2024 MLB Draft Day 2 Thread

[CheeseheadInQC]

I jokingly predicted that the Brewers wouldn’t sign 8 high schoolers again this year. I am not all that confident in this prediction anymore.

[narwhalattack]

I wonder if this will be the start of the floodgates opening. Since there’s no risk of losing slot money tomorrow, it would be a good time for us to go nuts on lottery tickets.

[titletownking]

I love the idea of saving up a ton of money and throwing it at projectable high school arms. If we can develop an inexpensive crop of starters to infuse into the big league team with our bats getting more costly, it could be an even more exciting run. 

[snoogans8056]

8 minutes ago, titletownking said:

I love the idea of saving up a ton of money and throwing it at projectable high school arms. If we can develop an inexpensive crop of starters to infuse into the big league team with our bats getting more costly, it could be an even more exciting run. 

Not only that, but the Dominican academy seems to be churning out position guys like crazy. Might as well give them some pitching friends.

[Fungo]

1 hour ago, sveumrules said:

Griffin Tobias RHP from Lake Central High School in Indiana.

Tobias was a HS teammate of last years 15th rounder Josh Adamczewski at Lake Central HS

[jay87shot]

I really didn't like today's draft at all. I am sure when I see more on each of the pitchers I will like them more. However only 1 bat, I feel like we have a large amount of nice arms already at the lower levels and some noticeable gaps from AA down in our position players.

I am sure my outlook will be better after tomorrow. I was super happy with day 1 but don't see how all these arms fit into our organization especially if we add 5 or so pitchers tomorrow.

[sveumrules]

11 minutes ago, Fungo said:

Tobias was a HS teammate of last years 15th rounder Josh Adamczewski at Lake Central HS

Welcome to the board and thanks for the nugget.

Hopefully we’ll see them both in Milwaukee soon.

[Jenkins5]

Tobias gives me gritty, aggressive, bulldog vibes. Smaller but strong athletic frame. Clean delivery, Good power stuff. Sony Gray’ish.

Like the a lot pick. No surprise the Brewers hit up “high school pitching hot beds” of New Jersey, Illinois, Indiana for pitching. They love to find high value where others aren’t looking as hard. 

[Jenkins5]

46 minutes ago, snoogans8056 said:

Not only that, but the Dominican academy seems to be churning out position guys like crazy. Might as well give them some pitching friends.

Think how good they have finding bats internationally def gives them more ability to turn over every rock & load up on pitching in draft. Most international pitchers they sign are lower bonus lottery tickets & not too many have really popped way the bats have been.

Nice thing is the bats they have sprinkled in during draft have experienced a lot of success as well. 

[Joseph Zarr]

25 minutes ago, jay87shot said:

I really didn't like today's draft at all. I am sure when I see more on each of the pitchers I will like them more. However only 1 bat, I feel like we have a large amount of nice arms already at the lower levels and some noticeable gaps from AA down in our position players.

I am sure my outlook will be better after tomorrow. I was super happy with day 1 but don't see how all these arms fit into our organization especially if we add 5 or so pitchers tomorrow.

The ACL arms and DSL arms - outside a select few - are very young and very unpolished with unknown trajectories. The bats, on the other hand? The bats? 

[LouisEly]

Really like what they did today. 

Love the comments that Dinges can catch, there just was someone else better than him on the team.  Assume JUCO transfer as he only had one year at FSU but slashed .323/.425/.583 with the same number of BB (38) as K (37).  If he is only an average catcher defensively I'll take that slash line any day.

The mid-round arms have some interesting stat lines.  Holobetz has a really good, but really small, line from the Cape Cod league last year so maybe he wasn't being used correctly at ODU.  Molina has some good K numbers and maybe Arkansas messed with his mechanics/pitch selection compared to what he was doing at Texas Tech.

Closing w/two HS arms means they still have some cash to spend.  Pitching can always be traded for bats.

[wiguy94]

5 minutes ago, LouisEly said:

Really like what they did today. 

Love the comments that Dinges can catch, there just was someone else better than him on the team.  Assume JUCO transfer as he only had one year at FSU but slashed .323/.425/.583 with the same number of BB (38) as K (37).  If he is only an average catcher defensively I'll take that slash line any day.

The mid-round arms have some interesting stat lines.  Holobetz has a really good, but really small, line from the Cape Cod league last year so maybe he wasn't being used correctly at ODU.  Molina has some good K numbers and maybe Arkansas messed with his mechanics/pitch selection compared to what he was doing at Texas Tech.

Closing w/two HS arms means they still have some cash to spend.  Pitching can always be traded for bats.

I've seen some reports mention that Molina gained weight and was heavier. 6'2 230 is pretty big for a college kid.

[Joseph Zarr]

6 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

I've seen some reports mention that Molina gained weight and was heavier. 6'2 230 is pretty big for a college kid.

Sometimes you have to put it on, as it twere, to simply prove you can.

[liveforoctober]

Man, today's draft chat was 1000% easier and better to read than the fist fight that happened yesterday. Thanks for being cordial everyone.

[Joseph Zarr]

Also speaking of Molina:

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“We had identified like, hey, you got to throw more changeups if you’re going to be successful,” Hobbs said. “If you can lengthen out your arsenal, so it’s not just fastball, curveball, slider and there’s a changeup that the other team has to respect.”

Molina began toying with the pitch, searching for ways to give it more depth, and found inspiration from Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Devin Williams, a two-time All-Star and arguably the best reliever in the game.

In an interview with MLB Network, Williams went in depth on the grip and delivery he used for his “Airbender,” the highest spin-rate changeup in the big leagues and the pitch that has helped him put up Kevin Kopps-like numbers at the MLB level.

“He thinks of throwing his changeup more like a slider, kind of a slider from the inside of the ball,” Molina said. “So I started trying to do that and thankfully I have the pronation to be able to get over the ball and throw it like that and it just kind of clicked.”

(Full article HERE)

[CheeseheadInQC]

You can't accuse the Brewers of shying away from high schoolers. Last year they signed more than 8 percent of the total high schoolers signed in the draft. This year they so far have taken more than 9 percent of the high schoolers taken so far.

Also, what do you figure, two on the over-under number of hitters picked (or at least picked and signed) by Milwaukee tomorrow?

[Joseph Zarr]

Heck, let's take a trip down memory lane. 24 hours ago...

 

[Joseph Zarr]

Hey, I have time off of affiliate contests upcoming. I'm here for draft geekdom. Let's find the cut ups. 

[Joseph Zarr]

What's that you say? 7 IP, 9 K cut-up of new LHP Sam Garcia? 

 

[TURBO]

Am I comprehending this?  He did not allow a single base hit his senior year?  Not one?

[CheeseheadInQC]

8 minutes ago, TURBO said:

Am I comprehending this?  He did not allow a single base hit his senior year?  Not one?

It sounds like 22 innings, 47 strikeouts, 0 hits.

[BrewerFan]

3 hours ago, jay87shot said:

I really didn't like today's draft at all. I am sure when I see more on each of the pitchers I will like them more. However only 1 bat, I feel like we have a large amount of nice arms already at the lower levels and some noticeable gaps from AA down in our position players.

I am sure my outlook will be better after tomorrow. I was super happy with day 1 but don't see how all these arms fit into our organization especially if we add 5 or so pitchers tomorrow.

Where do you feel there are gaps? I could go position by position, but...we've got a ton of bats.

3B/1B Wilken, Boeve, Adams, Bitonti
SS-Pratt, Brown Jr, Adam, Guillarte

I'm not going to actually go position by position as it's just...gonna be a lot, but I am curious where you feel we're lacking that you'd prefer to go after bats?

[biedergb]

3 minutes ago, BrewerFan said:

SS-Pratt, Brown Jr, Adam, Guillarte

First off who is Adam? I assume that’s an auto correct? Areinamo?

Second - power hitting, catchers, and more SS are gaps.  We have Pratt as a SS. Brown struggling (as is Aguilar he), Areinamo is shorter and could move to 2B (like DiTuri), and we may have Peña and Made in theDSL. But that’s it for SS. Also very Little catching depth as a prospect outside of Quero. And power hitters outside of Wilken, maybe L. Adams, and now Burke. So those are some gaps. 
Still love the pitching to restock the system.

[BrewerFan]

4 minutes ago, biedergb said:

First off who is Adam? I assume that’s an auto correct? Areinamo?

Second - power hitting, catchers, and more SS are gaps.  We have Pratt as a SS. Brown struggling (as is Aguilar he), Areinamo is shorter and could move to 2B (like DiTuri), and we may have Peña and Made in theDSL. But that’s it for SS. Also very Little catching depth as a prospect outside of Quero. And power hitters outside of Wilken, maybe L. Adams, and now Burke. So those are some gaps. 
Still love the pitching to restock the system.

Adamczewski and no, I just...started typing the name and then started thinking about Baez, Areinamo, Eru, Di Turi, Quinanta, Guilarte, Made, both Pena's they signed...and kinda trailed off.

I don't know how SS is a "gap." We've got...a ton of SS prospects in this system in AA and below(and most of the players listed above.) Plus, we have two guys who have 5-6 years of team control left who are playing at a high level on the ML level in Turang and Ortiz.  

The strength of our system is clearly SS/2B. We're incredibly deep there. 

Power bats? Not only does that normally come later when talking about LA, or just young players in general. Both our A teams were the youngest teams in the league, but Wilken, again, Pratt(two for one), Bitonti, Adams(as in Luke). Wes Clarke has big power, Jose Anderson, 17 year old has good power, we also have a 20 year old on the Brewers who should be around for another 10 years. Yophery is a guy I think weill develop more power. 

 

Power usually develops later, but...we've got a ton of bats. No team has great depth at catching, but that's actually a position we addressed today(and yesterday a power bat at 1B).

You need 1 player at each position to start and then a couple more for depth. You need 13-4 pitchers. 

 

But if there's any area of the Brewers player development that looks extremely deep right now...it's SS. 

[biedergb]

Ok. Fair enough we have multiple players but legit prospects, you can never have enough SS. They stick, move to 3B or 2B, or don’t develop.  I think the ACL/DSL kids are too far down.  But Pratt is legit.  Adamczewski - good call and I completely forgot about him, my bad -although he’s been mostly 2B at ACL.

And I agree, but maybe not “gaps” but areas where you can stock up, relative to other teams.

And C is still a gap after Quero.

Either way I am for the pitching run, just stating we do have areas where we can use more.