Chat: 6/9/15 12:34pm
Chat: 6/9/15 12:34pm
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Only costs us one run. Yay. I'm glad we're not running into outs today, but we still need to score. #G_Money #SSI
I don't understand how Seager didn't get home with two outs, if Smith could get to second. Wasn't he running with the pitch? #G_Money #SSI
AND we got a runner in scoring position home - against Kluber - AND LoMo stretched it for 2 and didn't get thrown out. It's like 3 Christmas miracles in about 30 seconds! #G_Money #SSI
Somebody mark down the day - the Ms did NOT get thrown out on a steal. #G_Money #SSI
Ahh, the Mariners. Gotta have some mysterious glove errors if we don't feel like throwing away outs on the basepaths. At least Elias can get 4 outs in an inning without coughing up a run. #G_Money #SSI
And that's it for day 2, folks. I'll pop back in later, see if I can put up an article. Thanks for hangin' with me for the day! #G_Money #SSI
Gillies he's almost 23 - but I care less about the age thing with pitchers. He's 6'4, so at least he has the "correct" height to be allowed to throw in the bigs. He can get on the ride and everything. His #Career strikeouts hovered around 6 until this year with walks around 4, but then he blew up in Ks to 10.5 per 9 (walks stayed about the same). He was mostly in the pen this year after switching back and forth his #Other years. He's a sinker/slider arm with a two-seam fastball that can go 91-95 out of the pen, as well as a curve, and when he has control of both he can be a handful. He loses control of it often enough that he's not always that handful. Not a bad delivery, nor a bad senior sign. If he figured something out this year, even better. Like I said about Kyle Wilcox - we're good at these sorts of arms. We'll see how nasty he is against wood when he gets here. #G_Money #SSI
Darin Gillies, RHP from #Arizona State is our #10 pick. There's our senior sign. #G_Money #SSI
I enjoy the draft, so I figured it's easier to just jot my thoughts down for y'all and give a bit of shape to the draft. Names and faces don't really say anything. And like I said, I'll compile all this and shove it in an article so that people aren't trapped paging through all this after the fact. This rundown was just live-blogging day two. #G_Money #SSI
Gordon, thanks x10 for the intel! It's like having our own Baseball America but better - Jeff #SSI
Neidert post exists above for comments & chat if desired amigos …here's bettin' that, despite all spatial disorientation to the contrary, yer'll still prefer the Shout Box :- ) Dr D #SSI
Probably have one more senior coming, and then in round 11 we'll likely take a teen. That way we can be sure of preserving our pool of cash and if #11 doesn't sign with us it doesn't reduce the amount of the pool we can spread around picks. #G_Money #SSI
Connor was a JuCo transfer to LSU for his last two seasons, doesn't walk much, has a doubles swing but no real HR power. He has decent size and let's the ball #Travel, but doesn't really punish it. Maybe a timing thing to go with his somewhat flat swing? I'd have to see more. Not really expecting much from him, but he's a cheap sign and Stefen Romero came in around this draft slot originally as a 3B as well (though he was more of a crusher his last year, and a junior sign). These guys can work out, regardless of whether I expect them too. I'd have to think that Hale's ability to hit with wood over the summers helped him. I assume we'll leave him at 3B because we like to do that. We'll see what our minors guys can do with him - they got some nice arc into Miller's swing, after all, AND got him to be proficient enough at SS to play there in the bigs when I didn't think that was gonna happen. #G_Money #SSI
Conner Hale, senior 3B, wasn't bad in the Cape Cod (All-Star, hit .327). Naturally he doesn't have the power for first nor the glove for 3rd. #G_Money #SSI
Appreciated, G. #SSI
If you're missing my "stellar" draft coverage (lol
) I'll repost my shouts as an article (if and when I can make articles). It's not much, but it's what I do. #G_Money #SSI
Me, too...moe #SSI
Depressed because I normally wake up and check the backlog of shouts but I can't with this new layout. #SSI
88-92 for Cody Mobley, who was a signability concern, has a nasty breaking ball and a workable changeup, and is one of those guys who we'll have to pay a couple hundred K to get to break his college commitment it sounds like. Perfectly fine. #G_Money #SSI
Cody Mobley, prep RHP - there's the HS arm we might be able to sign thanks to the Uhl pick. At least we're taking that shot. :) #G_Money #SSI
We worked out Uhl before the draft, so we got a good up close look at him hitting - in Safeco - before we picked him. That's always a nice thing. #G_Money #SSI
This is how we afford prep players - he'll sign for $10K, maybe 20, and he gets into the system while we get some extra cash to throw at prep guys today or early tomorrow. Prep players aren't gonna sign for that, and we don't have a ton of wiggle room from a low-balled first rounder to make it up with. If we have to sign college seniors, at least get a guy with a plus tool. Uhl has one of those. #G_Money #SSI
I would still rather they'd taken a prep player. - GLS #SSI
Uhl was a 1-year senior wonder, who only hit 13 HRs his previous 3 years combined. In his own words, the reason for his prodigious season: “I took a new approach at the plate and just tried to hit the ball hard.” So there's that. He's a big man at 6'6, and while me might just be another Poythress, there are worse risks to take on a senior who will sign for practically nothing. Paul Goldschmidts have to come from somewhere, right? #G_Money #SSI
Agreed 100% GLS. His arm is the only thing interesting about Drew to me. #G_Money #SSI
In my view, the fifth-round pick, Drew #Jackson, is a waste of a pick. They could have found an interesting, high-upside high school athlete with that pick and instead they went after a college player that can't hit. I really hope the thinking there is to convert him into a relief pitcher. - GLS #SSI
Ryan Uhl was our 7th round pick, a crusher at DII #Indiana University of #Pennsylvania. Finalist for the Tino Martinez DII POY award, set the HR record and a bunch of #Others at his school. "As of May 18, the senior first baseman leads Division II in four categories – 29 home runs, 0.66 home runs per game, 1.68 runs batted in per game, and a 1.085 slugging percentage. His home runs and slugging percentage totals, in addition to his 74 runs batted in and 154 total bases were all #Single season IUP records. He also batted .415 with 59 hits, 53 runs scored and 33 walks in 44 games." #G_Money #SSI
If they can get Rodney "fixed" to the point where he can string together a few good outings, I'm sure at that point they can get someone to take him. The salary isn't huge by today's standards. - GLS #SSI
Would it be possible to help him by trading him to someone else??? If I was Z I would be willing to pay all of the salary if it means getting more than a bag of balls back... #OBF #SSI
We could help him by replacing him in the 9th inning when we have a lead, too. Oh wait, that helps us. I'm more a fan of helping us. Let him work his way back in the losses rather than when we have the lead. #G_Money #SSI