Latest Mock Has Elias Screwing Up Another 1st Rd Pick

[NelsonCruuuuuz]

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-mock-draft-2022-jackson-holliday-druw-jones

 

Jones is the pick barring something significant. Maybe if the Orioles get sold we can get Rizzo from the Nationals, he’s a wizard. Contract up after this year. I’d pay him top dollar to come here, but no way that happens under Scrooge McDuck.

[DrungoHazewood]

So are you ripping Elias for a hypothetical pick of the (supposedly) consensus best player available, or for a hypothetical pick of someone else that some mock draft article suggests?

[Three Run Homer]

Keith Law also has the O's passing on Druw Jones, in this case to take Jacob Barry, a promising hitter who will probably wind up as a DH:

https://theathletic.com/3317893/2022/05/19/mlb-mock-draft-jacob-berry/

I don't know whether these mocks are just assuming that Elias will cut a pre-draft deal with a lower ranked prospect based on his most recent 2 drafts, or whether there is actual intelligence suggesting that's the way the O's are leaning.  Personally I just want them to take Druw Jones.    

[MurphDogg]

We have a mock draft thread in the draft forum where this is already being discussed. Please take your whining to the proper forum.

[NelsonCruuuuuz]

27 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

So are you ripping Elias for a hypothetical pick of the (supposedly) consensus best player available, or for a hypothetical pick of someone else that some mock draft article suggests?

I am:) I just know he’s going to screw it up and preparing for disappointment now to reduce the impact rage on draft day:)

[DrungoHazewood]

8 minutes ago, NelsonCruuuuuz said:

I am:) I just know he’s going to screw it up and preparing for disappointment now to reduce the impact rage on draft day:)

I've long since moved on to eviscerating the Orioles' hypothetical GM for his nonsensical evaluation of the 2048 draft pool. 

[Tony-OH]

1 minute ago, DrungoHazewood said:

I've long since moved on to eviscerating the Orioles' hypothetical GM for his nonsensical evaluation of the 2048 draft pool. 

Bull, those kids haven't even been born yet!  

[NCRaven]

Drungo reads the wedding announcements so that he can check on future parent's genetic predispositions to produce ML hitters and pitchers.  Good luck with that.

[LTO's]

I really don't think the Nationals are the team the O's want to emulate. They are in largely the same situation the Orioles were in at the end of the Buck era. Neglected farm that's pretty awful, horribly bloated contracts to majorly declining vets and an embarrassing ML product. I mean even Cavalli who is their top prospect is looking like a total bust. They had a more valuable player to trade at the deadline than the Orioles did but I don't think either of the players they got will be stars. Gray has the best shot but Ruiz just has 0 power which I just don't think is going to play going forward. 

[CharmCityHokie]

34 minutes ago, DrungoHazewood said:

I've long since moved on to eviscerating the Orioles' hypothetical GM for his nonsensical evaluation of the 2048 draft pool. 

With the first pick in the 2048 Global All-Player Draft...the Baltimore Orioles select Cesar Valdez

[NelsonCruuuuuz]

7 minutes ago, LTO's said:

I really don't think the Nationals are the team the O's want to emulate. They are in largely the same situation the Orioles were in at the end of the Buck era. Neglected farm that's pretty awful, horribly bloated contracts to majorly declining vets and an embarrassing ML product. I mean even Cavalli who is their top prospect is looking like a total bust. They had a more valuable player to trade at the deadline than the Orioles did but I don't think either of the players they got will be stars. Gray has the best shot but Ruiz just has 0 power which I just don't think is going to play going forward. 

Not emulate but Rizzo comes from a scouting background and judging by WAR, might be one of the best ever.

[NelsonCruuuuuz]

7 minutes ago, CharmCityHokie said:

With the first pick in the 2048 Global All-Player Draft...the Baltimore Orioles select Cesar Valdez

He just got released! Boo! Loved him.

[OriolesMagic83]

5 hours ago, CharmCityHokie said:

With the first pick in the 2048 Global All-Player Draft...the Baltimore Orioles select Cesar Valdez

No, I think it will be Jack Cust III

[OriolesMagic83]

5 hours ago, LTO's said:

I really don't think the Nationals are the team the O's want to emulate. They are in largely the same situation the Orioles were in at the end of the Buck era. Neglected farm that's pretty awful, horribly bloated contracts to majorly declining vets and an embarrassing ML product. I mean even Cavalli who is their top prospect is looking like a total bust. They had a more valuable player to trade at the deadline than the Orioles did but I don't think either of the players they got will be stars. Gray has the best shot but Ruiz just has 0 power which I just don't think is going to play going forward. 

The only thing I want to emulate from the Nationals is the much richer owner who is more willing to spend.

[oldfan]

Not sure what ownership has to spend, it's the amount of willingness that is in question. I think that time is coming after this season.