Today is the second day of the draft, and will cover up to 45 rounds worth of picks, though it’s thought that a lot of teams will drop out before the end of the 50th round, mainly because the draft and follow option is no longer an option. I will be gone for most of the day today, as I’m moving into a new apartment, but I’ll check back in tonight and give my thoughts on how things transpired. Feel free to share any information you have on any of the guys taken in the comments section, and it will be passed along in my recap of day 2.
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not sure if you saw this on mattair. seems like a nice, grounded kid.
http://www.kvewtv.com/news/?sect_rank=1§ion_id=1&story_id=2521
Wow, Nationals take McGeary in the 6th. They could make a run at him that high up.
We’re taking more college players. Why? Rizzotti has big time power, but he’s a 1B.
Why are we wasting these early picks?
And now a college senior. This is ridiculous.
Could this be right that he’s a 5th year senior?
Oh it’s correct. The Phillies appear to just be tired of the draft at this point, and want to take the cheapest signs they can get.
Did someone alert them that despite this being day 2 it’s actually not the 24th round?
Another wasted pick
In the next few rounds, you’ll see Boston and New York start plucking the top talent, while the Phillies continue to take guys who will be released at this time next year.
Another college senior.
Ok, I’m gone for the rest of the day, I have a lot of moving stuff to do. I’m already pissed that it appears the Phillies just punted the second day of the draft.
This is getting ridiculous
terrible second day. I didnt know ed wade took over all of our selections.
sampson in the 12th doesnt look like too bad of a pick
Sampson looks like he will require over slot money to sign. Great pick if we can sign him. Projectible northern climate arm that has not been abused.
….Oh I’m sure we’ll be able to get Sampson signed, the Phillies being so generous….
yeah but hes the only one they have taken so far in the second day that might be worth it, so you never know. and besides, overslot here doesnt mean the same overslot as it would have taken for porcello or harvey so they might be more willing to do it.
honestly, how many raw powerful college firstbasemen are we going to draft???
Not as many right handed college pitchers.
We need to take turns tonight keeping James on suicide watch. Who’s got the first round?
we take another RHP college kid one pick ahead of Boston taking Bailey. At first i thought we took him and i got excited but i should have known.
Q: Bruce from Ottawa, Ontario asks:
Was the Phillies choice of Savery over Withrow or another pitcher a good risk?
A: John Manuel: Thought it was a great pick, Savery has a chance to truly be a No. 1 guy, he does it easy, I’ve put Mark Mulder on him since he was a freshman and I still see it. Love that pick for the Phils.
Anyone else get the feeling that the Phils are taking all these college pitchers and just hoping to get one or two right b/c of their bullpen problem? That would explain all the college age guys and all the pitchers we’ve been taking.
I definitely don’t agree, but I’m thinking that it’s gotta be a possibility. I mean, we’re hurting big-time for a couple bullpen guys
Begining to draft HS ers now… a bit earlier than last year, if you notice HS ers are hard to sign.
http://www.philliesdraft.com/DraftReports/DraftReportsYearByYear.html
I meant, I don’t agree with the philosophy.
I don’t think that’s a bad strategy, if it’s a pick or 2 that you were already thinking of drafting anyway. Any of those guys fireballer types?
without the ability to draft and follow in the later rounds, more college guys with better signability are going to be taken, its inevitable. Most of these guys wont even make it through next season let alone into the phillies bullpen, so dont get too excited. The Zagurski’s of the world are hard to come by, let alone a houston street or chad cordero. However, i think they need to take a few more risks, throw out a little bit more money over slot, and try to get some of these high school position players into the fold, i just dont see it happening.
ok, now the high school kids are starting to come, but i dont know what the signability at this level is.
I watched this chapman kid pitch this year, he’s the real deal
yeah, but hes also a 23 year old 5th year senior. He doesnt have much time to toil in the minors before being thrown out with the trash.
Two Pitchers Savery and Workman, and 5 Hitters on the first day (if Spencer is not being slotted as a pitcher, he might).
Then TONS of Righthanded college pitchers, with a few position players (very few) and a few high schoolers up to Round 32. Not signing HS ers seems to be common aside from the first round big money where they will sign and not go to college.
Really hope we do not lose Workman, and sign some HSers in the late rounds, but it is very rare to do so.
I am liking the d’Arnaud pick, 2nd highest HS Catcher after Puxatany Phil, he has a Cannon for an arm, his hitting was over .400 with pop, and unlike Jarmillo who was a college defense no thi guy, d’Arnaud has not proven over 4 years to have no bat.
looks like boston has taken some risks on HS players in this second day of the draft. This could pay off pretty well for them if they can sign, but could also backfire bigtime.
So the first 30 rounds are finished:
5 HS Pitchers were drafted
3 HS Batters (including the 2nd and 3rd player taken by the Phillies.
Not alot of teams are drafting High Schoolers after in rounds 4-30, I hope we sign these Pitchers, and not start drafting HS ers as flyers now.
better chance to sign these college pitchers we are totally up than the flyers in HS with a nice scholarship in their pockets… i think if we get even a few of these guys into the system our upper reaches will turn round quickly.
We have plenty of talented prospects in the low minors. The upper minors are barren. I totally don’t mind them taking guys who may be ready for AA and AAA soon, because there’s not much room in the low minors anyway.
Story on seventh round pick Tyson Brummett
http://uclabruins.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/060807aaa.html
three straight catchers
What’s with the 4 catchers in the last 7 picks? Last time I checked, we still had Marson and Jaramillo as younger catching prospects, so what’s with this run on catchers?
We may sign one of them. Probably the college senior.
hamright looks good
Can we FINALLY put to bed the cliche that “we pick the best player available”??
Of course the teams try to address NEED as much as rank in choosing. It is obvious that our choice of two 3rd basemen early plus an early pick of a catcher are clearly aimed at our needs.
Hopefully, they will do the job.
The fuss over so many college pitchers is expected; but who are the SIGNABLE (w/in the short window opening) prep guys otherwise that should have been taken??
And, if so, will they be the quicker trip to the bigs like the Beane philosphy provides as the expectations of ML appearance w/in 1-2-3 years? The org is a bit tired of the wait engendered by their Latin and prep players of 3-4-5 years.
So they dipped into shorter expectations for more immediate results. They know they will find 2-3-4 ML pitchers among the college crop, either as starters or relievers.
IMO, good approach for THIS franchise and the state of their minor lg pprospects.
The search is for?
Are we going to sign all these high school players?
A better question would be ‘are we going to sign any of these HS players drafted on the second day?’
we might get lucky and pry one or 2 away if we go over slot and dazzle them. But dont expect a bumper crop of late round picks.
Does anyone think Jaramillo has a phillies phuture? He’s fairly unimpresive.
i have to agree on trying to sign cheap, calling Arbelo on the 28th round and offer a miserable amount to pick him on that round. I wonder if they did that with all the DFEs.
Jaramillo looks like dead meat to me. He started off hitting like a maniac, but since then he’s been swinging a wet noodle.
Looks like a blown draft pick. We were alerted to his shortcomings over the winter by a writer who said that every part of his job cathing and hitting is questionable. Looks like he was spot oOur hopes at catcher are–mopre immediately–Marson at clwtr and Sanchez who likely is in extended st and may start at Williamsport, NY-Pa lg.
So, “Frenchy” D’Arnaud is right behind them…but will not see the MLs for 4 more years…at best.
We don’t know what we have in Sanchez, but he is known to have strong catching skills including a fine arm. The question will rewolve around his hitting: will he hit enough to be paqrt of a team’s dependable catchers…??
Note that no more catchers were chosen by the Phils, after their 2nd choice, for a looong time. To me, that’s a signal that thery believe that Sanchez is the real thing.
It’s not time to give up on Jaramillo just yet.
I agree, James. He’s clearly not having a good year with the
bat (despite his game-winning triple last night) thus far, but
there is still some time.
good call on my son ……… he would not have signed for 5th round money….and we told them so.
But teams draft in those late rounds ….just incase someone either improves enough up to Aug 15 to get that type of money or, changes his mind and decides school is not for him. James is doing well at Arkansas, and is expected to be a starter his freshman year. Hopefully he will realize that unlimited potential by his junior year. Mick