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Post by ror1fan on Sept 11, 2007 17:03:35 GMT -6
Dan Duffy
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Post by mtroyals on Sept 11, 2007 17:39:50 GMT -6
You know what? Blake Wood! I'm surprised to see that he made it this far.
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Post by FanOfJoseAgain! on Sept 11, 2007 17:44:03 GMT -6
Me too.
Really like him though as a 'spect.
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Post by KC Royals Nation on Sept 11, 2007 18:31:43 GMT -6
Alright, so 2 votes for Blake Wood, and 1 for Moustakas, Pimentel, and Danny D.
*Edit* And it was quite daring on the part of skillset to vote for Uncle Moose. I admit I was shocked. Carlos Rosa, the nondrafted free agent, probably will have my vote next round. The "AA" test did not suit him well at the beginning, but he seemed to level off. Was he ever even considered a top-grade prospect? At least he's still quite young (23?).
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Post by mtroyals on Sept 11, 2007 18:36:07 GMT -6
I'm not a big fan of Blake Wood simply because I feel him and Jason Taylor were both overdrafts, as is our tendency.
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Post by skillset on Sept 11, 2007 22:23:34 GMT -6
Alright, so 2 votes for Blake Wood, and 1 for Moustakas, Pimentel, and Danny D. *Edit* And it was quite daring on the part of skillset to vote for Uncle Moose. I admit I was shocked. Carlos Rosa, the nondrafted free agent, probably will have my vote next round. The "AA" test did not suit him well at the beginning, but he seemed to level off. Was he ever even considered a top-grade prospect? At least he's still quite young (23?). Rosa is a Dominican and thus was not a part of the draft. He was an international signing. You are correct in that he struggled adjusting to AA ball at first but he finished very strong the last couple of months and he dominated during his 4 starts in Wilmington were his ERA was 0.39. But vote for him if you want. We can vote for any reason, this is Survivor after all. We aren't voting for the best prospect. That is why I voted for Moose. I don't want to see some newly drafted kid who is a Royal for a month win this thing over kids who have signed and worked their butts off for a much longer time period. *Edit* Oh and Rosa turns 23 on Sept 21st. So he is doing very well considering he is only a year older than the 2007 college draftees. |
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Post by skillset on Sept 11, 2007 22:28:50 GMT -6
I am going to change my Round 93 vote to Blake Wood. Thus eliminating the big Yellow Jacket from the game.
On to Round 94...
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Post by FanOfJoseAgain! on Sept 11, 2007 22:36:44 GMT -6
Picollo and the rest of our staff droll over Rosa. He has an electric arm.
Taylor yes, definitely an overdraft. Wood, not so much I don't think. He was poised to be a late 1st or early 2nd round pick after a big SO campaign at Georgia Tech. He threw hard and had a very nice breaking pitch, so a good JR year would have assured him of a high selection. Got injured, bad season, fell down the boards a bit. However, teams knew he had good stuff and weren't going to let him fall too far.
The injury this spring was a blessing in disguise, the Royals totally redid his mechanics and he's getting more life on the fastball and much better command with it also. Probably starting in AA next year, could be fast tracked with a promotion to Omaha as well...
Could we have gotten Wood in the 4th? Maybe, but my guess is they really wanted him and knew some team (or four) liked him and would have snatched him before their next pick.
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Post by mtroyals on Sept 11, 2007 23:01:03 GMT -6
I'd rather have Tony Butler, Garrett Olson, Derrick Robinson (in that round), Jeff Samardjiza or Matt LaPorta www.thebaseballcube.com/players/W/Blake-Wood.shtmlThat has his collegiate numbers listed and his K/9 rate isn't that impressive. This season actually is the first season he's posted a good K/9 rate. I don't dislike him as much as I did and maybe I shouldn't dislike him at all, but dislike the philosophy. |
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Post by FanOfJoseAgain! on Sept 11, 2007 23:15:17 GMT -6
Robinson's pretty redundant since we got him anyways...LaPorta was almost unsignable (the Red Sox offered him over a million bucks)...Samardzija was given a dumb contract that we wouldn't have dished out...Olson was drafted in 2005...and that leaves Butler. Yea, he's pretty good.
Of course there's guys you'd rather have, but Wood is an excellent prospect in his own right and is back pitching like the projected high selection he was...The only guys drafted in the 3rd round I'd even think about taking over him are Butler, Cedric Hunter, and Clayton Tanner.
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Post by mtroyals on Sept 11, 2007 23:26:33 GMT -6
Actually, there are two Garrett Olsons and I withdraw the one that I mentioned. And actually, Robinson is very important to the discussion even if we did get him a round later. Think of it like this...going into the draft, neither Taylor nor Wood were on BA's Top 200 list. Robinson was. So we risked losing the higher ranked player to pick up two players not even listed.
And I'm of the idea that you always draft based on talent. They should have picked the best guys available...that saves a lot of money. Imagine picking a good player instead of Colt Griffin. Picking a good or decent player when you should be picking a great or good player costs a lot of money and usually leads only to failure, with an exception of very few.
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Post by FanOfJoseAgain! on Sept 11, 2007 23:54:31 GMT -6
I'm sure they did pick the best player on the board...I mean their not stupid. Within reason of course, could have took Lars Anderson, but 29 other teams passed on him too until the 15th round.
I didn't like the Taylor pick but I'm sure there was a good reason...Picollo said they thought he was going to "hit and hit big". Will he? I don't know, but of course it would help if he would focus on baseball rather than do "other stuff".
Baird ran the 2001 draft, all he wanted was "high upside guys". So of course he took a guy who could throw 100 MPH, which was dumb then and dumb now. You don't take pure projection in round one, especially with the 9th pick. Not surprisingly, the only legit prospect to come out of the draft was Angel Sanchez.
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Post by KC Royals Nation on Sept 12, 2007 0:06:58 GMT -6
(Interrupting for a second, to cast my vote not for Carlos Rosa, but for, say, Danny Duffy.)
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Post by mtroyals on Sept 12, 2007 0:53:55 GMT -6
They have rarely picked the best guy on the board. They've consistently picked the best guy that would sign at a low price after the first round. And just because 29 other teams pass on a guy multiple times, that's really no excuse. I don't understand the mindset of following the patterns of the other MLB teams. We've been playing follow the leader for a very long time. When we won, we did so by thinking outside the box. And Piccolo wasn't in the organization at the time of the Taylor pick. Even the Handbook says Taylor was of the impression that he'd go in the fifth round. And I trust the independent BA more than the Royal front office because they have a bottom line to meet.
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Post by ror1fan on Sept 12, 2007 9:32:02 GMT -6
I also vote for Dan Duffy
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