2013 MLB Draft - Tonight at 7

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For the baseball haters, stick it up your arse.

1. Houston Astros
2. Chicago Cubs
3. Colorado Rockies
4. Minnesota Twins
5. Cleveland Indians
6. Miami Marlins
7. Boston Red Sox
8. Kansas City Royals
9. Pittsburgh Pirates (M. Appel - unsigned)
10. Toronto Blue Jays
11. New York Mets
12. Seattle Mariners
13. San Diego Padres
14. Pittsburgh Pirates
15. Arizona Diamondbacks
16. Philadelphia Phillies
17. Chicago White Sox
18. Los Angeles Dodgers
19. St. Louis Cardinals
20. Detroit Tigers
21. Tampa Bay Rays
22. Baltimore Orioles
23. Texas Rangers
24. Oakland Athletics
25. San Francisco Giants
26. New York Yankees
27. Cincinnati Reds
28. St. Louis Cardinals (K. Lohse)1
29. Tampa Bay Rays (B.J. Upton)2
30. Texas Rangers (J. Hamilton)3
31. Atlanta Braves (M. Bourn)4
32. New York Yankees (N. Swisher)5
33. New York Yankees (R. Soriano)6

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The Royals could **** up microwave popcorn

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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Wow. You guys took a catcher and it wasn't Jon Denney?

Denney went right before the Royals picked.

[DJ's left nut]

Ah, okay, that makes more sense. I thought the Bosox had snagged him in the 4th and the Royals had passed on him in the 3rd (where he made a ton of sense).

Evidently Boston agreed with me.

I guess I can't hammer on Moore for that one; Denney's a fairly substantial risk there if he's really looking for top 10-15 money.

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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

I think the Red Sox might have snatched their pick (Denney, the C from Oklahoma). There's some buzz the Royals had a deal in place with him.

Wow, that sucks. Many said he was the best available after day 1.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Ah, okay, that makes more sense. I thought the Bosox had snagged him in the 4th and the Royals had passed on him in the 3rd (where he made a ton of sense).

Evidently Boston agreed with me.

I guess I can't hammer on Moore for that one; Denney's a fairly substantial risk there if he's really looking for top 10-15 money.

I mentioned this down the thread...

The criticism there MIGHT be down the road... if Denney turns into a monster (good chance, IMO) and Cody Reed turns into a pumpkin, you'll wonder why they didn't flip those picks (even though Reed was a fringy 1st round type).

Dozier/Mannaea/Reed/Denney would have been pretty tough to complain about, IMO. Denney has more than a touch of Wil Myers to him.

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by duncan_idaho

I mentioned this down the thread...

The criticism there MIGHT be down the road... if Denney turns into a monster (good chance, IMO) and Cody Reed turns into a pumpkin, you'll wonder why they didn't flip those picks (even though Reed was a fringy 1st round type).

Dozier/Mannaea/Reed/Denney would have been pretty tough to complain about, IMO. Denney has more than a touch of Wil Myers to him.

Yeah, I realized after I read through the thread that you went over all this already; poor form on my part.

Honestly, I'd have preferred Denney to Manaea, if for no other reason than the fact that a pitcher with any injury scares me. All he has to do is come back favoring that hip just a little bit, even imperceptibly, and he ends up thrashing his shoulder on account of it. Additionally, I think he'd have fallen a little further due to the injury concerns combined with signability concerns.

That said, I can't really fault the approach, though I do question if Dozier was really the best they could do there, even if they're basing the pick on signability. He's damn sure not a SS, so I'm guessing they profile him as a 3b.

[duncan_idaho]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Yeah, I realized after I read through the thread that you went over all this already; poor form on my part.

Honestly, I'd have preferred Denney to Manaea, if for no other reason than the fact that a pitcher with any injury scares me. All he has to do is come back favoring that hip just a little bit, even imperceptibly, and he ends up thrashing his shoulder on account of it. Additionally, I think he'd have fallen a little further due to the injury concerns combined with signability concerns.

That said, I can't really fault the approach, though I do question if Dozier was really the best they could do there, even if they're basing the pick on signability. He's damn sure not a SS, so I'm guessing they profile him as a 3b.

I've see a few things reported today that make the Mannaea pick more easily understood:

1) The Royals are confident the hip issue is genetic, not baseball-related (similar to Alex Gordon). Someone called that out in this thread or the Repository today. I think it was Passan that reported this.

2) The shoulder is clean, and apparently they're willing to shut him down and get the labrum/hip issue surgically repaired before letting him throw again.

Dozier, they seem to just love him. I think he gets a shot at 2B even though he's very non-typical for that position. His size makes it a longer shot, but Zobrist is a great example of a bigger guy succeeding defensively there (Zobrist is 6-3, Dozier listed at 6-4). His positional potential probably breaks down about like Michael Cuddyer (I haven't seen that comp, but I think Dozier fits pretty well - RH power bat, thick/strong guy who can play 3B, RF, potentially 2B)

If they can get Dozier to stick at 2B, his bat plays up as plus to plus-plus for that position. His bat probably is adequate at 3B or RF because he offers RH power at those spots.

I would have rather seen Denney than Reed with that second round pick, but Reed is at least a hard-throwing LHP with good size and some helium (and untapped potential due to low development/coaching so far).

There is a lot of risk in what the Royals did (though clearly they think Manaea is less of a risk than other teams did), but it has a lot of potential payoff.