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23 hours ago, Moose Milligan said:

Hope it's a Vlad Sr/Vlad Jr situation where the father was plenty good but the son turns out better.  Or Griffey Sr./Jr. type deal.

I suppose if we take him with the #1 pick, he'll be ready for Baltimore by his age 30 season.  Looking forward to it!

Didn’t we draft Tim Raines Jr. and Pete Rose Jr.?  😛

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Elias will pass on Jones like he did Lawlar & Lacy and people will clamor to make excuses and say “we gotta wait”. Then ten years later those posters will make up a different excuse. Elias is high

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I think Elias has proved he’s a very good draft strategist.  Our farm system is ranked no. 1 by several sources, without the benefit of hardly any international players at the higher levels because of

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Yep. So corner college OFer? Elias is on it! 

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6 hours ago, NelsonCruuuuuz said:

Elias will pass on Jones like he did Lawlar & Lacy and people will clamor to make excuses and say “we gotta wait”. Then ten years later those posters will make up a different excuse. Elias is highly overrated and my guess quite arrogant thinking he’s smarter than everyone else. Picking corner OFer in the first round for a rebuild…genius. Fires me up. We will likely be awful for another 10 years as the result of these poor decisions.

One thing I want to add to the SG discussion and talking about analysts/Keith Law, etc. Let’s say we took Martin (I wanted Lacy) instead of Kjerstad. And you think Elias should have taken Kjerstad. You can use that high profile prospect as the Blue Jays did in trading Martin, to  acquire other pieces. So even if you thought Martin/Lacy were bums, they still were valuable. We wouldn’t know because Elias doesn’t acquire talent to help our major league club. He just says we need another year or two more, rebuild behind schedule, need more talent in the system (so it can be lost in the rule 5 I guess). 
 

People keep falling for this nonsense, wake up. He’s not awful but needs to be held accountable when he makes bad moves or he will just keep doing it.

I think Elias has proved he’s a very good draft strategist.  Our farm system is ranked no. 1 by several sources, without the benefit of hardly any international players at the higher levels because of the situation Elias inherited there.  Our ranking is not an accident.   It’s the result of excellent work by Elias and his staff.

Elias proved in 2019 that he’ll take the consensus no. 1 guy if he agrees that’s the best guy.   So it’s ridiculous to speculate that he won’t take Jones if he thinks he’s the clear BPA.   I’m not saying that’s who he’ll take, but for you to say he won’t take Jones is unjustified.  
 

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I think Elias has proved he’s a very good draft strategist.  Our farm system is ranked no. 1 by several sources, without the benefit of hardly any international players at the higher levels because of the situation Elias inherited there.  Our ranking is not an accident.   It’s the result of excellent work by Elias and his staff.

Elias proved in 2019 that he’ll take the consensus no. 1 guy if he agrees that’s the best guy.   So it’s ridiculous to speculate that he won’t take Jones if he thinks he’s the clear BPA.   I’m not saying that’s who he’ll take, but for you to say he won’t take Jones is unjustified.  
 

Maybe eventually we will see what he can do when he isn't picking in the top five.

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4 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Maybe eventually we will see what he can do when he isn't picking in the top five.

His non  1st round pjicks  look pretty good so far.   Mayo, Westburg, Rhodes,  Hernaiz, Stowers.   I'd say that should give you a pretty good idea.

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44 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Does it?  He had extra pool available.

Not the same as  having your first pick at 25.

 

44 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Does it?  He had extra pool available.

Not the same as  having your first pick at 25.

I guess all of the players I mentioned must have been huge overslot, right?

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2 minutes ago, Moose Milligan said:

What's Druw Jones been doing so far that's separating him from the rest of the pack?

I really don’t know how a non-scout could answer that question.   My sense is that he has less swing and miss than Elijah Green and is the more instinctive outfielder.   And, he’s bigger and plays a more important defensive position than Termarr Johnson.  Johnson also is hurt because he plays against weaker competition so nobody is quite sure how he’d fare against a steady diet of elite pitching.   

Anyway, all that is what I’ve heard from various pundits.   Whether there are other views out there, I’m not sure. 
 

 

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