2013 MLB Draft: Review

Well the 2013 draft has come and gone.  The lives of 1,216 young players were changes forever...or not.  Ok, so a lot of them won't sign.  Quite frankly there's a few drafted by Boston that I'd like to see go to college, (Jordan Sheffield, Ryan Boldt, Derrick Beauprez, Nick Longhi, and Jon Denney, though I imagine JD is likely ticketed for Beantown).

As I said in my 1st round recap on Friday, I set up a scoring system based on the 190 players in my compulation board.  So I've tallied up the final scores and posted below.  The top rated player was worth 1000 pts and the 190th player was worth 100.  Scores will be adjusted after the signing deadline.

Rank	Team	Total
1	COL	3984
2	BOS	3516
3	OAK	3463
4	CHC	3329
5	SD	3174
6	ARI	2976
7	PHI	2781
8	PIT	2685
9	MIA	2501
10	MIN	2454
11	NYM	2416
12	NYY	2397
13	HOU	2366
14	TB	2339
15	CLE	2266
16	CIN	2242
17	KC	2174
18	DET	2162
19	TOR	2081
20	STL	1993
21	CHW	1805
22	SEA	1774
23	BAL	1605
24	WAS	1484
25	TEX	1473
26	LAD	1468
27	ATL	1465
28	SF	1365
29	MIL	1185
30	LAA	743

You'll notice the Yanks are 12th, which is probably better than how they would have ranked had I done this list last year.  They were in 5th place after day 1, thanks to the two extra first round picks.  That undoubtedly buoyed them as they only added two more players fr the list, Mike O'Neill and Cal Quantrill, the rest of the draft.

Boston and Oakland went nuts on day 2, snatching up a ton of my top 190, but Colorado finished with a flourish and overtook the two AL teams thanks mostly to drafting Serrano.  I doubt he'll sign so they will be adjusted accordingly.

The fifth player that New York added from my list is likely headed to school.  Cal Quantrill is signed with Stanford and their players are typically tough to sign.  Taking him in the 26th round was an obvious shot in the dark that every team takes with talented tough-to-sign kids in that range.

Surprisingly there were 7 players from the top 190 that went undrafted:

35	Connor Jones
171	Zach Farmer
178	Kevin Davis
181	Keegan Thompson
185	Ben Wetzler
188	Chris Oakley
190	Josh Dezse

All of these were surprises honestly.  There were 1,216 kids drafted...no one wanted to take a shot at Connor Jones?  Even a kid who's said he won't sign is worth taking a shot on at the end.  Keegan Thompson was an important piece if the USA Baseball U18 championship team last summer...not worth a roll of the dice?  I don't really get that but oh well...

Though I hadn't heard of many of the players New York selected prior to the draft, there were some intriguing picks.  David Palladino is an absolute hoss at 6'9" and is committed to LSU, (currently a JUCO player).  He's got great velocity and I can see him being one of those guys who, if he goes to LSU, comes "out of nowhere" and jumps into the first round next year.  Brandon Thomas from Georgia Tech is also intriguing.  He's an on-base guy who has power as well and is a plus runner.  He was drafted by Pittsburgh in the 4th round last year and likely would have been drafted higher this year if his season hadn't been cut short by mono.

I can't do a Yankees draft recap without mentioning Andy...oops, sorry...Josh Pettitte, who NY took in the 37th round.  I'd kinda like to see the Yanks sign him if or no other reason than to honor Andy but I think it's probably in the kids best interest to go to Baylor and see what happens in 3 years time.  You know NY will take him again in the late rounds if he can't improve his stock.

Ok, that's all for 2013.  Next year I think I'll expand to 250.  It's been fun.  Hope y'all got something out of this.  I'll check back in with final 2013 scores next month and 2014 draft stuff probably in November.