Smitty28 posted:3and2Fastball posted:2019Dad posted:Fangraphs has Rutschman and Vaughn at #1 and #2 on their draft board, and the next college player they have is Bryson Stott of UNLV at the #5 spot, and the one after that is Michael Busch of UNC at #8, and then Kameron Misner of Missouri at #9.
Just FYI, from the "youneverknow" category:
Adley Rutschman PG ranking in the class of 2016: 432
Andrew Vaughn PG ranking in the class of 2016: 422
Bryson Stott PG ranking in the class of 2016: Top 1000
Michael Busch PG ranking in the class of 2016: Top 500
Kameron Misner PG ranking in the class of 2016: 270
Is it: you never know? Or, Perfect Game doesn't really know?
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Interesting list... I looked up these profiles and there was not much PG activity for any of them. Rutschman went to 0 PG events, Vaughn went to 2 (both in CA), Stott (4, all on west coast), Busch (4, all in CA or AZ), and Misner went to 1. I wouldn't necessarily say that PG was wrong, but this seems to point to PG ranking what they see. Few seem to get ranked high if they don't spend a lot of time in GA or FL with PG.
Here's some more from yesterday's first day of the draft. I added the state because there may be something to your point that PG doesn't see kids who are not in the Southeast as often - Rutschman (Oregon), Vaughn (California), Stott (Nevada), Busch (Minnesota), and Misner (Missouri) -- and thus misses more of them:
- Josh Jung, 8th pick in 2019 draft, PG ranking in class of 2016: 430 (Texas)
- Shea Langeliers, 9th pick, PG ranking: 500 (Texas)
- Michael Toglia, 23rd pick, PG ranking: 500 (Washington)
- Kody Hoese, 25th pick, PG ranking: 500 (Indiana)
- Ryan Jensen, 27th pick, PG ranking: 500 (California)
- Korey Lee, 31st pick, PG ranking: 500 (California)
- Drey Jameson, 34th pick, PG ranking: 500 (Indiana)
- TJ Sikkema, 38th pick, PG ranking: 500 (Iowa)
- Matt Wallner, 39th pick, PG ranking: 500 (Minnesota)
- Seth Johnson, 40th pick, PG ranking: Follow (North Carolina)
- Davis Wendzel, 41st pick, PG ranking: 500 (California)
- Beau Philip, 60th pick, PG ranking: 500 (California)
- Jared Triolo, 72nd pick, PG ranking: Not Ranked (Texas)
- Logan Driscoll, 73rd pick, PG ranking: 500 (Virginia)
- Tommy Henry, 74th pick, PG ranking: 500 (Michigan)
- Isaiah Campbell, 76th pick, PG ranking: 500 (Kansas)
I have thought that PG doesn't scout the West Coast all that well (and now they have some competition with PBR so maybe it changes) but maybe it's just that they don't scout the "not Southeast" well?