Yanks Draft Day 2 Recap
And that's why the Yanks spent the rest of the day paying for him. The nature of the current draft rules have made Day 2 a bit of a busman's holiday for teams without a top pool allotment. You see, because the Yanks only have 10 picks in the top 10 rounds, they have one of the lowest draft pools, even though they had the 18th pick, which is higher than usual. So in order to save pool money to pay over slot to kids like Martinez and Blake Thornton yesterday, the Yanks took 6 seniors this afternoon.
As transparently ridiculous as this system is, the Yanks haven't dumped the picks, like some of the more cynical teams have. Instead, they've gotten their scouts to identify the seniors they can get at the right price that can also help the system.
Back when we used to talk more theoretically about the draft, seniors were one of the inefficiencies and were being underscouted because the best ones are expected to be drafted and signed by their junior year. If not, they're underscouted. The Yanks stay on them, and that's why today, where they only made one overslot pick, might still work out well for them in the long run. They didn't get a bunch of dogs. They got some disciplined hitters, some pop, and some pitchers who throw 95.
Now hopefully tomorrow, even with the pool shock that mussed have been caused when Blake Rutherford fell to them last night, the Yanks will be able to go after some more preps and JuCo's, like they've done on day 3's in the past. It's unclear just what they'll be able to do, because of their low pool and landing Rutherford.
Btw, there are people out here who pay more attention to HS Baseball than I do, and some honestly believe that Rutherford is better than Moniak. And they were saying it before the draft, too,
One more thing, last night the announcers talked about Rutherford's sloped shoulders as if they were a good thing. You know what Yankee great also had sloped shoulder's? Lou Gehrig. So maybe they're right.
posted by Kalel9 @ 6:35 PM
5 Comments:
If MLB thinks that they are going to have a draft at least a little like the NFL, these rules have to be adapted. The current system is a travesty.
The MLB draft is the only one that is currently designed to where in most cases you DON'T take the best player available. The reason is because alot of these better players have other options, college, re-draft. They want the top money, so you have to choose lesser players that will accept less than their alloted amount so you can reallocate funds to the better players.
I'm not sure you can illuminate that, unless you impose an age restriction on draftees or force draftees to file for the draft and once they have, they lose their amateur eligibility.
Or let the free market work again! Have overall MLB ratings and attendance gone up or down since parity became king?
Either way, until or unless the Yankees risk the uncertainty that even very high ceiling prospects impose early in their MLB careers, mediocrity is their ceiling.
Will Judge, Bird, Severino, Sanchez, and one other starting pitching prospect be guaranteed big roles by the start of next season?
Will any veterans be traded before the deadline?
I'm skeptical. They don't make changes unless they are forced into doing it.
One thing that's really unusual about this draft is that the Yanks got Blake Rutherford. They are literally never in the right position to draft that kind of talent.
True. That's historically fortunate
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