Oakland A's Draft thread:

   Ohad where are u?

   Ohad where are u?

Thanks for making thisl

Damn rangers took Jay Bruce.

Well I guess I have to wait a couple years before I mock this pick

Drennen: .500 92 51 46 10 3 15 46 12

Thats 15 homers, 46 rbi's, 12 steals, 500 average in 92 at bats and 51 runs.

2004 - round 14 through 18 picks (first one taken in round 4)
2003 - round 22 through 24 picks (first one wasn't taken until round 19)
2002 - round 20 through 26 picks (first one wasn't taken until round 18)  Trevor Crowe was the 20th round selection
2001 - round 18 through 20 picks (first one taken was Bonderman in round 1)

.335/.470/.614, 13 HR, 34/41 BB/K in 197 AB

Drennen: Rather have him then Trevor Crowe. Crowe is Danny Putnam with a l ittle better stats.

Lowrie: No need to explain

Thompson: BA said he is the most polished lefty out of high school, and Jacob Marcuaex who i realloy wanted was already gone. I wasn't planning on taking thompson, bujt at that point there weren't many good college pitchers.

Matusz: Yes, he's another high school. But our system is short on lefties, and he's a "classic projectability" pick with great numbers.

Durant: He ha s great power potential and goes to Berkeley High, my home town high school. So i really wanted him.

Powers and Cooper were Al's picks, but they were good picks.

Realistically, there were no good college pitchers left to take in the second round.

Good resume builder!!!

Regarding Crowe Drennan:

Crowe is not like Putnam, he is most like Johnny Damon.

Drennan is the guy who is more like a Putnam or Brian Giles.

I misread your Putnam comparison yesterday, because I knew Drennan was the Putnam like person.  You actually made a case against drafting Crowe using Putnam as the reasoning, when in actuality the guy you chose is much more like him.  That is some crazy irony that I wish I caught on to yesterday.

I am amazed you feel its harder to find a good college pitcher after around pick 50 than it is to find a good high school pitcher.  I entirely dissagree with that assertion.  I think it is a far bigger crapshoot to go with the high school guy.  There were plenty of higher rated college pitchers available at your selection.  You chose to ignore them.  According to the BA top 200, quite a few choices were made where we took a player rated far lower than our draft spot.  That makes it almost mathematically impossible for there to be no higher rated college players available.

I was actually very dissapointed with the choices, apart from Lowrie, and the way you handled the supposed democratic forum you were in charge of moderating, not deciding what to do for yourself.

21. Trevor Crove OF
    
36. Jed Lowrie 2B
    
53. Travis Buck OF
    
69. Matt Garza RHP
    
101. Ryan Mullins LHP
     
131. Josh Geer RHP
     
161. Michael Nix RHP or Jordan Brown 1B

I really liked the Blue Jays mock draft.

Trust me, I want this thread to end amicably.

Trevor Crove OF  gone before our pick at 21
Travis Buck OF  we took him at 36 and i would have gotten him at 53
Matt Garza RHP  taken at 25 I would have taken him at 69
Ryan Mullins LHP went within 3 picks of where I suggested in the 3rd round
Josh Geer RHP went at 98 and I would have taken him at 131
Matt Green RHP went at 49 I suggested him at 69 and 3rd if he would have fallen.
Slowey went at 73 and I put him in my initial mock draft at 101 (rated 107 by BA)
Jordan Brown went 124 and I put him at a possibility at 161

Nix and Slayden are the only guys left undrafted I mentioned and they were mentioned as 4/5th type guys

Your guy Aaron Thompson was a good find, and we agree on Lowrie and were both interested in Ellsbury.

Bryan Morris you suggested at 53 went at 88
Craig Italiano you suggested at 53 and we took him (good)
Sean O-Sullivan you suggested at 53 and he went at 103
Tyler Herren you suggested at 53 and he went at 46
Brian Matusz you took at 69 and he still hasn't been drafted
Mike Durant you took at 131 and he went at 127
Josh Wall still undrafted
Anthony Varvaro still undrafted

The record of my choices far exceeds yours, so your rubbing doesn't bother me.  I firmly believe my draft would far exceed yours in all aspects.