Churchill's 4/30 Mock

[mallison]

I haven't seen this posted. Sorry if we've already seen it, but I thought it was pretty interesting.

1. WAS - Stras

2. SEA - Ackley

3. SD - Alex White

4. PIT - Matzek

5. BAL - Purke

Check out the link though, it's relatively interesting.

[BRob51]

I'd be surprised if SD took White over Green or Tate.

[rturk89]

That's an old mock draft. Churchill has a newer one.

1. Wash- Strasburg

2. Sea- Ackley

3. SD- Tate

4. Pit- Crow

5. Bal- Matzek

http://prospectinsider.com/Mock.php

[Hutman]

I'd be real happy with that pick.

[crawdad]

Churchill has stated since that he thinks Jacob Turner will be selected.

[clapdiddy]

Churchill has stated since that he thinks Jacob Turner will be selected.

Selected by us? I doubt that since he's a Boras guy.

After reading his credentials in the Jacob Turner thread, he sure seems like a guy I'd want.

[crawdad]

Selected by us? I doubt that since he's a Boras guy.

After reading his credentials in the Jacob Turner thread, he sure seems like a guy I'd want.

Mariners, not Orioles. Churchill is a Mariners guy . . . his contacts do not seem to go much further than that.

[QBsILLEST1]

Jacob Turner sounds like a Tanner Scheppers in a HS body.....

[allstar1579]

In his most recent mock he has Jacob Turner going 2nd overall, the only person I've seen to have him cracking the top 10.

[rturk89]

The Jacob Turner pick was done on a website where a different person makes a pick for each team in a mock draft and he picked Turner on who he would pick if he were the scouting director not who he thinks the Mariners will pick. Churchill still says the M's are taking Ackley. Churchill just said today that there's no way the Mariners take a prep player at #2.

[allstar1579]

The Jacob Turner pick was done on a website where a different person makes a pick for each team in a mock draft and he picked Turner on who he would pick if he were the scouting director not who he thinks the Mariners will pick. Churchill still says the M's are taking Ackley. Churchill just said today that there's no way the Mariners take a prep player at #2.

That is because he changed his tune. The weekend after he did his mock Ackley went on a tear and cemented himself as 2nd best talent in the draft. He's trying to save face. He has never been good at talent evaluation, not even for the team he covers (as shown by the coverage on the Bedard deal). He should stay far far away from draft coverage until he learns more about scouting.

It doesn't matter who he was doing it pretending to be. Putting in writing anywhere taking a kid who is looked at in the 10-15 range no. 2 overall especially in this age of digital media is pretty stupid. Get 3 or more people to agree that he should be taken at no. 2 and I'll let it slide, but it is just the latest in a number of horrible ideas he has had.

[LookinUp]

i thought he was on record as being against the Bedard trade from day one. Jtrea would know. He squatted on Churchill's site for a few months.

[allstar1579]

i thought he was on record as being against the Bedard trade from day one. Jtrea would know. He squatted on Churchill's site for a few months.

Jason Churchill has this to say about a deal for Bedard: "If the Mariners send Jones, Triunfel and Sherrill to Baltimore and the return is simply Erik Bedard without Brian Roberts or other valuable pieces, the Soriano-Ramirez trade will be buried by this monster of a mistake.

"Protecting Morrow as if he's a sure thing is ridiculous. Refusing to include him in the deal as if he's got a good chance to be a frontline starter in 2008 is irresponsible."

Pick your argument, that he thinks Jones, Triunfel and Sherrill was equal value for Roberts and Bedard, or that it was stupid not to trade Morrow.