Next year's Amateur Draft

[Amatter32]

I just made a trade in my dynasty league where I got potentially the top 2 picks in our rookie draft. with my own pick, I could have 3 picks in the top 5. Hopefully there are studs like Mauer or A-rod in next year's draft

[raiders_umpire]

Next years draft is lining up to be huge from the looks of it so far.

[winterball22]

I don't get your post. Won't your Fanatsy minors draft be done at the start of next season, therefor a couple of months before next years amateur draft?

[Amatter32]

No, we do it a couple weeks after the draft in June. We can select current minor leaguers at any time.


Raiders_umpire, I'm glad to hear that

[shortsavage]

For all the talk about the 2006 draft class being so weak, it actually ended up bringing some solid pitchers into the league. I've heard that next year's draft class should be stronger than the 2006 draft position player-wise, but pitching-wise isn't a given.

(Hehe, do you even hyphen player-wise. Doesn't really follow the hyphen rule in my mind, but I've never liked the hyphen rule.)

[rmande09]

SS, you seem to be overvaluing the 2006 draft class WAY too much. You suggest it has brought some solid players to the league, but, uh, how do you know this? It'll probably be a few years before we really know how successful, or unsuccessful, this draft year was.

[shortsavage]

SS, you seem to be overvaluing the 2006 draft class WAY too much. You suggest it has brought some solid players to the league, but, uh, how do you know this? It'll probably be a few years before we really know how successful, or unsuccessful, this draft year was.

Maybe I'm overvalueing them as much as you're undervalueing them.

[shortsavage]

I'll admit I'm a little biased about 2006 because I covered college baseball for my school paper.

I saw Evan Longoria play three times, talked to players who faced Tim Lincecum, watched Greg Reynolds pitch (not a prize from the 2006 draft in my mind)...saw Josh Lansford, Andrew Carpenter, Jared Hughes, Chris Errecart, Brennan Bosch, Cole Gillespie, Dallas Buck, Josh Butler, ect. from the West Coast.

And even though only three of those guys were top talent in the draft, I was following all of college baseball trying to compare everyone from the West Coast to the East Coast. I'd talk to the college editor at BA (Will Kimmey) online every so often as well as John Manuel about college. What they said and what I've read is leading me to believe that the pitching from 2006 wasn't bad.

That's all I know.

[rmande09]

I'm not undervaluing the class in any way, nor have I ever said they're bad. There is just not really much star potential in the '06 draft. This was, by all accounts, a weak draft class. This takes nothing away from guys like Snider, Longoria, or Miller, but the depth and starpower just wasn't there.

[shortsavage]

I'm not undervaluing the class in any way, nor have I ever said they're bad. There is just not really much star potential in the '06 draft. This was, by all accounts, a weak draft class. This takes nothing away from guys like Snider, Longoria, or Miller, but the depth and starpower just wasn't there.

I don't think you understood my comment. I'm just saying it's perception-based.