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Dan Zielinski of Baseball Prospect Journal had Cavalli at # 12. This mock was about a month ago (April 14):
San Francisco Giants: Cade Cavalli, RHP, Oklahoma
Cade Cavalli thrived as Oklahoma’s ace last season, despite missing three weeks with a stress reaction in his right arm. He believes the injury was related to poor mechanics, which he’s cleaned up this offseason. Cavalli is 6-4, 218 pounds with his fastball that touches 98 mph.
huge age difference there though and IMO Cards would prefer the college guy.
BTW some great youtube stuff on Cavalli including a good interview by Talkin’ Ball (young interviewer who asked really good questions for being so young. Cavalli sounded really grounded, intelligent.I see this mock has Cards taking Cavalli with Cole Wilcox available. Interesting. Can’t wait.
It WILL be interesting.I found this, which answers the time zone question:
Day 1 of the draft will be June 10 at 7 p.m. ET and include the first round (37 picks). Rounds 2-5 (123 picks) will begin a 5 p.m. the following day.
more details:
the first round will take place Wednesday, June 10, airing at 6 p.m. on MLB Network. The second, third, fourth and fifth rounds will be held the following day, Thursday, June 11, and air at 4 p.m. on MLB Network.
note: ^ did not indicate Eastern Time or Central Time
BigSmitty……
The shortened 2020 MLB Amateur Draft will be held remotely, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports (Twitter thread). It’s not a particularly surprising development but is nevertheless yet another departure from the norm. Per Passan, teams won’t be permitted to have draft rooms. Each club’s head of baseball operations will be on camera during the draft, without audio, as was the case with last month’s virtually conducted NFL Draft. The MLB Draft will be conducted on June 10-11, with Day One includinng just the first round and Day Two featuring the rest.
Kiley McDaniel dropped his first mock and he has the Cardinals selecting SS Ed Howard from Mount Caramel High School in Illinois. This is the same school that produced top Arizona Diamondbacks top prospect Alek Thomas.
That would be a dream. Howard is one of the more talented prep players in the class. McDaniel cites injury concerns as the reason for his slide.
“Howard is sliding a bit, as clubs are worried about a shoulder issue and how it may affect his throwing and thus his ultimate position.”
The general consensus for Howard is that he is a top 15 pick, so if he falls to the Cardinals that gives them a very talented bat.what shoulder issue? extent?
anyone know?
