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2021 Draft Odds & Ends
by Eric Longenhagen and Kevin Goldstein
July 14, 2021
Texas Rangers
Jack Leiter is very good. He joins the deepest farm system in baseball and will soon be part of the young wave of reinforcements likely to comprise the next competitive Rangers club. Oregon 3B/OF Aaron Zavala (second round) had one of the best statistical seasons in college baseball, slashing .392/.525/.628 with nearly twice as many walks as strikeouts. He has fantastic plate coverage and feel for the zone, but only has doubles power right now. Because Zavala is relatively positionless and lacks big pop, he has doubters. He’s also barely 21, has an athletic cut, and is a well-made athlete. I think he’ll retain the context-oriented approach that has worked for him, especially with two strikes, but come into situational power as he continues to mature, physically.
Third round high school shortstop Cam Cauley from Barbers Hill, outside Houston, is a plus runner with plus-plus defensive hands and advanced feel for contact. He needs to get much stronger. Fourth round Iowa high school catcher Ian Moller has electric hitting hands that work in the same way as guys I’ve recently been too heavy on: Keston Hiura and Carter Kieboom. Those hitters have ended up having strikeout issues and Moller, who was one of the more prominent high schoolers entering last summer, has had similar problems. He’s an upside/risk, power-hitting catching prospect. Lefty high schooler Mitch Bratt (fifth) is a Canadian pitcher who played in Georgia during the spring. He currently sits in the high-80s with some carry, and has some reverse projection and feel for a loopy curveball. I didn’t know anything about Jojo Blackmon (11th) until I began writing this piece, but I’m excited to watch him in Arizona this summer. He’s a two-sport high schooler (wide receiver) who pitched and played center field for the baseball team. He’s tooled out — plus run, arm, above-average bat speed — and has a sweet, low-ball swing. The hit tool piece is a relative unknown. This is the second year in a row the Rangers have taken college performers early and mixed in several $1 million-ish sort of high schoolers later. Sixth rounder Chase Lee out of Alabama has rare velocity for a sidearmer, sitting 92-95 late in the year.
2021 Draft Odds & Ends
by Eric Longenhagen and Kevin Goldstein
July 14, 2021
Texas Rangers
Jack Leiter is very good. He joins the deepest farm system in baseball and will soon be part of the young wave of reinforcements likely to comprise the next competitive Rangers club. Oregon 3B/OF Aaron Zavala (second round) had one of the best statistical seasons in college baseball, slashing .392/.525/.628 with nearly twice as many walks as strikeouts. He has fantastic plate coverage and feel for the zone, but only has doubles power right now. Because Zavala is relatively positionless and lacks big pop, he has doubters. He’s also barely 21, has an athletic cut, and is a well-made athlete. I think he’ll retain the context-oriented approach that has worked for him, especially with two strikes, but come into situational power as he continues to mature, physically.
Third round high school shortstop Cam Cauley from Barbers Hill, outside Houston, is a plus runner with plus-plus defensive hands and advanced feel for contact. He needs to get much stronger. Fourth round Iowa high school catcher Ian Moller has electric hitting hands that work in the same way as guys I’ve recently been too heavy on: Keston Hiura and Carter Kieboom. Those hitters have ended up having strikeout issues and Moller, who was one of the more prominent high schoolers entering last summer, has had similar problems. He’s an upside/risk, power-hitting catching prospect. Lefty high schooler Mitch Bratt (fifth) is a Canadian pitcher who played in Georgia during the spring. He currently sits in the high-80s with some carry, and has some reverse projection and feel for a loopy curveball. I didn’t know anything about Jojo Blackmon (11th) until I began writing this piece, but I’m excited to watch him in Arizona this summer. He’s a two-sport high schooler (wide receiver) who pitched and played center field for the baseball team. He’s tooled out — plus run, arm, above-average bat speed — and has a sweet, low-ball swing. The hit tool piece is a relative unknown. This is the second year in a row the Rangers have taken college performers early and mixed in several $1 million-ish sort of high schoolers later. Sixth rounder Chase Lee out of Alabama has rare velocity for a sidearmer, sitting 92-95 late in the year.
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astros had a week early in the season in which they played without half their lineup due to covid reasons, but no way the yankees would be treated differently by mlb right?
jake102
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The closer we get to football, the closer we are getting back to randomly cancelled games, missing players, etc. A month ago I'd say I'm 95% sure we'd get in our 12 games, but I'm probably at like 40% now.
FBallFan123
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Cubs fire sale appears to have started …
bmoney214
OUCH!!!
That one probably has more to do with the Acuna injury than anything else.
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Wha wha wha
bmoney214
OUCH!!!
As of tonight yea, just the one game.
This is from the espn story.....
The status of the New York-Boston game Friday at Yankee Stadium remains in flux, and as MLB conducts testing on close contacts and the Yankees scramble to mobilize players to fill out a roster that could be missing nearly a quarter of its regulars, MLB can choose to postpone that game as well.
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Still can't figure out how this guy can't figure it out.
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Gary's Shirtless Revenge
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Baseball is really, really hard. Gets even harder when you lose your edge/drive, which was always the word on Nomar… just didn’t seem to care after he got to $X in the bank.
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Yeah, it was just the 24 hour Covid bug.
bmoney214
OUCH!!!
MLB is so full of [ Finebaum ].
