but as I said, I’ll be unable to be on the site from about 2 pm till 10 or 11 that evening. If you are sure you will be here then that should be ok but I don’t want to leave you hanging if you think there is some reason you wont be able to make our picks. That is why I didn’t ask for a team so I’ll leave it up to you.

Or are you going to want to find someone who should be able to be here most of if not all of that Sunday?

I didn’t mean WILL the real Braves consider him..
What I really meant was something more like.. If we were the real life Braves would we take him, considering our organization’s history, standards and coach/staff personnel.

Certainly not most – too damn many for that! – but I watch a lot of college baseball in person and catch it on TV.

The rest I just go off word of mouth.

missed this year with TJ surgery. I wouldn’t take him in the first 5 round picks this year but in a deeper draft I would LOOOOVE to spend a later pick on him as a flier.
Also.. you know who I think should go #1 overall. The latest star from Hurricaine, WV.. Thor Meeks. I have no idea if he is any good but a guy named THOR Meeks from HURRICAINE, WV. You can’t make this stuff up…

moving along.,,

Havens is probably more like a 2nd rounder, but as I said I like to initially put guys in a lower rank and move them up as I become sure of how much I like them. Its more something I do for mental organization.
That being said… I’m not sold at allll on Havens.

I can’t shake all of the completely ordinary-ness I have seen from him the last 3 years. I have seen him so many times and he hasn’t been bad but he has not look at all more impressive than any number of ordinary college ballplayers. I might be being hard on him but I don’t see any “impact player” in him. More like a utility guy with an upside of… I dunno.. Joe Randa?

Don’t get me wrong. Joe Randa was a very good player and if i thought that was a median outcome I’d put him really high but at pick 40, yes the selection is narrower, but I would like some All-Star potential there unless I feel there is a guy who is a super-sure thing to be solid. Neither of which I see Havens as.

If I;m drafting I’d take Dominguez in a heartbeat over Havens.
Just my 2 cents. I could be wrong

yeah, i’ve seen Pallazone and his HS play a few times. They are a local power.
I never got to play them in HS but they are consistently strong every year.
Jeff Francouers Jr year his team played an epic state playoff match with Stephen Drew’s team that i saw but his senior year they played Lassiter in the HS playoffs and it was tied until Francouer (who had also come on to pitch and was blowing kids away with a low-mid 90s FB) hit a shot into the woods in left to go ahead. This would prompt Francoeurs HS-Parkview- to bat around that inning until Francouer came up again and hit the most insane HS HR I’ve ever seen. It was damn near as high as some pine trees and it literally sounded like thunder coming off that bat. And that Lassiter team Francouer dominated were no scrubs. 8 of the starters would play D-1 baseball with the 9th going to a JUCO, plus an injured pitcher went to GT and their LOOGY went D-1 too. Plus they even had some freshmen and sophs on the JV who would later play in the SEC. And he whooped em. Dominating stuff,,,, aaaanway. getting off the story time tangent

buttt I’m an idiot and in a little mind-slip I mixed his name up with another UCLA pitcher (Charles Brewer) and I wrote down Tim Brewer on the board. I’ll fix that.

As for H-Mart… I really don’t know. I have never seen him play so all I know is his rep. Sometimes the big HS Jr stars that slump as seniors are legit and they rebound (Cody Johnson), sometimes they were never really all that good (Eric Massingham). Its a mixed bag.
I’m really interested in others input on him

He is a big kid, 6’7”, 280 who pitches and plays first. I can’t remember for sure but I think he has a commitment to play baseball/football for Florida State so that is an issue.

on the front of your HS fb uni’s it says STAB

kinda vicious sounding for little place called St Anne’s, eh? : )

and yes to your Q. Kyle Long is their brother son

Thanks for the heads up.

isn’t a huge advantage in this, though i do see your point and there is one way somethings would be better (for the drafter, but not community) private

There is some edge if you are trying to pick between players A and B but you know another team will take Player B if you don’t but Player A could fall to you with a later pick.
That isn’t a huge edge though because there are generally so many spots between picks you know you probably aren’t going to get a guy if you pass on him in one spot and there are so many teams picking in-between that it is hard to say what ALL of them will do

Knowing what other teams are doing, or giving away your own plans, is a much better advantage if picks are being traded which isn’t going to happen here so it is no big deal.
Like in the NFL if the team with pick #5 wants Player A and their original plan is to sit and wait for him but if that info got out the team with Pick #7, who originally thought they could sit and wait, wants him than pick #5’s team could be screwed if pick #7 uses that info to decide to trade up.

It isn’t like anyone in this is going to change their pick just to spite someone. Lets say the White Sox Mock Drafter says, “If Gordon Beckham gets to me I am picking him, no doubt about it!”.
It doesn’t matter. No team ahead is going to pick Beckham now just out of spite if he wasn’t the guy they wanted previously. And no team that passed on Beckham would expect him to be available with a later pick.

is if you have some darkhorses you know have not been mentioned on this site and you don’t want others to read your take on em and consider taking em. I know I have a few guys like that. I wound up putting most of em on my board bc its more fun to discuss this stuff and help entertain/inform others than to keep it hidden.
I do have one or two guys I’d love to nail with 2-5th rounders in this site that I havn’t opened up about for that reason (and for the personal fun of nabbing someone unexpected) but I very well may in my next MOD for the sake of the community, which is what this is ultimately about.

Also, from a baseball nerd perspective, what is really fun is to watch an unheralded guy play a game and say “hey, he could be something. i wonder why i havn’t heard of him before. he could be as good as more talked about guys.” and then a few weeks later you see PG or BA mention him as a prospect.
Its like.. maybe im not completely clueless after all!

You using the same blog space?