Cubs short list for 2013 MLB Draft

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mark-appel-ap2The 2013 MLB Draft gets under in under 2 months now. The draft is held June 6-8 and the Cubs have the 2nd pick in the draft. It appears the Cubs may have narrowed their choice down to 6 players according to cubs.com.

The Cubs have narrowed the list of players they're looking at for the upcoming First-Year Player Draft to a half-dozen, and spent this week working out Georgia high school outfielders Austin Meadows and Clint Frazier.

The Cubs have the second pick overall in the Draft, to be held June 6-8.

Theo Epstein, Cubs president of baseball operations, watched Meadows and Frazier, and then flew to California to scout Stanford right-hander Mark Appel, who struck out seven over 8 2/3 innings against USC.

Mark Appel ranks number 1 again and Clint Frazier is ranked 3rd by Baseball America. Austin Meadows is ranked 4th. Appel is ranked number 1 by mlb.com and Austin Meadows is 3rd followed by Clint Frazier at 6th. Meadows is a little bigger and bats left-handed so he may appeal more to the Cubs.

Here are the links to the latest articles on Baseball America about these 3.

Home Runs Give Frazier Advantage
Meadows and Frazier Both Have Premium Tools
Appel Dominates, But Stanford Comes Up Short

Since I've kind of given up on writing about the MLB Cubs, my plan is to write something about the upcoming draft at least once a week and probably more often as we approach June.

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    dmick89

    GBTS wrote:

    @ Rizzo the Rat:
    Yeah I was just making a funny. I know what you’re saying.
    I liken the situation to this: let’s say you’re a father and you’re building a garage. You have two sons who are helping. The older one is probably more equipped for the job, but the younger one has had it rough lately and you want to build his self-esteem. You’re not a bad parent for handing him the nail gun and saying “Son, why dont you give it a try?” but you do have to take it from him once he puts the first nail into his own foot.

    That’s a pretty good analogy except for the son getting a nail in his foot part. And the father handing a child a nail gun who may not be qualified to handle one. Or that not taking the nail gun after your son put a nail in his foot being in any similar to taking a relief pitcher in a game of baseball.

    Closing baseball games ain’t life and death.

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  2. WaLi

    Source: FanGraphs

    Obviously fangraphs doesn’t take into account the fact that Marmol is our closer.

    Spoiler: Braves only had 1.2% chance to win (vs a normal team I’m assuming) when we had the bases loaded in the 8th.

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    dmick89

    @ josh:
    He was, but didn’t sign. The Astros wanted to give him less than slot value and he didn’t want to agree to it so they drafted a different player and Appel fell. Now there’s no reason whatsoever for any team to offer him slot value because he has no leverage at all now.

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  8. josh

    dmick89 wrote:

    GBTS wrote:
    @ Rizzo the Rat:
    Yeah I was just making a funny. I know what you’re saying.
    I liken the situation to this: let’s say you’re a father and you’re building a garage. You have two sons who are helping. The older one is probably more equipped for the job, but the younger one has had it rough lately and you want to build his self-esteem. You’re not a bad parent for handing him the nail gun and saying “Son, why dont you give it a try?” but you do have to take it from him once he puts the first nail into his own foot.

    That’s a pretty good analogy except for the son getting a nail in his foot part. And the father handing a child a nail gun who may not be qualified to handle one. Or that not taking the nail gun after your son put a nail in his foot being in any similar to taking a relief pitcher in a game of baseball.
    Closing baseball games ain’t life and death.

    Also, there are other inaccuracies, such as Marmol and Fujikawa aren’t brothers, and Dale Sveum isn’t their dad. And they are pitching, not building a garage.

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  13. Berselius

    He’s someone who played real good, underrated defense (last season). If you look observationally or by the numbers, he was one of the best handful of third basemen in the game, so that adds value. Obviously his offense, though he had his moments, it wasn’t really a consistent season.

    Epstein on Valbuena. That’s up there with Sveum’s quote about Feldman (dying laughing)

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