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2061 DRAFT POOL ANALYSIS

The Raccoons had the #21 and #34 picks (and then a whole lot more after that supplemental round selection) in the 2061 draft after finishing a very distant third in the North the year before and getting a compensation draft pick over the winter.

And more youthful prospects were always welcome to work the field on our farm!

So, the draft pool had been thoroughly sieved and 130 prospect had remained and had made it to the shortlist, and of course there was also a hotlist with the most desirable boys on the list (*high school players):

SP Mark Fitzthum (14/15/13) – BNN #8
SP Tom Kies (14/13/10) – BNN #4
SP Tim Henderson (13/13/10)
SP Randy Rautenstrauch (13/13/8) – BNN #10
SP B.J. Butrico (13/14/8) * – BNN #5
SP/CL John Faughnan (15/12/11)

CL Daniel Richmond (15/11/10)

C Jake Flowe (11/12/16) *

1B John Myers (11/18/15) *
3B Rick Healey (12/11/12)
2B Ryan Bonner (16/1/10) *

OF Rick Atkins (12/11/11)
OF/1B Brady Terrell (12/11/10)
OF Justin Donaldson (11/9/15) *

First, Randy Rautenstrauch was some name. We are still looking for a non-X-rated translation from German.

Second, we were quite a ways away from the BNN top 10 this year, which was filled with a lot more pitchers and a catcher that made the shortlist, but really didn’t get near the hotlist. Funnily enough we might actually get one of those with our not so lofty #21 pick, like the top two BNN ranks, right-handers Adam Dochterman and Cris Hernandez, both of whom were very much looking for a third pitch that worked right now, as was Faughnan on the list above, but Faughnan’s curveball was so nasty that he could still make out a backend reliever/closer if that whole starting thing didn’t work out.

For curiosity, the draft pool also contained a left-handed pitcher named Nick Brown, no relation to the other Nick Brown, and this Nick Brown’s scouting profile was just as unassuming as that other Nick Brown’s was at this point in 1995.

And really deep in the anecdotes of franchise history we had former Raccoons outfielder Juan Magallanes, who appeared for the Raccoons as a regular irregular from 2025 through 2031 and thus nicked two rings while batting .247/.341/.275 with 221 career hits and one homer along with 59 RBI. Magallanes was drafted out of mildly obsure Yeshiva Rambam High in New York. There was another student from there in the draft pool, INF John Jackson. Who knows how funny we will feel like when the ninth round rolls around. I mean, the school’s athletic teams name is the Yeshiva Rambam Scrolls. What’s not to like?