Draft Thoughts

by bunner on Jun 8, 2010 8:23 AM EDT

Is anyone else concerned that the Jays had 4 picks in the first and supplemental first rounds and used them all on right handed potential #3 RH starting pitchers? Where's position players??? The Jays got beat on Deshields and Choice and I'm ok with taking Deck Maguire but in the supplemental they passed on some pretty decent bats like Bryce Brentz, Drew Vettleson or Nick Castellanos to get a bunch of pretty similar RH pitchers.

I hope in the coming rounds the Jays take some chances on some high ceiling offensive prospects.

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This draft is a HS-pitcher´s dtraft...

AA got away with the best talent on the board… At the moment we´re good a developing pitchers… I think we´ll have enough trade chips to get a proven mlb bat to Toronto…

And maybe we´ll have a shot at Wilson today… it won´t be the monney stopping us. Only reason not to draft this guy is if you feel he´s comitted to Stanford.

"Without a catcher we´ll have a lot of passed balls!" Casey Stengel

by jaysfanfromeurope on Jun 8, 2010 9:26 AM EDT reply actions

Wilson is absolutely someone I’d love to see the Jays target today and through a bunch of $ at him…another guy I’d like to see them look at today is Yordy Cabrera

by bunner on Jun 8, 2010 10:18 AM EDT up reply actions

Definitely thought they did a solid job in the draft. They mixed some college experience with some high upside prep arms. I was surprised that we didn’t take at least one bat but from what i heard the strength of the draft was pitching

by Asham on Jun 8, 2010 9:59 AM EDT reply actions

it looks like...

they’re going to take all the money they would have had to throw at Wilson and Cox and instead buy out 6-10 college committments instead.

by ayjackson on Jun 8, 2010 6:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Don´t forget that we can count Hechevarria as a position pick...

"Without a catcher we´ll have a lot of passed balls!" Casey Stengel

by jaysfanfromeurope on Jun 8, 2010 10:05 AM EDT reply actions

When does the pickings begin?

by Jeremywilhelm on Jun 8, 2010 10:25 AM EDT reply actions

Noon Eastern

by Tom Dakers on Jun 8, 2010 10:33 AM EDT up reply actions

What kind of upside do the HS arms have that we selected in the later rounds?

by Asham on Jun 9, 2010 12:13 AM EDT reply actions

Y’know it doesn’t bother me. The way I see it the money that they’ll save on having home-grown pitching (As opposed to shelling out top dollar to free agents) can be reallocated to the position players. Alternatively, if a long-term glut of talent emerges you could just flip them for bats in a prospect for prospect deal.

Really the important thing is to just get folk that you think you can better develop into a major league asset.

by Parallex on Jun 9, 2010 1:10 PM EDT reply actions