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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #275 on: July 17, 2022, 09:00:51 pm »
VT plays in the ACC and went to the super regional this year. Quite true for JMU but Cleveland seems to like him.
Chase tore it up in the Cape.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #276 on: July 17, 2022, 09:03:24 pm »
Some great names available. Tucker Toman. Cooper Hjerpe.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #277 on: July 17, 2022, 09:03:43 pm »
Ok. My bad. Cross was picked 9th by KC. That has to be the highest any Hokie has been drafted.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #278 on: July 17, 2022, 10:03:45 pm »
Vitello is just killing it on this draft analysis on MLB Network. Was really cool to get his perspective on Gilbert but his analysis on other High School kids is great.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #279 on: July 17, 2022, 11:19:21 pm »
So what do we think of the pitcher the Nats drafted in round two?
MLB had him ranked 68.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #280 on: July 17, 2022, 11:35:44 pm »
It's pretty cool that Bennett played high school and college ball with Cavalli. It'd be pretty sweet for him to develop and join the Nats rotation together down the road. He's a Nats re-draft too. Drafted in the 39th round 3 years ago.

It's an OK pick. Not chasing extreme upside but looks like an innings eater. He has great size, pounds the zone with a 4 seamer and change up. The change up is his best pitch. He seems relatively safe as a back end guy but has a little upside left as well. If he can develop a breaking ball, that changes his entire makeup. But different reports talk about his fast ball hitting 96 and 98 at times, while sitting 91-94. If he can get a little more consistency on the top end of that range, it obviously gives him another boost.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #281 on: July 18, 2022, 12:57:44 am »
I really don’t hate the BPA / highest upside in the first and the drafting safe round two.

I know the “Astros Strategy” works. Just don’t mind ceiling when drafting in the top ten.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #282 on: July 18, 2022, 01:32:56 am »
It's pretty cool that Bennett played high school and college ball with Cavalli. It'd be pretty sweet for him to develop and join the Nats rotation together down the road. He's a Nats re-draft too. Drafted in the 39th round 3 years ago.

It's an OK pick. Not chasing extreme upside but looks like an innings eater. He has great size, pounds the zone with a 4 seamer and change up. The change up is his best pitch. He seems relatively safe as a back end guy but has a little upside left as well. If he can develop a breaking ball, that changes his entire makeup. But different reports talk about his fast ball hitting 96 and 98 at times, while sitting 91-94. If he can get a little more consistency on the top end of that range, it obviously gives him another boost.

Wil Crowe Mk.2 in Nick Lodolo's body, it looks like.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #283 on: July 18, 2022, 09:40:41 am »
Jake Bennett is a pitchability arm who performed well this spring, using a low-to-mid-90s fastball, a sweepy slider and a changeup he throws exclusively against righthanders. The Nationals had a high-reward pick at five followed by a high-floor pick at 45.

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/2022-mlb-draft-day-one-analysis-for-all-30-teams/

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« Reply #284 on: July 18, 2022, 09:46:20 am »
So what do we think of the pitcher the Nats drafted in round two?
MLB had him ranked 68.


I noticed that Baseball America supposedly ranked him as the #41 prospect.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #285 on: July 18, 2022, 09:49:36 am »
This tidbit from BA is interesting about the Orioles selections:

With their remaining three day one picks the Orioles added three college position players in Beavers, Wagner and Fabian. They fit a particular profile that the Orioles have targeted in recent drafts. Position players with low chase rates, above-average or better power, and contact questions. A year after missing out on Fabian in the second round the Orioles were able to land him this year in the competitive balance round B. Fabian has struggled to make consistent contact in the SEC for two years but has continued to show plus game power with the ability to handle center field.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #286 on: July 18, 2022, 09:49:57 am »
Interesting that teams think they can teach contact if they aren't chasing.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #287 on: July 18, 2022, 09:51:37 am »
Brock Porter hasn't gone yet. I'm guessing demands.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #288 on: July 18, 2022, 09:58:59 am »
Wil Crowe Mk.2 in Nick Lodolo's body, it looks like.
but he throws with a left arm!!!

Does Bennett project as a starter or a reliever?  With the two pitch talk, I would imagine they'd see if he can develop a breaking pitch, but the floor sounds like a hard throwing 2 pitch lefty reliever. 

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #289 on: July 18, 2022, 10:23:37 am »
He's not a two pitch pitcher. The way I've read his scouting reports, his changeup is very solid, he just didn't need it against right handers. He shot up draft boards because his slider got so much better. I'll try to find an article.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #290 on: July 18, 2022, 10:25:54 am »
I'm not really tracking RD's post because when I read two pitch pitcher, I thought he meant fastball and slider and responded to that.

He has three pitches: fastball changeup slider. Lefties struggle with his slider because he manipulates the speed and dive based on count. He goes fastball slider to lefties. Leans on the changeup (his best secondary pitch) against righthanders. Touches 96 and is a big dude. Screams starter to me but haven't seen it addressed.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #291 on: July 18, 2022, 10:29:29 am »
Washington Nationals
Pick   Rank   FV   Name   Position   Age   School   Strengths
5   11   45+   Elijah Green   CF   18.6   IMG Academy (FL)   Elite Power, Speed
45   55   40+   Jake Bennett   SP   21.6   Oklahoma   Frame, Changeup

I’m a little skeptical of Elijah Green’s ability to play center field, but he is immensely talented, has huge upside, and is fine pick at No. 5. Jake Bennett gives the Nationals yet another pitcher from Oklahoma with an ideal frame and burgeoning arm strength.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2022-mlb-draft-day-one-recap/

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #292 on: July 18, 2022, 10:56:37 am »
I'm starting to feel pretty good about the 2025 Nationals.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #293 on: July 18, 2022, 10:59:17 am »
I'm not really tracking RD's post because when I read two pitch pitcher, I thought he meant fastball and slider and responded to that.

He has three pitches: fastball changeup slider. Lefties struggle with his slider because he manipulates the speed and dive based on count. He goes fastball slider to lefties. Leans on the changeup (his best secondary pitch) against righthanders. Touches 96 and is a big dude. Screams starter to me but haven't seen it addressed.

I may not have been clear. The fastball and change are his best two pitches. The slider is there as well, just isn't consistent with it. Developing that consistency with it will determine the ultimate upside. I've read it described as cutter like, and it's his main off speed offering against lefties.

Here's a blurb from Keith Law who had him outside his top 100, but named a few to watch just outside.

"Bennett is an extreme strike-thrower, with a walk rate under 5 percent and 68 percent of his pitches going for strikes this year, working mostly fastball/changeup. He’s 91-95 mph and comes from just below 3/4, getting slightly on the side of the ball to try to get more deception and glove-side movement to help him against lefties, while his changeup has some late tumble and gets a lot of whiffs from right-handed batters. His slider is a 40 without great spin or tilt, resulting in a reverse platoon split this year. Because of the command and chance for two solid-average MLB pitches, he offers a fourth/fifth starter ceiling; if anyone can get him to improve the breaking ball, though, his potential would increase substantially."

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #294 on: July 18, 2022, 11:04:43 am »
I like strike throwers. You hear of pitchers adding pitches all the time. If he can do that once he gets into pro ball, he may be a really impactful player.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #295 on: July 18, 2022, 11:11:46 am »
Washington Nationals
Pick   Rank   FV   Name   Position   Age   School   Strengths
5   11   45+   Elijah Green   CF   18.6   IMG Academy (FL)   Elite Power, Speed
45   55   40+   Jake Bennett   SP   21.6   Oklahoma   Frame, Changeup

I’m a little skeptical of Elijah Green’s ability to play center field, but he is immensely talented, has huge upside, and is fine pick at No. 5. Jake Bennett gives the Nationals yet another pitcher from Oklahoma with an ideal frame and burgeoning arm strength.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2022-mlb-draft-day-one-recap/
if you buy that 45+ Grade, green would slot in as the #4 or #5 prospect on the Nats fangraphs list, behind Cavalli, House, and Henry, tiid with Vacquero.   The 40+ would put Bennett around #7 or #8, behind Vacquero and De La Rosa and tied with Rutledge.

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
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« Reply #298 on: July 18, 2022, 02:32:13 pm »
Via @bobby_blanco: Nats select OF Brenner Cox out of Rock Hill High School (TX) with the 111th overall pick in the fourth round. He is committed to University of Texas. He's listed also a RHP.

https://www.perfectgame.org/players/playerprofile.aspx?ID=488060

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Re: 2022 first year player draft
« Reply #299 on: July 18, 2022, 02:33:08 pm »
Tennessee was loaded, so kinda like the selection by default.