Mark Healey is correct.
He laughs at all of us that give opinions of ballplayers
picked in the draft that we have never seen play baseball.
Day 2 of the draft proves we waste out our time all year
breaking out all the top players listed in all the mock drafts featured every
day throughout the year. Then, a team like the New York Mets, go out of their
way (it seems) to draft a bunch of players we never saw a printed word written
about.
I can’t figure out what direction I will go in this area. It’s
obvious that I don’t have enough knowledge of this game, so why would I think
that the first relief pitcher taken in the draft would be either Austin Maddox or Matt Price?
No, everything in this new system is signability, a word I’m
not sure is ever spelled correctly. Spell check doesn’t even offer a decent
alternative.
I did like some of the names picked by the Mets from 4-10,
but, to be honest, no one jumped off the computer at me. There isn’t one draft
pick so far this year that I was ready to write about. Again, I assume DePo
knows what he is doing. I thought last year’s draft was ‘meh’ and, I was wrong.
It is turning out to be a solid draft that has produced at least one prospect (Michael Fulmer) and a few more that show promise. That’s
really what you want out of a draft. A few top players.
I also assume we’ll see some more familiar names today.
Everyone seems to be picking the high ceiling high school kids first and Day 3
should feature guys all the teams fell were cheap and signable. There’s another
of those never spelled correctly words.
Here’s one thing that is important today: Chinese premier Wen
tells Iran president that China opposes any Middle East country seeking nuclear
weapons. That’s hard news. No, it has nothing to do with baseball, but I was
dying to write something this morning that makes sense.
We’ll get back to the draft now and break out info on some
pitcher from Swoboda School of Engineering High School, in Lower Bowels,
Louisiana.
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