2011 Draft Rounds 11-30 Catch-All Thread
Cole Wiper and Kody Watts are still on the board, if you’re into local prospects. So is ginormous bat Trevor Mitsui.
LHP Cameron Hobson, Dayton, #333
C Michael Dowd, #363
CF Jamal Austin, #393 (Jamal Strong v2.0)
RHP Cody Weiss, #423
RHP or maybe CF Michael McGee, #453 (yes, CF, according to Mac)
C Jack Marder, #483 (OREGON!)
CF Nathan Melendres, #513
LHP Nick Valenza, #543
C Luke Guarnaccia, #573 (our 21st-round pick last year, now moves up two rounds)
2B Dillon Hazlett, #603
BREAK
RHP Joseph DiRocco, #633
RHP John Taylor, #663 (USC-Columbia)
RHP Richard White, #693 (US Virgin Islands)
RHP Tanner Chleborad, #723 (South Dakotan, WSU commitment)
RHP Gabriel Saquilon, #753
3B Kenneth Straus, #783
RHP David Colvin, #813
RHP Keone Kela, #843 (Chief Sealth High School)
RHP Jordan Pries, #873
End of Day 2.
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Trevor Mitsui to the Rays in a move that surprises NO ONE.
Are Dylan Davis and Michael Conforto still available?
Whole bunch of players with rumored signability problems falling hard.
Do you think the M´s will regret passing on him?
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/highschoolsportsblog/2015203546_shorewoodstrevormitsuinamedgatoratewashingtonpoy.html
“Mitsui has signed a National Letter of Intent to play baseball on scholarship at the University of Washington this fall.”
Trevor Mitsui, “Best High School hitter in state…” Scout.
Watched Dowd’s video at mlb.com. He’s got a slow, upward swing.
Whatever happened to Jamal Strong? I don’t recall whether he was traded, washed out, ???
Washed out. Last seen with the Long Island Ducks in 2009, which is the elephant graveyard of all major league careers.
The Rays could have an almost all Northwest team: Chris Sale, Drew Vettleson, Blake Snell, Trevor Mitsui. Just need to trade for Travis Snider, Grady Sizemore, and Jon Lester.
I don’t think you understand how much the Rays scout the Pacific Northwest. Or you’re forgetting Jeff Ames and Ryan Carpenter at any rate.
It is just ridiculous.
Cole Wiper to the Jays. It’s like we don’t even try.
I wish we were more like the Braves, but that would require the Pac NW talent to be good.
I just think it is odd that the Rays are in Florida, surrounded by local talent, yet choose so many NW kids, which seems to be an area many other teams ignore, including the Ms. The grass is always greener, I suppose.
I think of it as a parallel universe where the M’s moved to Tampa that leaks into ours.
Marder is listed as an infielder.
Catcher on the draft tracker, announced as a catcher from what I remember hearing.
Are you old enough to remember when the M’s basically threatened to move down there? The Florida folks thought it was a done deal, I believe. Maybe those people are with the Rays, and they hold a grudge a long, long time…
I’m old enough to be referencing it, aren’t I?
How old do you have to be to reference it? Six?
We have drafted five pitchers and four catchers.
At least the Brewers aren’t picking our pockets.
Wow, Jay, you’ve been so on top of things that the posts on the M’s top two picks have already slid all the way off the “recent posts” column. Are you considering doing a summary post with links to all the others you’ve done (and Dave’s posts about Hultzen), just so the people who haven’t been refreshing every half hour can easily work their way through all your fine reporting?
I can try, but I’m doing nine different things at the moment.
Hey Jay I have a pretty deep prospect question:
Do you know if anyone is scouting Whitworth’s Landon Scott, or if he has any chance of getting drafted? I was his teammate when he was a sophomore and he’s about as good as anyone I’ve ever played with or against, non Josh Sale/Matt Boyd division. Because he’s at a D-III, I figure if he does get a look it would be late, but there’s always plenty of small school guys that get drafted somewhere and I was wondering if you’d heard of Scott or had any idea if he’s got a chance to get picked.
Thanks.. you’re doing awesome work here.
Well I’d just read Larry Stone’s “Mariners draft Rendon in alternate universe” story a few minutes previously, so to be honest I wasn’t 100% sure – you might’ve been spinning off Stone’s idea and not been around back when the M’s were threatening to move.
Some of the guys on here are pretty young… and not all are local.
I don’t know Landon Scott, but Justin Leone was drafted out of St. Martin’s in Lacey and I’m pretty sure they were D-II or lower at this point. They’re probably at least aware of Scott’s existence.
Jay, as you noted earlier, lots of catchers. Are these all really BPA? Or is it stocking the position hoping that someone signs and sticks? Or perhaps they can convert to other positions? Thoughts?
Another catcher!
We have drafted six pitchers and five catchers.
A few years ago they drafted a ton of two-way players as pitchers and stuck with them. I think it’s the spaghetti at the wall approach, but the fact is that catching is rather thin in the system at the moment and a lot of guys have washed out in the past couple of years. We can’t patch all those holes through minor league free agency.
I can understand that approach: go hard at a weakness in the system with reasonable odds that the weakness is now addressed. Other holes may remain, but one fewer overall to worry about.
Would it make sense that TB drafts so many players in the PNW because they know that due to it’s cold weather and distance from other major markets they feel they gain a competitive advantage in getting to draft talented players in lower rounds??
That’s great news for when we start playing in the yet-to-be-founded Pure Bullpen Warmups League.
When the Rays took Lou Piniella they took Mariners mojo!
It might make sense, except the Rays are using high round picks on PNW kids. Not implying the Rays are wrong at all, just wondering why the Ms appear to pay no attention to legitimate local talent, time and time again.
Didn’t this organization get knocked around a while back for paying _too_ much attention to local talent? Different decision makers now, of course, but maybe the pendulum’s swinging the other way for a while.
UD Flyers represent! I made it to a couple games this year but I didn’t have the privilege of seeing Hobson pitch. The results were nothing special. Apparently a young soft-tossing crafty lefty type.
What’s with the run of RHP’s?
Someone needs to throw to all these catchers!
Heh, nice Jay. I meant it more as why righties not lefties though, with Safeco and all (plus Felix and Pineda being righties)
Ok JY – now I’m going to go crazy/off the handle about the draft…
I can’t believe the M’s drafted some no-good, son of a [edited, not LL], player from Pomona-Pitzer named David Colvin. Their mascot is a freaking desert chicken.
But he went to Pitzer so he’s probably just a chill, pot-smoking guy.
Player bio from PP’s website.
13 starts, 94.1 innings, 94 K, 21 BB, 2.96 ERA.
Damn, did we really just draft a Sagehen?
Because the lefties at this level of the draft top out at about 84?
By my count they’ve got a few too many pitchers then.
I feel sorry for the slow ones at the start of next spring training – they’ll line up to throw out there at the end of the group, but no one will be across from them…
Excuse the ignorance, but can someone explain how signing draftees works? Do the later round guys usually not sign? If they don’t sign, is there a reason? Do teams ask the player if he is or is not going to sign before drafting him? Obviously, it doesn’t work the same as in the NFL or the NBA for instance, when a team drafts a player, they own the rights to that player for an indetermined length of time. How long to MLB teams own the rights to players that are drafted?
Later round guys are less inclined to sign, but we only were unable to sign eleven or twelve players last year. Some of them don’t sign because the team follows them and decides they’ll pass, or because they have demands that the team can’t follow through on. Teams have until August 15th to sign a player unless that player is a college senior or ruled ineligible to play at the NCAA level in which case it goes on until the next draft.
What’s with all this hate against the Sagehens? Stupid stags….
Well, more of a Pomona hate thing. Pitzer is just fine in my book so Colvin’s good to go. 🙂
Though seriously, nothing against Fomona. It’s just that old habits die hard.
We drafted a guy out of Claremont McKenna too. Do I even mention that or is it a whole new flamewar?
Best news ever. I’m sure he’ll be better than Hultzen. 🙂