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  1. 06-06-2011 07:26 PM #1
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    What the!???

    Chris Smith part 2 while leaving the polished college bats on the board.

    What are you doing Joe Jordan?! The organization has enough young pitching!

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    Uh what are YOU doing starting a new thread after every pick when theres already a thread up...
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    Well, I can stop making the threads now that the Orioles have struck out in the 1st round again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by orioles119 View Post
    Chris Smith part 2 while leaving the polished college bats on the board.

    What are you doing Joe Jordan?! The organization has enough young pitching!

    You're unhappy with the O's drafting the guy who is generally regarded to have the best arm in the draft?
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    I'm for Bundy. Apparently teams are very worried about Rendon's shoulder, and his potential injury risk.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RyanW View Post
    I'm for Bundy. Apparently teams are very worried about Rendon's shoulder, and his potential injury risk.
    Medicals do not support at 5 + pick. Look for him to go 8 or 9
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    Polished college bats, plural? What are you talking about?
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    And you dont find it at all concerning that the "top player in the draft" has now fallen out of the top 5? Obviously the medical reports are not positive on Rendon. How can you complain about possibly the best arm in the draft?
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    You must not be paying attention if you think Bundy is a bad pick.

    I don't know much about the draft and even I know he's the best HS pitcher.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PrivateO View Post
    You must not be paying attention if you think Bundy is a bad pick.

    I don't know much about the draft and even I know he's the best HS pitcher.
    I just see "High School" and think... when will he contribute at the ML level? A pitcher no doubt too...
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    Well, considering that the organization doesn't really have any offensive powers in the minors besides Machado, then maybe they should have want with offense. Especially since Rendon was STILL on the board.
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    Quote Originally Posted by orioles119 View Post
    Chris Smith part 2 while leaving the polished college bats on the board.

    What are you doing Joe Jordan?! The organization has enough young pitching!

    Say what?!! The old baseball adage that you can NEVER have enough pitching is true. And we got a very live arm in Bundy.
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    I personally haven't given up on Hobgood, and I kinda like that we've got both Bundy's (Bundies?) in the system.

    Hobgood may have a bad shoulder right now, but you can't give up on guys with good arms that fast!! If Hobgood is 26 with a 6.14 ERA and still at Fredrick, then maybe... yeah. But not right now, you silly people!
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    Nobody can say definitively. What can be said is that the Orioles have had problems having any success with HS pitchers in the first round (Hobgood, Loewen, Stahl). In fact, no HS 1st round O's pick has had any kind of impact (for the Orioles) since Bobby Grich in 1967!

    In fact, tossing out Machado and Hobgood, the Orioles have picked 29 high school players in the first round since the draft was instated in 1965. 16 never saw the majors (3 others got no more than a cup of tea). Of those 29, only one has turned into an All-Star caliber player, and Jayson Werth did that with the Phillies, not us.

    On the other hand, Matusz, Wieters, Markakis, Roberts, Fontenot, Hammonds, Mussina, and McDonald were all college picks and all meaningful contributors at the ML level. And that's only from 1990.

    That's why I would have preferred Rendon, even with some injury concerns. We just don't develop high schoolers. And most other teams don't either.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Slappy View Post
    Nobody can say definitively. What can be said is that the Orioles have had problems having any success with HS pitchers in the first round (Hobgood, Loewen, Stahl). In fact, no HS 1st round O's pick has had any kind of impact (for the Orioles) since Bobby Grich in 1967!

    In fact, tossing out Machado and Hobgood, the Orioles have picked 29 high school players in the first round since the draft was instated in 1965. 16 never saw the majors (3 others got no more than a cup of tea). Of those 29, only one has turned into an All-Star caliber player, and Jayson Werth did that with the Phillies, not us.



    On the other hand, Matusz, Wieters, Markakis, Roberts, Fontenot, Hammonds, Mussina, and McDonald were all college picks and all meaningful contributors at the ML level. And that's only from 1990.

    That's why I would have preferred Rendon, even with some injury concerns. We just don't develop high schoolers. And most other teams don't either.
    Mr. Zach Britton is on the line and wonders if you are really comfortable making such a blanket statement.
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