Cruz was entering his age-34 season, leaving a sweet ballpark, coming off a PED suspension, and was having trouble landing a contract. Nobody could have seen this coming.
z3r0s
Oscar Taveras
Danny Hultzen
Gregory Polanco
Alex Meyer
Jonathan Schoop
Lucas Giolito
Kohl Stewart
Nick Ciuffo
Delino DeShields Jr
Rafael Montero
Matt Davidson
Jonathan Singleton
Anyone have their pick history handy?
4. Xander Bogaerts
37. Jedd Gyorko
44. Noah Syndergaard
77. Hak-Ju Lee
84. Franklin Barreto
117. Chris Stratton (traded for Farquhar + pick)
60. Arismendy Alcantara (traded with Calhoun and 1st for Fister)
78. Hunter Dozier
82. Danny Salazar (traded for Belt)
92. Travis Demeritte
I think I've extracted about every ounce of value I'm going to from my picks so far except Synder. Not much of anything else of value left.
I basically don't prepare for the draft at all until it starts and my picks are looming. Somehow I've nailed both drafts. You guys must be dumn or something.