Comments on: Scouting Reports Are Coming

By: cariocacardinal

cariocacardinal — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:49:27 +0000

You don’t know how developed McElry is but I bet the Cards have an idea.

By: cariocacardinal

cariocacardinal — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:48:26 +0000

With 4 picks in the first 2 rounds last year, how many picks from last year’s draft would you put in our top 20? Idoubt it is more than the number of picks we had in the first 2 rounds (just as it is this year at this point).

By: bc

bc — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:31:32 +0000

He went to Clear Creek HS (I think) which is suburban Houston big school baseball. The competition is about as good as your gonna get at the high school level.

By: Hugecardsfan

Hugecardsfan — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:05:20 +0000

That’s right and that’s what we’d have said if we’d picked “high ceiling” pitchers who are every bit as unreliable as starters…if not moreso.

As Verducci said:

“Those 2000-02 numbers caught me by surprise, even with an appreciation of how hard it is to develop pitching. In summary, the 2000-02 drafts suggest almost half the first-round pitchers will never make the big leagues, only one in four will win as few as 10 games, and only one in 10 will become winning pitchers with at least 10 wins.”

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:46:46 +0000

Your right, you said you think the team addressed there needs if your truly addressing needs your drafting guys who project to fill the need. Drafting Wong allows the team to feel they filled that need. If we would have drafted Fisher we could have said we reasonablyl filled at need in RF. Most of our picks dn’t really project to do anything or are more a hope and a prayer. We filled a need at 2b and we are hoping we found someone to fill needs as a LHP.

By: Hugecardsfan

Hugecardsfan — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:39:06 +0000

Which is why they’ll participate in the draft again next year.

By: Felonius_Monk

Felonius_Monk — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:30:57 +0000

There’s guys like Guerrieri around in the 20s most years, and they often fall for similar reasons to Guerrieri this year. And, as Lou noted, you really should make an effort to spell his name something even VAGUELY close to the way it’s spelt if you’re going to name-check him in every Wong-related discussion.

By: Felonius_Monk

Felonius_Monk — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:25:51 +0000

I’d rather be competitive every year (80-90 wins) than good one year and out of it the next. Although I can see the alternative argument as well.

By: Felonius_Monk

Felonius_Monk — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:02:00 +0000

lol. I almost made that exact same point (the only thing they have in common being islands) in jest; now I see you actually meant it!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:16:37 +0000

Why do you say that? I think they think they have drafted guys that they hope will address the shortfalls.