Day 1 draft thread

[RVAbird]

Like last year, Baltimore selected the best player out of all the picks from the AL East. But the lack of extra picks will see them fall behind in depth again.

[RVAbird]

Grayson Garvin is a back end starter who could move quickly for TAM.

[eb45]

BA's BPA list through 60 picks. Most of these guys will be around for the Orioles' second-round pick.

15. Josh Bell, OF, TX HS

16. Daniel Norris, LHP, TN HS

23. John Stilson, RHP, Texas A&M

28. Austin Hedges, C, CA JC

30. Andrew Susac, C, Oregon St.

31. Dillon Howard, RHP, AR HS

32. Matt Purke, LHP, TCU

39. Jorge Lopez, RHP, PR HS

41. Josh Osich, LHP, Oregon St.

42. Alex Dickerson, OF, Indiana

43. Kyle Winkler, RHP, TCU

46. Dillon Maples, RHP, NC HS

50. Tony Zych, RHP, Lousville

52. Granden Goetzman, OF, FL HS

53. Williams Jerez, OF, NY HS

54. Matt Dean, 3B, TX HS

55. Anthony Meo, RHP, Coastal Carolina

57. Ricky Oropesa, 1B/3B, USC

59. Aaron Westlake, 1B, Vanderbilt

62. Charlie Lowell, LHP, Wichita St.

63. B.A. Vollmuth, 3B/SS, Southern Miss.

64. Cam Gallagher, C, PA HS

66. Derek Fisher, OF, PA HS

68. Brad Miller, SS, Clemson

69. Adam Conley, LHP, Washington St.

70. Andrew Gagnon, RHP, Long Beach St.

I don't think Bell signs, but I would love to see the O's take Norris or Stilson or Susac.

[allstar1579]

Once again, BOS CLEANING up in the supplemental round.

[RVAbird]

Well that concludes day 1. Lots of signability and lesser known names in the sandwich round, which leaves a TON of good arms in the second round and could lead some of those nice college bats to fall into the third and fourth round.

Plenty of opportunity for risk/reward overslots and safe college picks in the next four rounds. Tomorrow should be exciting.

[Roll Tide]

Like last year, Baltimore selected the best player out of all the picks from the AL East. But the lack of extra picks will see them fall behind in depth again.

Honestly the draft is broken, Its absurd that Tampa, Toronto, and Boston had far to many early picks. Any advantage the O's had by finishing on the bottom they lost ground.

[allstar1579]

BA's BPA list through 60 picks. Most of these guys will be around for the Orioles' second-round pick.

15. Josh Bell, OF, TX HS

16. Daniel Norris, LHP, TN HS

23. John Stilson, RHP, Texas A&M

28. Austin Hedges, C, CA JC

30. Andrew Susac, C, Oregon St.

31. Dillon Howard, RHP, AR HS

32. Matt Purke, LHP, TCU

39. Jorge Lopez, RHP, PR HS

41. Josh Osich, LHP, Oregon St.

42. Alex Dickerson, OF, Indiana

43. Kyle Winkler, RHP, TCU

46. Dillon Maples, RHP, NC HS

50. Tony Zych, RHP, Lousville

52. Granden Goetzman, OF, FL HS

53. Williams Jerez, OF, NY HS

54. Matt Dean, 3B, TX HS

55. Anthony Meo, RHP, Coastal Carolina

57. Ricky Oropesa, 1B/3B, USC

59. Aaron Westlake, 1B, Vanderbilt

62. Charlie Lowell, LHP, Wichita St.

63. B.A. Vollmuth, 3B/SS, Southern Miss.

64. Cam Gallagher, C, PA HS

66. Derek Fisher, OF, PA HS

68. Brad Miller, SS, Clemson

69. Adam Conley, LHP, Washington St.

70. Andrew Gagnon, RHP, Long Beach St.

I don't think Bell signs, but I would love to see the O's take Norris or Stilson or Susac.

Was just hoping for Norris, but PIT will take him beginning of 2nd, they do it to me every year. Wouldn't mind them taking a shot at Oropesa either.

[tilgaham]

I'd be VERY happy with Norris or Purke.

[eb45]

Was just hoping for Norris, but PIT will take him beginning of 2nd, they do it to me every year. Wouldn't mind them taking a shot at Oropesa either.

Yep, Norris to PIT seems very possible. If that happens, it means in two years they'll have nabbed Cole, Taillon, Norris, and Allie. That's insane.

[Sports Guy]

Susac would be a nice pick but with Wieters and his injury, I doubt they go that direction.

Dickerson has good power potential.

[Stotle]

I can't stand Selig.

Brewers should have gone Gray there IMO...Stotle would have crowned them best drafting team ever if they ended up with gray and Jungmann.

That crown safely resides in Boston! I'm thrilled, since the DSS Shadow Draft took Swihart and I'm confident BOS will sign him. To end up with Barnes, Swihart, JBJ and Henry Owens? Just, wow. That system is loading up again, and there is tons still out there.

[allstar1579]

That crown safely resides in Boston! I'm thrilled, since the DSS Shadow Draft took Swihart and I'm confident BOS will sign him. To end up with Barnes, Swihart, JBJ and Henry Owens? Just, wow. That system is loading up again, and there is tons still out there.

Yeah that's what I said. I got home as the supp. was wrapping up and went through the picks, I couldn't believe they did it AGAIN.

[hoosiers]

Susac would be a nice pick but with Wieters and his injury, I doubt they go that direction.

Dickerson has good power potential.

Dickerson would be a pretty good bat to land. With Machado, Schoop and Avery in our system, I expect these next few early picks that are position players to be about power bats for 1B/3B and corner OF. Dickerson makes a lot of sense, IMO.

I also like the write-ups for Bell (obviously) and the Puerto Rico HS pitcher Jorge Lopez.

Some of the HS pitchers I was hoping would be available in the second round were Crick, Kelly and Musgrove.

JJ is usually close to slot with second to fifth rounders - so I would be surprised if we did pop Norris or Bell or someone of that ilk.

[DrOrioles90210]

Guthrie recently tweeted this;

Orioles select RHP High School pitcher Dylan Bundy w/1st Round Pick- "It's been fun Baltimore." @Reggie_Bush #MLBDraft. LOL!

AWESOME

Any idea what any of this is supposed to mean?

[Jammer7]

I would love to see us take a Daniel Norris with pick #64, but realistically...No. I like Dillon Howard (RHP - ARK HS), Matt Dean (3B - TX HS), and Josh Osich (LHP - Oregon St.). With the third round pick, I like Cody Asche (3B/OF* - Nebraska), Tyler Gibson (OF/3B* - GA HS) and Mason Hope (RHP - OK HS).

I don't know anything about Julius Gaines (SS - GA HS). I saw on Diamondscape that Nick likes him a lot. Anyone have info on him?