Post by wilkyisdashiznit on May 25, 2018 14:58:56 GMT -8
But, really... I don't know you, but have you ANY experience other than reading in this area/topic?
Since you added "top of the draft"...
I have not added this to the draft decisions made... but, a team's need and best talent are complicated by money. If a team can make a pre-draft "deal" (not supposedly allowed, but done all the time) that allows saving slot $ for use later on... it can swing a pick in favor of that player over another... considered more talented or MLB or not. Again, a different type of "need", but that savings and use of may outweigh the "better" player being picked.
The thinking is that is exactly why the Twins went Royce Lewis/HS SS over Brendan McKay 1B-LHP/Louisville... the consensus best college player in the draft (1st college player taken/ went 4th to TBay).
Twins needed/wanted more $ for later... signed him for $6.7 mil/$1 mil under to use later. Dollars not talent was determining factor.
TBay actually signed McKay for over $7 mil... over his slot value.
But... I'm sure you'll argue, hence you may have the last word 🤗
You already said you were "done" in the previous response. You just want to keep piling on the wrong, I guess.
No one has ADDED the top of the draft to this topic (I won't call it a discussion, because you are incapable of having a discussion) the original topic was YOUR claim that Madrigal would fall in the draft because teams AT THE TOP would be drafting for "need". And NO ONE would suggest that organizational needs don’t have some influence at the very top of the MLB draft, but the OVERWHELMING criterion will be each team’s perceived Best Player Available.
There are obviously tons of factors that can push an MLB player up or down draft boards – signability being one that is kind of unique to MLB, but it’s still ludicrous to suggest that Madrigal would fall past the first five because drafting to fill a “need” is their top priority. If he falls, it will be because they think there are better players.
And we all KNOW how “connected” you are. You’re so connected that you’ve coached every GD sport at every level, and apparently speak with MLB scouts who feed you lines of bulls%#t.