Nice work David. I’d go after the two Rays pitchers. I don’t care about the age as much as the ability to throw strikes. That would be the one draw back with Kelly for me. If we are keeping Garrett, then it seems like we have a redundancy of hard throwing lefties that can’t throw enough strikes. But I do get the argument that talent is talent and just get him in and see what happens. I guess, does your gut tell you they will select someone in general? I don’t see a reason not too but curious if you are hearing anything.
I also lean toward strikes, but Kelly is probably the one exception to that because of the pure stuff. I'm not sure that they even know yet if they'll be making a pick. It's at the end of the winter meetings, so while there are only a little over two weeks before this draft, that's like six months of baseball time between now and then of things that could happen.
Good article. The only thing I don't agree with are the high strikeout power guys. I don't think guys like that are worth it. KC has had very few home runs guys work out consistently over the years. They need contact and walks from their hitters. They have too many high strikeout guys now. A team with a lot of high strikeout guys always lead to long losing streaks
Jordyn Adams from the Angels gets my stamp of approval. A tooled-up 80 runner and great defensive center fielder who’s only 23 and was a 1st-round pick in 2018.
He’s available because he’s never hit, but he’s one of the guys I’d at least like to see Zumwalt and Saylor work with. Worst-case scenario is the Royals have a true center field and pinch-running option.
Nice work David. I’d go after the two Rays pitchers. I don’t care about the age as much as the ability to throw strikes. That would be the one draw back with Kelly for me. If we are keeping Garrett, then it seems like we have a redundancy of hard throwing lefties that can’t throw enough strikes. But I do get the argument that talent is talent and just get him in and see what happens. I guess, does your gut tell you they will select someone in general? I don’t see a reason not too but curious if you are hearing anything.
I also lean toward strikes, but Kelly is probably the one exception to that because of the pure stuff. I'm not sure that they even know yet if they'll be making a pick. It's at the end of the winter meetings, so while there are only a little over two weeks before this draft, that's like six months of baseball time between now and then of things that could happen.
Good article. The only thing I don't agree with are the high strikeout power guys. I don't think guys like that are worth it. KC has had very few home runs guys work out consistently over the years. They need contact and walks from their hitters. They have too many high strikeout guys now. A team with a lot of high strikeout guys always lead to long losing streaks
I also agree position players will not be selected. From the write up I like Boyle and Maldonado the best.
Yep, those two definitely stood out to me.
Jordyn Adams from the Angels gets my stamp of approval. A tooled-up 80 runner and great defensive center fielder who’s only 23 and was a 1st-round pick in 2018.
He’s available because he’s never hit, but he’s one of the guys I’d at least like to see Zumwalt and Saylor work with. Worst-case scenario is the Royals have a true center field and pinch-running option.
You’re absolutely right that the loud tool is VERY loud, so maybe that’s worth it.