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Thanks for your response, Brian. It would be interesting to somehow get some inside information on the teaching changes in the system, now that more traveling coaches are on board and the acquired equipment is more sophisticated. Especially as it relates to specific players like Davis, the Baezes, Henderson, Mautz, etc.
And as far as being discouraged, I refuse to be discouraged until I see what moves Bloom makes over the off season.
We have too many catchers and too many second basemen in the system, so trades could be interesting.Completely different tone in this week’s WWW. Admission that it’s going to take awhile for the system alone to produce a winner. With assumption that money won’t be spent to bring in help from outside. Kind of discouraging.
Enjoyed the last several sessions when talking about the draftees. After the draft, I always enjoy looking up the stats. Not only the top 5 draftees, but part of it is to see if there are any that stick out in later rounds. Guys who might be dark horses in the future.
1.) Doyle – 164 Ks in 95.2 innings in the SEC. BAA of .184
2C.) Franklin – 52 Ks in 38.2 IP in the SEC.
3.) Gurevitch – OPS of 1.158, 17 HRs in 229 ABs.
4.) Crossland – 84 Ks in 68.1 IP.
5.) Young – 92 Ks in 70.1 IP
10.) Van Dyke – 71 Ks in 47.1 IP
12.) Echeman – 87 Ks in 56 IP
15.) Haskins – .945 OPS for Stanford in 221 ABs
17.) Nickens – 1.288 OPS with 18 HRsOne question I had was why Haskins was drafted so low, and
well behind Weingartner and Flores.8.) Weingartner at PSU – .250 BA/.384 OBP/853 OPS
11.) Flores at Texas – .239 BA /.317 OBP/.809 OPS
15.) Haskins at Stanford – .326 BA /.370 OBP /.945 OPSGood session on the draft!
I always try to find diamonds in the rough with each draft. You mentioned one in Ty Van Dyke. ERA of 1.71, BAA of .175, and 71 Ks in 47.1 innings. That’s impressive, even though the level of competition may not be that high. You also mentioned Kaden Echeman, whom I also liked. 87 Ks in 56 innings. Ethan Yiung is another K guy, with 92 in 70.1 innings. Lots of swing and miss with the pitchers. That’s exciting.
As far as position players, you already mentioned Cameron Nickens. 1.288 OPS with 18 dingers and 71 RBI. Again, lower competition level, but the numbers are very exciting.
One last guy that I highlighted is Trevor Haskins, the SS from Stanford.
You didn’t mention him. Why was he still there in the 15th round?
He had a .326/.370/.575/.945 slash line with 14 homers in one of the most competitive conferences in the country. Good size at 6’1” and 194 lbs. I like him better than 8th round pick SS Ryan Weingartner out of Penn State. Did any of the media guys ask about him, Brian?Good session this week. It would be interesting for Brian and Kyle to compare the upsides of Crooks and Bernal. Both offensively and defensively. In a head to head competition, which one might win the starting catcher role in St. Louis someday.
Those pitching injuries are really worrisome. Especially on the heels
of the injuries to the young pitchers we got in deadline trades several years ago.They probably only take into consideration what happens at the major league level. And the Cards were dormant during the off season.
After all this time of enjoying WWW, have you decided to now lock out members who aren’t paid members?
WWW, with Blake as the guest, ran 20 minutes plus or minus on average. Going to 25 minutes if both Brian and Blake were on a roll. That might be a pretty good guideline with Kyle as the guest now. Specifics about various players, especially what they’re working on this Spring, is extremely valuable.
Very good thoughts, Brian. I’d also factor in the loss of revenues from the cable contract as well as an anticipate drop in ticket revenues as they go through this transition period.
How much money have they invested in sophisticated equipment and the instructors who know how to implement it? How much money have they invested in many more roving position specialist instructors for the minor leagues? How much money are they investing in the Jupiter training facility? How much money are they losing from the new cable contract? Unless we have actual figures, there’s really no case to be made either way.
Tucker or not, I wonder if NA feels “anything” about his employer jumping through many hoops to get a deal agreed to, and then he backs out. Sounds like Mo wasn’t too pleased.
Sure hope NA’s production improves to the point that the good prospects Mo might have negotiated to get from Houston are secondary.
