1997 Draft Pool Analysis
Two things are poorly represented in the 1997 draft pool: starting pitching and infielders. But if you are a team with three of the first 43 picks and are looking to get your future starting catcher or a closer shoe-in, this may be your year, assuming you can pick fast enough.
Consensus #1 draft pick is Javier Gusman, though, a youngster scouted as 20/20/20 by Vince Guerra.
However, more realistically, these are the players high on our list that could actually fall to us:
RP Pedro Alvarado (20/17/14)
RP Jerry Paul (18/15/14)
RP Dan Nordahl (18/14/14)
C Alfredo Ortíz (19/10/15)
C Gilberto Muníz (15/17/15)
C Julio Mata (14/14/15)
OF Matt MacKey (13/20/17)
OF Barry Summers (9/18/13)
OF Jochen Funck (15/9/14) – another German kid potentially going high in the draft!
OF Jonathon Bush (16/5/14)
We have the #13, #24, and #43 picks (unless I can’t count anymore). Right now – the draft is still a week away – I would probably take Nordahl if he were around for the #13 pick, then take a catcher at our original first round pick, #24. Can’t decide for a favorite there so far.
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Next I will craft the huge draft history overview I do less and less often. It hasn’t been updated in five years, so it probably won’t get done until at least tomorrow, it is a buttload of work to go through all the scrums.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Questdog
Since I used to be a crime scene investigator and the '97 Coons are playing criminally, maybe I can be of assistance. It looks at a glance from a distance that every player on the team is being affected by whatever mysterious ailment has befallen the squad except for 2B David Brewer.
Is he popular in the clubhouse or has he been ostracized from the group? If he's on the outs with his teammates, perhaps he is exacting his revenge on them somehow.
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I interrogated Bob, the guy distributing the towels and stuff in the locker room and other places around the clubhouse, and apparently, David Brewer is really excluded from activities by the other players.
Whenever they play with their Barbie dolls, they only leave the Ken doll for him to play with.
We're on something!