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2012 Draft
By: mO Date: September 29, 2011, 10:18 am
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With the number 6? pick...
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Re: 2012 Draft
By: JR Date: September 29, 2011, 10:37 am
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Just hopefully Tim Wilken stays far away from the NCAA Division
II baseball tournament next year.
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Re: 2012 Draft
By: UK Date: December 12, 2011, 8:23 am
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It's going to be a weaker draft compared to last year, Boston
didn't show much of a tendency to draft one way or the other
when it came HS/College. At this point, I'm hoping for (in
order) Buxton, Zunino, or Gausman.
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Re: 2012 Draft
By: Cactus Date: March 7, 2012, 1:48 pm
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Potential Top Draft Pick Giolito Sprains Elbow
By Tim Dierkes [March 7 at 1:18pm CST]
Highly-regarded high school righty Lucas Giolito sprained the
ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow yesterday and will be out
six to ten weeks, reports Eric Sondheimer of the L.A. Times.
The hard-throwing senior doesn't need surgery, coach Matt LaCour
told Sondheimer, but he and his teammates are crushed. Giolito
was regarded as the best high school player in the 2012 draft,
but now he may be more likely to honor a commitment to UCLA. As
Baseball America notes, the new collective bargaining
agreement's draft restrictions make it much harder for Giolito
to fall in draft position and still receive a ton of money.
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Re: 2012 Draft
By: Jes Beard Date: March 7, 2012, 1:54 pm
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[quote author=Cactus link=topic=60.msg59883#msg59883
date=1331149699]
As Baseball America notes, the new collective bargaining
agreement's draft restrictions make it much harder for Giolito
to fall in draft position and still receive a ton of money.
[/quote]
Unless some team decides to bite the bullet and pay the penalty
anyway, and goes ahead and drafts him in the later rounds, as
well as taking several other high ceiling prospects who were not
picked because of concerns they would put the team over the
ceiling. If a team went ahead and completely ignore the ceiling
and paid the penalty by not just barely going over the limit,
but by completely bowing thru it, the reward might well be worth
the penalty.
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Re: 2012 Draft
By: shasson Date: March 9, 2012, 12:25 pm
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According to John Arguello's "Cubs Den" blog, Hoyer scouted
Prior-esque (at least in his physique) USF righty Kyle Zimmer:
HTML http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2012/03/draft-preview-cubs-scouting-rhp-kyle-zimmer/
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Re: 2012 Draft
By: StrikeZone Date: March 9, 2012, 2:06 pm
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[quote author=shasson link=topic=60.msg60311#msg60311
date=1331317543]
According to John Arguello's "Cubs Den" blog, Hoyer scouted
Prior-esque (at least in his physique) USF righty Kyle Zimmer:
HTML http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2012/03/draft-preview-cubs-scouting-rhp-kyle-zimmer/
HTML http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-den/2012/03/draft-preview-cubs-scouting-rhp-kyle-zimmer/
[/quote]
OK, I watched a couple YouTube videos of Zimmer just now and I
don't love his mechanics. He doesn't seem to have the recoil
that Mark Prior and Mike Harkey had (and that's a good thing)
but he does seem to throw across his body a tad (and that's a
bad thing).
It looks like he's got the dreaded "M" (I'm trying to start a
trend that phases out "inverted W" because that sounds dumb to
me) that a lot of people believe eventually leads to shoulder
surgery.
Finally, he pats the ball in his glove a la Geremi Gonzalez,
which doesn't mean anything, really. It's probably a timing
thing he's developed along the way.
Obviously, throwing across his body could be an easy fix, if
he's coachable. The "M" could be a problem, if you subscribe to
that theory.
He's certainly a big kid who seems to have good stuff.
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Re: 2012 Draft
By: Cactus Date: March 14, 2012, 11:48 am
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The Chicago Cubs Have Been Terrible at Drafting
By Brett on March 14, 2012
[quote]
If you’ve paid even a modest level of attention to the MLB Draft
over the past decade, that headline is not altogether shocking
to you. But, for the most part, it was just a feeling and a
trash can on the receiving end of your boot.
Now, thanks to a study by FanGraphs, we can put some ugly, ugly
numbers on just how terrible the Cubs have been at the Draft.
Here’s a chart of the accumulated WAR of homegrown players
drafted in the last decade for each team (i.e., the total WAR
that the draftees contributed to the team that drafted them),
together with the average WAR per homegrown player (to account
for outliers):
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HTML http://www.bleachernation.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/fangraphs-draft-war-chart.png
The rest of the article:
HTML http://www.bleachernation.com/2012/03/14/the-chicago-cubs-have-been-terrible-at-drafting/
HTML http://www.bleachernation.com/2012/03/14/the-chicago-cubs-have-been-terrible-at-drafting/
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Re: 2012 Draft
By: CurtOne Date: March 14, 2012, 11:50 am
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We needed a chart to know that?
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Re: 2012 Draft
By: jacey1 Date: March 14, 2012, 1:58 pm
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sox were worse?
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