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2013 DRAFT POOL ANALYSIS

The Raccoons are lacking a first round pick and won’t come until in the supplemental round, when it will be picking through the leftovers of everybody else. The Raccoons had forfeited their first round pick by signing Daniel Dickerson – a truly genius move in hindsight.

There was plenty of starting pitching available in the draft pool, also guys who thought they were starting pitchers because of a good fastball and little else, but teams picking early (…) could pick between a number of offerings. There were also a few good catchers and a flurry of interesting outfielders. In terms of infielders, things were a bit particular in this draft, as there were no sterling hitting prospects among the infield crop, but a few solid-contact middle infielders, also a few defensive shortstops … in other words, no first round material.

The Raccoons’ Juan Calderón has prepared a nice little overview of the top talent:

SP Pat Selby (12/15/14)
SP Elliott Rosner (13/11/13)
SP Jerry Moran (11/13/11)
SP Mike Baker (14/14/11)
SP Zach Weaver (12/13/13)
SP DeAndre Bynum (12/15/14)

RP Tim Dunkin (13/12/13)
RP Toby Wood (20/16/11) – enters the draft as an outfielder
RP Pat Collins (16/15/10)

C Ryan Holliman (10/12/9)
C Mikey Ford (12/12/8)

1B Russ Greenwald (12/8/11)
3B/2B Rey Umpierre (9/11/9)
SS Jeff Wittner (11/10/11)

RF/LF Justin Quinn (12/12/13) – Calderón thinks he’ll be the #1 pick
CF/RF Brad Gore (16/13/10)
OF Jim Webb (10/12/10)
LF/RF Rick Farmer (10/11/13)
CF/RF Andy Bareford (13/6/12)

Pronounciation guide on Rey Umpierre: his heritage is a bit of a cluster**** of cultures with one half of the family descending from Haitian mulattos, the other half coming from Guatemala, plus a great-grandfather from Cuba. He is American, though, and was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY - of all places. His surname was originally French, but is pronounced in Spanish fashion: oom-PEE-erre;

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The draft will be on Saturday, and I played Civ V most of the day – blame Hammercraft – and won’t be able to complete the week due to time and things. So, no other update coming today and I don’t know when the horrendous offices will spew me forth tomorrow due to tax deadline stuff, so maybe it will be Tuesday. I don’t know.