Adley Rutschman- Can't be surprised to see him go first overallAndrew Vaughn- Leading up to the draft, there were many rumors of him slipping to 6... I was hoping- CJ Abrams- With the 6th pick, the Padres take CJ Abrams :-)
Logan Davidson- He goes at 29. I was higher on him than most, but also hoped against hope he'd slip to round 2.Bryson Stott- Slipped to 14, but was never really in reachAlek Manoah- Went at 11.Corbin Carroll- Great pick by the DBacks at 16
Obviously, I managed to get Abrams, so the idea of floating a player fell apart (likely for the better).
- Cavaco (depending)
- Leiter (depending)
- Young (depending)
With no float candidate, I'm back at it.
- Michael Massey- With the 45th pick, the Padres select Mike Massey. In real life, he goes at pick 109 to KC, so I may be a little high, but that's OK. He's a gamer.
Josh Jung- I was obviously too low on him- Kyle McCann- With the 84th pick, the Padres select Kyle McCann. In reality he goes 134 to Oakland... and given the Driscoll pick, I'm not sure this is the right pick. That said, if he ends up at 1b, that's OK too.
- Andre Pallante- With the 114th pick, the Padres Select Andre Pallante. In realty, he went 125 to STL.
Michael Busch- I was obviously way too low on this guy, but am excited to see him play with my hometown Dodgers- Sebastian Keane- With the 143rd pick, the Padres select Sebastian Keane. In reality, he left at pick 347 (the 11th round) to the Red Sox. Is he signable?
Jacob Wallace- He went number 100 to ColoradoGreame Stinson- He went 128 to TB, who will no doubt turn him into a monsterAndre Lipcius- He went 83rd to the Tigers. A really good pick for them.Jake Mangum- He went to the Mets at 118 (the Mets draft is super interesting)- Anthony Prato- With the 173rd pick, the Padres select Anthony Prato, In reality he went 209 to the Twins
- Logan Driscoll- With the 73rd pick, the Padres Selected Logan Driscoll*
- Ryan Ward- With the 203rd pick, the Padres select Ryan Ward. In reality he went 251 to the Dodgers
- Jeff Belge- With the 233rd pick, the Padres select Jeff Belge. In reality, he went to STL with pick 551
At this point, I'm going to see if any float candidates are left, and if so, I'm taking them... you never know.
- Jack Leiter- With the 263 pick, the Padres select Jack Leiter. In reality he went to the Yankees at pick 615. Let's see what happens
- Carter Young- With the 293 pick, the Padres Select Carter Young. In reality, he went undrafted
Some thoughts heading into Day 3. I was obviously super low on a couple players (Jung, Busch, etc). In previous years, I've left players that I like who were suspected to be first rounders off my board entirely, and when one of them fell, I stuck to the board and missed out. So I don't mind those misses.
The total draft haul looks like this:
Hitters
- Abrams- SS
- Massey- 2b
- McCann C/1b
- Driscoll- C
- Prato- 2b
- Ward- OF
Pitchers
- Pallante- SP
- Keane- SP
- Belge- RP
- Leiter- SP (unlikely to sign)
The real life pick of Driscoll, who was much lower on my board, would have probably precluded me from picking McCann, in which case I'd have liked to have found another pitcher (though if you bump McCann, I still don't get access to Wallace of Stinson, so maybe it doesn't matter).
It's obviously college hitter-heavy, but the idea of Abrams and Keane combining to offer some upside in a largely safe draft isn't the worst thing in the world (in fact, that's kind of my ideal draft). Keane signing or not has the potential to make or break this draft.
A few players I should have, in hindsight, had on the board.
- Trejyn Fltcher- OF-He would have continued my love of New England HS players with a Vanderbilt commit (Rhett Wiseman and Isan Diaz being previous examples)
- Seth Johnson- SS/SP- Went at 40 to the Rays and has a lot of upside.
- Noah Song- Potentially the best SP to come out of this draft.
*I'm going out of order here, because I sort of have to. Since the Padres took him in real life, there is no way to know where he would have fallen. I'm super stoked to get him.
