Well, I'm back again with our SECOND diary. I've put together a type of board that I think will help us decide who to take. I do NOT stick soley to the board, that would be suicide. We know what we want, which I think is a HS/COL split in the first round, with some impact potential (we've got plenty of picks to play it "safe" later).
Without further adieu, here's the board that I've come up with. I don't care much for tweaking anyone in the top 10. They'll all be gone by the time we pick. I've highlighted in RED the ones that I do not believe will be at our pick, under about 99% of the circumstances. I'd give them a 0% chance of being around when 27 comes on the board, so I'm not gonna bother to discuss them. The ones in ORANGE are more of our "reach" targets, who I think will likely be gone before we pick, but I don't wanna say that with certainty. We should be prepared to take one of them, just in the case that they are in fact gone. Lastly, those in GREEN should be available (varying amounts of availability) with 27. Those are the guys who we should "target" and plan on drafting two of them between 27 and 34. Balancing them is a different question, but let me know who you like and don't like, who you want moved up or down, and I'll happily converse and settle on whatever we decide (very open system here).
| 1 | Brady Aiken |
| 2 | Carlos Rodon |
| 3 | Tyler Kolek |
| 4 | Nick Gordon |
| 5 | Alex Jackson |
| 6 | Aaron Nola |
| 7 | Bradley Zimmer |
| 8 | Grant Holmes |
| 9 | Touki Toussaint |
| 10 | Sean Newcomb |
| 11 | Kyle Freeland |
| 12 | Brandon Finnegan |
| 13 | Michael Chavis |
| 14 | Kyle Schwarber |
| 15 | Max Pentecost |
| 16 | Trea Turner |
| 17 | Tyler Beede |
| 18 | Monte Harrison |
| 19 | Michael Conforto |
| 20 | Jacob Gatewood |
| 21 | Jeff Hoffman |
| 22 | Luis Ortiz |
| 23 | Braxton Davidson |
| 24 | Scott Blewett |
| 25 | Derek Fisher |
| 26 | Michael Gettys |
| 27 | Sean Reid-Foley |
| 28 | Derek Hill |
| 29 | Erick Fedde |
| 30 | Foster Griffin |
| 31 | Michael Kopech |
| 32 | Spencer Adams |
| 33 | Dylan Cease |
| 34 | Kodi Medeiros |
| 35 | Marcus Wilson |
| 36 | AJ Reed |
| 37 | Ti'quan Forbes |
| 38 | Luke Weaver |
| 39 | Nick Burdi |
| 40 | Matt Imhof |
So have at it, this should be a fun discussion!
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