[Westheim]

2068 DRAFT POOL ANALYSIS

(looks back and forth between new scout Oscar Semchez and the draft report on the desk in front of him)

Really?

(looks back and forth)

That’s all?

(Semchez shrugs and leaves)

Oh well. You may recall that the Raccoons ended up with five top 50(-ish) picks for the 2068 draft. We might just as well not have any, because the draft pool was a disaster and I was currently hoping for a pitch black hole to open right under me and swallow me whole with ears and whiskers.

While there were 112 players on the shortlist (including a few two-way examples, only one of whom was actually interesting), the problem was with the hotlist. There was … not a lot of hot stuff available. Like, at all. Can we even make it ten? Ten is not a lot? But can we even make it so many that I can at least for our rather painfully acquired #6 pick say, yes, that is a guy that I am happy to select??

The shambolic hotlist (*high school dolt):

SP Kody Carr (12/13/12) – BNN #9
SP Kevin Schure (12/13/11) – BNN #7
SP Jonathan Martello (11/13/14)

CL Noah Newhard (17/11/10)

1B Oscar Gaitan (10/13/13) *
1B Michael Kiger (11/11/13) – BNN #3

OF/1B Ryan Redding (19/17/9) * – BNN #2
OF Eduardo Zambrano (12/19/15) * – BNN #8
OF Kyle Markovich (9/13/12) – BNN #1
OF/2B Walter Richmond (7/12/7) * – BNN #5

The last two were scouted really badly by Semchez, but they had stats, and the backing of both OSA and BNN that made them at least interesting.

We should perhaps mention the one two-way guy I found worth of a pawful of words, who was corner infielder Jaquan Riggs, who not only had a firm arm for a third baseman, but could also twirl a changeup and a cutter; on the other paw he was described as “too stupid to breathe” and “the type of person to stick a lit firecracker up his butt for giggles”.

Definitely a good #6 pick.

Yes. Most dystopian hotlist ever. Like, do I really have to travel to New York for THAT ****?? – Maud, I know that I’ll have all the time in the world to travel to New York because the Raccoons will be in Elk City at the time, but you are really not helping my argument. – Well, maybe I *want* to sound like a whiny *** *****…!!

****. Shoulda signed Brenize and not given a damn.

Woulda coulda shoulda.