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Draft Not Going To Stay At The UCLA! Cole Goes #1, Bauer #3, Virginia's Hultzen In Between!
As expected, the Pittsburgh Pirates selected RHP Gerrit Cole with the first overall pick in the 2011 MLB amateur draft.  Seattle passed on Rice 3B Anthony Rendon and took LHP Danny Hultzen from Virginia with the second pick.  Arizona went with RHP Trevor Bauer at number three.  Baltimore selected the first high schooler in RHP Dylan Bundy from Owassa, Oklahoma.  The first position player was taken by Kansas City, who went with the hometown kid in OF Bubba Starling from Gardner Edgerton High School in Kansas at number five.  Rendon slipped to Washington at number six.



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Again, the Jays will be picking 21st, 35th (Scott Downs compensation), 46th (John Buck), 53rd (Kevin Gregg), 57th (Miguel Olivo), 74th (Downs) and 78th.
Posted by #2JBrumfield on Monday, June 06 2011 @ 08:16 PM EDT.
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Mike Green - Monday, June 06 2011 @ 08:20 PM EDT (#236233) #
Nimmo at #13 works on so many levels.
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braden - Monday, June 06 2011 @ 08:35 PM EDT (#236234) #
Three of the top 16 were projected after the Jays at #21. So they've got a shot at a consensus top 18 or so.
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TamRa - Monday, June 06 2011 @ 08:39 PM EDT (#236235) #
Angels get Cron so there's one of the oft-mentioned targets at least.
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Thomas - Monday, June 06 2011 @ 08:47 PM EDT (#236236) #
Sonny Gray to the A's.
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Thomas - Monday, June 06 2011 @ 08:52 PM EDT (#236237) #
Matt Barnes to the Red Sox.
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92-93 - Monday, June 06 2011 @ 08:55 PM EDT (#236238) #
Jays on the board. I'm hoping for Bell, Swihart, Guerrieri, or Norris.
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Forkball - Monday, June 06 2011 @ 08:56 PM EDT (#236239) #
I'd guess Mahtook here, and I'd be pretty happy with it.
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Thomas - Monday, June 06 2011 @ 09:01 PM EDT (#236240) #
Tyler Beede.

I did not see that coming. Wow.
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Jim - Monday, June 06 2011 @ 09:02 PM EDT (#236241) #
I wonder what Riccardi's father thinks of Beede.
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92-93 - Monday, June 06 2011 @ 09:03 PM EDT (#236242) #
Tons of upside there too. Hard to be disappointed with that pick.
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Forkball - Monday, June 06 2011 @ 09:05 PM EDT (#236244) #
MLB is saying he's a tough sign, and there's talk that he's very projectable but doesn't show it yet.

So much for playing it safe with the first pick and/or potentially being cheap (which I never bought).

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Mike Green - Monday, June 06 2011 @ 09:31 PM EDT (#236245) #
Why was I sure that Swihart would end up in a Red Sox uniform? Sigh.
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scottt - Monday, June 06 2011 @ 09:50 PM EDT (#236250) #
Position of need for Boston, but I doubt he catches for them anytime soon. Meh.

Seems like the Jays targeted Beede or at least a power pitcher in the first round.

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TamRa - Monday, June 06 2011 @ 11:18 PM EDT (#236263) #
Wish list for tomorrow (or at least guys who were highly ranked and still around):

Josh Bell - OF
Nick Delmonico - C
Daniel Norris - LHP
Dillon Howard - RHP
Rick Oropesa - 3B/1B
Matt Dean - 3B
Jorge Lopez - RHP
Dillon Maples - RHP

Though the way Day One went, i won't be expecting any of them. My initial gut reaction o nthe guys taken:

Beede - I like it
Anderson - meh.
Musgrove - seems intriguing
Smith - I'm a sucker for bloodlines
Comer - meh.

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Thomas - Tuesday, June 07 2011 @ 12:05 AM EDT (#236270) #
Thank goodness the draft was on today to distract me from the fact our team's former closer, whom we traded a DH who could put up an .890 OPS for, gave up a run to lose a game in extras to the Kansas City Royals.
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rtcaino - Tuesday, June 07 2011 @ 12:39 AM EDT (#236274) #
Thank goodness the draft was on today to distract me from the fact our team's former closer, whom we traded a DH who could put up an .890 OPS for, gave up a run to lose a game in extras to the Kansas City Royals.

Or to call attention to the fact our team's former closer is likely to garner a compensatory pick on the first day of the 2012 draft?
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stevieboy22 - Tuesday, June 07 2011 @ 01:59 AM EDT (#236277) #
"Or to call attention to the fact our team's former closer is likely to garner a compensatory pick on the first day of the 2012 draft?"

If FF keeps pitching like this, I don't think the Jays are offering him arbitration..


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