{"id":18137,"date":"2023-07-10T09:09:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T13:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=18137"},"modified":"2023-07-10T09:09:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T13:09:23","slug":"2023-draft-1st-and-2nd-round-reactions-crews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=18137","title":{"rendered":"2023 Draft 1st and 2nd round reactions. Crews!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/crews-dylan-lsu-via-his-twitter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/crews-dylan-lsu-via-his-twitter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/crews-dylan-lsu-via-his-twitter.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/crews-dylan-lsu-via-his-twitter-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/crews-dylan-lsu-via-his-twitter-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Crews is a National.  Photo via his twitter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After months of thinking <strong>Dylan Crews<\/strong> was going 1-1 &#8230; a last minute shake-up in Pittsburgh&#8217;s camp led to them taking <strong>Paul Skenes<\/strong> and letting Crews drop to the Nats at 2nd overall.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We talked about the &#8220;why&#8221; of why this might happen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pittsburgh wants a fast-to-the-majors arm<\/li><li>Skenes would probably take a haircut off of the $9.7M slot value, giving them more money to chase HS prospects later on.<\/li><li>Crews had been posturing about not wanting to go to Pittsburgh or wanting a huge bonus.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter why.  What matters is that the Nationals have found themselves with the 2023 Golden Spikes award winner, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usabaseball.com\/golden-spikes-award\/history\/winners\">3rd time they&#8217;ve gotten to draft<\/a> such a player.  The first two times worked out pretty well (Strasburg and Harper).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ve talked Crews to death in the media; he&#8217;s a 5-tool guy, true CF, great  hit tool, speed, shows power, etc.  I&#8217;m happy the team didn&#8217;t do something clever and pass on him.  I think I would have preferred Skenes if we had the choice, given our lack of pitching prospect depth and our abundance of OF prospects, but that can all work itself out later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Later on in the evening, we took <strong>Yohandy Morales<\/strong> in the 2nd, out of U-Miami.  Fantastic pick; a guy who had a ton of mid-1st round projection who we landed with the 40th overall pick.  A great defensive 3B with a mature bat, he&#8217;s going to be a fast riser.  Great pick, great bat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, yes we already have a top 3B prospect in <strong>Brady House<\/strong>.  Again, you worry about these things being a problem only when they become a problem.  Both were shortstops in high school before moving over due to size (Morales is 6&#8217;4&#8243; 225, House is 6&#8217;4&#8243; 215).  Maybe they pivot to a corner OF spot, maybe someone pivots to 1B.  If both these guys bash their way to the majors at the same time, maybe they platoon at 3B\/DH.  Maybe we flip one for a #2 starter.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do realize the team has pitching needs, and i&#8217;m betting we&#8217;ll see a ton more arms drafted the rest of the way, but it seems to me the Nats stayed true to their draft board and grabbed BPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait to see what happens from here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of thinking Dylan Crews was going 1-1 &#8230; a last minute shake-up in Pittsburgh&#8217;s camp led to them taking Paul Skenes and letting Crews drop to the Nats at 2nd overall. We talked about the &#8220;why&#8221; of why this might happen: Pittsburgh wants a fast-to-the-majors arm Skenes would probably take a haircut off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137","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=18137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18139,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18137\/revisions\/18139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}