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The baseball draft begins tomorrow night with Round 1 and the supplemental round, Tuesday with Rounds 2-30 and Wednesday with the conclusion.
Monday night will air on the MLB Network (6 est preview show, 7 est draft) and MLB.com while Tuesday and Wednesday will be exclusively on the web.
Here's a mock from Rivals
Baseball America mock -- they have Hultzen going #1.
Baseball Reference (as usual) with cool data looking at how many players from each individual pick ended up in the majors and who were the best.
Pirates have #1 and are expected to take either UCLA righty Gerrit Cole or Rice third baseman Anthony Rendon. All the talk this weekend has them taking Cole and paying a pretty penny to do so. He's projected as a top of the rotation talent.
The Mariners are at #2 and would be thrilled with either guy but lots of places say they would jump at the chance to take Rendon. He was the early season favorite to go #1 but ankle & shoulder injuries have played with his stock.
Arizona has the #3 and #7 overall picks, which is the first time that's happened. They got the 7th pick as compensation for not signing last year's pick, but they must sign whoever they pick this year with it or else they lose it forever.
This is considered a deep draft and as far as the rest of the top 10 goes, expect plenty of pitchers. The next tier include RHP Dylan Bundy and LHP Dany Hultzen along with RHP Alex Meyer and RHP Trevor Bauer (who just broke the Pac 10 record for strikeouts in a single season), all being college pitchers.
The top position players after Rendon would be considered HS OF Bubba Starling (supposedly Boras will threaten to have him play Nebraska football if he doesn't get a huge payday), HS SS Franciso Lindor and collegiate OF George Springer.
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With the Mets, this is first draft for Sandy Alderson and crew, the big question will be how $$$ plays a role. Wilpon is known as being a staunch backer of the slotting system and rarely going over it to pay a pick. With money being in question now…you know the deal.
The talk is they want to go pitcher and Texas RHP Taylor Jungmann, Conn. RHP Matt Barnes and Vandy RHP Sonny Gray have all been linked to them. If they go the high school route, RHP Taylor Guerrieri would be in play.
If they decide to go with a position player, I wouldn't mind to see them take 2B Levi Michael out of North Carolina.
Monday night will air on the MLB Network (6 est preview show, 7 est draft) and MLB.com while Tuesday and Wednesday will be exclusively on the web.
Here's a mock from Rivals
Baseball America mock -- they have Hultzen going #1.
Baseball Reference (as usual) with cool data looking at how many players from each individual pick ended up in the majors and who were the best.
Pirates have #1 and are expected to take either UCLA righty Gerrit Cole or Rice third baseman Anthony Rendon. All the talk this weekend has them taking Cole and paying a pretty penny to do so. He's projected as a top of the rotation talent.
The Mariners are at #2 and would be thrilled with either guy but lots of places say they would jump at the chance to take Rendon. He was the early season favorite to go #1 but ankle & shoulder injuries have played with his stock.
Arizona has the #3 and #7 overall picks, which is the first time that's happened. They got the 7th pick as compensation for not signing last year's pick, but they must sign whoever they pick this year with it or else they lose it forever.
This is considered a deep draft and as far as the rest of the top 10 goes, expect plenty of pitchers. The next tier include RHP Dylan Bundy and LHP Dany Hultzen along with RHP Alex Meyer and RHP Trevor Bauer (who just broke the Pac 10 record for strikeouts in a single season), all being college pitchers.
The top position players after Rendon would be considered HS OF Bubba Starling (supposedly Boras will threaten to have him play Nebraska football if he doesn't get a huge payday), HS SS Franciso Lindor and collegiate OF George Springer.
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With the Mets, this is first draft for Sandy Alderson and crew, the big question will be how $$$ plays a role. Wilpon is known as being a staunch backer of the slotting system and rarely going over it to pay a pick. With money being in question now…you know the deal.
The talk is they want to go pitcher and Texas RHP Taylor Jungmann, Conn. RHP Matt Barnes and Vandy RHP Sonny Gray have all been linked to them. If they go the high school route, RHP Taylor Guerrieri would be in play.
If they decide to go with a position player, I wouldn't mind to see them take 2B Levi Michael out of North Carolina.
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