{"id":15103,"date":"2018-06-08T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=15103"},"modified":"2018-06-08T10:00:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T14:00:36","slug":"2018-nats-draft-picks-in-the-cws-super-regionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=15103","title":{"rendered":"2018 Nats Draft Picks in the CWS Super Regionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For your weekend viewing, here&#8217;s a quick glance at the CWS Super Regional match-ups with the Nats draft picks still playing<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Super Regional\u00a0Nats Draftee list<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lots of top-end draft picks will be playing this weekend, just ahead of the MLB draft which starts on 6\/12\/17. \u00a0By Super Regional:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#5 Arkansas vs South Carolina: 10th rounder\u00a0<strong>Carson Shaddy<\/strong>, the Arkansas starting 2B as well as our 15th rounder\u00a0<strong>Evan Lee<\/strong>, a role-player on the team this year.<\/li>\n<li>Mississippi State vs Vanderbilt: 3rd rounder\u00a0<strong>Reid Schaller<\/strong> and 7th rounder\u00a0<strong>Chandler Day<\/strong>, both working out of Vanderbilt&#8217;s rotation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m favoring both Arkansas and Vanderbilt to win these series and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/news\/baseball\/article\/2018-08-05\/2018-college-world-series-bracket-schedule-and-how-watch-every-game\">continue to Omaha<\/a>, not good news for these four guys in terms of getting them into a short-season squad.\u00a0 Going to Omaha probably means we don&#8217;t see these guys until July.\u00a0 At best case (a 2-and-out in Omaha) a player isn&#8217;t done playing until June 18th or so, while making the CWS finals extends their season until potentially June 27th.\u00a0 \u00a0You&#8217;d have to think these guys aren&#8217;t even thinking about meeting with the team to negotiate\/sign deals until they&#8217;re done playing, then need a mental break\/vacation before starting.\u00a0 Heck, we didn&#8217;t even see some of our CWS-playing draft picks *play* for us last year (<strong>Cole Freeman<\/strong>, our 4th rounder, signed on July 7th after his college team LSU made the CWS finals &#8230; then debuted in Hagerstown in April of this\u00a0 year).<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless; if you want to eyeball our new players, these are the games to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your weekend viewing, here&#8217;s a quick glance at the CWS Super Regional match-ups with the Nats draft picks still playing Super Regional\u00a0Nats Draftee list Lots of top-end draft picks will be playing this weekend, just ahead of the MLB draft which starts on 6\/12\/17. \u00a0By Super Regional: #5 Arkansas vs South Carolina: 10th rounder\u00a0Carson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-draft","category-natsgeneral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15106,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15103\/revisions\/15106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}