Matters least? What?Will be interesting to see how all these players pan out. Of the 4 major sports the baseball draft seems to be the one that matters the least.
Will be interesting to see how all these players pan out. Of the 4 major sports the baseball draft seems to be the one that matters the least.
Matters least? What?
Will be interesting to see how all these players pan out. Of the 4 major sports the baseball draft seems to be the one that matters the least.
Please don't be too harsh on the Tigers: They took two guys off your list.White Sox, Diamondbacks, Braves, Dodgers, and Pirates.
The Tigers have done pretty well! I'm a Riley Greene fan.Please don't be too harsh on the Tigers: They took two guys off your list.
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Yeah, the Bulls didn't set themselves up for years when they acquired Jordan and Pippen and a QB w/o a good OL is so good. Name a good QB/OL combo that was picked in only 2 drafts.I'd argue it's the most important. If you are good at drafting you can set yourself up for years with one or two drafts. Hard to do that in the other 3 sports (except maybe football where you can nail your QB pick).
Many great players have been drafted after the 6th round:
Round 7: Wade Boggs
Round 11: Andre Dawson
Round 12: Nolan Ryan
Round 13: Albert Pujols
Round 17: Kenny Lofton
and even in the now non-existent post-40th rounds:
Keith Hernandez, Cardinals, 1971 (42nd round)
Mike Piazza, Dodgers, 1988 (62nd round)
In terms of the probability of the team able to actually retain the player and the probability of the player being good.
Blue Jays drafted Roy Halladay's kid.
Nice touch.
And in the 32nd round, appropriately enough.
Being a downer here for a sec... sure, the Halladay's kid thing is cool, but it seems like a waste of a pick to me even though the odds of a 32nd round pick even making the majors are very long. This isn't the first time a team took a player because of the story, and it won't be the last. If I recall correctly, the Diamondbacks a few years back took a paralyzed player in the draft. I mean, good for the kid, but come on.
Yea, you're filling out your org with guys the area scout says are good teammates or have like one interesting quality.32nd round is for high school players that are never going to sign or college senior type roster fillers that don't have major league talent. Drafting Halladay's kid there is fine.
Some thoughts:
Bobby Witt Jr.'s dad was the 3rd overall pick in 1985. Bobby Jr. was picked 2nd by the Royals. So they're the first father/son duo to both be picked in the top five in their respective draft year.
The MLB draft is the biggest crapshoot by far of the four major sports leagues. But teams being able to control players well into their late 20s is huge if they nail the pick.
I know that isn't the entire list, but I'd hardly say that there were "many" great players drafted after the 6th round.
Being a downer here for a sec... sure, the Halladay's kid thing is cool, but it seems like a waste of a pick to me even though the odds of a 32nd round pick even making the majors are very long. This isn't the first time a team took a player because of the story, and it won't be the last. If I recall correctly, the Diamondbacks a few years back took a paralyzed player in the draft. I mean, good for the kid, but come on.
32nd round is for high school players that are never going to sign or college senior type roster fillers that don't have major league talent. Drafting Halladay's kid there is fine.