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2027 DRAFT POOL ANALYSIS

Slowly but surely the annual amateur draft was coming upon us and the Raccoons were compiling scouting reports once again. We would have the 22nd pick in every round of the 2027 draft, plus a supplemental round pick as compensation for the loss of Matt Jamieson that was currently sitting at #37 in the draft order.

And as usual the countless bucks we paid to our scouts ended up yielding different rankings than however BNN was developing their own shopping lists:

The annual hotlist (*denotes HS player):

SP Matt Peterson (13/14/8)* - BNN #4
SP Roland Warner (12/14/11)
SP Brian Bowsman (11/15/14) – BNN #8
SP Jim Tierney (12/11/12)*
SP Jon Bleich (12/13/12)

CL Chris Ritz (16/15/10)

C Nate Evans (13/11/12) – BNN #1

3B Chance Bossert (15/5/15)*
1B Eric Clarke (10/12/12)

LF/RF Kyle Weinstein (9/13/16) – BNN #10
LF/RF Jared Kitzman (10/12/12)* - BNN #6
LF/RF Ron Miller jr. (8/11/12) – BNN #5

We appear to have found another scout that basically hates people and young baseballing men especially, because those ratings look so low again. No way Ron Miller jr. should be rated an 8 in contact when he is completely destroying all sorts of top-notch college pitching.

In the end, the exercise of composing the hotlist is mute though; the Raccoons pick only at #22 and can't be very picky. The shortlist consists of 94 players and guarantees us a few picks to be made from it at least.

But I very much prefer winning the championship to the #1 pick to be honest…