2012 MLB Draft Thread

[DirtySox]

Originally Posted by DonnieDarko

All pitchers. We need position players...

The White Sox need everything. The farm is dreadful. As far as starting pitching goes, they have Nestor Molina (who has been mediocre so far) and not much else.

[DirtySox]

Originally Posted by russ99

I hope the Astros grab Buxton.

The top college pitchers look good, but there's no Strasberg there, and you never know how they'll turn out. A toolsy outfielder would be a better pick, especially with the bigger focus on offense in the AL.

Besides, they have some nice pitching prospects already, and look to add more in the midseason deals of Myers, Wandy Rodriguez and Carlos Lee.

I hope they take Buxton too, but it sounds like the owner wants a safer, quick to the majors pitcher. It really sounds like they will be taking Appel, who has great stuff but is very inconsistent and doesn't get the results that he should. Twins would love for Buxton to fall to them.

[DirtySox]

Karkovice will be representing the White Sox at the draft this year. Less than two weeks away. Whispers on who teams are interested in should be rampant soon.

[DirtySox]

Draft 2012: What Your Team Has To Spend

Outlines the basic rules/guidelines on how the CBA changed draft spending. Shows what each team has to spend on the first 10 rounds along with prescribed "slot" value.

[EMachine10]

http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/draft...mock-draft-mlb

Law's mock from a few days ago has Appel going first. He has Sox taking Shaffer (3B from Clemson), but also mentions our supposed ties to Smoral.

[DirtySox]

Mayo's 2nd mock:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...ticle_32149024

Sox interested in Stratton, Heaney, & Wacha as I previously guessed. I'm more in favor of Heaney and Stratton than Wacha though.

[Eye in the sky]

If Keith Law and a #2 pencil had a home run hitting contest, who would win?

[EMachine10]

Originally Posted by Eye in the sky

If Keith Law and a #2 pencil had a home run hitting contest, who would win?

[DirtySox]

Baseball America's Mock 2.0 has the Sox taking Wacha.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/blog/...2-0-list-only/

[DirtySox]

Jim Callis ‏@jimcallisBA
Could still go either way. Hearing both. @professorfog: #WhiteSox moved on to college pitching vs the prep players at this point? #mlbdraft
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[mzh]

Originally Posted by DirtySox

Jim Callis ‏@jimcallisBA
Could still go either way. Hearing both. @professorfog: #WhiteSox moved on to college pitching vs the prep players at this point? #mlbdraft
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College pitching? Shocker.

Chris Sale magically fell to us. But after all, since Matt Ginter, Kris Honel, Royce Ring, Lance Broadway, Kyle McCulloch and Aaron Poreda were all such RESOUNDING Major League successes, why wouldn't they keep going with that strategy?

[rdivaldi]

Originally Posted by mzh

College pitching? Shocker.

Chris Sale magically fell to us. But after all, since Matt Ginter, Kris Honel, Royce Ring, Lance Broadway, Kyle McCulloch and Aaron Poreda were all such RESOUNDING Major League successes, why wouldn't they keep going with that strategy?

Kris Honel was a HS pitcher...

[mzh]

Originally Posted by rdivaldi

Kris Honel was a HS pitcher...

I stand corrected. The point remains, though.

[rdivaldi]

Originally Posted by mzh

I stand corrected. The point remains, though.

When you look at draft history, the bust factor for high players is greater than college players. Drafting college pitchers is not a bad philosophy, but of course you have to draft the right ones. I would prefer we just take the best player available in the first round, position/age be damned.

[BigHurt3515]

Has anyone heard anything about Trenton Moses out of Southeast Missouri