The Giants drafted the following players (link will change every year, so below is the final results):
2017 Giants Draft Picks (slot)
1. HELIOT RAMOS ($3.1M)
2. JACOB GONZALEZ ($1.1M)
3. SETH CORRY ($558.5K)
4. GARRETT CAVE ($417.2K)
5. JASON BAHR ($310.8K)
6. BRYCE JOHNSON ($239.6K)
7. LOGAN HARASTA ($187.8K)
8. JOHN GAVIN ($154.2K)
9. AARON PHILLIPS ($140.0K)
10. ROB CALABRESE ($132.5K)
11. DOUG STILL
12. AARON BOND
13. TYLER SCHIMPF
14. MICHAEL SEXTON
15. ORLANDO GARCIA
16. JOHN RUSSELL
17. BRAC WARREN
18. CHRIS CORBETT
19. FRANKIE TOSTADO
20. KEATON WINN
21. LOGAN BALDWIN
22. GREG JACKNEWITZ
23. SHANE MATHENY
24. NICO GIARRATANO
25. FRANKLIN VAN GURP
26. KYLE McPHERSON
27. MATT BROWN
28. PETER LANNOO
29. FRANK RUBIO
30. SEAN WATKINS
31. KEENAN BARTLETT
32. BLAKE RIVERA
33. PEYTON MADDOX
34. CONNOR NURSE
35. DALTON COMBS
36. JOE MARCIANO
37. ANDY ROHLOFF
38. ANTONIO SALDANA
39. BRAD DOBZANSKI
40. LIAM JENKINS
Ramos has reportedly been signed already, and Gonzalez's dad has announced that he's signing and starting his career.
These are just my opinions. I cannot promise that I will be perfect, but I can promise that I will seek to understand and illuminate whatever moves that the Giants make (my obsession and compulsion). I will share my love of baseball and my passion for the Giants. And I will try to teach, best that I can. Often, I tackle the prevailing mood among Giants fans and see if that is a correct stance, good or bad.
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Thursday, June 15, 2017
Monday, June 12, 2017
2017 Amateur Draft Mock Drafts
I'm not as into the draft this season as seasons' past, but thought I would share some information for those who are interested. The draft starts today with Round 1, and continues over a total of three days. This site has a lot of good info on the event, which starts at 4PM PDT today:
Here are the mock drafts I'm looking at today:
Baseball America 4.0
Baseball Amercia 4.5
MLB Pipeline
MLB Pipeline: Jim Callis
CBS Sports
Draft PrimerIn addition, the MLB.com Pipeline always provides a nice scouting report on their Top 200 prospects, this is a nice resource to know some key facts on each prospect, plus most of the top ones should have video links too:
MLB.com Pipeline Prospect WatchAlso, Baseball America published their Top 500 list.
Here are the mock drafts I'm looking at today:
Baseball America 4.0
Baseball Amercia 4.5
MLB Pipeline
MLB Pipeline: Jim Callis
CBS Sports
Sunday, June 04, 2017
2017 Giants: May PQS
This post has the Giants Pure Quality Start scores for the month of May 2017, PQS as defined in Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster annual book and they published the details here (unfortunately, they removed the article; this link gets you at least to the PQS definition, read down to middle for details). I wrote on this first in 2006 (wow, 12th year of this!) and have compiled their stats on a regular basis, so I'm continuing it this season for continuity and historical comparison (there is the "PQS" label that you can click to see the old posts on this). Regular readers can skip to the next section.
This is the Quality Start with a sabermetric DIPS twist, and it gets really easy to calculate once you get used to it. I don't think it's the end all or be all, but then nothing really is that. It is, as I like to say, another piece of the puzzle. A dominating start is scored a 4 or 5 and a disaster start is scored a 0 or 1. DOM% is the percentage of starts that are dominating, DIS% is the percentage of starts that are disasters (any start under 5.0 IP is automatically a 0, or disaster).
This is the Quality Start with a sabermetric DIPS twist, and it gets really easy to calculate once you get used to it. I don't think it's the end all or be all, but then nothing really is that. It is, as I like to say, another piece of the puzzle. A dominating start is scored a 4 or 5 and a disaster start is scored a 0 or 1. DOM% is the percentage of starts that are dominating, DIS% is the percentage of starts that are disasters (any start under 5.0 IP is automatically a 0, or disaster).