Draft Options/top possibilites for the Nats =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2012 Draft (top10 only) round/overall, school, notes x Lucas Giolito rhp 1/16 Cal HS; injury concerns, deadline day signing for max avail x Tony Renda 2b 2/? Cal Berkeley x Brett Mooneyham lhp 3/? Stanford x Brandon Miller of/C 4/? Samford x Spencer Keiboom C 5/? Clemson x Hayden Jennings of 6/? LA hs x Robert Benincasa rhp 7/? Fla State x Stephen Perez ss 8/? U-Miami x Derek Self rhp 9/? Louisville x Craig Manuel C 10/? Rice =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2012 draft options (early early). Updating June 2011 per KLaw, other comments BA's top 100 2012 draft prospects http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/draft/early-draft-preview/2012/2612884.html KLaw's 2012 proffer: http://insider.espn.go.com/mlb/blog?name=mlb_draft&id=6663445&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines - Mark Appel, rhp, Stanford - Deven Marrero, ss, Arizona State - Lance McCullers Jr., rhp/ss, Tampa Jesuit HS - Mike Zunino, c, Florida - Kenny Diekroger, ss, Stanford - Kevin Gausman, rhp, LSU - Anthony Alford, of, Petal (Miss.) HS (Miami commit) ** Luc Giolito, rhp, Harvard-Westlake, Studio City, Calif Nats 1st rounder. - Steve Nyisztor, of, Rutgers - Nolan Fontana, ss, Florida - Jake Barrett, rhp; Arizona State - Trey Williams, 3b, Valencia (Calif.) HS - Jesse Winker, cf, Olympia HS, Orlando, FL (Florida commit) - Ryan Burr, rhp, Highlands Ranch (Colo.) HS - Walker Weickel, rhp, Olympia HS, Orlando (Miami commit) - Taylore Cherry, rhp, Vandalia Butler HS, Dayton, Ohio (UNC commit) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2011 Draft (x == signed) round/overall, school, notes x Anthony Rendon 2b/3b 1/6 Rice Jr. Boras client, slipped b/c of shoulder injury #1 BA ranked. 4yr/$7.2M x Alex Meyer rhp 1/23 UKentucky Jr. big starter, 97mph $2m signing x Brian Goodwin of S1/34 Miami Dade Juco J2 (was unc). lefty leadoff/cf type. $3m signing. x Matt Purke lhp 3/96 TCU Soph. Fantastic pick, was a top10 talent, shoulder bursitis issue. $4yr/$4m x Kylin Turnbull lhp 4/127 Santa Barbara Juco J3 6-4, 93mph $325k bonus x Matt Skole 3b 5/157 Georgia Tech Jr. Big bat. 47homers in 3yr college career. (Short-A) x David Taylor Hill rhp 6/187 Vanderbuilt Sr. x Brian Dupra rhp 7/217 Notre Dame Sr. x Gregory Holt rhp 8/247 UNC Sr. x Dixon Anderson rhp 9/277 California Sr. x Manny Rodriguez rhp 10/307 Barry University Sr. x Caleb Ramsey OF 11 Houston Sr. x Blake Monar LHP 12 Indiana Jr. - Blake Kalenkosky 1B 13 Texas State Jr. - Cody Stubbs OF 14 Walters State JuCo J2 - Zach Houchins SS 15 Louisburg JuCo J1; not signing over racist tweets. x Deion Williams SS 16 Redan (Ga.) HS (Committed to Georgia State) - Esteban Guzman RHP 17 San Jose State Jr. x Nicholas Lee LHP 18 Weatherford College JuCo J2 - Hawtin Buchannan RHP 19 Biloxi (Miss.) HS (Committed to Ole Mis/Mississippi) - Josh Laxer RHP 20 Madison (Miss.) Central HS (Committed to Ole Mis/Mississippi) x Todd Simko LHP 21 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi Jr. x Travis Henke RHP 22 Arkansas-Little Rock Sr. x Khayyan Norfork 2B 23 Tennessee Sr. - Kyle Ottoson LHP 24 Arizona State Jr. x Erick Fernandez C 25 Georgetown Sr. x Shawn Pleffner OF 26 Univ. of Tampa Jr. x Bobby Lucas LHP 27 George Washington Sr. (GCL) x Kenneth Ferrer RHP 28 Elon University Sr. x Sean Cotton C 29 Tusculum College Sr. x Bryan Harper LHP 30 South Carolina Jr. - Josh Tobias SS 31 Southeast Guilford HS (NC) (Florida committment) x Billy Burns OF 32 Mercer Univ. (GA) Jr. x Trey Karlen 2B 33 Univ. of Tennessee-Martin Sr. - Calvin Drummond RHP 34 Univ. of San Diego (CA) Jr. x Alex Kreis RHP 35 Jamestown College (ND) Sr. x Ben Hawkins LHP 36 Univ. of West Florida Jr. - Derrick Bleeker RHP 37 Howard College (TX) Juco J2 - Brett Mooneyham LHP 38 Stanford Univ. (CA) Jr. - Peter Verdin OF 39 Univ. of Georgia Jr. - Stephen Collum OF 40 Cartersville HS (GA) (? commit) x Bryce Ortega 3B 41 Univ. of Arizona Sr. - David Kerian SS 42 Bishop Heelan HS (IA) (? commit, may not have one.) - Mitchell Morales SS 43 Wellington Community HS (Florida Atlantic commit) - Matt Snyder 1B 44 Univ. of Mississippi Jr. x Ritchie Mirowski RHP 45 Oklahoma Baptist Univ. Sr. - Tyler Thompson OF 46 Univ. of Florida Jr. - Timothy Montgomery LHP 47 Rockmart HS (GA) (? commit) - Michael Bisenius OF 48 Wayne State College (NE) Jr. - Hunter Cole OF 49 Dorman HS (SC) (Strong Georgia commit) x Anthony Nix OF 50 Univ. of California-Riverside Sr. Undrafted FAs - Ben Grisz rhp Duke - Jason Smith rhp Black Hawk CC - Wes Schill ss Western Oklahoma State JC - Michael Cruz of Western Oklahoma State JC =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2011 draft options (early early). Updating Aug 2010 per KLaw, other comments Baseball America's 2/3/11 top 50 list http://www.baseballamerica.com/online/draft/early-draft-preview/2011/2611233.html Rough order of prospects right now: - Anthony Renden: 3b .394/.530/.801. 26 homers for Rice his Soph year. Consensus 1-1. - Gerrit Cole, UCLA rhp: tall righty 94-96mph - Matt Purke, TCU lhp. redraft, touches 94 lefty. - George Springer, UConn OF - Sonny Gray: Vanderbilt rhp: mid 90s, easy arm action - Taylor Jungmann Texas rhp: low 90s to 95. bad delivery though, mid 1st rnd. - Jackie Bradley JR, South Carolina, OF - Matt Barnes, Uconn rhp - Archie Bradley, rhp Mukogee OK. tall, already low 90s. - Jack Armstrong; Vanderbilt rhp: good pitches. - Danny Hultzen, UVA lhp: low 90s. 20-2 in 2 years for UVA. - Alex Meyer, Kentucky rhp: big righty, 4 pitches - Jed Bradley, Ga Tech lhp - Trevor Bauer, UCLA rhp - John Stilson, TAMU rhp - Kyle Winkler, TCU rhp - Peter O'Brien, Bethune-Cookman, C HS - Bubba Starling, OF Kansas HS. - Daniel Norris, lhp Science Hill TN. 93-94. - Dylan Bundy, rhp Owasso, OK. mid 90s, 4 pitches - Travis Harrison: of, Tustin CA. corner OF, 1B projected home run hitter - Henry Owens, lhp, Edison HS, California. tall, projectable. - Phil Evans, SS, LaCosta HS California - Michael Kelly, RHP, West Boca HS, Florida. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2011 draft order: moved to starter xls: we're drafting 6th overall http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/reversestandings/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2010 Draft (x == signed) round/overall, school, notes x Bryce Harper c/of 1/1 Coll of Southern Nevada JuCo. Boras client, monster bat. x Sammy Solis lhp 2/? USan Diego, signed 8/15/10 #1M x Rick Hague SS 3/? Rice. x AJ Cole rhp 4/? Oviedo HS, Florida (Miami commit) Signed 8/15/10! $2M. x Jason Martinson SS 5/? Texas State. x Cole Leonida C 6/? Georgia Tech x Kevin Keyes of 7/? Texas x Matthew Grace lhp 8/? UCLA x Aaron Barrett rhp 9/? Ole Miss x Blake Kelso SS 10/? Houston x Neil Holland rhp 11/? Louisville x Robbie Ray lhp 12/? Brentwood HS, Tennessee (Arkansas Commit), signed! 799k wow x Chris McKenzie rhp 13/? San Jacinto North JuCo - Tim Smalling SS 14/? Virginia Tech (not signing: injured and doing his sr year) x David Freitas C 15/? Hawaii x Mark Herrera rhp 16/? San Jacinto North JuCo x Tyler Hanks rhp 17/? College of southern Nevada JuCo plus they signed the next 10 rounds worth. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2010 draft options (early early). Updating Apr 2010 for latest guesses on order - Bryce Harper; 16-yr old phenom .. will he be available? Enrolled in JC, might be eligible. - Jameson Taillon rhp The Woodlans HS, Texas. 6'6" 225, already hitting 95 at age 17 - Deck McGuire, rhp Ga Tech: 90-94 fastball. 11-2, 3.50 era, 1.27 whip in 16 starts, 118/41 in 100 ip cg 16ks 2days rest vs WKentucky in reg champ. - Anthony Ranaudo, rhp LSU; 6'7", 230, 91-93 touching 96. BA says "top pro prospect from 4yr colleges" Arm hurt early 2010, lowering draft status for now. - Josh Sale: HS outfielder, Blanchet HS Seattle Washington. - Bryce Brentz : middle Tennessee State, rhp starter 5-3 4.57 in 2009. Not sure why: ah, he's an OF with *significant* power. wow. 28 homers in 2009?? - Nick Castellanos: HS 3B/OF Florida: - Garrett Cole, UCLA. - Matt Harvey: 6'4" 225 consensus #1 in 2010 as of 3/09. UNC rhp 7-2 5.35 era, 78/37 k/bb in 70 IP. - Drew Pomeranz, lhp Mississippi (3 good pitches): 8-4 3.46 era, 1.27whip in 15 starts, 114/34 in 88ip. 2 regional appearances: 8 shutout innings vs Monmouth, no-hitter into 7th, 9ip 2hits 0earned runs - Brandon Workman, rhp Texas. 3-3, 3.45 era in 13 starts. 78/25 in 70.1 innings - Kyle Blair USD: power sinker pitcher: 3-2, 3.13 era 8 starts. 62/18 in 54.2 innings - A.J. Cole, rhp Oveido HS, Florida - Tony Thompson, 3B Kansas: 6'5" 220 .389, 21 hrs, 82 rbis in 61 games in 2009. - Christian Colon, SS CS Fullerton: .351, 7hrs in 58 games. - Connor Narron, ss, Aycock NC hs - Matthew Purke: lhp Klein HS, Texas, passed on Texas offer to go to TCU per KLaw knee jerk chat answer 8/18/09 First tier is Harper, Ranaudo, Taillon, josh Sale (or chris?), Nick Castellanos ... next tier is probably Paxton, Bryant, Zack Cox, Gibbs, O'Conner, Workman, Jarrett Parker, Whitson, AJ Cole. Maybe Grandal there, although he hasn't quite played up to expectations this summer. Grimm in there too. 9/16/09: Baseball America lists top 25 college and 25 HSers. http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/draft/early-draft-preview/2009/268869.html 1/28/10: collegebaseballblog.com's top 100 college players http://thecollegebaseballblog.com/2010-season-coverage/cbb-top-100-players-for-2010-season/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2009 Draft: x == signed pos rnd # school, notes x Steven Strasburg rhp 1st 1 Jr SDSU consensus #1 everywhere. x Drew Storen rhp 1st 10 Soph UStanford. Law #28 (White, Matzek, Jenkins, Gibson, Scheppers left...) signability, overdraft. 2009: 3.80 era, 0.99 whip 7-1, 7sv, 42.1 ip 34hits 66/8 k/bb x Jeff Kobernus 2B 2nd 50 Jr. UC Berkeley. Not in Law top 100: can also play of, 3b team leader. 2009 stats: .341/.382/.544, 8hrs 40rbi in 53 games. 20/24 sbs. x Trevor Holder rhp 3rd 81 Sr. Georgia. Not in Law top 100, probable bullpen arm. Saturday starter UGA 2009 stats: 7-5 4.48 era, 1.34 whip in 15 starts. 92.1 ip, 94 hits, 72/30 k/bb. Horrible overdraft, 7-10th rounder on most other boards. Signed for 1/2 of slot. x AJ Morris rhp 4th 112 Sr. Kansas State. 14-1 in 16 starts, 2.09 era, 1.10 whip 100/30 in 116 inn. holy cow he beat Texas, ASU and leake, 9-0 versus tourney teams, 4-0 top 10. - Miguel Pena lhp 5th 142 HS La Joya Texas x Michael Taylor ss 6th 172 HS Westminster Academy Florida x Dean Weaver rhp 7th 202 Jr Georgia closer: 3.60 era 4-2, 10 saves, 32/11 in 40 innings. x Roberto Perez ss 8th 232 HS Dorado Academy ? state x Taylor Jordan rhp 9th 262 J2 Brevard CC. x Paul Applebee lhp 10th 292 Jr UC Riverside. 3-5, 4.48 1.43 whip. 55/12 in 74 innings. stats wrong? x Justin Bloxom 1b/of 11th 322 Jr Kansas State. .361-12-63, could be OF, switch hitter. x Nathan Karns rhp 12th 352 Jr. Texas Tech (gave Morris his only loss all year) x Patrick Lehman RHP 13th 382 GWU x Naoya Washiya OF 14th 412 College of Desert - Corey Davis 1B 15th 442 GA HS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 2009 Draft Prospects (stats as of 3/29/09). Giving up on keeping my own stats, use BlogFarm's google docs. 1. RHP Stephen Strasburg, SDSU. 10: 5 prospects ranked 9-13 who might be picks here: all college pitchers. In rough order of guesses as to when they'll go - Kyle Gibson, rhp, Missouri - Alex White rhp, UNC - Mike Leake, rhp, Ariz State - Mike Minor, lhp, Vanderbilt - Kendal Volz, rhp, Baylor - Andrew Oliver, lhp, Oklahoma State - Jason Stoffel, rhp, Arizona BA lists: Strasburg, Gibson, White, Crow, Leake, Minor =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- (2008 Draft/2008 draft: x == signed) - Aaron Crow rhp 1st Rnd, 9th overall, U Missouri B.A. top 200 (espn #6): not signed ugh. x Destin Hood of 2nd rnd, 55 overall, Alabama HS (football to UAlabama, project, tough sign, BA top 200), signed 7/17/08, GCL, espn #47) x Danny Espinosa ss 3rd rnd, 87 overall, Cal State Long Beach , PGCC top 200, signed 8/10! x Graham Hicks lhp 4th rnd, 121 overall, George Jenkins HS FL, committed to UCF, tough sign, signed 8/10! x Adrian Nieto c 5th rnd, 151 overall, American Heritage HS FL #73 prospect B.A. (injured) (espn #39), committed to south florida, probably not happening. 8/10 signed! GCL x Paul Demny rhp 6th rnd, 181 overall, Blinn JuCo, 94mph fastball , rookie x Killian, Daniel c 7th rnd, 211, Kellogg CC, rookie x Ricardo Pecina lhp 8th rnd, 241, U of San Diego, short-A x J.R. Higley of 9th rnd, Sacramento JC x Tom Milone lhp 10th rnd, USC, short-A x Marcus Jones of 11th rnd, NC State jr, wants top5 round money, probably going back. 8/15 done. x William Atwood lhp 12th rnd, U South Carolina, short-A x Blake Stouffer 2b 13th rnd, TAMU, college senior, must sign, short-A x JP Ramirez rhp 15th rnd, Canyon HS (Texas), B.A. top 200 prospect signed! 8/15! x Tyler Moore 1b 16th rnd, Mississippi State, short-A x Jose Lozada ss 17th rnd, Bethune-Cookman, short-A x Bobby Hansen lhp 18th rnd, HS, GCL x Steve Lombardozzi ss 19th rnd, juco, GCL x Michael Guerrero OF 21st rnd, Ole Miss, short-A x Chris Curran 2nd 22nd rnd, ?, rookie x Derrick Phillips of 23rd rnd, HS, GCL x Chris Kelley rhp 24th rnd, Rice, ?level x Joseph Garrett lhp 25th rnd, College of Charleston, short-A x Chris Solis c 27th rnd, U of Incarnate Word, rookie x Nick Arata SS 28th rnd, Fla Atlantic, short-A x Casey Whitmer rhp 30th rnd, Texas, short-A x Brian Pruitt of 34th rnd, ? college, short-A x Clayton Dill lhp 35th rnd, Missouri Baptist College, rookie x Ronnie Labrie 3b 38th rnd, Lynchburg, rookie x James Keithley ss 39th rnd, U Texas San Antonio, short-A x JP Padron 1b 44th rnd, Rice, GCL x Brett Newsome of/1b undrafted FA, St. Ambrose U, ? x Brett Sellers of undrafted FA, JMU, GCL x Kevin Light rhp undrafted FA, Bowling Green, short-A =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- (2007 draft: x == signed) x Ross Detwiler lhp 1st: Missouri St U (6th overall) x Joshua Smoker lhp 1st supp: Calhoun (GA) HS (31st overall) ... signed! 950k x Michael Burgess rf 1st supp: Hillsborough HS (49th overall). Named #81 prospect 2/08 x Jordan Zimmermann rhp 2nd: U Wisconsin Stevens Point (67th overall) x Jacob Smolinski ss 2nd supp: Boylan Catholic HS (70th overall) x Bradley Meyers rhp 5th: Loyola Marymount (160th) x John McGeary lhp 6th Roxbury Latin HS (190th) ... signed last minute! 1.7M bonus x Adrian Alaniz rhp 8th: U Texas Austin (? overall) x 11 other picks signed (3b Steve Souza, C Derek Norris, RHP PJ Dean, OF Mark Gidea, 1b Bill Rhinehart, SS Dan Lyons, RPH Jeff Mandel, 2b Jake Rogers, OF Aaron Seuss,