John's Draft Board

by John Sickels on Jun 3, 2006 12:38 AM EDT in News

John's Draft Board

This is NOT a prediction, this is my personal draft board for the first round. Note that I am an amateur at this, an informed one perhaps, but I've never had any actual scouting training. But this is how I will rank guys going into my real-time Twins Shadow Draft on Tuesday. This is based on scouting reports, video, personal observation of a few of these guys, conversation with people who know a lot more than I do, and intuition.

Andrew Miller, LHP, North Carolina
Brad Lincoln, RHP, Houston
Brandon Morrow, RHP, California
Tim Lincecum, RHP, Washington
Evan Longoria, INF, Long Beach State
Kyle Drabek, RHP, Texas HS
Clayton Kershaw, LHP, Texas HS
Luke Hochevar, RHP, Forth Worth Cats
Joba Chamberlain, RHP, Nebraska
Jeremy Jeffress, RHP, Virginia HS
Max Scherzer, RHP, Missouri
Drew Stubbs, OF, Texas
Greg Reynolds, RHP, Stanford
Pedro Beato, RHP, St. Petersburg CC
Hank Conger, C, California HS
Dan Bard, RHP, North Carolina
Lars Anderson, 1B, California HS
Travis Snider, OF, Washington HS
Matt Antonelli, 3B, Wake Forest
Bill Rowell, 3B, New Jersey HS
Cedric Hunter, OF, Georgia HS
Chris Parmelee, 1B, California HS
Kyle McCulloch, RHP, Texas
Jordan Walden, RHP, Texas HS
Brett Anderson, LHP, Oklahoma HS
Chris Perez, RHP, Miami
Adam Ottavino, RHP, Northeastern
Mark Hamilton, 1B, Tulane
Chris Marrero, 3B, Florida HS
Brooks Brown, RHP, Georgia

The Twins pick 20th. I will have a clean shot at Anderson, Snider, Antonelli, and Cedric Hunter at that pick.

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John

like you i'm a HUGE twins fan...it's ridiculous..

Anyways....

I like your picks for us.

Brett Anderson fits our system, lefty i believe, with great control, could move fairly quickly for a highschool through the system. Twins love those control guys. Sounds like he has a good pedigree. Sure the twins might have enough southpaws, but heck...

Snider- I like it, he could be ready maybe by the time we get a new stadium in 2010. We need a big time power hitter, whether that be a DH or outfielder doesn't matter, we just need a bat.

I could see us looking at a conger or sapp, as insurance on Mauer or potential DH type guy.

They had a lot of success imo, with garza/slowey last year, so they might be thinking College pitcher again is what I'm thinking, I dunno.

Anderson and Snider and Rowewell...I think one will be a twin.

by hotshotschamp on Jun 3, 2006 12:53 AM EDT reply actions

also John....

what about Cedric Hunter do you like?

5"10 185 pretty small for a outfielder, projects to have limited power, good speed, compared to J.Jones a former twin, now cubby.

Also he's a lefty, and seriously how many lefties do the twins need.....

mauer, morneau, kubel, moses is a lefty......time to get some righties in this lineup, dont ya think!

by hotshotschamp on Jun 3, 2006 1:04 AM EDT up reply actions

hunter

I dunno. I just like him. Not very scientific, I know.

by John Sickels on Jun 3, 2006 1:22 AM EDT up reply actions

Brett Anderson?

I think John is referring to Lars Anderson, who he has a mancrush on.

by DrBGiantsfan on Jun 3, 2006 9:40 AM EDT up reply actions

Not that I really know what I'm looking at...

Looking at the vids of the top prospects at mlb.com one thing that stood out to me about Drabek was that the kid was all arm, whereas Clayton Kershaw seemed to reach the mid 90's with seemingly a lot less effort.

by BaseballJonze on Jun 3, 2006 12:57 AM EDT reply actions

i heart Ottovino probably more than

any other pitcher ive never seen pitch

by nms on Jun 3, 2006 12:59 AM EDT reply actions

nice list

I like you ranking..i'm just surprised to see Conker that high and Rowell that low (he's projected to go to Cincinati's pick).

Keep it up John.

by Ryan Zimmerman on Jun 3, 2006 1:18 AM EDT reply actions

conger

now i really wish his name was Conker.

by npurcell on Jun 3, 2006 1:22 AM EDT up reply actions

mlb.com

has Lincecum now going to the reds with the 8th pick... I'd be happier than a pig in ish if that happened.

by cincyinco on Jun 3, 2006 3:08 AM EDT up reply actions

kiker

no kiker in the first round?

Marrero also has dropped on your board. Any reason?

by Godot on Jun 3, 2006 3:20 AM EDT reply actions

Kiker

I was surprised about Kiker's omission, too. I think there's a small chance he actually goes before Drabek in the draft and I'm sure many teams at least have him in their top 30.

Any reason for leaving him off; how close was he to making your list?

by FI @ Minor League Ball on Jun 3, 2006 8:15 AM EDT up reply actions

kiker

hmmm....that's an oversight. He should be on there somewhere.

Marrero dropped because he has a hard time with breaking balls.

by John Sickels on Jun 3, 2006 9:52 AM EDT reply actions

kiker

No, wait, actually Kiker dropped because I found out what his "makeup" issue is. It is not steroids, and it is not public, and I can't discuss it further unless I get confirmation from other sources, but I take it a lot more seroiusly than I take the makeup stuff with Drabek.

by John Sickels on Jun 3, 2006 9:53 AM EDT reply actions

Conger

I like his bat but I don't see much chance he stays behind the plate. So I would put him as a 1B/C I am uncertain I would rank him 15th given that but... He does have a ton of power.

by VtTigers on Jun 3, 2006 11:17 AM EDT reply actions

Boras clients

Does anyone know which on this list are Boras clients. I think Scherzer,Lincoln, maybe Miller and of course Hochevar.

by Gen3bluox on Jun 3, 2006 12:25 PM EDT reply actions

Matt LaPorta is also a Boras client

All the fear about Boras and Mark Pawelek signed pretty quickly

by mtk52983 on Jun 3, 2006 1:09 PM EDT reply actions

John's list for the Twins @ 20

"The Twins pick 20th. I will have a clean shot at Anderson, Snider, Antonelli, and Cedric Hunter at that pick."

Snider will not be there...

Padres were looking at Conger @ 17, but he's caught a bit of helium in the last 48 hours (private workouts, etc.) possibly at the expense of the Snider. The Padres had crossed Snider off their list (because they thought Snider would be gone). Now the Padres are deciding between Snider, McColloch, and another undiscloseed collegiate pitcher...

-peter

by PeterF on Jun 3, 2006 2:12 PM EDT reply actions

lars anderson

sorry john but I severely doubt that your Twinkies will pick up Lars at #20, a bit too early, he might go to my Gints at #33, he is a local kid, born in Oakland. A lot of Sacto kids,(specificaly Jesuit,which is Anderson's high school,and proudly mine too)are targets of the Giants.

by kingaro on Jun 3, 2006 3:33 PM EDT reply actions

John's playing "shawdow"

...He's pretending he's drafting for the Twins with the realistic angle that those players who are "off the board" when the Twins pick, are likewise unavailable to him...

John is a big Lars fan and would possilibly take Lars with the 20th pick instead of whomever the Twins do take.

-peter

by PeterF on Jun 3, 2006 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions