2008 IBC Draft Review

Rangers · Post by **Rangers** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:01 am

1.1 OAK Buster Posey
1.2 TB Pedro Alvarez
1.3 TEX Brian Matusz
1.4 OAK Michael Inoa
1.5 NYM Gordon Beckham
1.6 NYM Justin Smoak
1.7 TB Timothy Beckham
1.8 MIN Eric Hosmer
1.9 COL Yonder Alonso
1.10 PIT Brett Wallace
1.11 CWS Aaron Hicks
1.12 BOS Jemile Weeks
1.13 NYY Kyle Skipworth
1.14 WAS Junichi Tazawa
1.15 MIL Jason Castro
1.16 WAS Dayan Viciedo
1.17 WAS Christian Friedrich
1.18 DET Ethan Martin
1.19 SEA Brett Lawrie
1.20 SD Jaff Decker
1.21 ATL Shooter Hunt
1.22 CLE Reese Havens
1.23 ARI Ryan Perry
1.24 MIN Mike Montgomery
1.25 FLA Daniel Schlereth
1.26 OAK Timothy Melville
1.27 SF Casey Kelly
1.28 CIN Zach Collier
1.29 SF David Cooper
1.30 TOR Koji Uehara

2.1 NYY Ryan Westmoreland
2.2 TB Robert Ross
2.3 NYY Brad Holt
2.4 NYY Hak-Ju Lee
2.5 NYM Tim Murphy
2.6 NYM Jordan Danks
2.7 PHI Dennis Raben
2.8 SF Conor Gillaspie
2.9 COL Tyler Chatwood
2.10 PHI Josh Lindblom
2.11 CWS Brett DeVall
2.12 BOS Yorman Rodriguez
2.13 TB Joseph Wieland
2.14 STL Lonnie Chisenhall
2.15 DET Adys Portillo
2.16 PHI Jake Odorizzi
2.17 CLE Vance Worley
2.18 LAD Ryan Flaherty
2.19 SEA Allan Dykstra
2.20 SD Will Smith
2.21 ATL Carlos Gutierrez
2.22 BAL Bryan Price
2.23 ARI Brad Hand
2.24 LAD Kenshin Kawakami
2.25 FLA Brett Hunter
2.26 CIN Juan Duran
2.27 ARI Craig Kimbrel
2.28 CIN Andrew Cashner
2.29 STL Jordan Lyles
2.30 TOR Charles Blackmon

3.1 ARI Kyle Lobstein
3.2 TB Destin Hood
3.3 PIT Ike Davis
3.4 PIT Rafael Rodriguez
3.5 MIL Patrick Venditte
3.6 KC Johnny Giavotella
3.7 CLE Michael Lynn
3.8 CLE James Darnell
3.9 KC Tyler Sample
3.10 CLE Tyson Ross
3.11 HOU Brett Marshall
3.12 BOS Anthony Hewitt
3.13 TB Josh Fields
3.14 CLE Petey Paramore
3.15 KC Jason Knapp
3.16 NYY Jeremy Bleich
3.17 PHI Brent Morel
3.18 LAD Jacob Jefferies
3.19 SEA Trevor Harden
3.20 SD Jarek Cunningham
3.21 COL Santo Franco
3.22 DET Ryan Chaffee
3.23 COL Rashun Dixon
3.24 MIN Cole Figueroa
3.25 FLA Kyle Weiland
3.26 OAK Cutter Dykstra
3.27 LAA Evan Frederickson
3.28 CIN Zach Stewart
3.29 STL JR Hoes
3.30 TOR Jason Christian

4.1 LAA Xavier Avery
4.2 HOU Devaris Gordon
4.3 TEX Zeke Spruill
4.4 KC Blake Tekotte
4.5 SF Pete Hissey
4.6 NYM Wade Miley
4.7 LAA Clark Murphy
4.8 SF Derrik Gibson
4.9 COL Joshua Satin
4.10 CLE Julio Morban
4.11 CWS David Adams
4.12 BOS Anthony Gose
4.13 CWS Andrew Liebel
4.14 OAK Brandon Crawford
4.15 DET TJ House
4.16 WAS Alex Avila
4.17 MIL Robert Lanigan
4.18 LAA John Forsythe
4.19 SEA Blake Brewer
4.20 SD Robert Stovall
4.21 ATL Yeico Calderon
4.23 NYY Luis Domoromo
4.24 MIN Jacob Thompson
4.25 FLA Roberto De La Cruz
4.26 OAK Daniel Espinosa
4.27 LAA Michael Bianucci
4.28 CIN Anthony Bass
4.29 STL Kyle Russell
4.30 KC Isaac Galloway

5.1 LAA Ernest Vasquez
5.2 TB Ross Seaton
5.3 KC Yowill Espinal
5.5 MIL Scott Barnes
5.6 NYM Daniel Hudson
5.7 CHC Aaron Shafer
5.10 CLE Zach Putnam
5.12 BOS Yadel Marti
5.13 MIL Roger Kieschnick
5.14 ARI Stephen Fife
5.15 DET Danny Farquhar
5.18 ARI Cody Satterwhite
5.21 ATL John Lamb
5.24 MIN Daniel Osterbrock
5.25 FLA Juan Perez
5.26 OAK Nino Leyja
5.29 ARI Jay Jackson
5.30 TOR Michael Stutes

6.5 MIL Tim Fedroff
6.7 CHC Tyler Stovall
6.12 BOS Juan Carlos Sulberan
6.15 DET Hector Guevara
6.24 MIN Shane Peterson
6.28 CIN Nathan Eovaldi
6.30 TOR Exicardo Cayones
7.7 CHC Scott Gorgen
7.15 DET Aaron King
8.15 DET Trey Haley

Rangers · Post by **Rangers** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:06 am

ARI - Jagger Traylor
1.23 Ryan Perry
2.23 Brad Hand
2.27 Craig Kimbrel
3.1 Kyle Lobstein
5.14 Stephen Fife
5.18 Cody Satterwhite
5.29 Jay Jackson

ATL - Brandon Brown
1.21 Shooter Hunt
2.21 Carlos Gutierrez
4.21 Yeico Calderon
5.21 John Lamb

BAL - Jason Gudim
2.22 Bryan Price

BOS - Bren Dillon
1.12 Jemile Weeks
2.12 Yorman Rodriguez
3.12 Anthony Hewitt
4.12 Anthony Gose
5.12 Yadel Marti
6.12 Juan Carlos Sulberan

CHC - Gabe Hammad
5.7 Aaron Shafer
6.7 Tyler Stovall
7.7 Scott Gorgen

CIN - Nate Hunter
1.28 Zach Collier
2.26 Juan Duran
2.28 Andrew Cashner
3.28 Zach Stewart
4.28 Anthony Bass
6.28 Nathan Eovaldi

CLE - Kelly Burke
1.22 Reese Havens
2.17 Vance Worley
3.7 Michael Lynn
3.8 James Darnell
3.10 Tyson Ross
3.14 Petey Paramore
4.10 Julio Morban
5.10 Zach Putnam

COL - John Anderson
1.9 Yonder Alonso
2.9 Tyler Chatwood
3.21 Santo Franco
3.23 Rashun Dixon
4.9 Joshua Satin

CWS - Brett Degen
1.11 Aaron Hicks
2.11 Brett DeVall
4.11 David Adams
4.13 Andrew Liebel

DET - Brett Perryman
1.18 Ethan Martin
2.15 Adys Portillo
3.22 Ryan Chaffee
4.15 TJ House
5.15 Danny Farquhar
6.15 Hector Guevara
7.15 Aaron King
8.15 Trey Haley

FLA - Dan Vacek
1.25 Daniel Schlereth
2.25 Brett Hunter
3.25 Kyle Weiland
4.25 Roberto De La Cruz
5.25 Juan Perez

HOU - Shawn Lape
3.11 Brett Marshall
4.2 Devaris Gordon

KC - Brett Zalaski
3.6 Johnny Giavotella
3.9 Tyler Sample
3.15 Jason Knapp
4.4 Blake Tekotte
4.30 Isaac Galloway
5.3 Yowill Espinal

LAA - Dave Taylor
3.27 Evan Frederickson
4.1 Xavier Avery
4.7 Clark Murphy
4.18 John Forsythe
4.27 Michael Bianucci
5.1 Ernest Vasquez

LAD - Shawn Walsh
2.18 Ryan Flaherty
2.24 Kenshin Kawakami
3.18 Jacob Jefferies

MIL - Jake Levine
1.15 Jason Castro
3.5 Patrick Venditte
4.17 Robert Lanigan
5.5 Scott Barnes
5.13 Roger Kieschnick
6.5 Tim Fedroff

MIN - Andrew Howard
1.8 Eric Hosmer
1.24 Mike Montgomery
3.24 Cole Figueroa
4.24 Jacob Thompson
5.24 Daniel Osterbrock
6.24 Shane Peterson

NYM - Jim Berger
1.5 Gordon Beckham
1.6 Justin Smoak
2.5 Tim Murphy
2.6 Jordan Danks
4.6 Wade Miley
5.6 Daniel Hudson

NYY - Jason Bornas
1.13 Kyle Skipworth
2.1 Ryan Westmoreland
2.3 Brad Holt
2.4 Hak-Ju Lee
3.16 Jeremy Bleich
4.23 Luis Domoromo

OAK - Jake Hamlin
1.1 Buster Posey
1.4 Michael Inoa
1.26 Timothy Melville
3.26 Cutter Dykstra
4.14 Brandon Crawford
4.26 Daniel Espinosa
5.26 Nino Leyja

PHI - Nick Perry
2.7 Dennis Raben
2.10 Josh Lindblom
2.16 Jake Odorizzi
3.17 Brent Morel

PIT - JP Starkey
1.10 Brett Wallace
3.3 Ike Davis
3.4 Rafael Rodriguez

SD - Martin Berryman
1.20 Jaff Decker
2.20 Will Smith
3.20 Jarek Cunningham
4.20 Robert Stovall

SEA - Brennan Church
1.19 Brett Lawrie
2.19 Allan Dykstra
3.19 Trevor Harden
4.19 Blake Brewer

SF - Nils Erickson
1.27 Casey Kelly
1.29 David Cooper
2.8 Conor Gillaspie
4.5 Pete Hissey
4.8 Derrik Gibson

STL - Aaron Dorman
2.14 Lonnie Chisenhall
2.29 Jordan Lyles
3.29 JR Hoes
4.29 Kyle Russell

TB - Patrick Tullar
1.2 Pedro Alvarez
1.7 Timothy Beckham
2.2 Robert Ross
2.13 Joseph Wieland
3.2 Destin Hood
3.13 Josh Fields
5.2 Ross Seaton

TEX - Seth Dudowski
1.3 Brian Matusz
4.3 Zeke Spruill

TOR - Pat Bishop
1.30 Koji Uehara
2.30 Charles Blackmon
3.30 Jason Christian
5.30 Michael Stutes
6.30 Exicardo Cayones

WAS - Ken Reese
1.14 Junichi Tazawa
1.16 Dayan Viciedo
1.17 Christian Friedrich
4.16 Alex Avila

Base Draft Order
1 LA Angels
2 Tampa Bay
3 Texas
4 Pittsburgh
5 Milwaukee
6 NY Mets
7 Chicago Cubs
8 Houston
9 Colorado
10 Cleveland
11 Chicago WS
12 Boston
13 San Francisco
14 Kansas City
15 Detroit
16 Washington
17 Philadelphia
18 LA Dodgers
19 Seattle
20 San Diego
21 Atlanta
22 Baltimore
23 Arizona
24 Minnesota
25 Florida
26 Oakland
27 NY Yankees
28 Cincinnati
29 St Louis
30 Toronto

Rangers · Post by **Rangers** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:23 am

These ratings are obviously a virtual waste of time, but it might be interesting to see how far off one person's opinion is just months from now...

Best Overall Draft: Tampa Bay

Tough to argue with adding two players that Baseball America will probably include in their top ten overall prospects in a couple of months.

Second Best Overall Draft: Oakland / NY Mets

Oakland is second only to TB in terms of potential impact talent. The Mets picked up a combination of elite talent and polish. Five players look very likely to reach the majors.

Best Value Draft: Arizona

No shortage of picks here, but unlike the three above, at least didn't have two top ten picks. Pretty heavy on relief pitchers which hurts upside, but the fifth round picks add a ton of value to this draft.

Worst Overall Draft: Chicago Cubs

Picks actually look pretty good, but they were pretty low and a little less likely to make an impact than what Baltimore and Houston brought in.

Best 1st Round Pick: 1.10 - Brett Wallace

In my view there were ten apparent elite talents, and Wallace went last in this group. Lots of interesting picks in the lower half, but hard to sort them out this soon.

Worst 1st Round Pick: 1.14 - Junichi Tazawa

Tazawa is more likely to reach the majors than most picks below him, but if the draft had been a little later, he probably would have slid a little further. On the other hand, Washington's next pick Viciedo might have been a temptation in the top ten, so I guess it evens out.

Best 2nd Round Pick: 2.27 - Craig Kimbrel / 2.20 - Will Smith

Almost impossible to pick a guy in this round. Kimbrel and Smith were two favorites of mine.

Best 3rd Round Pick: 3.26 - Cutter Dykstra

No one in the 3rd or 4th round really jumps way out at this point.

Best 4th Round Pick: 4.6 - Wade Miley

Best 5th Round Pick: 5.2 - Ross Seaton / 5.12 - Yadel Marti / 5.14 - Stephen Fife / 5.29 - Jay Jackson

There was a really lengthy plateau in the back end of this draft, as lots of 5th (and later) round picks look as good to me as 3rd and 4th rounders. Will be interesting to see how that works out in the long run.

Giants · Post by **Giants** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:57 am

There is no more useless endeavor than rating a baseball draft immediately after it happens. That being said, the read was much appreciated. We'll have to revisit the rankings when Inoa and Melville are batting Derek Holland for the 2013 IBC Cy Young.

Yankees · Post by **Yankees** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 9:44 am

I have to say that Knapp in the middle of the 3rd round was the best pick...wonder what GM got him?

Royals · Post by **Royals** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:40 pm

This draft was just LOADED with college relievers, which at least from my perspective, really dragged down the value of the draft a lot. Seemed like every other player was a major 'project' (more than a typical draft that is).