{"id":50,"date":"2010-07-20T14:52:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T18:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2012-09-26T09:53:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T13:53:34","slug":"nats-draft-2010-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Nats Draft 2010 update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/ccc?key=0Ah73kg8XyqHoclVpWmJGamtLQ3h4ak1JelR0cnVXLWc&amp;hl=en#gid=0\">Nats Farm authority draft tracker<\/a>.\u00a0 with the signing of their #3 and #8 round picks, the Nats have really locked in basically every non-marquee draft pick of their 2010 draft.\u00a0 Who is left?<\/p>\n<p>#1: Bryce Harper.\u00a0 Thanks to Mr. Boras, don&#8217;t expect any movement until August 15th at 10:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>#2: Sammy Solis, a Jr Lefty from USanDiego.\u00a0 6&#8217;5&#8243; 240 big lefty, #48 Baseball America prospect so perhaps a slight overdraft on our part at the top of the 2nd round.\u00a0 Slight injury concern (ruptured disc in back cost him his sophmore season).\u00a0 9-2, 3.00 era with 87\/26 k\/bb in 87ip.\u00a0 Sits 89-92, touches 93.\u00a0 Sounds kinda like a Detwiler with more bulk and thus less injury prone.<\/p>\n<p>#4: AJ Cole; the most interesting of our draft picks.\u00a0 Cole was a 1st round talent projected, signed with Miami.\u00a0 He&#8217;s drawing comparisons to Justin Verlander in terms of his size\/frame and his fastball (93-94, reportedly touching 98).\u00a0 This is a great test of the ownership group; will they offer overslot money on a high-end talent?\u00a0 Keith Law thinks its 50-60% that they sign him.<\/p>\n<p>This would make for a pretty good drafting class if they get all three of these guys remaining.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve already signed #3,5,6,7,10 positional players (all college juniors) and they&#8217;re all in Vermont playing short-A ball right now.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking at the spreadsheet of draft picks and wonder though.\u00a0 Why does any team bother drafting a High School kid in the 40th-50th round who has a division 1 college scholarship commit?\u00a0 Is it just to impress the kid and make him feel good about himself?\u00a0 I guess some of these guys pan out; 2006 we drafted Brad Peacock in the 41st round out of High School, probably gave him $1000 to sign, and he&#8217;s still plugging away.\u00a0 He&#8217;s in Potomac now and isn&#8217;t doing too badly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the Nats Farm authority draft tracker.\u00a0 with the signing of their #3 and #8 round picks, the Nats have really locked in basically every non-marquee draft pick of their 2010 draft.\u00a0 Who is left? #1: Bryce Harper.\u00a0 Thanks to Mr. Boras, don&#8217;t expect any movement until August 15th at 10:30pm. #2: Sammy Solis, [&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":[17,35,974,164,44,110,51,19,180],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-draft","tag-aj-cole","tag-brad-peacock","tag-brian-oliver","tag-bryce-harper","tag-justin-verlander","tag-keith-law","tag-ross-detwiler","tag-sammy-solis","tag-scott-boras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4698,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}