Reflecting on Day One of the Rays Draft and Prepping For Day Two

I’ll probably throw up a round 4/5 thread, and then one rounding out the top 10.

After that, I think I’ll space them out more.

I don’t know much about the actual players, but the philosophy is what I like. Hopefully, we make it rain and sign all our top 10-12 picks, while unlikely the Brewers did it last year.

I would expect us to go after more HS players than college guys. I could see us making a run at a SR. 1B or C just to try to catch lightning in a bottle as a guy that can help us in the next 3-4 years. I would like to see us go after some more young arms and athletes.

would we consider glaesman a practical “steal” at round 3?

why can’t it just be 7:00, 7:05, or 7:10

named Evan Crawford, truly epic

looks sexy in that video

Stassi just went away, why does Oakland need a C?

Luke……………………….Skywalker

Everything that RJ said +

Other than Catcher, the draftees can end up moving postions a good deal in the minors. We have seen it before, if you have the speed and other tools to be an out feilder, and your 17 or 18, you can usually also play 2b, 1b, and 3b with a few years of work. The DRO like guys who have the potential to move around on the feild and still be effecient at the plate (Zobrist, Aybar, Longoria, Upton, Aki, all of these guys can play multiple positions.)

Draft the potential bat throw in some good speed and hopefully plate disclipline and can worry about position when a player is in AA or AAA. As for yesterday, It looks like our first three picks are good enough/ athletic enough to potentially play many positions on the feild (lets just get them signed).

I have heard a player switching positions and his hitting being affected negatively because of it. That sounds like a cliche used as an excuse to me (I remember many people using it when upton went to 2b and 3b, but then no one had anything to say when he moved to CF and hit just fine.) So, until I see some facts to back this up I don’t buy it.

Tommy John

or would a guy like Benji Molina be a better comparison

It will be co-authored by Dr. James Andrews.

if we sign these guys

Malm’s commitment to the Trojans is strong.

FB:88-91,decent movement

MLB’s video doesn’t show anything else.

Kevin Goldstein (9:44:14 AM PT): Peter (Tampa): Out of 1-10, rate the chances the Rays can sign Bailey and Maim, please.

KG: Bailey is hard to nail down — I’m don’t have a good feel for his expectations. I think chances are solid they’ll sign both, and excellent that they’ll get at least one.

Fuller redshirted his freshman year at Arizona State because he was academically ineligible. Transferring to Chandler-Gilbert this season, Fuller has shown flashes of the talent that made him a 14th-round selection by the Devil Rays out of Gilbert (Ariz.) High in 2007. His fastball has been anywhere from 88-94 mph this spring and he gets a lot of run and sink on it. His secondary stuff is a bit behind and he’s been going back and forth between throwing a curveball and a slider, although the rotation on his breaking pitches is getting tighter and he shows some deception with his changeup. The 6-foot-2, 225-pounder went 3-2, 2.36 with 72 strikeouts and 21 walks over 53 innings for the Coyotes this season.

Then we’ll have had an excellent draft.

that guy that threw those 4 no-no’s, just got drafted.

What are we drafting now? Mostly starters/relievers, I think

who might be asking, den dekker is gone.

love love love it

Riann Spanjer-Furstenberg.

we drafted two guys with the initals of L.B.

Might not be a bad pick: Read this and this

Jim Callis: He may need another surgery but his arm should be more than enough for CF. Have you seen some of the big league CFs who can’t throw?

See a 1st rounder has already been signed? Nats signed their 10th overall pick.

In Rays news, Washington and Friedman want and expect a deal when the draft ends.

C Luke Bailey, the Rays-fourth round pick, said he’s excited to be a part of the organization, so much so, that the Auburn signee said he’s planning on signing with Tampa Bay.

“I’m extremely excited,” Bailey said in a telephone interview. “It’s a good young team, and will be good for a long time.”

took me all of 3 seconds to forget it but the Rays just took a 1B from…….Gonzaga! I want a Gonzaga player, please sign him

Henry (Columbus)
Since you don’t do grades, care to give a team you thought has had the best draft so far? Just one team…


Klaw
Red Sox.

that Crawford guy is still around, I just want us to draft him