2011 MLB Draft Thread

[EmpireWF]

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.

 

[NAHSTE]

Mikie Mahtook is a stud. At worst he's in the bigs as an athletic 4th-OF with the ability to play all three spots. He's got enough tools to be an above average regular at CF though, something in the Steve Finley range of 15-20 HRs and SBs a year.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

Jesus fuck, baseball mocks?

 

[EmpireWF]

Mikie Mahtook is a stud. At worst he's in the bigs as an athletic 4th-OF with the ability to play all three spots. He's got enough tools to be an above average regular at CF though, something in the Steve Finley range of 15-20 HRs and SBs a year.

Does he have the occasional Steve Finely 30 HR potential? :smug:

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Does he have the occasional Steve Finely 30 HR potential? :smug:

How about the 50 home potential of Brady Anderson? :lesmug:

 

[EmpireWF]

How about the 50 home potential of Brady Anderson? :lesmug:

I'd settle for the sideburns potential. :dance:

 

[Leftwich]

Jesus fuck, baseball mocks?

That is one thing i'll never mock.

 

[Obst]

That is one thing i'll never mock.

We can't have a forum mock draft? We can cut it short and only do the first 20 rounds

 

[Goober]

My dream draft for the Brewers would be
12) Archie Bradley
15) Javier Baez

Bradley is a pipe dream, but there's a good chance they get Baez.

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Pirates already said they'll take Gerrit Cole. Rendon will go #2 to Seattle.

The Pirates have a nice group of young pitchers. Jameson Taillon, Gerrit Cole, and Stetson Allie.

Seattle has a nice group of young bats in the infield with Smoak @ first, Ackley @ 2B, Nick Franklin @ SS and now, seemingly, Anthony Rendon @ 3B.

 

[Mogriffjr]

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.

Mets better not take Michael, he does nothing for me, especially at that #13 spot.

I like Jungmann, Guerrieri and Springer @ 13. Barnes, many Met enthusiasts believe he has high bust potential, even though he shares similar stuff with Harvey. Gray, there's talk that he lacks a 3rd pitch so he could be a future reliever.

Btw, tons of Met fans would love Bauer, though he was throwing TONS of pitches in college.

 

[Justo]

O's are prolly gonna take Archie Bradley, they like him more than Bundy

 

[Obst]

Hultzen to the Mariners is kind of surprising.

 

[Justo]

interested in who the Orioles take now, Rendon, Starling, Bundy and Bradley still on the board

 

[Goober]

Hultzen to the Mariners is kind of surprising.

The Seattle Fans at lookout landing are going berserk right now. They're pissed.

 

[Mogriffjr]

Let's see how much Rendon falls...teams now maybe trying to get these pitchers at this rate.

 

[Mogriffjr]

BUBBA STARLING!!

 

[Mogriffjr]

Frankie Piliere: Ok this is potentially big. Mets might get a shot at Rendon and would take him if Washington doesn't take him

 

[Mogriffjr]

Nats gonna go Rendon here...fuck.

 

[Blick]

Nice to see the Royals get Starling. Great speed/power potential.