MLB Pipeline: Rutschman's rank if draft in 2018

[Tx Oriole]

9 hours ago, Moose Milligan said:

I'm all about Rutschman.  

If they take Witt, I think brother @Frobbyand I are going to go berserk.  

Hope they go with Rutschman. 

[Moose Milligan]

Just now, Tx Oriole said:

Hope they go with Rutschman. 

We'll see.  There's a lot of baseball to play between now and then.

[atomic]

9 hours ago, Frobby said:

He didn’t really miss on Aiken — that was a medical thing he couldn’t possibly have known.   In any event he made up for it with the Bregman pick the next year at no. 2.    

You do raise a good point, though — no matter how good your methodology, you’re going to miss on some high picks.    But over time, if the methodology is good, you’ll be ahead of the game.   

He was lucky that Aiken didn't take the clubs offer.  If he did then they would have never gotten Bregman. 

[Whammer]

12 hours ago, atomic said:

He was lucky that Aiken didn't take the clubs offer.  If he did then they would have never gotten Bregman. 

Yep. As it turned out, they were right about Aiken. Damaged goods from the get-go.

[Bradysburns]

23 hours ago, Frobby said:

All I have ever said was that we should wait until June to make the judgment.    It bothered me that many people were just assuming that Witt was the obvious, no-brainer choice, when he and everyone else still had a full season of baseball left to play before those decisions would be made.   Gun to my head, if we had to choose today, I’d draft Rutschman — but we don’t have to choose today.    If things unfold over the next 4+ months that make Elias choose Witt — or someone else entirely — fine by me.    It just seemed like the Witt love from certain posters was way over the top.    It’s kind of ironic how, as the offseason has progressed, Witt has fallen out of favor and now people are all over Rutschman.   He may be the guy we’d pick today, but things can change.

I love everything I've seen from Rutschman. And he LOOKS the part, too. After watching a good deal of Youtube on Witt... it became obvious within about 30 seconds that my untrained eye couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. It was humbling, actually. Because I know very smart baseball people think he's the second coming... 

I'd love to watch a video with overlay from a pro scout, showing me exactly why Witt's so great. Is it an overall athleticism thing? His movement? What? How is he THAT projectable? 

I dunno. I can say I'm enjoying these discussions more than "are we going to sign Cashner?"

[sportsfan8703]

On 1/31/2019 at 11:20 AM, NCRaven said:

Really hoping they take Rutschman at 1-1.  I think there could still be a good HS shortstops available at our comp pick.

Grow the bats. Buy the arms. That’s sort of what HOU did. There seems to be less risk in position players. All things considered. You can then stockpile your position players and trade for SP when the time comes.