2024 MLB Draft

The Royals might be on the come up and of course Singer is there, but I still feel like that's kind of a bummer landing spot. It's just a weird organization that rarely seems to know what they're doing.

 

Dang another Wake player in the 1st round 3B Seaver King. They were loaded. Wut happened?

 

Braden Montgomery from Tx A&M and his bad leg go to the Red Sox. Good guy. Happy for him.

 

Agree he is moving up and most likely won't be a Gator, but I doubt TBR takes him as they have a lot of glove first middle INF with little power in their system.

 

Great Call!

 

Have to think this is likely related to why Cags went 6th and Kurtz went 4th.

 

And goes 23rd. Yeah, he ain't going to college

 

Lindsey went about where I thought.

Great family!! Happy for him.

 

Thanks!!

Happy for the small town kid that comes from a great family!!

 

Wachula? a town? rode my bicycle through it a few times

 

Positive night for UF. Went in knowing Cags and Lindsay would both be first rounders but the fact no other UF player or signee went in the second round is obviously good news.

Big day tomorrow as UF will have to sweat out eight more rounds but even with rounds 11-20 coming on Tuesday, we should have a pretty good idea by tomorrow evening who will be in Gainesville this fall.

 

Yep, great little place.

 

I think these people have more money than brains letting Cags drop to 6th.

 

Shelton not going in top 70 could send him back for another year. I’d seen him as high as 49. Another year would be great for him to show he can cut down on strikeouts, show more plate discipline, etc.

Be interesting to see where Barbieri and Lawson go.

 

My Dad and his twin were born there but the family moved to Citrus County before he could remember. Glad it’s still rural: Not much of Florida is anymore.

 

The Dodgers are a great fit for Lindsey. The kid is a great athlete who can really run but his bat will need a lot of development. The Dodgers are obviously a great organization who can be patient and not rush Lindsey along.

Can’t turn down first round money either way but Lindsey is better off signing now and being properly developed in the rookie and low A leagues. The fear for a young kid like this is that by attending a SEC-level school he struggles initially against the better pitching he’ll face and doesn’t get the ABs necessary. Playing on the side fields at the Dodgers Arizona complex isn’t exactly glamorous but Lindsey, whether he struggles early or not, will still get all the time he needs. The kid has a chance to be really good and hopefully it all works out for him.

 

Every scouting report I’ve seen on Cags focuses on the fact that he swings at 40% of pitches outside the zone (compared to the MLB average of 20%). The narrative is that without that flaw, Cags would be the first pick. In college, Cags managed to hit many of those pitches and barely ever struck out, but the MLB is obviously a different beast. I still expect him to be great, but I also don’t get paid millions of dollars to make these decisions.

 

We all are aware of the fact that a good mathematician can take a sheet of numbers and make them say pretty much what they want them to.

Scouting reports have zeroed in on this swinging at 40% of pitches outside the zone. In steps the business of baseball and at least IMHO this is an effort to drive the price down for the buyer.

They choose not to highlight the other numbers that show Cags this past season substantially cut his strikeouts down to around 20…..

The game of baseball vs the business of baseball.

 

Yep. He didn’t K very often. I wondered as the season went along if he didn’t swing at those pitches because he knew he wasn’t going to get anything good to hit and tried to pick out an acceptably good pitch out of the strike zone.

 

I agree with the comment that it’s a bit of a bummer for Cags to drop to #6 and go to KC- a small market team with a roller coaster history of success and many years of abject failures. But on bright side, he should fast track to the big show with that franchise. Langford got luckier with Texas and a quality manager and organization. From the start of telecast, Kyle Peterson noted that Cags was "the best player in the draft" so a bit surprising his name did not come up in top three. We know the book on his swinging out of the zone, etc … but (wildly speculating here) I wonder if he and/or his people were hinting that he wanted to give two-way playing a shot. Every scout I spoke with at Condron were convinced his future was with the bat and not two-way.