hated their draft. At every pick there was someone available I liked a lot better, I hope they grab one of the impossible signs (Danieli, Peavey, McGeary) to make up for it

Dissapointed in their draft as well. Pitchers the first five picks-but they got older players at first, catcher, and second. With Pelfrey, Mulvey, Guerra, Humber, Niese, and others, the Mets took five pitchers to start off the draft.

i'm moderately worried that the mets and braves, who have two of the best bullpens in the NL, both took a pair of highly regarded college closers in the first 5 rounds, while the phillies, who have an absolutely horrid bullpen situation that warranted bringing in jose mesa for a tryout, didn't really do a single thing to sure up the bullpen.

i understand the savery pick, and i don't much mind it, and taylor and spencer, the two behemouth college outfielders, fill an organizational need for power hitters, which is nice.  i don't think either are real prospects, however.  mattair, i'm not too high on, but i understand taking him if they can sign him.

but the other three are projects at best, flunkeys at worst.  tyler mach has no upside whatsoever for the phillies.  even if he can hit .320 in the minors, he offers no versatility, and he is not surplanting utley, howard, cardenas, donald, or henry.  just kidding on that last one.  seriously though, even if utley is kicked to the curb, and adrian cardenas and jason donald flop, does anyone have any confidence that mach profiles as being better than the two drafted last year?

workman?  fine, he has a large projectable body, but he's 4 years away at best.  d'arnaud at 37?  yeah, he probobly wouldn't have lasted until 83, but to be honest, what upside does he have?  i mean really, he hasn't hit for average, he isn;t likely to hit for power, and his speed will diminish as soon as he gets to full season ball.  i sincerely hope that they aren't drafting a catcher with the 37th pick because he profiles as a strong defensive catcher.

i've been talking about cory gearrin for a few weeks, and it really pains me to see him drafted by the braves with their 4th round pick.  he could have stepped into the phillies bullpen almost immedietly, just because of how deceptive his pitching motion is, but now he'll go to atlanta, and at some point in the next 7 seasons, he'll probobly help quash the phillies hopes of a playoff berth.

only really saw two teams, tigers and the yankees, with the highest chances to sign porcello and i gotta believe detroit has a good shot at signing him w/their recent history of tough signability draft picks.

how sick could a potential rotation of bonderman, verlander, miller, and porcello be down the road?

1st time poster, long time reader.

In a draft supposedly void of College RHP's the Cards felt it necessary to take every college RHP not tied down.

A boring, unimaginative draft that saw them pass on much higher talent to take cheaper slot players.

Day 2 better be special or this is heading for a repeat of the 2004 draft for the Redbirds

With the new rules prohibiting DFE's it is obvious that teams concentrated MORE on signability than I have ever seen before, especially early rounds.  Most Boras clients just fell like a cement block

Once again, their draft is pretty poor looking at best. Their first pick, if he pans out, will be a 3-4 starter, maybe, if not, then he'll be yet another seemingly interchangable part of the bullpen.

Although i am not familiar with their 2nd round pick, Welker, who is a RHP out of Arkansas. scouting reports I have read on him seem to think his ceiling is a 5th starter.

The third round brought yet another small, "scrappy", infielder in the form of Brian Friday, a shortstop out of Rice. While it seems like he can certainly field his position well enough to stay at short in the pros, he has little pop and seemingly average plate disipline at best.

Their 4th round was Frederick Latimore, and while I didn't know him before today, but after watching mlb.com's scouting video I came away fairly impressed. The batting practice portion of his video was extremly impressive, as he showed great bat speed and an overall good looking swing.

Their 5th round pick was Walker, a catcher out of TCU. I know nothing about him but apparently he is a solid field and maybe hit catcher.

All in all, the first 5 round of the 2007 mlb draft has been yet another disappointment for this Pirates fan. Dave Littlefield stated before the draft that "money would be no object". He had his chance to prove this to all of the fans once and for all by taking Wieters with the 4th pick. Instead he went the cheaper, and much less talented route.

Most of the other picks also appear to be stadard Pirate picks from the Littlefield "era". College players who have little to no upside. They are what they are, and that appears to be AAA players or Maajor League backups.  

I have no clue what their intentions were for the first five rounds.

Seemed to revert to form after an impressive job last year.

I like their first round pick but it was all head scratchers after that.

Not very happy with Dominguez, but I liked their other picks.

In particular, I think Heyward should've been taken at #13.

i must say i did a good job with the raners mock draft.

Beaven, Borbon and matt west all got picked by them.

I'm no expert on the draft, but I thought the Nats did alright getting Detweiler, Smoker, and Burgess with their first three picks.  The Tigers added another excellent arm in Porcello, just an excellent pick.  I liked Beau Mills to the Indians and Jarrod Parker to the D-Backs.  Arizona is building some pitching depth to go with all of that hitting.  Matt Dominguez seems like the eventual successor to M-Cab at 3B, that was a nice pick.  

I am afraid to look at what else they did after the Casey Weathers pick at #8.  This is a horrible pick, it makes no sense to take a relief guy this high.  This is two years in a row where they have blown a great draft spot.  

Victor Sanchez? If not, I would love for the yankees to prounce on him.

Hmm.  Moustakas was a surprise for me, but the Royals seem convinced he can stay at shortstop.  If they're correct, that's a hell of a good pick, as his bat would be awesome for the position.

Runion was a fine pick, though I'm disappointed that they didn't go for Harvey or someone like that.  I was pretty surprised at how far Harvey slid.  Daniel Duffy?  Eh.  A little puzzling for the third round, but the Royals have a habit of taking head scratchers in the 3rd.

I can't find anything on Peter Hodge Nielsen, but I love the name of his school...

Adrian Ortiz sounds like a project, but he's got good speed.

All in all, I'd say it was an alright draft.  Not blown away by anything they did, unless they really think Moustakas can be a shortstop...

Steal: J.Jackson(#45)
Decent pickup: K.Ahrens(#16)
Good: E.Eiland(#88),J.Tolisano(#85)
So-So: B.Cecil(#38)
Worse: T.Magnuson(#56),M.Rzepczynski(#175)
WORST: J.P.Arencibia(#21)
Arencibia is waste of pick, we should pick High-ceiling HS Pitchers. JP showed he's still allegic to HS pitchers. pick Arencibia over Alderson,Porcello?? That was real diappointing pick. picking HS hitters was good stretegy but they picked too much future-relievers and college guys. I hope we pick Tanner Robles at #205 , Kentrail Davis at #235. another HS high-ceiling guys are also welcome.

1. Mike Moustakas- I love this pick. He's got lighttower power, can hit for average, great character, and it sounds like he is going to be a SS, which is great.  Also, BA is reporting that he is already signed.
   
2. Sam Runion- I liked this pick, but I would've of gone with someone else.  He has a big frame and throws strikes, and hopefully he can develop his stuff.
   
3. Danny Duffy- I love this pick.  He's a lefty with a good frame, and good stuff who knows how to attack the strike zone.
   
4. Peter Hodge Nielsen- Probably a signibility pick, but I have no idea who this kid is.  All I know is that he is a 6'3" RHP from British Columbia.  The only thing I could find on him is a site created by himself and his family.  If anyone could fill me in on this guy, that would be great.
   
5. Adrian Ortiz- I'm kinda indifferent on this pick.  He's is FAST, but I am worried about his ability to hit.  He's great defensively, but his success will be dependent on his hitting production.

The good...

Savery
Mattair
Workman

The okay

d'Araund
Taylor

The bad

Spencer

The ugly

Mach

James Simmons: typical A's pick, fast track SP. best control in draft. They wanted Poreda, but he went a pick earlier. cant fault the pick since he was projected to go in the 20 range

Sean Doolittle: a "safe" pick. excellect hitting skills and very athletic 2 way player. issue is power. is this another daric barton type?

Corey Brown: steal. possible 5 tool CF and one of the few high upside college players in the draft. BP: "But at 59, his bonus will be a fraction of what Drew Stubbs got at near the same talent level."

Greg Desme: another 5 tool OF type. couldve gone higher but had an injured wrist.

Josh Horton: UNC SS, kind of a qustionable pick. but BA ranked him higher than where he was picked so i guess solid value

Demel and Carignan could both be fastracked relievers. Carignan was more stats based pick based off his great season as the UNC closer

Travis Banwart: similar type pitcher to Simmons. solid mid rotation SP upside, fastracked

solid B overall, wish they would've took more high upside pitchers, but they did that the past couple yrs and it hasn't gona as planned

Starting with the Giants first pick, I am disappointed. Dont get me wrong, I like Bumgarner. I like that he has size and can hurl the fastball at 95 as a lefty. He has at least an average change right now. Even though his breaking pitches are not so good right now, I have hope with his athleticism that they can develop.

Its just that with other guys like Beau Mills, Jason Heyward, and Porcello available, I would rather have gone after them then Madison.
I just think that Madison has a higher risk factor and will take longer to fully reach his development. We may have to wait 3 or more years before he reaches the majors, and I dont think his impact would be much greater than the other three I mentioned. Plus, given the current state of the big league team and the minor leagues, the Giants REALLY could have used a bat. I am just hoping that the Giants went BPA and really believe that Bumgarner is better than Mills and Heyward at least.

And from what I can tell, the Giants essentially had 3 draft picks that they actually really cared about.  They then proceeded to punt away their next picks. I am not saying that those other guys that they draft will not make the major leagues, but they were bigtime signability picks. The Giants very easily could have signed that Oklahoma catcher Jackson Williams in the 5th round if they really liked him so much. In the 5th round, I would have loved if they had drafted Willie Middlebrooks, for example. Even Nick Noonan (I think) is going to be a hard pick for us to sign. He is committed to Clemson and is excited about that apparently. I would have rather just drafted Todd Frazier out of Rutgers (who was taken 2 picks later).

I just wish the Giants would admit that they had a limited budget and were not going to spend a whole lot after their first three picks.

If I were the Giants front office, instead of spending money on old guys like Mark Sweeney, I would used that money to actually utilize all of our top six draft picks. After we drafted, Wendell Fairley, the Giants still could have gone on to gain more impact talent, but I dont know if this will happen now.

There were so many guys I would have undoubtedly preffered to Jackson Williams!!! We could have had Porcello, Harvey, and many others. Why Sabes?? Why do you pony up money for old vets but you cant pony up money for young talent.

was shocked with some of their moves, but a decent draft nonethless. Brackman is a high risk high reward player, who if didnt run into the injury bug would have been a conseous top 10 pick. Good pick, with good upside, but was hoping Porcello would fall. Romine was a bit of a surprise pick, but a solid pick who is hated upon because he wasn't a big name like Harvey. Supposed to have good hitting skills and a plus plus throwing arm, so it would be good to have someone in the minors to groom for later. Pope is another pick not many people liked, i really don't know much about so I think the Yanks just went safe on this pick. Suttle looks to be like nothing more then a roster filler, someone that could be a backup at best or possibly a career minor leaguer. Olbrychowski is another safe RHP who the Yankee pitching gurus will try and mold into valuable commodities.

I love what they have done.

Well they only had three picks today and its a mixed bag for me. Wieters and Arrieta were home runs in my opinion if they sign both of them. Tim Bascom? Wow. I assume Joe Jordan knows something I don't because to pop him in the fourth is a bigger overdraft than LaPorta.

When does rookie ball start? I'm interested in knowing because Mike Moustakas is already signed, so hopefully he can move up the minor leagues soon

i have very mixed opinions about their draft I believe Alderson is the most underrated hs pitcher the draft and has th potential to be a 1-2 and same with Budminger but there pitchers.... I know you should take the best player avaiable but our system definatley needs some bats ecspecially power bat a la Beau Mills so I think if we had a pressing need for pitchers we would have had a great draft but we diddn't

Anyone that follows the Nationals, have any thoughts on Jordan Zimmerman? He was taken 67th overall out of University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. They're in the same conference as my school (UW-River Falls), although we lost our baseball team to Title 9. I'm just curious for opinions since I don't usually see guys from our conference get drafted, especially that high.

I absolutely love the LaPorta pick for the Brewers if they truly believe he can be a corner outfielder.  I think he's got Berkman-like hitting tools (minus the switch-hitting) and the best plate eye in the draft.  He seems like the rare guy who has a home run swing but doesn't strike out.

I saw numerous fans of their respective teams above clamor for the drafting of hitters (mets, giants) since their systems are already stocked with arms. But I think something to think about is that a GM in effect uses what's down on the farm to improve the big league team (Schuerholz has been a great example of this, and is why I'm guessing he's one of the longer-tenured GMs). And after this past offseason when mediocre pitchers were getting contracts roughly equivalent to the Gross national product of Ecuador, pitching is more valuable than ever. Young pitchers who will not hit their arbitration years until 2012 or so are EXTREMELY valuable. Thus it can net you more in a trade...maybe that was the thinking of Minaya, Sabean and others.

Also, I noticed someone down in the dumps about Casey Weathers to the Rox. Just tossing this out there - could this mean Fuentes is traded next month? My guess is that Weathers is close to major-league ready.

Heyward is coup--but Hicks and Gearrer look like wasted picks.  What is the point of drafting players in the early rounds without significant upside?

Haven't seen any comments on the Dodgers yet.  I'm not that impressed, but if they can sign him, Kyle Blair in round 4 is a great pickup.

Another 4'th rounder I really like is the Reds taking my man Blake Stouffer.  Very, very smart pick there.

I'm looking for Wes Etheridge and Reid Fronk today as well as Clemson Sr's Andy D'Alessio and Marquez Smith.

It shocked me that he was available at #14 for the Braves.  I can't understand why the Pirates, for instance, would pass on him.  Money is great, but using the grey matter helps too.

According to Red Sox press releases, they got the top two players on their board in Hagadone and Dent (keeping in mind the fact that their first pick was at 55). I haven't heard a lot about Hagadone, but in the picture below he looks like he's 40 years old. I heard that he made major improvements in velocity and now throws in the mid 90s - and a 6'5" lefty with that kind of power could make an impact. Has anyone seen him pitch?

anyone know what time it starts again today?

d-rays just started off the day picked emeel salem, royals pick fernando cruz

and its the nats who finally take jake mcgeary, i bet he's going to stanford

tough sign w/ fullerton commitment