2021 MLB Draft / College Baseball Thread

[daddywags]

I have been waiting since the third round for the “saving money” trope to emerge…

I have never been one of the "Dolan is cheap" crowd.

 

[CalBuckeyeRob]

Any high school players on the short season squad will have plenty of options if they need to send someone out for booze.

 

[MirORich]

Round 9: Will Dion

College Pitcher, McNeese State

Another soft toss lefty. Win his conference Pitcher of the Year award. 4th year Jr.

 

[Seiklis]

Soft Tossing College Lefty Number 3

Will Dion
McNeese State (LA) P L/L 4YR JR
5' 10" 180lbs
Dion won Southland Conference Pitcher of the Year after going 9-4 with a 3.07 ERA and a school-record 121 strikeouts in 99 2/3 innings. He commands his 87-91 mph fastball and pair of breaking pitches well while also earning high marks for his competitiveness.

 

[33Y0]

 

[Seiklis]

 

[Derek]

Joke's on Fox, we're moving him to pitcher

 

[Criznit]

I think we need another pitcher

 

[MirORich]

I think we need another pitcher

I think we’ll have one in about 8 more minutes

 

[petes999]

When do we take that catcher to do all these ball pen sessions? If they want to go cheap, I can take my bucket down to Arizona to sit on.

 

[Seiklis]

All college pitchers

Franco Aleman....3rd Florida Gator pitcher...freaking huge though

Franco Aleman Florida R/R 4YR JR 6' 6" 235lbs

Born in Cuba, Aleman moved to Florida with his parents when he was 11. After attending the same high school where the late Jose Fernandez and Tigers prospect Alex Faedo also pitched, he headed to Florida International for college, starting there as a freshman and then pitching well in the Cape Cod League. He transferred to St. John's River Community College for 2020 and then moved to the University of Florida for the 2021 season, where he both relieved and started with mixed results. The 6-foot-6 Aleman was more of a sinker-slider type of pitcher at St. John's, but a change to focusing on four-seamers up in the zone has meant more velocity with his fastball. He's touched 98 mph this year, averaging just over 93 mph and showed he can maintain his velocity deep into starts at times. He can miss bats with his slider, but because of a long arm swing behind him in his delivery, he has trouble staying on top of it consistently. While Aleman throws hard, his fastball has had a tendency to get hit up in the zone because he doesn't command the pitch well enough, leading some to think he might need to go to the sinker, which still can get ground balls, more at the next level, where he could be a sinker-slider type reliever.

 

[Criznit]

All college pitchers

Franco Aleman....3rd Florida Gator pitcher

It seems odd at this point.... That is a ton of bodies...

 

[petes999]

I know we were going to focus on pitchers but this is ridiculous.

Did we really have that much of a need with our young core of Bieber, Plesac, Civale, Kar and Clase? Unless you are planning to trade pitching for hitting (as they can’t figure out how to hire a hitting instructor worth a damn).

 

[Criznit]

10 out of 11 are pitchers? That seems crazy to me. Not knocking it, I kinda like crazy..

 

[Mott the Hoople]

Where would the Indians be today if they hadn't traded pitchers Kluber, Bauer, and Clevinger?