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Offline Kevrock

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Re: 2024 MLB Draft
« Reply #125 on: July 14, 2024, 08:18:04 pm »
Oh for sure. Agreed, I wanted Montgomery or Caminiti. Oh well! Hyped for the Wake kid now.

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« Reply #126 on: July 14, 2024, 08:19:44 pm »
Positional flexibility. Wonder where the team will try to put him?

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« Reply #127 on: July 14, 2024, 08:21:40 pm »
Positional flexibility. Wonder where the team will try to put him?
Nats are saying 3B, but he played SS at WF.

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« Reply #128 on: July 14, 2024, 08:24:51 pm »
So Rizzo screwed the pooch again...  :smh:

He's a small ball, swing out of the zone player which Rizzo likes, no matter how badly the strategy fails.   Another bat who'll make the opposing pitcher's life very easy.

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« Reply #129 on: July 14, 2024, 08:25:37 pm »
will be interesting to see how the rest of this draft plays out, Rizzo has a bit more slot money to work with now.

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« Reply #130 on: July 14, 2024, 08:26:03 pm »
Nats are saying 3B, but he played SS at WF.

Do they not plan on House at 3B? If he has flexibility, I’d think they’d try to develop him at a different position. SS or 2B would make more sense. I wonder what Abrams’ future in DC really is.

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« Reply #131 on: July 14, 2024, 08:26:12 pm »
Nats are saying 3B, but he played SS at WF.
Has played OF also.

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« Reply #132 on: July 14, 2024, 08:26:52 pm »
MLB had him at 17.

I see, hopefully he pans out :cheers:

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« Reply #133 on: July 14, 2024, 08:27:02 pm »
Based on what? A nine slot delta from Jim Callis? Lol
Well it's not like he picked someone forecast to go in round two.  But the consensus had him much lower than 10. 

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« Reply #134 on: July 14, 2024, 08:27:38 pm »
I see, hopefully he pans out :cheers:
I wanted a SP.  But who knows really. 

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« Reply #135 on: July 14, 2024, 08:52:07 pm »
Do they not plan on House at 3B? If he has flexibility, I’d think they’d try to develop him at a different position. SS or 2B would make more sense. I wonder what Abrams’ future in DC really is.

He's at least 2 years away from the majors, assuming he works out, so plenty of time to figure out what to do with him. I imagine they might pencil him as the successor to Garcia Jr. at 2nd.

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« Reply #136 on: July 14, 2024, 08:56:48 pm »
This needs to be King's walkup music:


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« Reply #137 on: July 14, 2024, 08:57:46 pm »
TalkNats:
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The #Nats have Seaver King as a premium athlete, 70 runner, 65 raw, and they think he’s a shortstop.

From us: King didn't get enough hits but a decent OPS at .954 with an 11.9 K%. He made his contact but had a very low BABIP which is hopefully a factor of bad luck.

The good news is he has a great history of wood bat play in Cape Cod and killed it at Harwich last year slashing 424/.479/.542/ with a 1.021 OPS.

They further note that the Nats think he's comparable to Trea Turner. He's friends with Brady House and grew up playing with him.

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« Reply #138 on: July 14, 2024, 08:59:52 pm »
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I work for the Wake Baseball Analytics team and I’m also a HUGE Nats fan. Trust me this pick is not the end of the world. Seavs a beast. Best exit velos on the team (including Kurtz). Super athletic great defender anywhere crazy bat speed. Lot to like plus def under slot.

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« Reply #139 on: July 14, 2024, 09:02:15 pm »
TalkNats:
They further note that the Nats think he's comparable to Trea Turner. He's friends with Brady House and grew up playing with him.

Likely makes most sense to develop him at SS with 2B also a possibility depending on the big club’s situation at SS when his bat is ready. 

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« Reply #141 on: July 14, 2024, 09:04:53 pm »
Fangraphs just so happened to have an article on King:

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/seaver-king-on-how-to-win-friends-and-influence-baseball-games/

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King’s athleticism, and ability to play all over the diamond, led Wake Forest hitting coach Bill Cilento to compare him to Mookie Betts in an interview with The Athletic two months ago. The comp stuck, as King can play anywhere up the middle, runs well, and hits for power. But Betts is an inner-circle Hall of Famer, one of the best players of the 21st century, and King is a 21-year-old kid 13 months out of Division II ball. That’s a lot to live up to.

“I think when you’re asked a question and you pick somebody out, usually you’re not going to pick a guy who starts every other day. You’re going to choose an All-Star to compare your star to,” King said. “I don’t think about it too much. I think we have a similar kind of body type, defensive versatility, and kind of the contact/power/speed combination, but at the end of the day I’m a different player myself. Obviously I want to model my game after him, but he does things well that I don’t.”

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« Reply #142 on: July 14, 2024, 09:09:35 pm »
TalkNats:
They further note that the Nats think he's comparable to Trea Turner. He's friends with Brady House and grew up playing with him.

So much hyperbole...insulting to Trea, really. 

And who cares who his friends are...

We got him on the cheap...call it like it is...

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« Reply #143 on: July 14, 2024, 09:12:33 pm »
I don't know anything about such things but a third team all-ACC doesn't seem very impressive to go with the 10th overall pick.

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Re: 2024 MLB Draft
« Reply #144 on: July 14, 2024, 09:14:14 pm »
He signs underslot and they use the money later in the draft

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« Reply #145 on: July 14, 2024, 09:24:18 pm »
He signs underslot and they use the money later in the draft

In other sports when they draft the first round they pick their best rated player still on the board regardless of position or anything else. Is it different in baseball you even your picks out and who you can sign? In other words pick a guy at 39 who is slated to go to college and pay him extra bucks to sign? I think I would go the highest rated route. I guess I just don't know how it works.

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Re: 2024 MLB Draft
« Reply #146 on: July 14, 2024, 09:25:17 pm »
Least enjoyable draft because we shouldn’t be drafting 10. I had a hard time getting into it.

Of those remaining I like most of the names that have been kicked around and Caminiti
I am sure you must :bang: :bang: :bang: that the Barves got him

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« Reply #147 on: July 14, 2024, 09:46:52 pm »
So much hyperbole...insulting to Trea, really. 

And who cares who his friends are...

We got him on the cheap...call it like it is...

Yep, the new team led by Brad Ciolek appears to be running the draft. Worth noting that he went underslot in the first round in 2020 (Heston Kjerstad) and in 2021 (Colton Cowser).  I don't recall Rizzo using this strategy before on a first round pick. Jackson Holliday in 2022 was also signed for about $650k under slot.

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« Reply #148 on: July 14, 2024, 10:13:43 pm »
Interesting pick…a Catcher

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Re: 2024 MLB Draft
« Reply #149 on: July 14, 2024, 10:20:12 pm »
Took a catcher at 39, Cam Lomavita, from Cal, and passed onTommy Tanks, who went next pick.