MLB draft will be starting in a couple hours, 7PM EST on ESPN. Today will be the first two rounds, which includes the compensatory picks, competitive balance picks, and prospect promotion incentive picks. 74 players taken in total.
Tomorrow will be rounds 3-10, and then Tuesday will be rounds 11-20. Both of those days start at 2PM EST on MLB.com for anyone interested in following along.
I’ll try to give updates for all the picks relevant to us in this thread, it’ll likely be a lot with how many guys we’re projected to lose both from our team and our HS recruiting class. I would expect tonight we see GOF get taken along with 3-4 of our commits depending on Gregory-Alford, and an outside shot for Anderson and Saucke as well.
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Final Kiley McDaniel mock draft for the first day of picks (ESPN+) : 2024 MLB mock draft 3.1: Kiley McDaniel's final predictions - ESPN
Of note to us…
31 . Arizona Diamondbacks: Griff O’Ferrall, SS
43. Chicago White Sox: Caleb Bonemer, SS (HS commit)
47. Pittsburgh Pirates: James Nunnallee, OF (HS commit)
64. Arizona Diamondbacks: Luke Dickerson, SS (HS Commit)
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Arizona really likes UVA SS’s.
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They really like UVA players in general. They’ve got Pavin Smith and Jake McCarthy on their MLB roster.
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Is the draft being held in an auction house?
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I don’t know but I’m assuming there will be a shootout and at least one rolling tumbleweed as part of tonight’s festivities.
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Anyone trying to stream the draft on ESPN and getting the “your event is about to start” screen cycling through endlessly?
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I got it at first but going back to the WatchESPN homepage fixed it for me.
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Thanks…that worked for me. Good old ESPN streaming.
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It’s truly unbelievable they won’t fix that sort of stuff. Guess the tech guys money is going to Stephen A Smith instead
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Reds going for Chase Burns over the bats of Condon, Caglianone and Wetherholt will be a major talking point.
Burns probably thrilled he doesn’t have to deal with Colorado’s ballpark even if Cincy’s can give up some cheap homers too.
Really like the Condon pick for the Rockies.
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They had to sell a bunch of heifers before they could start:
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If I was a young early-round talented pitcher, I’d tell the Rockies to buzz off.
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25 picks in and a good amount of shortstops off the board.
GOF should get taken relatively soon.
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Manfred is a complete idiot sending that young girl out there in an Astros jersey and being shocked when she got booed.
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GOF goes 32nd overall to the Orioles.
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Caleb Bonemer goes 43rd to the White Sox.
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And Luke Dickerson goes the next pick, 44th to the Washington Nationals.
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