MLB 2024 Draft

[KFlash_12]

Yes, but you're the one being both rude and citing sources that conflict easy to find information.

Further, if you do want to continue on this message board, understand that some of us have built a community that enjoys healthy discussion where we backup our points and not just make baseless accusations and then try to be the internet tough guy afterwards. If that's how you're going to debate, find a different spot.

And as I've already stated, the same warning is going to be issued to others who broke the rules

 

[TxBuckeye]

This dude is either Reno or a fucking relative of his

 

[BMAN]

Google.com is free

It’s up to you to provide alternate stats.

 

[Ob1]

Let's just see... just quickly looking at some lists:
Keith Law: 1. Condon 2. Bazzana
Baseball America: 1. Condon 2. Bazzana
Joe Doyle: 1. Condon 2. Bazzana
Perfect Game: 2. Condon 3. Bazzana
MLB (lol): 3. Bazzana 4. Condon

Everyone's going to have their preferences. They both seem very good. I'd be happy with one of them.

FWIW Doyle updated the list just a few days ago and put Condon above Bazzana.

This is my point. I'm fine with eithd prospect but it's odd to me that this forum seems to like Bazz so much more than everyone else even the prospect that many have above him as a prospect.

 

[Benway]

The suspense is killing me.

 

[southernflyer]

The suspense is killing me.

We only have to wait for the NFL draft next Thursday-Saturday, Memorial Day, NBA/NHL playoffs, NBA and NHL drafts back to back 6/26-27 and 6/28-29, Cape Cod League starting, July 4th, MLB All-Star game and before you know it...

 

[Benway]

We only have to wait for the NFL draft next Thursday-Saturday, Memorial Day, NBA/NHL playoffs, NBA and NHL drafts back to back 6/26-27 and 6/28-29, Cape Cod League starting, July 4th, MLB All-Star game and before you know it...

Yes, that too!

 

[Damage]

Watch it'll be Montgomery lol

For clarity, while I like Bazzana and Condon better, I really, really like Montgomery and would be okay if we took him.

Nolan Jones arm, his power didn't carry over to his 2023 Cape Cod #s but he hit the shit out of the ball:
53 AB: .340 BA /.429 OBP /.472 SLG /.900 OPS

I like Bazzana the most because he's an absolute psychopath about baseball - Bauer-like minus the asshole/weirdo vibes – and his stats back it up. Few blurbs from this article I know was posted a while ago:

1. When agent Chase Brewer approached Bazzana his freshman season to see if he was interested in future representation, Bazzana didn’t ask about draft projections or future big league earnings. He wanted to know if Brewer had an analytics expert and, if so, whether he had information about All-Star Juan Soto’s contact rate and exit velocity. Bazzana would text Brewer at 6 a.m. on Saturdays with next-level data questions about batted-ball metrics and swing-and-miss rates.

And then there's this:

2. Earlier this season (2023), when the Beavers were in an extended slump, Canham challenged his team to be more aggressive on the basepaths to light a spark. So Bazzana decided he would master the art of stealing bases.

He pulled up YouTube clips of Anthony Volpe to study how the Yankees’ leadoff hitter used a walking lead. Then he reached out to Cal Bears center fielder Rodney Green through Instagram to pick his brain about stealing bases. At the time, Green, after recording just one steal last season, led the Pac-12 with 24 — 12 more than Bazzana.

“How do you have 24 stolen bases?” Bazzana wrote Green. “What do you do? What changed?”

After watching video of Volpe and chatting with Green, Bazzana came up with a fool-proof formula. If he effectively used a walking lead, he could steal a base so long as a pitcher’s delivery to the plate stretched 1.3 seconds or longer. He didn’t even need a good jump. It was simple math. He just needed to trust the data.....

....He swiped a school-record five steals in a win over Seattle. It was part of a run in which he stole at least one base in 12 of 13 games and he went on to steal 27 bases over the final 24 games of the season. Bazzana enters the regionals with a school-record 36 — seven more than Green.

 

[Holden beach]

Which players teammates didn't go their birthday party?

Draft Day homage...

 

[TxBuckeye]

Which players teammates didn't go their birthday party?

Draft Day homage...

"Travis Bazzana no matter what"

 

[CalBuckeyeRob]

For clarity, while I like Bazzana and Condon better, I really, really like Montgomery and would be okay if we took him.

Nolan Jones arm, his power didn't carry over to his 2023 Cape Cod #s but he hit the shit out of the ball:
53 AB: .340 BA /.429 OBP /.472 SLG /.900 OPS

I like Bazzana the most because he's an absolute psychopath about baseball - Bauer-like minus the asshole/weirdo vibes – and his stats back it up. Few blurbs from this article I know was posted a while ago:

1. When agent Chase Brewer approached Bazzana his freshman season to see if he was interested in future representation, Bazzana didn’t ask about draft projections or future big league earnings. He wanted to know if Brewer had an analytics expert and, if so, whether he had information about All-Star Juan Soto’s contact rate and exit velocity. Bazzana would text Brewer at 6 a.m. on Saturdays with next-level data questions about batted-ball metrics and swing-and-miss rates.

And then there's this:

2. Earlier this season (2023), when the Beavers were in an extended slump, Canham challenged his team to be more aggressive on the basepaths to light a spark. So Bazzana decided he would master the art of stealing bases.

He pulled up YouTube clips of Anthony Volpe to study how the Yankees’ leadoff hitter used a walking lead. Then he reached out to Cal Bears center fielder Rodney Green through Instagram to pick his brain about stealing bases. At the time, Green, after recording just one steal last season, led the Pac-12 with 24 — 12 more than Bazzana.

“How do you have 24 stolen bases?” Bazzana wrote Green. “What do you do? What changed?”

After watching video of Volpe and chatting with Green, Bazzana came up with a fool-proof formula. If he effectively used a walking lead, he could steal a base so long as a pitcher’s delivery to the plate stretched 1.3 seconds or longer. He didn’t even need a good jump. It was simple math. He just needed to trust the data.....

....He swiped a school-record five steals in a win over Seattle. It was part of a run in which he stole at least one base in 12 of 13 games and he went on to steal 27 bases over the final 24 games of the season. Bazzana enters the regionals with a school-record 36 — seven more than Green.

After 36 steals and only 3 caught stealings in 2023 he now is 8 steals and 4 caught stealings in 2024. Wonder why?

 

[thoughtful]

 

[MirORich]

I mean I know it rarely works out this way but it just seems with Bazzanna or Condon(not too mention some still really believe in Montgomery and Kurtz), we can’t go wrong at the top of the draft

 

[DerekG123]

I like Condon and Montgomery, but lets be honest, Bazzana is the supersized version of this franchises prototype prospect. He is an infielder, lefthanded, low K rate. No way they pass up.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

BA's Mock Draft 2.0 - Charlie Condon