Looking at past drafts!

[sportscoach]

Okay, I made this thread to essentially look at past drafts and think about what we thought of them...

@Tondo I actually have a question for you... do you still have your old draft lists? (like 2010-2018) I am curious how well you did... and I am curious how well the mocks and projections did as well. Do you still have the older ones? This is just something fun to look at in my mind..

 

[Tondo]

I don't compile straight Draft Boards, simply because it's a futile exercise, especially with HS.

My specialty is mid/late round overlooked college value. A lot of those keep popping up as top prospects and make it to Majors and I always wonder why 30 FOs let them get by for multiple rounds.

I also had a run of basically predicting Bieber, Eli Morgan, Kwan and Brennan as CLE picks weeks before the draft. I had 40ish college pitching favs listed for the 2021 Draft and around 10 got selected by Cleveland.

Willie Hood does a great job with this and we always end up with similar targets.

 

[sportscoach]

I don't compile straight Draft Boards, simply because it's a futile exercise, especially with HS.

My specialty is mid/late round overlooked college value. A lot of those keep popping up as top prospects and make it to Majors and I always wonder why 30 FOs let them get by for multiple rounds.

I also had a run of basically predicting Bieber, Eli Morgan, Kwan and Brennan as CLE picks weeks before the draft. I had 40ish college pitching favs listed for the 2021 Draft and around 10 got selected by Cleveland.

Willie Hood does a great job with this and we always end up with similar targets.

Got any of those lists of the guys you really liked?

Also I think its getting a bit easier to predict guys Cleveland is going for... College arms that throw strikes with repeatable deliveries and hitters with plus contact skills...

I just wish signing bonuses were easier to predict since baseball drafting is a chess game at times and not always the BPA is taken

 

[Tondo]

Draft Targets pt 1, College Pitching

Draft Primer for reference https://www.coveringthecorner.com/2021/7/10/22571189/draft-targets-a-primer College Pitching Targets (no order): RHP: L. Marceaux - LSU (C, F, P, R, S, T) M....

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Draft Targets pt 2, College Hitters

C CJ Rodriguez - Vanderbilt C S. Mcguire - San Diego C W. Hendrie - San Diego St. C M. Turner - Kent St. C/Util L. Hancock - Mississippi St. 1B JT Schwartz - UCLA 1B T. Francisco - East...

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[Tondo]

Guardians 2022 Mock Draft 1.0

With 2 months left for the real thing, here's a first Guardians mock draft, featuring some of my targets: 16 3B C. Collier - Chipola, JuCo (SS Zach Neto - Campbell) Collier has reclassified...

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Guardians 2022 Mock Draft 2.0

With less than 4 weeks to go, here is a 10 round Guardians mock draft. I will leave out players from my 1st mock to highlight different possible future CLE prospects. It's a mix of players that...

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Draft Targets for Day 2 and 3

This is simple, I'll just list my targets by position for day 2 and 3 (almost equivalent starting in rounds 6-7). Not much time to explain why, tried too hard to do that last year, but feel free to...

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[Out of the Rafters at the Q]

I look back really fondly on the 2019 draft. I had Crooked Stave's Nightmare on Brett as one of the two kegs in my kegerator--still my most expensive beer on draft, but God was it worth it.

 

[Martyinnewyork]

I look back really fondly on the 2019 draft. I had Crooked Stave's Nightmare on Brett as one of the two kegs in my kegerator--still my most expensive beer on draft, but God was it worth it.

Lol!