I don't have a subscription to the Sun-Times. Can't imagine I ever will, so I got this info from MLBTR.
Major League Baseball's draft is still about six weeks away, but Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times writes that the Cubs are likely to draft either Stanford right-hander Mark Appel or Oklahoma right-hander Jonathan Gray with the No. 2 overall pick. Wittenmyer spoke about the draft to multiple team sources, including manager Dale Sveum who told him:
"Obviously, the two big boys, Appel and Gray, if those guys keep the velocity where it is and everything’s going good, I think it’s hard not to take one of them guys."
According to nearly every analyst, Appel and Gray are the top two players in the draft. It should come as no surprise that the Cubs would pick one of them with the 2nd pick in the draft.
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This is the team that drafted Homer Simpson and Tyler Colvin. Though, thankfully, not the same front office.
BerseliusQuote Reply
The Homer Simpson pick is the one that gets me. Even if the Cubs had to settle for someone who would take less, there were dozens of players betters, perhaps as many as 100 or more, who would have been better picks. There was at least a reason for taking Tyler Colvin. The Cubs wanted to save some money with their first pick so that their next pick, not until the 5th round, they could spend gobs of money on Jeff Samardzija.
That was questionable at the time, but based on what he’s done since 2012, the Cubs clearly saw the potential and value in giving him that kind of contract. Samardzija’s success over the last year plus has really changed the way you have to look at the 2006 Cubs draft.
dmick89Quote Reply
Wow. That was the first time I called him Homer Simpson and I did it without even knowing it. I actually thought that was his name. (dying laughing)
dmick89Quote Reply
Considering draft position and scouting which selection was worse: Ryan Harvey or Hayden Simpson?
JManQuote Reply
@ JMan:
Simpson, and it’s not even close.
NotrynoQuote Reply
Hayden Simpson is possibly the worst first-round selection in any draft ever…throughout time. Any sport, including fantasy sports. Probably including the military draft. That’s not hyperbole.
NotrynoQuote Reply
@ Notryno:
Yeah, easily. Harvey had a ton of talent and was rated pretty close to where he was selected. Simpson would have been around awhile. There really was no excuse for drafting Simpson. It was just a terrible pick no matter how you look at it.
dmick89Quote Reply
@ Notryno:
(dying laughing)
dmick89Quote Reply
Tyler Colvin was incredibly talented though. I mean, not at baseball, but at running jumping and baseball-adjacent activities.
joshQuote Reply
Never say never.
Suburban kidQuote Reply
No, but seriously, in retrospect they were better off with Tyler.
joshQuote Reply
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/alfonso-soriano-and-the-antithesis-of-situational-hitting/
dmick89Quote Reply
First round of the military draft. (dying laughing)
GBTSQuote Reply
@ dmick89:
Yeah, Harvey had a ton of potential. They probably should have tried him as a pitcher a couple years sooner.
NotrynoQuote Reply
@ Notryno:
I’m wondering the same thing about Junior Lake. Too late to bother at this point in my opinion.
dmick89Quote Reply
new shit: http://obstructedview.net/news-and-rumors/theo-epstein-on-the-closer-by-committee-in-2003.html
dmick89Quote Reply
Tyler Colvin made the big leagues and was reasonably productive for the Cubs in his 1st full year, then was reasonably productive in Colorado last year. He’s at least productive.
Hayden Simpson was the Cubs outthinking themselves.
2883Quote Reply
I am so impressed with all of your overall intelligence an willingness to totally destroy a kid who has never done anything but work his ass off for what he has achieved. He has never thrown a healthy pitch as a Cub till this spring when they had already determine to break ties. It is his gain to be out of this mess. Believe this, he was taken where he was because he was “Homer” Simpson, such an intelligent comment by the way. I sincerly hope that ya’ll or any of your families ever have to endure what this kid has had to go through with that piss poor organization and fan base. It is a shame that grown people have to be this way. He has been belittled and discouraged at every turn. They tried to change his mechanics to throw like a guy 6 ft 5 and more It has been a clinic in what not to do. Have a great day!!!!
JWCoopQuote Reply