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Originally Posted by phillysoxfan115
At first glance, I'd say this draft is meh at best, but as I think about it, I think it is pretty good given their picks. Yes they could have had Harvey, Crosby, and more players of that caliber, but they did get solid players. The one thing that is odd to me is the similarities to last year's draft besides the 1st round of course. Nick Hagadone is a lefty who is a relative unknown kinda similar to Kris Johnson. You got Hunter Morris who is very like Jon Still with the power but thats it. You got the senior signs in Chris Province and Bryce Cox. So, as I thought about it, right now it looks weak, but we can't tell until after MLB's slotting period (1-11 rounds), when the Sox can start to use their deep pockets and not piss of Bud Selig. However, if the draft continues this way for the entire draft, then I'd be less than thrilled, especially when it was speculated that the Roger Clemens $ was going into the draft.
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Nice post phillysoxfan. I think those are all valid comparisons.
I don't know about the whole clemens money going into the draft thing though. I think the Sox spent something like 8 million on last years draft (feel free to correct me, I'm pretty sure it was between 6-9 m somewhere) which is easily affordable for the number of guys they get if they feel like their scouting has been positive.
Looking at this draft so far, the amazing thing is how fortunate we were the past few years, in retrospect. They went from 10 1st round picks over 2 years to 2, so we shouldn't expect them to get a top-tier draft, when a team like the Giants has 5 first round picks.
I have a really good feeling about Middlebrooks, simply from the description of him that I've read of him he sounds like a guy who will play in the bigs. He already has the size (6-4), toughness (star football player in Texas) and arm to find a place on a big league team in 5 years.
Also, I love how absurd high school statistics can be. Brock Huntzinger could be the next Koufax!!
7-0, 43 IP, 0.16 ERA, 88K
What does that even mean?
