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Kiley McDaniel final mock: http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-final-mock-draft/
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The top 3 rounds are all protected for two years.
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Pedroia was smashing doubles left and right in his college days (a big predictor of future hitting ability). His plate disciplined was also elite and much better than Kingery's (48 walks, 15 strikeouts his final season). If you look at his MLB success; extra base hits and his walk/strikeout rate are basically what make him an elite hitter. Yes, Pedroia's size clouded scouts away from his elite hitting ability. While Kingery has shown to be a good hitter, his college performance is really nowhere near Pedroia's. He doesn't come close in power (Pedroia also hit 9 HRs his final season), and he doesn't come close in plate discipline.
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Kingery doesn't even have 10 HR power.
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Kiley McDaniel's updated big board, now with ~200 names: http://www.fangraphs.com/scoutboard.aspx 1B Josh Naylor has jumped all the way to #29 overall.
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BA Mock Draft 5.1: http://www.baseballamerica.com/draft/mlb-mock-draft-2015-version-5-1/
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The lists mean literally nothing with regards to what will actually happen. If you've followed the last few weeks, he's jumped up with several teams ahead of us favouring safer college bats. Newman, a guy who has won the Cape Cod batting title two years in a row, is a near virtual lock to be gone before #29. BA also has Nick Plummer 11th overall yet his real stock now appears to be in the 20-30 range.
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Newman was never going to get to us anyway.
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Scouting Director Brian Parker: http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-need-to-get-creative-at-mlb-draft/
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I wasn't talking about Pompey at all, just in general and specifically referring to Snider who people still seem convinced we "ruined" by calling up a year early. I don't buy it.
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Urena with another double and a walk already.
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Does history really show that, or is it something people just like to fall back on when a "top prospect" fails?
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4 for 4, 2 doubles, HR. From a 19 year old SS. The two doubles came off 1st round pick Jack Flaherty.
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Nah yo, they probably would have won another 10 games in a row. That error made everyone really sad and they gave up after that error.
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DJ Davis 2 for 3 with a double and a walk. Now hitting .292. Strikeouts still high, but improving. It really isn't too late for him to start figuring things out.
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3.4 WAR last year, 2.2 WAR the year before that. When he's healthy, he's still a "good" player.
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He was available because Billy Beane is bipolar and likes to blow his roster up every other year. Who cares. Great trade for us, the fact that you are trying to stretch some sort of negative angle out of it is borderline absurd.
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Yawn. The hype is real, as are the skills he is showing. "Make more contact"? He's smacking the ball around. What he is showing is highly encouraging coming from a kid who's barely seen live pitching in three years.
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Blue Jays heavy in this week's BA Hot Sheet:
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Command has been a struggle for Norris more often than not. When did he have "pin point command"?
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Alford with a 4th walk and Urena tacks on a HR. Good day for the top hitters on that roster.
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It wasn't a "comparison" you tard; it was an example used to show how utterly stupid the supposed "max potential" argument was. Yeah, if Boyd magically starts throwing a plus breaking ball all of a sudden he could be a #3 starter. Yeah, if Anthony Gose all of a sudden learns to make contact and read pitches he's an All Star centerfielder. Neither is likely to happen, get the point? The point of reference is that both guys have had ample opportunities to show these skills that they are lacking, yet they're both past the stage of development where you can actually hope that they'll all of a sudden "learn". Boyd is a good pitcher, all I'm saying is that a select few of you are taking a kid who wasn't even supposed to become anything and subsequently overblowing his ability. His status has risen, but a few ticks in fastball velocity doesn't all of a sudden erase the fact that he has no true plus secondary pitches, which will absolutely hamper his MLB potential.
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Did you even read what I said? If it isn't likely or expected to happen, then why even bring it up? At that point you're not even talking about "max potential", you're simply hypothesizing on fantasy.
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He's a 24 year old who spent four years at a top collegiate program....why would you expect him to all of a sudden develop a plus secondary pitch? "If things work out" is a nice statement, but it doesn't carry a lot of weight when it is dependent on factors that are highly unlikely to occur. Anthony Gose is an All-Star CF "if things work out"...but that would require him to all of a sudden learn to develop significantly improved contact and pitch recognition skills, which given what we know about him, is at best a pipe-dream scenario. Boyd isn't a late-bloomer or a guy who just didn't have the coaching/attention needed to develop. If he hasn't learned to spin a plus breaking ball by now, it probably isn't going to happen.