2024 MLB Draft Chat

[RZNJ]

5 hours ago, WI O’s Fan said:

After watching Masn’s interview with Sid, no way the Orioles take Brecht or Honeycutt with 22 or 32. 

 

I didn’t take it that way at all.  He’s just saying players at this part (#22) of the draft are going to have a bigger flaw or more flaws than guys in the top 10.  He has to be a politician.  He’s not going to give away that they like or don’t like a certain player.   The last thing he wants is for anyone to have any clue who they hope is there at #22.

[Just Regular]

Looking ahead to next Sunday I also learned we'll have extra speculation time as the Yankees game before the All-Star break is one of those weird 1100am start times.

[sportsfan8703]

Picking at 22 and 32 we have a chance to nab some guys with resumes.

Benge, Brecht, Honeycutt, Amick, White, Culpepper, and one of the NCAA C if we want. Hopefully we can get two of those guys when we pick.

Developing pitching and keeping it healthy is hard. With our recent history with bats it might be good to keep growing them. Benge and White/Amick would be ideal. They could be real close to Bowie this time next year. 

[Greg Pappas]

A reminder... The draft starts at 5 p.m. ET on Sunday, July 14 and will include the first two rounds, as well as the first two supplemental rounds. The second day of the draft will be rounds 3-10, and the third day of the draft will be rounds 11-20. Days two and three both start at 12 p.m. ET.

The O's first four picks are at #22, #32, #61, and #97.  We traded pick #34 in the Corbin Burnes trade.

[OsFanInOhio]

6 hours ago, sportsfan8703 said:

Picking at 22 and 32 we have a chance to nab some guys with resumes.

Benge, Brecht, Honeycutt, Amick, White, Culpepper, and one of the NCAA C if we want. Hopefully we can get two of those guys when we pick.

Developing pitching and keeping it healthy is hard. With our recent history with bats it might be good to keep growing them. Benge and White/Amick would be ideal. They could be real close to Bowie this time next year. 

I don’t expect it to happen, but I still always holD out hope for some of the high upside hs bats (Gillen specifically at 22, almost any of them at 32). We really don’t do it, but have really hit when we do (Jackson, Gunnar, Mayo). 
 

id be a bit surprised if Benge is still there, and Honeycutt. 

[Otter]

2 hours ago, OsFanInOhio said:

I don’t expect it to happen, but I still always holD out hope for some of the high upside hs bats (Gillen specifically at 22, almost any of them at 32). We really don’t do it, but have really hit when we do (Jackson, Gunnar, Mayo). 
 

id be a bit surprised if Benge is still there, and Honeycutt. 

I'm with you; I'd love to pick up a high upside HS bat with one of our first two picks.  And it would be good timing for the system as this hypothetical HS prospect would ideally be major league ready right when some of our current players are hitting free agency....building a pipeline...

[WI O’s Fan]

Honeycutt reminds me so much of Fabian.  I would be shocked at Brecht or Honeycutt.  Hoping for Benge, Gillen, or Waldschmidt.

[OsFanInOhio]

55 minutes ago, WI O’s Fan said:

Honeycutt reminds me so much of Fabian.  I would be shocked at Brecht or Honeycutt.  Hoping for Benge, Gillen, or Waldschmidt.

Not a bad comparison. But with even more power (game power at least) and a lot more stolen bases. Both projected to be top 5 or so picks before not taking a leap their junior year like expected. I wouldn’t hate getting him, though I would prefer Benge / Gillen / some other college bat that fell. 

[Tony-OH]

Please remember to not discuss the Orioles selections in this thread, but in their own threads. Each one will have one made as usual. If one was not made, feel free to make one like the previous.

I will try and keep up but may need some help as always. 

Thanks for keeping things organized.

 

[RZNJ]

Keith Law is not a big fan of Christian Moore or Vance Honeycutt.   He did a ranking (not a mock draft) of his top 100 draft prospects.    He has Moore all the way down at #37 and Honeycutt at #41.

37

Christian Moore

2B

TENNESSEE

DOB:

10-21-2002

Height:

6-1

Weight:

210

Scouting Report

Bats: R, Throws: R

Moore led a loaded Tennessee squad that won the College World Series and could see four to six players drafted on Day 1, with five hitters clubbing 16 or more homers by the end of the regular season. He went on a huge tear to finish the regular season, with six homers in his last seven games, showing power against pretty much all pitch types. He started posting exit velocities of 115+ in Omaha with whatever juiced ball they were using up there, which is going to run him way up the boards for teams that rely heavily on batted-ball data in their draft models.

It’s not a pretty swing, however, with a super-wide setup and no stride, which makes me question whether the power will hold up with a wood bat, and in my in-person looks he struggled to pick up offspeed stuff. He’s a below-average defender at second and is most likely to end up in left field. The performance is going to push him into the first round, but the swing and the defense are real concerns.

 

41

Vance Honeycutt

OF

NORTH CAROLINA

DOB:

05-17-2003

Height:

6-3

Weight:

205

Scouting Report

Bats: R, Throws: R

Honeycutt is a 70 defender with 70 power, but even with a midseason swing change to raise his hands, he still struck out too often — even whiffing in-zone — to be a first-rounder for me. He takes a solid stride but doesn’t plant that front leg strongly until well after he’s gotten his hands started, so he ends up with a pretty severe uppercut on far too many of his swings. When he does get the front leg down in time and stays more upright through contact, though, it’s easy power even to dead center.

His bigger issue is pitch and ball/strike recognition, as he swung and missed on nearly a third of the pitches he saw, including a 21 percent whiff rate on pitches in the zone. It’s 30-homer potential in a potentially elite defender in center — I’ve had scouts say he’s at least as good as 2023 first-rounder Enrique Bradfield Jr., on defense — so there’s clear appeal for a team looking for high upside. He’s a project for the right player development department.

[Greg Pappas]

https://www.fangraphs.com/prospects/the-board/2024-mlb-draft

 

[RZNJ]

9 minutes ago, Greg Pappas said:

https://www.fangraphs.com/prospects/the-board/2024-mlb-draft

 

Fangraphs travels to the beat of a different drummer.  Condon is #24.   

[RZNJ]

8 minutes ago, Greg Pappas said:

Was just reading Law's list.  This draft just doesn't excite me.  I'm not sure who I want yet, but it doesn't matter.  I'll react Sunday to whomever we take.

I’m warming up to Kaelan Culpepper and cooling on Theo Gillen after reading Law’s piece even though he has Gillen rated higher.  

[Rbiggs2525]

The Elias era has liked to take projectable college arms which hasn’t been successful yet. I would like to see them go with the High School arm approach of the past with Grayson, DL, Hunter Harvey, Bundy. Obviously there is some risk to this but I like managing a kids arm and number of pitches at 18 compared to 22.

[RZNJ]

2 minutes ago, Rbiggs2525 said:

The Elias era has liked to take projectable college arms which hasn’t been successful yet. I would like to see them go with the High School arm approach of the past with Grayson, DL, Hunter Harvey, Bundy. Obviously there is some risk to this but I like managing a kids arm and number of pitches at 18 compared to 22.

You mentioned 4 HS arms that were all 1st round picks and Elias hasn’t taken one college pitcher that high.  Not a fair comparison.