Today's USAToday featured a sports section cover story on Thursday's 2008 Major League Baseball draft. The magazine opted to focus on a trio of players from the State of Georgia in Gordon Beckham (UGA Shortstop), Josh Fields (UGA Relief Pitcher) and Tim Beckham (HS superstar and likely #1 overall selection from Griffin).Both G. Beckham (Top 10) and Fields (Top 25 or so) are projected to be first round draft picks. Unfortunately, the Atlanta Braves don't have a first round pick due to their trade with the Mets to get Glavine.
MLB coverage and High School baseball recruiting are definitely not my areas of emphasis here because I know little about the topics. However, I have glanced around at some mock drafts, and I thought you might be interested.
- MLB.com - Beckham 8th (White Sox) and Fields 26th (Diamondbacks)
- Baseball America - Beckham 8th (White Sox) and Fields 16th (Brewers).
- MyMLBDraft -- Beckham 5th (Giants) and Fields (16th Brewers).
If you're looking for news on how Perno's incoming recruits fair in tomorrow's draft, I guess you will probably find that in the Friday or Saturday edition of the Athens Banner Herald. I haven't got a clue in that area.
See Also:
-- ESPN Draft Coverage
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3 comments:
Baseball Prospectus's mock draft has Beckham 5th (Giants) and Fields not drafted in the first 30 picks (oddly enough).
We didn't trade our first round pick to the Mets; we lost it to them as compensation for signing Glavine (as they offered arbitration [knowing we'd sign him]). If we'd offered Andruw arbitration, the Dodgers would have owed us their first round pick (I think; I'm not sure if Andruw would have been Class A after last season); however, Andruw would probably have accepted, so we couldn't run that chance. We do have pick #40; Baseball Prospectus has us picking Xavier Avery.
Beckham is going number one, I just hope he as good as everyone says he is . The Rays have messed this pick up before
Say goodbye to Mr. Avery folks. He just got picked early in the 2nd round by Baltimore. Damn.
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