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Mets reliever Josh Edgin has chosen to become a free agent. He was taken off the 40-man, designated for assignment, and cleared waivers.
Josh was always respectful for what I did and I wish him the best.
Time for a mock draft update.
Mets reliever Josh Edgin has chosen to become a free agent. He was taken off the 40-man, designated for assignment, and cleared waivers.
Josh was always respectful for what I did and I wish him the best.
The error in baseball is a unique phenomenon in sports—a
judgment of the quality of play that makes no difference to the outcome. No
other sport, not even a close cousin like cricket, has anything like it.
Records of errors are as old as official scoring; the rulebook devotes as many
pages to the error as it does to equipment. At each of the 2,430 games played
this past season, official scorers, nestled in the press boxes, have devoted
considerable intellectual energy and an elaborate casuistry to working out
which plays are errors and which aren’t. The statistic’s sublime pointlessness
is pure baseball.
Time for a mock draft update.
This one uses the last
six mocks out there on the internet. The results were:
2. OF-1B-DH Seth Beer – Clemson
3. SS Bruce Turang – Santiago HS (CA)
4. RHP Kumar Rocker – N. Oconee HS (GA)
5. RHP Jackson Kowar – Florida
6. OF Jarred Kelenic – Waukesha West HS
(WI)
7. OF Joe Gray Jr. – Hattiesburg HS (MS)
8. 2B Nick Madrigal – Oregon State
9. LHP Konnor Pilkington – Mississippi State
10. RHP Chandler Day – Vanderbilt
11. RHP Ethan Hankins – Forsyth Central
HS (GA)
12. SS Mateo Gill – Timber Creek HS (TX)
13. OF Trevor Larnach – Oregon State
14. RHP Lukan Baker – TCU
15. RHP Casey Mise – Auburn
16. C Will Banfield – Brookwood HS (GA)
17. SS Kendall Simmons – Tattnall Sq.
Aca. (GA)
18. LHP Kris Bubic – Stanford
19. RHP Jason Bilous – Coastal Carolina
20. SS Charles Mack – Williamsville E.
HS (NY)
21. LHP Justin Hooper – UCLA
22. RHP Owen Meaney – St. Thomas HS (TX)
23. SS Sean Guibe – Berks Catholic HS
(PA)
24. OF Jake Magnum – Mississippi State
25. 1B Tristan Casas – Plantation HS
(FL)
26. OF Brennan Breaux – LSU
27. RHP Dallas Woolfork – Mississippi
28. LHP Shane McClanahan – USF
29. LHP Nick Sprengel – San Diego
30. SS Jimmy Glowenke – Marcus HS (TX)
31. RHP Bryan Hoeing – Louisville
32. OF John Stowers – Louisville
33. 1B Chayce Bryant – Redan HS (GA)
34. LHP Cole Sands – Florida State
35. 3B Jonathan India – Florida
36. SS Jeremy Eierman – Missouri State
37. SS Nander De Sadas – Montverde Aca.
(FL)
38. C Joey Bart – Georgia Tech
39. C Cal Raleigh – Florida State
40. LHP Luke Bartnicki – Walton HS (GA)
41. OF Tristan Pompey – Kentucky
42. LHP Matt Liberatore – Mountain Ridge
HS (AZ)
43. OF Travis Swaggerty – South Alabama
44. RHP Davis Sharp – Mill Creek HS (GA)
45. OF Brock Hale – BYU
46. OF Manny Gonzalez – Hernandez HS
(PR)
47. RHP Sean Hjelle – Kentucky
48. 3B Nate Eikhoff – Virginia
49. OF Jake McCarthy – Virginia
50. SS Nolan Gorman – O’Connor HS (AZ)
51. LHP Steven Gingery – Texas Tech
52. OF Elijah Cabell – Winter Park HS
(FL)
53. RHP Colton Eastman - CSF
Eno Sarris
on the ‘Warthen Slider’ –
The Mets’ quick slide from a National League championship in
2015 to 90 losses this season had to claim a victim. Manager Terry Collins appears to be one of them: according to
reports, he’s unlikely to return next year. Now, pitching coach Dan Warthen is a candidate to join him on the chopping
block in New York.
It makes sense to some degree. The Mets’ fate over the past
few years has been tied closely to the quality of the pitching staff. Once a
clear strength of the club, that staff represented a weakness for this year’s
team. But much of that weakness was a product of injury, and injuries hit every
team at a seemingly random pace. Is Warthen a scapegoat here, or is he somehow
directly responsible for the current situation?
Two years ago, Warthen’s brand of slider appeared to be a
revelation. Somewhere between a cutter and true slider, the hard breaking ball
seemed responsible for the breakouts of multiple pitchers: Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Matt Harvey, Steven Matz,
Jenrry Mejia, Hansel Robles, and (of course) Noah
Syndergaard.
The Mets consistently led the league in slider velocity and
may have even inspired other teams to try out the harder version of the pitch.
The Mets have released catcher Jeff Glenn.
John Sickels has begun his award winning scouting reports on key players available for the 2018 draft.
Here’s one of the first
on Liberty University OF D.J. Artis –
Coming into his sophomore season, he had grown from 5’9”, 165
as a prepster, to a more solid 5’11”, 190. He was named as the Big South
Conference player of the year pre-season by Baseball America. He somehow put up
even stronger numbers as a sophomore: .359/.532/.552, with 62 walks to 30
strikeouts, and 23 stolen bases in 26 attempts. More importantly, he also more
than doubled his ISO, from .095 as a freshman to .193 as a sophomore. That brings
his two year totals to .365/.515/.504, 112 runs, 35 extra base hits, 86 RBI, 46
stolen bases, and a 114/58 BB/K ratio over 540 PA.
4 comments:
As much as I emphasize power hitting, if some other player at that point is just plain superior to all others and not a power hitter, I'd consider it. But I would like to see two things drafted this next draft:
1) Power hitters
2) Power pitchers
If you have to draft a player like Branden Kaupe, not in the 4th round, maybe in the 34th round.
Josh Edgin was not a power pitcher, which is why he is on the fringe, although overall he pitched well for the Mets...I also wish him well. Some advice - beat all the other teams, lose to the Mets!
I have 5 Brennan brothers...future draftee Brennan Breaux is not one of them, but I like the name.
Also all the best to released catcher Jeff Glenn. He falls into the category of guys any team may need to draft to fill out a team but lacked the hit/power tool to make it.
DJ Artis looks interesting, but is not in your attached top 53 list - they'd be great #'s for a 3rd rounder if he slips that far.
I'd be fine with any of the #6--#9 listed, Mack.
Any reason Duke OF Griffin Conine isn't in the top 53 ??
Tom -
Edgin always was supposed to be a one inning LOOGY and he did a remarkable job (2014: 47 appearances, 1.32, 0.91) when he was healthy.
I hope he doesn't come back to haunt us.
Hobie -
I really don't expect Madrigal to be around at number six and that is fine with me. We really do not need another short middle infielder.
As for Coninie, this is my average of the 8 mock drafts I have so far. Six did not have Conine in the first round. The last two, Scout and BA, both had hi at 14, but he averaged out higher as the year goes on.
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