M’s Pick C Keanu Carmichael at #192
Jay Yencich · June 8, 2010 at 11:50 am · Filed Under Mariners
Not a tremendous pick at this point. Catching is not regarded as a strength of this draft and I honestly thought that we’d bypass picking one for quite a while, but hey, someone has to back up all these pitchers.
Carmichael slipped down the boards because he transferred high schools in Hawaii earlier this year, which made him ineligible to play. He’s defensive guy, good feet, flexible, arm which while solid is not likened to artillery so far as I see. Behind the plate, he seems quite proactive, which is a good sign. The bat is not horrible, level swing, probably conducive to liners.
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Wow. Almost all his throws to 2nd in the video were terrible.
Yeah, that video was less than encouraging
I don’t know, in highschool I wouldn’t even have been able to put on all the equipment correctly.
Whoa. I wonder if he knows Kung Fu?
In high school, I was on the JV squad one year…and I used to pray for our ONE catcher not to get hurt, every game.
Because (like Tuiasasopo now for the M’s) I was tabbed as the emergency replacement if anything happened! And while I’d’ve done it, I’d never donned the tools of ignorance in my life.
Plus we had several kids with live arms but NO idea where that ball was going. That would’ve been hell.
Catcher is the most difficult position in baseball to judge accurately and develop. I haven’t counted, but would speculate that of those drafted as catchers most who stayed at that position were drafted after college ball rather than prep.