And That

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And the Brewers take...

Could be Gray, Guerrieri, Jed Bradley, Matt Barnes, Taylor Jungmann or a HS guy that's been off the radar, like Blake Swihart.

Compensation for not signing Barret Loux last year in the same spot.

Remember that there's the Brewers' Round 1-5 draft pick discussion thread once it's time.

Lindor/Baez/Rendon/Gray all still on board with six picks until Brewers' first choice.

Lindor could be nabbed by the Royals here.

Yes.

ROUND 1b: Jed Bradley, LHP - Georgia Tech 6'4", 224, L/L, Georgia Tech http://www.perfectgame.org/images/Features/bradley901.jpg (Georgia Tech)SCOUTING REPORT: (courtesy Perfect Game USA) The 6-foot-4, 210-pound Bradley never truly asserted himself as a legitimate high-end prospect for the 2011 draft, or was even on the radar of many clubs, until last summer at the Cape Cod League all-star game. He worked in only one inning, but many of the close to 100 scouts in attendance thought he had the best arm in the contest. Not only did Bradley exhibit a very easy, fluid arm action with sound mechanics, but he was the only pitcher with above-average stuff who commanded everything in his arsenal. His fastball was a steady 93-94 mph, and he complemented it with a solid curve and change. Bradley subsequently went on to lead the Cape League in strikeouts, with 44 in 41 innings, while walking just six. His strikeout total held up as the league’s best, even as he departed the Cape with two weeks remaining in the regular season. Prior to his all-star moment, Bradley had achieved relatively modest success in his career, and had pitched largely in obscurity. He went undrafted out of an Alabama high school in 2008, and went just 2-3, 6.65 as a freshman at Georgia Tech, though he struck out 49 in 44 innings. He moved into a starting role for the Yellow Jackets as a sophomore, but his 9-5, 4.83 record, along with 99 strikeouts in 91 innings, hardly measured up to the 9-4, 2.96 record and team-leading 118 strikeout total authored by righthander Deck McGuire, who went on to become the seventh overall pick in the 2010 draft. Even this year, with all the notoriety he has received since last summer’s breakthrough moment on the Cape, he has been overshadowed in the Georgia Tech rotation again by righthander Mark Pope, who has gone a tidy 10-2, 1.27 though his first 12 starts. Pope has been the Friday starter for Tech and Bradley the Saturday guy, and he has gone an impressive 6-2, 2.63 with 24 walks and a team-high 83 strikeouts in his first 75 innings. Make no mistake, though, those coaches and scouts who have watched Bradley closely over the last two years, particularly early in his career at Georgia Tech, knew he was always a hidden gem whose time to shine would come. That will undoubtedly happen in June, when he is expected to be one of the top 3-4 picks in the draft, possibly even the first college lefthander selected. It was evident two summers ago, when Bradley pitched in the Cal Ripken Collegiate League that he was something special. He made only three starts in the league before a nagging oblique strain forced him to return home, but at least one scout who tracked the league believed the tall, broad-shouldered southpaw would have been the league’s top prospect if he had been healthy all summer. His record (0-1, 5.54 in 17 IP) was marred by a seven-run outburst in one inning in his last start. Bradley has only refined his raw stuff since, and worked with a 91-94 mph fastball, 81-84 curve and low-80s changeup in most of his outings this spring. His smooth delivery and refined mechanics, along with his ability to command all his pitches has finally set him apart from other college arms and he will be duly rewarded for his quiet rise up the prospect ranks in this year’s draft. OTHER SCOUTING REPORTS: Baseball America scouting reportMLB.com scouting report and videoDiamondScape scouting reportThe Tenth Inning scouting report5 Tool Talk scouting reportBaseball Beginnings scouting report and video and video and videoNOTES & INFO: Born 6/12/1990 All-ACC Second Team 2011 All-ACC Second Team 2010 NEWSPAPER AND WEB COVERAGE: Georgia Tech player profileBrewers.com: Brewers take pair of college hurlers in first round Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Brewers select pitchers Jungmann, Bradley in first round of draftMilwaukee Journal Sentinel: Bruce Seid on Jungmann, Bradley picksBaseball Beginnings: Q&A with Jed Bradley Melvin doesn't expect to sign top picks soon

ROUND 1a: Taylor Jungmann - RHP 6'6", 220, R/R, University of Texas http://www.perfectgame.org/images/Features/jungmannut9.jpg (University of Texas)SCOUTING REPORT: (courtesy Perfect Game USA) From the day that Jungmann set foot on campus at Texas as a freshman, it was a given that he would emerge as one of the greats at a storied program known for churning out a steady stream of top-notch pitching prospects through the years. Almost three years later, the 6-foot-6 righthander has been everything almost everyone expected he would be. He went 11-3, 3.00 as a freshman (including 3-0, 0.59 in 17 IP in the 2009 College World Series) and 8-3, 2.03 as a sophomore, before ratcheting up his game to another level this spring. Through his first 12 starts, he was 11-0, 0.92 and had limited opposing hitters to a .160 batting average. Jungmann began the season with a bang, pitching complete-game shutouts in his first two starts; his lone non-decision came in a 1-0, 15-inning Texas win over Oklahoma State, where he worked the first nine innings. Jungmann’s dominance over three years at the college level is very much in keeping with the dominance he exhibited in four years at two Texas high schools. In his year-by-year progression at Rogers High, he went 12-2, 0.90 with 138 strikeouts in 70 innings as a freshman for the Texas 2-A quarter-finalist; as a sophomore, he went 10-1, 0.84 with 145 K’s in 84 innings for the state semi-finalist; as a junior, he led his team to a state championship by going 13-0, 0.84 with 142 strikeouts in 85 innings. Jungmann elected to transfer to Georgetown High for his senior year to play against a faster level of competition, and was equally dominant. He closed out a legendary prep career by going 14-0, 0.77 with 153 strikeouts in 85 innings, while earning Texas 5-A pitcher-of-the-year honors. His remarkable high-school career record: 47-3, 0.72 with 578 strikeouts in 324 innings. Despite those impressive credentials, Jungmann was drafted no higher than the 24th round in 2008. He most likely would have been taken in the first round had he not made it abundantly clear to scouts in advance that he was bent on becoming the next pitching great at the University of Texas, which has churned out 16 first-round arms through the years (10 first-rounders, six supplemental first-rounders). Jungmann is a power pitcher with a fastball that sits at 93-95 mph, peaks at 98 and has good sinking action. But he is not considered one of the premier strikeout pitchers in a very deep class of college arms in this year’s draft. Throughout his Longhorns career, Jungmann has fanned 320 hitters in 323 innings, slightly less than a hitter an inning. In high-school, his career strikeout total of 578, while impressive, still left him far short of the state and national record of 842, set from 1970-73 by Houston lefthander David Clyde, the No. 1 pick in the 1973 draft. Jungmann has a very high ceiling, though, when combining his physical projection and competitive approach, along with a solid three-pitch mix that includes a 12-to-6 shaped curve with explosive downward action and an occasional changeup. If anything, he’s viewed as one of the more complete college pitchers in this year’s draft. He should also develop into a significant innings-eater at the big-league level, especially with the strength gains he has made throughout his career at Texas. Jungmann chose not to pitch in summer-league competition after both his freshman and sophomore years, in favor of staying close to home to add strength to his long, lean frame and build up stamina, and also improve his off-speed pitches. In the process, he has gone from a skinny, 180-pound freshman to a powerfully-built, 220-pounder as a junior. Over the course of the last year, he has improved his workload from an average of seven innings per start as a sophomore to eight as a junior. If there is a knock on Jungmann, it’s his high-effort delivery with noticeable violence in his upper half. He has a distinct downward head jerk at the point of release, creating an undesired bobbing motion. But he gains an advantage from his unique, deceptive delivery as his arm speed accelerates from the top of his throwing arc. Scouts have long said he will need to simplify his mechanics as he advances, but Jungmann has never had command issues or trouble repeating his delivery, or even the hint of a sore arm. In fact, he has actually thrown more quality strikes this year than ever before. In his first 98 innings for the Longhorns, he had walked 19 while serving up only 54 hits. Over his first two years at Texas, he averaged more than a walk every three innings. Given his extremely projectable frame, superior athleticism and impeccable track record, Jungmann is a slam dunk to become the latest Longhorns pitcher to be selected in the first round. OTHER SCOUTING REPORTS: Baseball America scouting reportMLB.com scouting report and videoDiamondScape scouting reportThe Tenth Inning scouting report5 Tool Talk scouting reportNOTES & INFO: Born 12/18/1989 Big 12 Pitcher of the Year 2011 All-Big 12 First Team 2011 Baseball America All-America First Team 2010 Academic All-Big 12 First Team 2010 All-Big 12 Second Team 2010 Baseball America Freshman All-America First Team 2009 NEWSPAPER AND WEB COVERAGE: Texas player profileBrewers.com: Brewers take pair of college hurlers in first round Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Brewers select pitchers Jungmann, Bradley in first round of draftMilwaukee Journal Sentinel: Bruce Seid on Jungmann, Bradley picksKXAN: One on one with Taylor Jungmann Jungmann still quiet on his future with BrewersMelvin doesn't expect to sign top picks soonTexas ace Taylor Jungmann falls into slump at worst possible timeLosses, shmosses: Horns ace Taylor Jungmann is pitching just fine

If they don't get a SS in the first round, there should be a number of good ones available in the second round.

I posted that three days ago, in this thread.

It is done for that reason, too. But not only for that reason. I'm not worried about the Brewers doing a "signability" reach pick, especially at 12.

Verbal agreements, or at least verbal parameters, are made a little more often than you think. It gives the team a certain comfort level taking a guy, reach or not, that they know they can sign. And many don't even come to fruition because the guy is taken earlier than expected. Teams may even have verbal agreements with more than one guy at a certain spot. I wouldn't read too much in to it.

Baez could go before the Brewers pick. He isn't a reach by any means.

I would interpret the statement that scouts won't talk about it on the record as a bad thing, not as an absolution. Edit: But like I mentioned in the linked piece, some teams think his personal issues aren't a big deal. I don't know which side of the fence the Brewers are on.

Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus has his final mock draft up, and is going with Baez at 12 (shocking!) and Gray at 15. That's about the best realistic scenario the Brewers would be hoping for.

Baseball America's final mock draft has the Brewers taking Baez at 12 and Guerrieri at 15. Interesting that they have us passing on Gray and Anderson for Guerrieri. Lindor went to the Astros at 11. Guh.

...and here are my predictions/odds for the 15 pick.

I doubt the Brewers risk trying to sign Guerrieri at 15, and I'm not sure where they are on his character issues either.

I think they'll go more "upside" with the 12th pick. If Baez and Lindor are both gone, that's where Guerrieri and Springer come into play. If Gray and Jungmann are both there and they force themselves to take one, I've heard they like Gray more.

My handicapping of the 12th pick at Disciples of Uecker is here: link. Same thing with the 15th pick will be out later today.

Dykstra indirectly panned out, at least.

I was just coming here to talk about the platoon thing. It makes a lot of sense from a statistical standpoint, but I'm not sure how well it would go over in the clubhouse that they're pseudo-replacing a guy because of a few bad months. Green's RHP-only MLE OPS is about 800, by the way.

Seems the Pirates will take UCLA RHP Gerritt Cole first overall, which means the Mariners will almost assuredly take Rice 3B Michael Rendon. If the Pirates had gone with Rendon at #1, there's a chance the Mariners would have passed on all the pitchers and gone with Lindor. Now it's likely that either Lindor or Baez will fall to the Brewers at #12.