Monday, July 11, 2022

An update on my fake minor league system

Starting with a review of my last few drafts, my system is OK.

In the majors, I've got some good players:

Hitting wise, we're looking at

  • Keston Hiura at 1b
  • Chris Okey as a catcher, Jarren Duran in the OF and CJ Abrams at 2b doing the shuttle thing right now (Abrams obviously looks to stick at some point)

My pitching includes 5 starters who've been in the majors (yes, that's slightly damning with faint praise, but 3 of them are pitching really well) and a reliever who had set the world on fire in his first year, but seems to have developed control issues:

  • Dakota Hudson
  • Tarik Skubel
  • Keegan Thompson
  • Anthony Kay
  • Andre Pallante
  • James Karinchak
As for what's left, it's sort of a mix bag (numbers in parenthesis are Fangraphs future value).
    Catcher
  • Patrick Bailey (40+)
  • Logan Driscoll (NA)
    1b
  • Kyle McCann (NA)
  • Justin Yurchak (NA)
    2b
  • Michael Massey (40)
  • Anthony Prato (NA)
    3b
  • Nick Northcut (NA- but he's among the minor league leaders for HR)
    SS
  • Nick Allen (45)
    RF
  • Kobie Taylor (NA)
    CF
  • Tyler Mcdonough (40+)
  • Quinton Holmes (NA)
  • Braden Ward (NA)
    LF
  • Ryan Ward (35+)
  • Connor Kokx (NA)
  • Ronnie Dawson (NA)
    SP
  • Andrew Abbott(40)
  • Colton Eastman (40)
  • Matt Mercer (35+)
  • Kevin Abel (35+)
  • Seth Lonsway (NA)
    RP
  • Sam Weatherly (40+)
  • Connor Kopps (35+)
  • Griffin Roberts (NA)
  • Jeff Belge

It seems like Logan Gray is the guy who's washed out.

This is a bad, bad system right now. It seems like a few promotions (yay), coupled with a ton of unsigned picks, have really hindered this roster. In fact, as I look at the draft picks that didn't sign, yes, Tanner Witt would probably be my best prospect, though most of the other guys that didn't sign actually don't seem to hurt so much. Otherwise, the biggest impact players that could be here are (if I follow the boards ever year and don't draft unsignable players) Joshua Baez, David Calabrese and Adam Seminaris.

Turns out, drafting is hella hard.

Ironically I'm still pretty smitten with a lot of the names on this list.

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