2014 Baseball America Draft Coverage

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Finnegan Has Shown Mental Edge

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Three Strikes: Week Seven

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2014 Draft: Signing Bonus Allotments By Team

 

2014 Draft: Assigned Pick Values For Top 10 Rounds

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Game Report: Michael Matuella

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Newcomb finally had a bad game and gave up 4 earned runs, ending his scoreless streak. Nick Burdi was lighting up the radar gun, my goodness

 

College Draft Prospects Stat Roundup: Week 8

 

BA started doing these draft focus articles, kind of like a poor man's version of what PG has been doing for years. Good information regardless

 

A Day In The Life: Jakson Reetz (VIDEO)

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2 HS position players and a college pitcher profiled.

 

Draft Tracker: April 11

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2014 Draft Update Chat With John Manuel and Clint Longenecker

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2014 Draft Update: Change At The Top As Pitchers Dominate

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College season week 9 updates.

 

Three Strikes: Week Nine

 

College Draft Prospects Stat Roundup: Week 9

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Draft Tracker: April 18

With the draft less than 50 days away, power arms are moving up draft boards. This week’s installment of Draft Tracker focuses on a pair of tall pitchers and two with ties to Missouri.

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Three Strikes: Week 10 (VIDEO)

 

College Draft Prospects Stat Roundup: Week 10 (VIDEO)

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2014 Draft Update Chat With John Manuel

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Game Report: Ryder Ryan

 

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C.—Although Ryder Ryan was a two-way player on the summer showcase circuit, he has displayed significantly improved velocity early this spring, touching the mid-90s and generating buzz in the top three to four rounds. After impressing in a start on April 14 in front of more than 40 evaluators, Ryan’s stuff was similar to what it was on the showcase circuit in his April 22 outing, this time with no scouts in attendance.

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College Draft Prospect Stat Roundup Week 11

 

Carlos Rodon Strikes Out 15 Against Georgia Tech (VIDEO)

 

Subscriber story.

 

Salisbury School Boasts Top Rotation

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Three Strikes: Week 11

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I always like reading this type of article, 2 Brewer scouts make the list, 1 who is new to the organization.

 

Area Scouts With The Most Big League Debuts This Decade

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This is the more in depth companion piece to the earlier article and is subscriber content. Very insightful if you have a BA subscription.

 

Prolific Area Scouts Bridges, Pena Take Similar Paths To Summit

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College Draft Prospect Stat Roundup Week 12

May 6, 2014 by Clint Longenecker

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Three Strikes: Week 12

May 6, 2014 by Aaron Fitt

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I don't like this at all for him as a pitcher, NC is another program who's not afraid to run up incredibly high pitch counts on their starting pitchers. However the draft is deep in pitching and if he performs he could get a much bigger payday down the road, but he might also be pushing back his first big MLB contract. For context regarding my comment see Hobbs Johnson Bests Carlos Rodon To Keep UNC Alive

 

Bukauskas Tells Teams He’ll Pass On Draft

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Nola... yuck. I just don't see the upside in Finnegan, Fedde, or Nola that others do. To me they are all more higher floor players than they are high ceiling.

 

2014 Draft Preview: Track Record Lands Rodon Atop First Mock

May 8, 2014 by John Manuel

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Nola... yuck. I just don't see the upside in Finnegan, Fedde, or Nola that others do. To me they are all more higher floor players than they are high ceiling.

 

2014 Draft Preview: Track Record Lands Rodon Atop First Mock

May 8, 2014 by John Manuel

Interesting simply for the fact that it's the first mock that takes into account Hoffman's injury. They have him going at #11 to Toronto.

 

Luis Ortiz falls all the way to #30. Has anyone figured out what's happening with the guy?

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2014 Draft Preview: Astros Will Pick No. 1 Again, Sorting Through Pitching-Heavy Class

May 9, 2014 by John Manuel

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Subscriber content. Cooper focuses on the downside of specialization, which is somewhat validating for anyone involved in HS sports fighting the specialization trend, it's not just a baseball thing.

 

2014 Draft Preview: Young Pitchers Bring Heat, But At What Cost?

May 12, 2014 by J.J. Cooper

 

Now many of the elite high school pitchers have focused solely on baseball for years. They often bounce around the country playing against top-level competition throughout the summer. They are involved in throwing programs, strength and flexibility programs designed specifically for pitchers and often have instruction from specialized pitching coaches from an early age.

 

As a result, pitchers are bigger, stronger and more advanced when they graduate high school. They are more advanced pitchers, though in many cases they have also lost some of the athleticism that pitchers of past eras developed when they were playing multiple sports.

 

“The training is as good as it’s ever been,” said Cubs pitching coordinator Derek Johnson, who previously coached and recruited at Vanderbilt. “Science is strong as far as getting guys to throw harder and faster, but at the same time, we are doing it with very young people who haven’t fully matured.

 

“You didn’t see the type of (body) frames back then you see now. It’s a lot more specialized. In some cases I see that as a bad thing (because) they are specializing so early. They have baseball muscles, but any movement out of a baseball movement, they’ve never accounted for.”

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2014 Draft Preview: Kolek Sets New Bar For Texas Heat

May 12, 2014 by John Manuel