MLB 2024 Draft

[Gson]

Figures. We finally get a top 10 pick and there isn't much to pick from.

There are a LOT of good players.. just no "franchise" changers..

 

[MD13]

Obviously several years out from the draft but this could be a gamechanger for the entire drafting process. I wonder if other top Japanese prospects begin to follow him to US colleges.

 

[Gson]

Now... only months out.. a D1 Baseball site list of college draft ready prospects.. the top half dozen or so.. are all very good to exceptional.. with two or three being considered franchise changing..

RANK	PLAYER	POSITION	COLLEGE	CONFERENCE
1	Vance Honeycutt	CF	North Carolina	ACC
2	Chase Burns	RHP	Tennessee	SEC
3	Tommy White	3B/1B	LSU	SEC
4	Carter Holton	LHP	Vanderbilt	SEC
5	Braden Montgomery	RHP/OF	Stanford	Pac-12
6	Hagen Smith	LHP	Arkansas	SEC
7	Pierce Coppola	LHP	Florida	SEC
8	Drew Beam	RHP	Tennessee	SEC
9	Paxton Kling*	OF	LSU	SEC
10	Thatcher Hurd	RHP	LSU	SEC
11	Jac Caglianone	LHP/1B	Florida	SEC
12	Ben Hess	RHP	Alabama	SEC
13	Peyton Stovall	INF	Arkansas	SEC
14	Eli Jerzembeck*	RHP	South Carolina	SEC
15	Andrew Dutkanych*	RHP	Vanderbilt	SEC
16	Dakota Jordan*	OF	Mississippi State	SEC
17	Brody Brecht	RHP	Iowa	Big Ten
18	Carson DeMartini	3B	Virginia Tech	ACC
19	Josh Hartle	LHP	Wake Forest	ACC
20	Rodney Green, Jr.	CF	California	Pac-12
21	Travis Bazzana	2B	Oregon State	Pac-12
22	Cody Schrier	MIF	UCLA	Pac-12
23	Carson Benge	RHP/OF	Oklahoma State	Big 12
24	John Spikerman	CF/SS	Oklahoma	Big 12
25	Ryan Johnson	RHP	Dallas Baptist	C-USA
26	Brady Tygart	RHP	Arkansas	SEC
27	Jalin Flores*	SS	Texas	Big 12
28	Cam Smith*	3B	Florida State	ACC
29	Nick Kurtz	1B	Wake Forest	ACC
30	Jonathan Santucci	LHP/OF	Duke	ACC
31	Brock Wills*	2B	UNC Wilmington	Colonial
32	Mike Sirota	OF	Northeastern	Colonial
33	Troy Wansing	LHP	Texas A&M	SEC
34	Janzen Keisel	RHP	Oklahoma State	Big 12
35	Chris Cortez	RHP	Texas A&M	SEC
36	Trey Yesavage	RHP	East Carolina	American
37	Chase Allsup	RHP	Auburn	SEC
38	Hunter Elliott	LHP	Ole Miss	SEC
39	Hunter Hines	1B	Mississippi State	SEC
40	Blake Burke	1B	Tennessee	SEC
41	Casey Saucke	INF	Virginia	ACC
42	Slate Alford	3B	Mississippi State	SEC
43	Caleb Lomavita	C	California	Pac-12
44	Carter Mathison	OF	Indiana	Big Ten
45	Jack Findlay	RHP	Notre Dame	ACC
46	Garrett Horn	LHP	Liberty	A-SUN
47	Jackson Linn	OF	Tulane	American
48	Gage Ziehl	RHP	Miami	ACC
49	Jacob Cozart	C	NC State	ACC
50	Jay Woolfolk	RHP	Virginia	ACC
51	Jake Faherty	RHP	Arkansas	SEC
52	Griff O’Ferrall	SS	Virginia	ACC
53	Kyle DeBarge	SS	Louisiana	Sun Belt
54	Josh Kuroda-Grauer	SS	Rutgers	Big Ten
55	Michael Robertson	OF	Florida	SEC
56	Brock Tibbitts	1B	Indiana	Big Ten
57	Trey Lipsey	OF	Ohio State	Big Ten
58	Marcus Morgan	RHP	Iowa	Big Ten
59	Cade Obermueller*	LHP	Iowa	Big Ten
60	Ryan Waldschmidt	OF	Kentucky	SEC
61	Zach Ehrhard	CF	Oklahoma State	Big 12
62	Ike Irish*	C	Auburn	SEC
63	Gabe D’Arcy	OF	San Diego	West Coast
64	Daniel Brooks	RHP	College of Charleston	Colonial
65	Danny Avitia	RHP	Grand Canyon	WAC
66	Harrison Povey	OF	Florida Gulf Coast	A-SUN
67	Eli Serrano*	1B	NC State	ACC
68	Miles Langhorne	RHP	Charlotte	C-USA
69	Jackson Wentworth	RHP	Kansas State	Big 12
70	Dom Fritton*	LHP	NC State	ACC
71	Anthony Silva*	SS	TCU	Big 12
72	Andrew Patrick	2B/CF	Wright State	Horizon
73	Grant Hussey	1B	West Virginia	Big 12
74	Zach Stewart*	OF	Missouri State	MVC
75	Malcolm Moore*	DH	Stanford	Pac-12
76	Tristan Smith*	LHP	Clemson	ACC
77	Colby Holcombe	RHP	Mississippi State	SEC
78	Ethan Gourson	INF	UCLA	Pac-12
79	Davis Diaz	MIF	Vanderbilt	SEC
80	Gage Jump	LHP	UCLA	Pac-12
81	Cam Hill	LHP	Georgia Tech	ACC
82	Ryan Ure	LHP	Oklahoma State	Big 12
83	Joey Gartrell	RHP	Portland	West Coast
84	Ryan McCrystal	C	East Carolina	American
85	David Rossow	RHP	Campbell	Big South
86	Irv Weems	OF	San Diego State	Mountain West
87	Karson Ligon	RHP	Miami	ACC
88	Jacob Jenkins-Cowart	OF	East Carolina	American
89	Dalton Pence	LHP	North Carolina	ACC
90	Brady Fuller	RHP	Troy	Sun Belt
91	Carson Liggett	RHP	Louisville	ACC
92	Logan McGuire	RHP	Georgia Tech	ACC
93	Ian Hughes	RHP	Nevada	Mountain West
94	Kennedy Jones	OF	UNC Greensboro	SoCon
95	Hudson White	C	Texas Tech	Big 12
96	Mark Wolbert	CF	UC Davis	Big West
97	Jack Penney	2B	Notre Dame	ACC
98	Payton Green	SS	NC State	ACC
99	Christian Moore	OF	Tennessee	SEC
100	Zander Darby	INF	UCSB	Big West
101	Carson Crawford	SS/3B	California	Pac-12
102	Jacob Walsh	1B	Oregon	Pac-12
103	Nick McLain	CF	Arizona State	Pac-12
104	Jake Humphrey	OF	UMass Lowell	America East
105	Jacob Hughes	RHP	Oregon	Pac-12
106	Ryan Campos	C	Arizona State	Pac-12
107	Luke Heyman*	C	Florida	SEC
108	Yoel Tejeda Jr*	RHP/1B	Florida	SEC
109	Matthew Becker	LHP	South Carolina	SEC
110	Brandon Neely	RHP	Florida	SEC
111	Tommy Hawke	OF	Wake Forest	ACC
112	Mason Molina	LHP	Texas Tech	Big 12
113	AJ Guerrero	OF	Washington	Pac-12
114	Will Rogers	C/OF	Arizona State	Pac-12
115	Nate Dohm	RHP	Mississippi State	SEC
116	Riley Maddox	RHP	Ole Miss	SEC
117	Devin Futrell	LHP	Vanderbilt	SEC
118	Carson Olsen	RHP	California Baptist	WAC
119	Aidan Major	RHP	West Virginia	Big 12
120	Jared Thomas*	1B	Texas	Big 12
121	JJ Wetherhlot	INF	West Virginia	Big 12
122	Jackson Nicklaus	2B	Oklahoma	Big 12
123	Brennan Phillips*	LHP	Oklahoma State	Big 12
124	Ethan Anderson	1B	Virginia	ACC
125	Jordan Taylor*	OF	Florida State	ACC
126	Will Taylor	OF	Clemson	ACC
127	Teo Banks	UTI	Tulane	American
128	Austin Henry*	RHP	Wichita State	American
129	Kaelen Culpepper	3B	Kansas State	Big 12
130	Gavin Bruni	LHP	Ohio State	Big Ten
131	Peyton Smith	RHP	Dallas Baptist	C-USA
132	Gavin Guidry*	SS	LSU	SEC
133	Malakhi Knight	OF	UCLA	Pac-12
134	Michael Massey	RHP	Wake Forest	ACC
135	Josh Randall	RHP	Arizona	Pac-12
136	Anson Aroz	C	Oregon	Pac-12
137	Vincent Trapani	RHP	UIC	MVC
138	Noah Edders	RHP	Bradley	MVC
139	Randal Diaz	INF	Indiana State	MVC
140	Matt Ager	RHP	UCSB	Big West
141	Evan Truitt	RHP	Charleston Southern	Big South
142	Ryan Forcucci	RHP	UCSD	Big West
143	Chris Canada	RHP	San Diego State	Mountain West
144	Luke Holman	RHP	Alabama	SEC
145	Max Debiec	RHP	Texas A&M	SEC
146	Kyle Robinson	RHP	Texas Tech	Big 12
147	Jason Doktorczyk	RHP	Nevada	Mountain West
148	Bryan Arendt	C	UNC Wilmington	Colonial
149	Davin Pollard	RHP	Austin Peay	A-SUN
150	Eldridge Armstrong	RHP	San Diego State	Mountain West

 

[sportscoach]

Obviously several years out from the draft but this could be a gamechanger for the entire drafting process. I wonder if other top Japanese prospects begin to follow him to US colleges.

Sincerely I couldn't blame the top Japanese players for going to US colleges since it would get them to the bigs in the US a lot easier... Though that being stated, I think Japan pays the guys better at the level lowers. So it could bite them in the end if they don't make it to the bigs...

 

[sportscoach]

@Gson who are the guys you really want that are in that top 10-20 range on that list @Tondo I would love if you chimed in on this one as well...

 

[Gson]

@Gson who are the guys you really want that are in that top 10-20 range on that list @Tondo I would love if you chimed in on this one as well...

Posted on October 2nd or 3rd... per MLB Draft Mock 2024:

Tommy White (my favorite, at present) # 7
Cade Arrambide (perhaps the best C in this draft.. and, possibly, in the last three drafts) # 20
Michael Mullinax (not related to the car dealership people).. # 13

Any one of these three would be good.. emphasis on White and Mullinax..

 

[DCTribefan]

One can dream.

 

[Gson]

Right now.. I have 31 guys on my list of possible Guardian first picks.. they include 11 Outfielders, 8 Pitchers, 6 Shortstops, 3 Catchers 2 Third Basemen and 1 second basemen; The age/class make up is.. 15 prepsters, 16 college kids. The top five or six guys in this draft will probably be dominated by two way players who will have to choose which path they're going on (position player or pitcher).. there is no franchise changing/must have talent in this draft.. but, it's still pretty deep.. We'll see..

 

[AZ_]

LFG

 

[BMAN]

Haha holy shit!

 

[Kevalier]

Holy shit!!!

 

[BMAN]

One can dream.

View attachment 18109

Nailed it.

 

[Gson]

Right now.. I have 31 guys on my list of possible Guardian first picks.. they include 11 Outfielders, 8 Pitchers, 6 Shortstops, 3 Catchers 2 Third Basemen and 1 second basemen; The age/class make up is.. 15 prepsters, 16 college kids. The top five or six guys in this draft will probably be dominated by two way players who will have to choose which path they're going on (position player or pitcher).. there is no franchise changing/must have talent in this draft.. but, it's still pretty deep.. We'll see..

this was the posting from Sunday (3:22 pm).. before the start of the continuation of the Browns slow death spiral....

 

[sportscoach]

@Gson @Tondo @petes999

Time to legitimately talk about who your target is?

 

[DJTJ]

I’m not a massive draft guy, but JJ Wetherholt puts in another year like last year and he seems like their ideal org fit. Nick Kurtz, too, if he keeps showing good plate discipline.