MLB Draft

2019Dad posted:

Georgia edges out Texas, and Pennsylvania with a good showing for a northern state: http://usatodayhss.com/2017/20...nd-round-high-school

All 19 of the California kids drafted in the first three rounds were from Southern California, where it was an exceptionally strong year. The first NorCal draftee was #109, Drew Stotman -- I would guess that it's the first time in a long time, maybe ever, that No?rCal didn't produce one of the first 100 picks.

That's debatable! (What isn't, these days?)

CabbageDad's former player who went on to play for Cal Poly was drafted #45 by the Phillies. As SLO is considered to be the dividing line between northern and southern CA at the coast, and this kid is from a town a little to the north, we'll take him, if he'll have us.  Maybe Cabbage can say if the player is a Warriors fan or a Lakers fan.

JCG posted:

2019Dad posted:

Georgia edges out Texas, and Pennsylvania with a good showing for a northern state: http://usatodayhss.com/2017/20...nd-round-high-school

All 19 of the California kids drafted in the first three rounds were from Southern California, where it was an exceptionally strong year. The first NorCal draftee was #109, Drew Stotman -- I would guess that it's the first time in a long time, maybe ever, that No?rCal didn't produce one of the first 100 picks.

That's debatable! (What isn't, these days?)

CabbageDad's former player who went on to play for Cal Poly was drafted #45 by the Phillies. As SLO is considered to be the dividing line between northern and southern CA at the coast, and this kid is from a town a little to the north, we'll take him, if he'll have us.  Maybe Cabbage can say if the player is a Warriors fan or a Lakers fan.

Ah, fair enough! I was including them in the South because his high school is in the CIF-SS. Still, it's gotta be the first time in a long time that no Bay Area or Sacramento-area players were drafted in the Top 100 -- it is typically a fairly strong area. 

JCG posted:

2019Dad posted:

Georgia edges out Texas, and Pennsylvania with a good showing for a northern state: http://usatodayhss.com/2017/20...nd-round-high-school

All 19 of the California kids drafted in the first three rounds were from Southern California, where it was an exceptionally strong year. The first NorCal draftee was #109, Drew Stotman -- I would guess that it's the first time in a long time, maybe ever, that No?rCal didn't produce one of the first 100 picks.

That's debatable! (What isn't, these days?)

CabbageDad's former player who went on to play for Cal Poly was drafted #45 by the Phillies. As SLO is considered to be the dividing line between northern and southern CA at the coast, and this kid is from a town a little to the north, we'll take him, if he'll have us.  Maybe Cabbage can say if the player is a Warriors fan or a Lakers fan.

Haha... well, JCG, just for fun, I pulled up Googlemaps...  Templeton is 211 miles to LA, 209 miles to SF.  So, clearly more north.

And, 2019, yes, we are in the CIF Southern Section but are moving to...  the Central Section.  I guess that didn't help any.

Since this is a baseball site, we should use that as the barometer...

AT&T Park - 210 miles,  Dodger Stadium - 211 miles

Five Goodwill Series International alumni were drafted this year including Chance King, son of Larry King.

Bob

JCG posted:

Those of us who have raised high-academic D3 position players have reason to keep our MLB or at least MiLB dreams alive:

So far:

Austin Filiere, MIT, taken by the Cubs in the 8th round

Tanner Nishioka, Pomona-Pitzer, taken by Boston in the 9th round

(there may be others that I didn't notice)

Here's something I'd bet is unprecedented: MIT had 2 kids drafted.  LHP David Hesslink was drafted in the 34th round by the Mariners.  And this is interesting and wildly unprecedented  -- before the draft took place Hesslink had already had secured a front office job with the club doing analytics.

http://news.mit.edu/2017/stude...-david-hesslink-0525

I wonder if he gets to cut himself when the time comes.

Everyone here probably remembers Darren Baker, the little bat boy for the Giants.  

http://deadspin.com/darren-bak...ll-was-dr-1796136520

A lot of sons of MLB players got drafted this year:

https://www.usatoday.com/story...et-picked/102845164/

In the 19th round, the Cubs selected Chris Singleton, a junior outfielder from Charleston Southern.

We recently watched a segment about him and his impact within his community and the aspect of baseball providing a place of comfort in the worst of times.  Chris seems like an amazing person. For me, his  life's strengths far exceed his considerable baseball talent.

In 2015, Chris's mother was one of those killed in the Charleston Church shooting.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/...-20170614-story.html

http://m.mlb.com/news/article/...spires-with-courage/

Do you think the new slot values caused less deals and more best player available signings? 

At mlb.com they said there were very few surprises in the top30.