SoxFan58 said:Might be a bit of a gamble but ill roll the dice on a guy I really think took a huge step forward last year and will continue to do so.
Yu Darvish, SP
Please bold the selection for me, on mobile, thanks!
Fishercat said:Heh, Yu and Hanley went back to back in the last draft too, almost exactly one round later.
Fishercat said:Heh, Yu and Hanley went back to back in the last draft too, almost exactly one round later.
I'm not totally sure what you mean by this--yes, he had an exceptionally low BABIP, and some regression there is to be expected, but his strikeout, walk and HR numbers (the home park helped, but his away HR/9 is nice too) were all good-to-terrific.czar said:the Jose Fernandez pick strikes me as a reach for a young pitcher who lived on BABIP suppression last year.
soxfan121 said:To defend (sort of) Galway's selection of Gonzalez - there's no more scarce resource than power. It commands a premium in the real market and it's going to command a premium in this fake one. Gonzalez, for all his other faults, is a legit middle of the order bat. Sure, his value is reduced because he plays in Coors but it's not like he's Vinny Castilla or something. He would have value playing in Petco or Oakland.
So, while it was probably a little too high to take him seventh overall, I can see why Galway went there at that time and as long as the pick ends up fitting his overall team building strategy, I think y'all are being a little too harsh.
Oh, and since this thing wasn't even supposed to START until this morning, I think y'all might be a little hasty on the time limit thingy. Chill out - this is gonna take all winter and most of the spring.
Signed,
Guy-Not-Actually-Playing
MakMan44 said:Then he whiffed, hard.
There's a guy left on the table that has a higher ISO away from home than CarGo (and his home ISO is nearly the same as CarGo's ISO at Coors). Sure, he was injured last season but it's not like Gonzalez is the picture of health. Any way you slice it, it was a bad pick.
EDIT: Of course, Curll just picked him.
That wasn't meant to make it sound like he's an average pitcher who got lucky with BABIP.The Best Catch in 100 Years said:I'm not totally sure what you mean by this--yes, he had an exceptionally low BABIP, and some regression there is to be expected, but his strikeout, walk and HR numbers (the home park helped, but his away HR/9 is nice too) were all good-to-terrific.
Frank said:I forgot how hard this was
Frank said:can someone pm Bosox4416? I keep getting a bad gateway error when I try to compose a message.
terrisus said:
Well, no one said that they did this, so I went ahead and did it.
Jaylach said:I went into the draft knowing I'd pick Fernandez with my pick. I had a good suspicion he wouldn't go in the top 30.. when I saw I was pick 12, I knew he was going to be on the table. I knew this because I know he wasn't the smartest or best pick in my spot. It didn't matter to me.
The Best Catch in 100 Years said:Are the rest of your picks also going to be whimsical?
Maybe he or the new owner can just make the first-round pick at any time after he's been skipped, if it gets to that point?MakMan44 said:The same treatment as last time, we move on at 11:35 AM today and he gets skipped on the turn if he doesn't make a pick before then. I would suggest actually replacing him on the turn if he's not here though, a team losing its first two picks is very likely to suck.
Scoops Bolling said:Keninten has been PMed to make a pick. If Bosox4416 does not post in this thread by the time his second pick comes up, Keninten will officially take over.
ForceAtHome, should I add you to the taxi list?
ForceAtHome said:So, at this point I gather that whoever is picking 19th is drooling.