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Eric A Longenhagen
4:14
Lol and Placido Polanco just walked past us
ja1145
4:16
Another shortstop with a back issue?
Eric A Longenhagen
4:16
Was top 15 for lots of folks coming out of last summer.
But yeah the optics of it are weird given the Aidan Miller of it all
Fangraphs Man
4:16
if you had told me the day of the draft lottery the Sox would take Roch and Thome with their first two picks… I would not have been surprised in the slight st
magpieball
4:18
Still seeing Will Brick go to Toronto at 39?
Eric A Longenhagen
4:18
The dope has stopped flowing
BKhipsterball
4:22
What have we learned about the Rockies 3 picks in?
Brendan Gawlowski
4:22
Reddemann's an interesting fit there. One of the things he does well is sell the changeup, and that feels like one of the more Coors-neutral attributes you could target.
ajexpress
4:23
what do you guys think of dietz?
Brendan Gawlowski
4:23
We liked him plenty. Really scary injury history, more big and powerful than loose and twitchy
Joey Caltrain
4:24
I'm reading Callis' 2005 mock draft that Baumann mentioned earlier, and it's got specifics like the day that front offices decided to go with a particular guy. I don't feel like we hear that kind of inside info these days. Have front offices gotten more secretive over the last two decades? Changes in draft rules bringing negotiations down to the wire? Something else?
Eric A Longenhagen
4:25
There's an Observer Effect where they realized the stakes of telling us have changed and it impacts what they want to tell us
Bo Lowrance is a Dodger, sounds like.
Josh Jowdy
4:26
Bo Lowrance to the Dodgers also scares the crap out of me
Phillip Denny
4:27
The spice dope must flow!
magpieball
4:27
Carlon good pick there?
Eric A Longenhagen
4:27
Yeah, enough upside to merit the risk that he's injury prone
Remember when Spenny Miles was injured all the time?
Phillip Denny
4:27
Holy crap I spoke it into existence.
Charles Bengal Tiger
4:27
Will the 3 draftees Eric gave 55s, and 50 Flora be the only additions to the top 100 from today's selections?
Brendan Gawlowski
4:27
For our next update
May add more later this summer
lmb2020
4:28
That pirates-white sox trade still confuses me. Isn't that 34th pick like, really valuable compared to a middle reliever and a utility infielder? And they sent away a decent prospect too? But then it was just so the Sox could do a nepotism (probably unwarranted dig at Thome but still)
Eric A Longenhagen
4:29
It's slightly more complicated than that, and we've seen comp picks in that area traded straight up for Alex Claudio in the past. Proximity is really important to the way you value players and assets, and all the picks are almost by default 3 or more years away
4:30
This place is clearing out now, let's see how thigns progress from here in the room. The last two years it goes totally silent and the picks are shown on a video board and not announced at all
Phillip Denny
4:30
Wishcasting one of Lowrance, Comeau, Ruiz, Marchand, Maniscalco, or Spangler to the Dodgers at 40.
Eric A Longenhagen
4:31
I love experiencing this feeling as a sports fan, when I'm like "I want Karim Lopez" and it happens, truly the best
Josh Jowdy
4:31
I imagine the hardest Intel to get right now is who underslot targets might be?
Eric A Longenhagen
4:31
Actually the toughest is "How far under do you think you are, Braves (or whoever)?" because it can be dangerous for other teams to know the math of it.
grover
4:39
Has there been a previous draft where the 2nd round starts before teams have finished making their 1st round selections?
Michael Baumann
4:40
It's a weird quirk of the CBT penalty system moving picks . I get why they call it this way but it's annoying to follow
sliderinthedirt
4:41
Question about what prospects like to do outside of baseball. If a guy’s answer was “Nothing. My sole purpose in life is to play baseball. If I could not play baseball I think I would just wither away and die.” Would it raise or lower your opinion of him as a prospect?
Michael Baumann
4:42
That's a good question. I'd be inclined to say it'd make me think the guy is either a psycho or a liar and yet: Wouldn't Shohei Ohtani give this answer?
Brendan Gawlowski
4:43
Sounds like Ichiro
Sam Forman
4:47
Curious: Is it interesting that the Twins took Lackey and Tinney, or just a case of them taking a guy they liked without position being important?
Michael Baumann
4:48
It's not not interesting, but if they both get near the majors and are still nailed-on catchers the Twins can trade one. If it becomes a problem it'll be a good one to have
Brendan Gawlowski
4:49
Hang on everybody
We are getting the boot from the media space
Meg Rowley
4:52
I think that's our sign to conclude, since we don't really know where we're being relocated exactly. Thanks so much for hanging out everyone!
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