So much for DePodesta changing everything.

[EdgarDiazRocks]

Dodgers take High Schoolers in the first round.

 

What to make of that?

[rotoherb]

well, they took another HS player with their second pick of the first round so it looks like someone has changed his mind.

[RobertR]

What shocks me is not that they took a high school player, but that they took a high school pitcher. Maybe it's insider politics, but I wasn't expecting that.

 

Robert

[nikip43]

regardless, Elbert and DeWitt are two fantastic picks for the Dodgers and are talents that just could not be passed up. Both have a big upsides and are Missouri boys, good luck to both and the Dodgers...they have my favorite draft going thus far.

[jwaltz]

It seems that DePodesta is just letting Logan do his thing. Why change what works. Melvin seems to be doing the same thing with Jake Z.

[Al the Thinking Man]

LA has the 2nd or 3rd best system, don't they? DePod is in an organization with a lot more cash than OAK. He's no idiot.

[danzig6767]

They also have some fairly high level pitching prospects in the upper minors,no big need to get a college guy that can be ready ASAP.

 

Time will tell on how he pans out,i think he overpaid for Bradley.Still from what i've read on him he seems not only a smart guy,but not narrow minded either.He has some bright scouts,i'd assume he's not going to just ignore them or a HS talent he likes just to fit a philosophy.

[colbyjack]

Elbert & DeWitt are relatively refined high school players. Many, including myself, projected Elbert to go 10th overall to the Rangers, another team that stereotypically values performance over projection.

 

I agree with nikip, the Dodgers have had a great draft. They almost always do.