2017 BLB Amateur Draft Beginning Tuesday 06/28

[liquidcrash]

Interesting to see Washington spend a second round pick on a pitcher who has had as many major shoulder injuries as outs recorded.

Injuries are obviously a huge issue. But, I see him as a first-round talent if he's actually on the field. The injuries don't seem to have affected his talent or any of the ratings that I can see. We'll rebuild him, make him stronger.

[Pat]

Big on Hurd. He was a finalist for 2.1, nice pick.

[Z]

Interesting to see Washington spend a second round pick on a pitcher who has had as many major shoulder injuries as outs recorded.

[Spectre]

Tom Brady...new most hated player in the game

[Delandis]

I just know that he's going to get auto-picked the player I want.

Nah. I changed my mind at the last minute and decided to listen to my scouting staff.

We selected Tom Brady, from Central H.S.

It is probably a huge reach since I don't see him on our scout's big board. However, a few years back I decided that when I'm in doubt, I'm going to error on the side of my scout and my scout loves this kid. "Consensus premium talent." He one of only six players in this draft that my scout has with a 6 contact.

Now he's not much on the defensive side of the ball, but a 3-home run game in 2016 and a 21 game hit streak this year was enough for me to pass a couple safer picks and go for Mr. Deflategate.

[Spear]

Will make my pick in the next hour or so when I'm at a computer.


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[liquidcrash]

I just know that he's going to get auto-picked the player I want.

[Pat]

I can see Delandis driving home like a maniac in traffic. Honking his horn.. Shaking his fist...

"Move it! It's my pick in the BLB draft!"

[liquidcrash]

It looks like the real life Orleans Cardinals changed their name to the Firebirds several years ago. I'm guessing we used an outdated list of team names when the Cape league was created, or it changed and we just never noticed/bothered to fix the name when the uniforms were updated.

[BDub]

Just noticed this. On the Orleans Cardinals jersey it says Firebirds. Why wouldn't it say Cardinals?

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[umd]

Looking to trade 2.26. PM me.

[Delandis]

Anybody looking to move up?

I'm at work and would like to stay in the round but give me time to get home and make a good pick. Needs to be a decent offer within the next 20 otherwise I'm going to try and hurry home and will be spotting the draft. Sorry in advance.

[PaulC]

Nice pick. He was on my list as well.
Just for reference sake, my scout has him at:
3/6/4/5/5

It's interesting seeing how differently some scouts rank players.
Most of the time, I trust my scout over OSA's ratings.
But there has been more than one prospect where my scout was wrong and incorrectly rated them worse than they were.
I have a pitcher in AA ball who my scout disliked greatly. Gave him no shot of making the majors and his ratings were below average.
But OSA really liked him. After 3 years, the ratings are much closer to what OSA had them, and now my scout things he's destined for stardum.

I enjoy the randomness of it as it seems to follow real-life pretty closely.
It forces the GM to use the OSA ratings, your scouts as well as stats to determine if the prospect will pan out.

It's also a reminder that just like in real life no one really knows. For all of the information out there, there is still a high numbers of busts and the odd really great second or third round player.

It's nice when you hit a Dave Wescott in the third round. Now if I could only get as lucky with one of my pitchers.

[Hank]

Went with Milt Loosier 38th overall. Might be a stretch but my scout has him at 6/5/8/8/5 potential and I'm curious to see if he pans out. His defense isn't quite where we'd like it but he did win the High School glove wizard award his freshman year so we know he's capable. And with a Very High work ethic, hopefully we can find it again.

Nice pick. He was on my list as well.
Just for reference sake, my scout has him at:
3/6/4/5/5

It's interesting seeing how differently some scouts rank players.
Most of the time, I trust my scout over OSA's ratings.
But there has been more than one prospect where my scout was wrong and incorrectly rated them worse than they were.
I have a pitcher in AA ball who my scout disliked greatly. Gave him no shot of making the majors and his ratings were below average.
But OSA really liked him. After 3 years, the ratings are much closer to what OSA had them, and now my scout things he's destined for stardum.

I enjoy the randomness of it as it seems to follow real-life pretty closely.
It forces the GM to use the OSA ratings, your scouts as well as stats to determine if the prospect will pan out.

[bparks1987]

Went with Milt Loosier 38th overall. Might be a stretch but my scout has him at 6/5/8/8/5 potential and I'm curious to see if he pans out. His defense isn't quite where we'd like it but he did win the High School glove wizard award his freshman year so we know he's capable. And with a Very High work ethic, hopefully we can find it again.