Sunday, April 12, 2009

Minor League Draft Rd. 7

This picked look real good until about 4 days ago when Motte got his first chance to close for STL and then he got rocked Barry Zito style. I now have Motte along with Perez, who is starting the season in AAA, and Tony is running a bunch a veteran clowns out to save games. I think one of the two will be the closer by the end of the season but this is frustrating as I need a save source ASAP. To be perfectly honest this was a pretty boring round. The pick that I like the most is Ryan Perry who was closer stuff and is pitching for Detroit's bullpen right now. Max Ramirez is an interesting player if he doesn't eat himself into a 1B because his value is much greater a catcher. Pick #95, Kyle Blanks from San Diego, has huge power potential but is blocked by Adrian Gonzalez until 2010 and it will be interesting to see what the Padres do with Adrian's 2011 club option $5.5 million. Brett Lawrie has recently changed his position from catcher to 2B so I am not really sure that it alters his value much at all.


Round 7
85. Greg Halman, Seattle Mariners
86. Tyler Matzek, Capistrano Valley HS
87. Jason Motte, St. Louis Cardinals
88. Christian Walker, Kennedy-Kenrick Catholic HS
89. Michael Bowden, Boston Red Sox
90. Max Ramirez, Texas Rangers
91. Brett Lawrie, Milwaukee Brewers
92. Ryan Perry, Detroit Tigers
93. Ben Revere, Minnesota Twins
94. Nick Adenhart, Los Angeles Angels
95. Kyle Blanks, San Diego Padres
96. Michael Saunders, Seattle Mariners
97. Jake Arrieta, Baltimore Orioles
98. Daniel Bard, Boston Red Sox

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