearance (2IP, 0H, 4K). I have no idea what happened to DeSalvo, who took the loss and saw his ERA bloat to 7.68. He pitched well last year and in spring and then this. At this point, you're hoping he's injured and that there's a reason for what he's doing. If not, ouch.
Anyway, the draft starts in about an hour and Mike A. over at the IGWT is my go-to guy for some steady analysis. He's far more knowledgeable about this stuff than I am so I defer to him for all your draft-day analysis. Hmmm, I wonder if we can convince him to do every single round ;) Also, I'm not sure if Fabian will comment on the first couple of rounds over at RLYW but he's made some of his thoughts already known. After the festivities, I would check out John Sickels' MinorLeagueBall for pick by pick analysis as well as a pretty comprehensive mock draft.
The whole shebang will be broadcasted live over at MLB.com (which I think is a great move to get people's interest going). There is a pre-draft show going on right now on MLB radio for those who are interested. The Yankees have not historically drafted well in the first round so this should be interesting to see - whoo!
With the 41st pick, the Yankees picked up RHP Joba Chamberlain from U of Nebraska (Lincoln). He's a big kid (6'2", 230 lbs) who dropped a bit due to what's being billed as a "minor triceps injury". For what it's worth, a month ago Jim Callis had Chamberlain listed as the 9th best prospect (not just pitcher) in the draft. He fell down to 18 in the last draft tracker prior to today due to "to injury concerns and a shorter track record when compared to other top college arms." There are also some questions about his "conditioning"...and I'm assuming they don't mean what he uses on his hair. Here's a basic accomplishment list from U of Nebraska, a recent article on MLB.com and a breakdown from IGWT and if you look at the pictures, he definitely looks like a big guy.
With the 254th pick, the Yanks picked up Dellin Bettances so Mike A. over at IGWT should be plenty happy. He's very high on this very large (6'8", 215 lbs.) kid (DOB: 3/23/88) who, while very raw, apparently projects well. I'll leave the analysis to him when he gets a chance.
I hate to repeat some of the things that Patrick just mentioned but originally, this post was gonna go up a long time ago but with my laptop dying (hard drive shot to heck - just lost about 55 Gbs of data). Here's an ironic twist - the computer died the day before I was going to Best Buy to buy an external hard drive to back everything up. Oh, the irony...add to that a bunch of fire drills at work and I stand before you a broken and bitter man.
As an aside, TJ Beam, who I've been praising at length here, has been promoted to Colombus and did pretty well in his first appearance (2IP, 0H, 4K). I have no idea what happened to DeSalvo, who took the loss and saw his ERA bloat to 7.68. He pitched well last year and in spring and then this. At this point, you're hoping he's injured and that there's a reason for what he's doing. If not, ouch.
Anyway, the draft starts in about an hour and Mike A. over at the IGWT is my go-to guy for some steady analysis. He's far more knowledgeable about this stuff than I am so I defer to him for all your draft-day analysis. Hmmm, I wonder if we can convince him to do every single round ;) Also, I'm not sure if Fabian will comment on the first couple of rounds over at RLYW but he's made some of his thoughts already known. After the festivities, I would check out John Sickels' MinorLeagueBall for pick by pick analysis as well as a pretty comprehensive mock draft.
The whole shebang will be broadcasted live over at MLB.com (which I think is a great move to get people's interest going). There is a pre-draft show going on right now on MLB radio for those who are interested. The Yankees have not historically drafted well in the first round so this should be interesting to see - whoo!
Mike A. wrote: