1. Houston Astros — Carlos Rodon, LHP, North Carolina State
2. Miami Marlins — Tyler Kolek, RHP, Shepherd HS (TX)
3. Chicago White Sox — Tyler Beede, RHP, Vanderbilt
4. Chicago Cubs — Brady Aiken, LHP, Cathedral Catholic HS
(CA)
5. Minnesota Twins — Nick Gordon, SS, Olympia HS (FL)
6. Seattle Mariners — Jeff Hoffman, RHP, East Carolina
7. Philadelphia Phillies — Alex Jackson, C/OF, Rancho
Bernardo HS (CA)
8. Colorado Rockies — Grant Holmes, RHP, Conway HS (SC)
9. Toronto Blue Jays — Trea Turner, SS, North Carolina State
10. New York Mets — Bradley Zimmer, OF, San Francisco
While he has cooled off just a bit as of late, Zimmer is
still hitting .374/.458/.598 through 42 games with eight doubles, five triples,
seven home runs and 19 stolen bases. He has 21 walks to 30 strikeouts, showing
improvement in his approach. At 6’-5” and 200 pounds, the left-handed hitter is
the best power/speed player in the 2014 MLB draft and, like his brother Kyle
Zimmer, has a canon for an arm.
http://throughthefencebaseball.com/2014-mlb-mock-draft-7-0-first-round/42690
3 comments:
Although I have said repeatedly that Nola's my guy, how could I object to drafting Zimmer. He has shown continuous improvement over his college career. As you say, he has both power, (.596 SLG) and speed (5 triples and 19 SBs in his 43 games) which would make him a great deal at # 10 in the draft.
Zimmer looks to be in the George Springer mold of player. I'd take that any day.
I have a feeling Trea Turner will be available. I think most of the top 10 is going to be very pitching heavy and one of Turner and Gordon will fall and we'll gladly accept the gift.
I have a feeling they will go cheap and make a "reach" pick because of the lost pool money. By the way does anybody know what we got from oakland for Forsythe
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