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Re: Cubs Draft 2025
By: davep Date: July 14, 2025, 9:33 am
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PCA is an extremely aggressive center fielder, playing in a
ballpark with solid brick walls. It may well be that he never
again hits that wall, but it certainly is NOT a zero risk event.
It probably isn't a bad idea to have a temporary fill-in
available to cover such risk.
And as Craig points out, if he succeeds, he can always be
traded. Or fade into oblivion, as more than 80 percent of
second round picks do, every year.
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Re: Cubs Draft 2025
By: craig Date: July 14, 2025, 9:38 am
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HTML https://youtu.be/xSDIgDwFHvI
Kantro
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Re: Cubs Draft 2025
By: Deeg Date: July 14, 2025, 9:39 am
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Just because most second round picks flame out doesn’t mean you
shouldn’t make the pick that gives you the best chance to get an
impact talent.
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Re: Cubs Draft 2025
By: chgojhawk Date: July 14, 2025, 9:42 am
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[quote author=craig link=topic=659.msg514337#msg514337
date=1752465873]
Tomorrow will also provide info in that we'll see how many
overslot types they pick. For all we know Kepley and Reid will
be sub-slots, and they'll pick some guys with developmental
upside tomorrow? I hope....
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From The Athletic:
By drafting a trio of college players, the Cubs have a chance to
be aggressive on Day 2 and maybe go for a high school player who
is looking for a bigger payday. They believe they have some
financial flexibility and can use it Monday.
“At this juncture, it’s difficult to forecast how we’re going to
deploy that flexibility,” Kantrovitz said. “But suffice it to
say we’re going to go into tomorrow with a good amount of
financial flexibility.”
Sounds like they saved some money on their 1st 3 picks.
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Re: Cubs Draft 2025
By: chgojhawk Date: July 14, 2025, 9:43 am
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Kepley sounds a bit like Donnie Dewees with a slightly better
arm.
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Re: Cubs Draft 2025
By: davep Date: July 14, 2025, 10:34 am
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[quote author=Deeg link=topic=659.msg514353#msg514353
date=1752503979]
Just because most second round picks flame out doesn’t mean you
shouldn’t make the pick that gives you the best chance to get an
impact talent.
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Very true. And in the recent past, they have been relatively
successful with their second round picks, one of which helped
bring us one of the top hitters in baseball this year, and
another which is one of our top pitching prospects. It almost
looks as if the current Cubs front office has a better history
of draft choices than some of their critics on this board.
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Re: Cubs Draft 2025
By: craig Date: July 14, 2025, 10:37 am
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Donnie Dewees! Man, haven 't thought about that guy in a long
time! :):). Funny to bring back these memories. Heh heh,
Dewees actually kinda seemed more interesting at the time. His
draft year, he'd hit 18HR to 16K! .749 slug! Heh heh, at the
time seemed like maybe a true-blue hitter with some pop.
Oops!!!
Hopefully Kepley turns out way better.
I admit looking back, Theo's draft guy was really inept. Might
have been Theo's pal, but seemed grossly underqualified. Way
bettter scouting these days, and way better metrics and data to
inform their evaluations.
Part of the puzzle with Kepley is that his sub-.300 no-power
profile seems so unappealing. yet all of the media rankings had
him ranked as a 3rd or 2nd-round guy. So scouts other than
just Kantro apparently see big-league potential. Hope it works.
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Re: Cubs Draft 2025
By: craig Date: July 14, 2025, 10:51 am
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4th round, #121:
[font=mlb-primary][/font][center][font=mlb-primary]Kaleb Wing
HTML https://www.mlb.com/prospects/2025/draft/kaleb-wing-832453[/font][/center],<br
/>Slender HS RHP, recently converting to pitcher. Big jump in
stuff this year. Overslot pick #1. #87 on mlb board.
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Re: Cubs Draft 2025
By: JeffH Date: July 14, 2025, 11:03 am
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Him?
HTML https://www.mlb.com/milb/prospects/draft/kaleb-wing-832453
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Re: Cubs Draft 2025
By: CUBluejays Date: July 14, 2025, 11:05 am
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I believe it was Law, but somebody said Kepley's EV's are really
not that far below college average. He has a flat swing, so
that seems like something that can be fixed with loft being
added. Then you get a fast player, with great CF defense and
decent offense. That is a nice player for a mid second round
pick.
I'd don't love the profile of player. I would have preferred a
higher upside. I liked the guys they picked last year a lot
more. We'll have to see what the rest of the draft holds.
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