O's 2020 MLB Draft Chat: Picking #2/30/39/74

[Moose Milligan]

Man, I don't know if Wilcox survives the Giants.  He's not an immediate Mad Bum replacement but they should be rebuilding.

[scOtt]

12 minutes ago, ArtVanDelay said:

It’s funny that the Cardinals get comp balance picks.

I was thinking that about the Dodgers.

[Moose Milligan]

I'm giving you all a heads up right now.  If we take another outfielder at 74, I will be apoplectic.  And if we take an average middle infielder, I will be slightly less apoplectic.  

Someone DM me and get my family's contact information.  

[scOtt]

1 minute ago, scOtt said:

I was thinking that about the Dodgers.

Or was that their last pick in the 2nd round?

[Roll Tide]

Only 6 picks to go until our next disappointment 

[ArtVanDelay]

1 minute ago, Moose Milligan said:

I'm giving you all a heads up right now.  If we take another outfielder at 74, I will be apoplectic.  And if we take an average middle infielder, I will be slightly less apoplectic.  

Someone DM me and get my family's contact information.  

We need another DH

[Number5]

It seems obvious that Wilcox has made it clear that it will take a considerable over-slot offer to sign him, otherwise he'd have been definitely taken by now.  Red Sox, Rangers, and Dodgers all look to me to have over-slot money available, so if Wilcox is our target, it seems to me that we'd better grab him at 74.

[ArtVanDelay]

1 minute ago, scOtt said:

Or was that their last pick in the 2nd round?

It might have been compensation for losing a free agent?

It wasn’t a competitive balance pick.

[Can_of_corn]

3 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

I'm giving you all a heads up right now.  If we take another outfielder at 74, I will be apoplectic.  And if we take an average middle infielder, I will be slightly less apoplectic.  

Someone DM me and get my family's contact information.  

So you are hoping for a first baseman or catcher?

[Number5]

2 minutes ago, scOtt said:

Or was that their last pick in the 2nd round?

I think that was a comp pick for losing a free agent.

[scOtt]

2 minutes ago, ArtVanDelay said:

It might have been compensation for losing a free agent?

It wasn’t a competitive balance pick.

Ok, that makes sense.

[ArtVanDelay]

2 minutes ago, scOtt said:

Ok, that makes sense.

Actually, it was a competitive balance pick.

They traded for it.

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The Dodgers have five picks in these four rounds thanks to their trade with the Twins in February that sent, among others, Kenta Maeda to Minnesota and Brusdar Graterol to Los Angeles. The Dodgers received in that deal Minnesota’s pick in Competitive Balance Round B, the 66th overall selection. That’s slated in between the second and third rounds.

https://www.truebluela.com/mlb-draft/2020/6/11/21276277/mlb-draft-2020-dodgers-picks-second-day-date-time-tv-streaming

[Moose Milligan]

1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

So you are hoping for a first baseman or catcher?

I'm hoping for pitching.

Never forget the Moose Milligan Baseball Draft Strategy ™ which is to take a pitcher with every pick in every round. 

Sounds ridiculous?  Good.  So does Elias' draft so far.

[Roll Tide]

Orioles 

 

pick ...... player rank
 

#2.                10

#30.              39

39                  74
 

it’s difficult to see the logic or say we got good value

 

[Moose Milligan]

I'd die right now if someone banged a trashcan while their pick got announced.