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The Brewers have the 8th pick in the upcoming new player draft.
According to both our scouting team and the OSA staff, 21-year old St. Louis College reliever Jason Gottula is the player in the draft pool most likely to be a star in the WPK. The knock against Gottula though is that his character is questionable and he might not be a team player. Speculation is that at best he will be a very talented but selfish player while at worst he might well be a clubhouse cancer. Likely the Brewers will not have to worry about making the difficult choice of whether to take a chance on him in spite of his bad reputation as he should be gone before our first pick.
Among the players that the Brewers scouting staff seem pretty high on who might possibly still be available at #8 are good-hitting firstbaseman Shawn Hanl, who has excellent power potential and could also be an exceptional outfielder though with a weak arm. Hanl receives much praise for his hard work and team-first attitude.
Also high on the wish-list for the Brewers scouting staff is starting pitcher Steve Green. Although Green isn't thought to have ace potential, he is known to already have a very well-developed cutter with at least two other pitches that are likely to develop into highly effective offerings and could well eventually be a solid #2 guy on most staffs.
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