2019 General Draft Thread

[Can_of_corn]

4 minutes ago, JMU_Birdfan said:

I think its safe to say we scouted very few HS players lol

Elias could only get to so many HS games.

[O'smagik]

Does anyone know of the number of scouts the Orioles have now vs this time last year?

[justD]

2 hours ago, OsFanSinceThe80s said:

 

While posting the stats over that period, I noticed that they also had in common a high K/BB ratio. A lot of them have strikingly low walk rates. 

[weams]

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-untitled-mcdongenhagen-project-draft-review-pod/

[Frobby]

I’m looking forward to having someone (cough - Luke - cough) tell me who in rounds 11-40 is of real interest.    

[weams]

It looks like the last few HS schoolers and the Redshirt Mine Engineer might be interesting. Not being Luke. 

[jerios55]

2 hours ago, weams said:

I'd say that has been less of a problem. Trading them before age 27 maybe. 

Well, some of those under 27ers looked better after they left, but either way, I hope the new approach yields even better development.

[Luke-OH]

1 hour ago, Frobby said:

I’m looking forward to having someone (cough - Luke - cough) tell me who in rounds 11-40 is of real interest.    

Daschbach is interesting, big power, plus to double plus, 7th in the PAC 12 in OPS, 31 HR in 2018-2019. Muscled swing, but very strong throughout, lacks looseness, straight line weight transfer, doesn't rotate well, will need to improve to prevent serious strikeout issues. 1B but has played some COF can perhaps pull a Mancini there. 

Morgan McSweeney was 95-96 early in starts to begin the year with above average spin rate, also a 2700rpm slider and a cutter. MLB stuff, no doubt, lacks pitchability, doesn't hold stuff well, but could really profile well in relief.

Elliot Jensen is a TJS survivor who is just getting his stuff back, but has a huge frame and knows how to pitch, could be a 3 average pitch starter. 

Kyle Martin is a statistically dominant reliever with an above average slider, but a fringe average fastball (90-91), good deception and feel.

Garrett Farmer has a plus pitch, a dominant changeup, but is a 88mph RHP. 

Dan Hammer is a guy with decent stuff across the board, but nothing standout and probably needs to be a reliever so the FB plays up.

Bobby Zmarzlak is one of the better power/speed prep prospects in the draft, physical specimen with serious hit tool concerns, there's no way he signs. 

Familiar with a lot of college names, but only seen most in passing, so I'll give them a better look before weighing in, I'm not familiar with the 7 DII and DIII players. 

[weams]

 

[weams]

 

[Luke-OH]

To expound on Jon’s comments, I don’t think you need to target ceiling when your first pick has best catcher in baseball ceiling and your second pick has 55/55 hit power SS ceiling. That’s a lot of ceiling right there.

 

[AceKing]

What Jon is saying “to me” is exactly what this organization needed.  We needed a solid draft.  

 

Get em in get em signed get em having fun together.

[jerios55]

2 hours ago, Luke-OH said:

To expound on Jon’s comments, I don’t think you need to target ceiling when your first pick has best catcher in baseball ceiling and your second pick has 55/55 hit power SS ceiling. That’s a lot of ceiling right there.

 

If teams got 2 All-Stars, and 2 solid contributors a year from the 40 player draft each and every year combined with 6 years of service time you'd theoretically have a roster (24 at least) always from the draft.  Clearly FA happens and you don't always get #1 overall... and there's lots of misses.  It seems like 2 is a good target.  Also makes me wonder about the 3 guy draft the Mets did and if it does make more sense considering the number of misses throughout the 40.  Guess in a few years we'll see how it worked for them. 

2 high ceiling guys and a lot of potential solid contributors is nice.  As players/minors improve hopefully if helps the overall competition and balance as well.  Clearly that's every teams goal, but hopefully Elias can do that both here and internationally.

 

[Frobby]

https://www.masnsports.com/steve-melewski/2019/06/a-few-notes-from-the-orioles-2019-draft.html

Some interesting breakdowns of the types of players we picked, and a few tidbits from Elias.    One thing he did say was that the draft isn’t completely synced up with the player development side yet.   In the future they’ll be drafting guys with a more specific idea of how they plan to develop them.   

[Luke-OH]

5 hours ago, Frobby said:

https://www.masnsports.com/steve-melewski/2019/06/a-few-notes-from-the-orioles-2019-draft.html

Some interesting breakdowns of the types of players we picked, and a few tidbits from Elias.    One thing he did say was that the draft isn’t completely synced up with the player development side yet.   In the future they’ll be drafting guys with a more specific idea of how they plan to develop them.   

Thanks for this, I was looking for certain traits, especially with pitchers, but don’t find those traits in a large enough quantity to mark a trend.