2007 Draft Resource Thread

[colbyjack]

It's time to kick off Brewerfan.net's 2007 Draft Coverage. We're still building the default 2007 draft information, as the current draft information still defaults to 2006, but here is a link to review Brewerfan.net's top 30 draft-eligible prospects for 2007:

 

Brewerfan.net Top 30 2007 Draft Prospects

 

Once the '07 draft info is the default draft page, you will be able to access the draft order, past year's draft picks, the DFE candidates for next spring, a breakdown of the scouting dep't. and the usual lengthy list of player profiles. Until then, most of that information will be provided here within this thread.

 

This thread will start providing the basics for next year's draft, providing the raw draft order and eventually updating the order as free agents are signed. We will remove the free agents name by name as they are signed or if they aren't offered arbitration (making them ineligible for draft-pick compensation). We will also provide the list of draft and follow candidates for next spring. The DFEs will have their own resource thread starting at the beginning of next year so people can follow all of the candidates in one easy place.

 

Recent 2007 Discussion and Stories

Story: '06 Recap, Quick '07 Preview

Discussion: 2007 Draft Order

Discussion: Top '06 summer talent for '07 draft

Brewerfan.net College thread 2006 (several observations on '07 draft-eligibles)

 

2006 Draft Reference

2005 Draft Resource Thread

2005-2006 DFE Resource Thread

Official Draft Pick Selection Thread

Discussion, Rounds 1-5

Discussion, Rounds 6-10

Discussion, Rounds 11-15

Discussion, Rounds 16-20

Discussion, Rounds 21-30

Discussion, Rounds 31-40

Discussion, Rounds 41-50

 

2006 Raw Draft Order

The raw order is established by taking the reverse order of the standings from the previous seasons. The order does not alternate between leagues anymore. Tie-breakers are awarded to the team that finished with the worse record the previous season.

 

1. D-Rays (.377)

2. Royals (.383)

3. Cubs (.407)

4. Pirates (.414)

5. Orioles (.432)

6. Nationals (.438)

7. Brewers (.463)

8. Rockies (.469)

9. D-Backs (.469)

10. Giants (.472)

11. Mariners (.481)

12. Marlins (.481)

13. Indians (.481)

14. Braves (.488)

15. Reds (.494)

16. Rangers (.494)

17. Astros (.506)

18. Cardinals (.516)

19. Phillies (.525)

20. Red Sox (.531)

21. Blue Jays (.537)

22. Dodgers (.543)

23. Padres (.543)

24. Angels (.549)

25. White Sox (.556)

26. A's (.574)

27. Tigers (.586)

28. Twins (.593)

29. Mets (.599)

30. Yankees (.599)

 

2005-06 DFE Candidates

The Milwaukee Brewers retain the rights to the following players up until a week before next year's draft. Between the end of their collegiate season and the week before the draft is the window in which a player may sign. To learn more about the DFE process please visit this story: DFE Process

 

12. Chad Robinson (CC of Southern Nevada, NV)

17. Aaron Tullo, RHP (St. Petersburg College, FL)

19. Lee Haydel, OF (Delgado CC, LA)

20. Mehdi Djebbar, LHP (Seminole State College, OK)

27. T.J. Macy, RHP (Scottsdale CC, AZ)

28. Terrell Alliman, OF (CC of Southern Nevada, NV)

31. Robert Bryson, RHP (Seminole CC, FL)

32. Nicholas Tyson, RHP (Lake City CC, FL)

36. Clay Jones, C (Shelton State CC, AL)

38. Todd Fitzgerald, LHP (San Jose CC, CA)

42. Matt Peck, RHP (Cowley College, KS)

44. Bryan Crosby, 3B (Cleveland State CC, TN)

45. Matthew Thompson, SS (Eastern Arizona JC, AZ)

46. Aaron Johnson, C (Lethbridge CC, Alberta, Canada, playing for Prairie Baseball Academy)

47. Matthew Coburn, RHP (San Jacinto College, TX)

48. Brandon Owens, RHP (Truett McConnell JC, GA)

49. Nicholas Spears, SS (San Diego CC, CA)

50. Ricky Alvernaz, 3B (Cisco JC, TX)

[colbyjack]

The WWBA World Championship is just around the corner, kicking off next Thursday in Jupiter, Florida. The event has been postponed the past two years due to hurricane activity, so hopefully they're due for some nice weather this year.

 

Check out this link to view WWBA's (the tournament division of Perfect Game) scheduling and roster information for the event:

 

www.worldwoodbat.com/Tour...spx?ID=222

 

The Midland Redskins, Ohio Warhawks, ABD Bulldogs and East Cobb Braves are particularly loaded with high profile talent this year.

 

Also, check out BaseballWebTV where David Rawnsley has a few segments previewing some of the better collections of talent:

 

www.baseballwebtv.com/

 

And best wishes to Blazer25, the manager for the Midwest Blazers, a team that always manages to open a few eyes at the tourney.

 

Midwest Blazers

[GagneCY03]

Good luck, Blazer25.

 

Also, having looked at the WWBA page, it seems that ABD Bulldogs and Southeast Select are in the same division. It seems that Josh Vitters will face Michael Main in a repeat of their AFLAC Game matchup. Should be very interesting.

[colbyjack]

The Reds Scout Team, the pre-tournament favorites given the high level of talent on their roster, have won the 2006 WWBA World Championship held in Jupiter, Florida. Here's a picture from WWBA's site of the victors (Michael Burgess is shown squatting in front):

 

http://www.worldwoodbat.com/ViewDocument.aspx

 

The Reds Scout Team, not officially associated with the Reds but actually made up of players that played for the Midland Redskins, a very successful traveling scout team, had the most talent of any other team, which included five Aflac All-Americans (Burgess, Justin Jackson, Sam Runion, Derek Dietrich and Yasmani Grandal).

 

Reds' outfielder Jeff Schaus was named tourney MVP by hitting .500, while East Cobb pitcher and Aflac All-American Josh Smoker was named the tourney's most valuable pitcher (Smoker, a LHP, touched 94 and struck out 21 battes in 9 innings of work).

 

PG Crosschecker's Allan Simpson did a great job breaking down the stories as they happened day-by-day over on WWBA's site:

 

Tournament Notebook, Day Four

Top 10 Highlights, Day Three

Tournament Notebook, Day Three

Top 10 Highlights, Day Two

Tournament Notebook, Day Two

Top 10 Highlights, Day One

Tournament Notebook, Day One

Tournament Notebook, Thursday

Handicapping the '06 Jupiter Tournament

 

BaseballWebTV will likely have a ton of video to watch from this year's championship game in the next several weeks. Stay tuned...

[colbyjack]

PG Crosschecker is at it once again, unveiling their top 100 draft prospects overall with pictures and scouting reports, their top 250 draft prospects overall (list only) and their top 250 college draft prospects (list only). Again, if you haven't subscribed at PG Crosschecker yet, and you're a fellow draft nut, you need to do so. They are providing a ton of information:

 

PG Crosschecker

[GagneCY03]

Thanks for posting that, Mr CJ. Does my talking about the draft in November qualify me as a draft nut? http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif

[colbyjack]

Gagne, if you don't already subscribe to PG Crosschecker, you really need to. Be sure to tell your friends as well (I haven't visited the Dodgers fanhome forums in a while).

 

In my most recent PG Crack of the Bat column, I make sense of the newest CBA ramifications as they pertain to the draft:

 

www.perfectgame.org/crack...5Freached/

[DHonks]

colby, looking at your first post in the thread, I'm a bit confused. I thought they were doing away with the DFE process. Is that effective after the 2007 June Draft? I guess that would make sense, since some teams didn't sign guys, but planned to follow them. So changing that process midstream for the 2006 draftees would leave many scouting directors and JuCo players angry.

[colbyjack]

Since the uniform starting date doesn't take place until next year (next August 15th), the DFE process will remain through next year's draft, but this is the last class.

[GagneCY03]

I have a PGCC sub and I was shocked to see how low a few kids were ranked. I'm sure by the end of the spring, they'll be rated higher.

[colbyjack]

PG Crosschecker has a list of college commitments up on their site. The list I believe is free for all to enjoy:

 

www.pgcrosschecker.com/hs...gyear=2007

 

After a quick glance, North Carolina (Porcello, Harvey, Bumgarner), Arizona State (Burgess, Jackson, Vitters, Blair, Lambo, Romine, Rams, Zawacki), Clemson (Smoker, Poovey, Gullickson, Noonan, Smolinski, Schaus), UCLA (Goeddel, Heyward, Krill), Georgia Tech (Parker, Ramirez), Oregon State (Nash, Osich, Robles), Tennessee (Davis, Runion) and CS Fullerton (Colon, Dominguez, Freeman) have the classes with the biggest collection of names.

 

Of course, a lot of those players will end up signing to go pro, but UNC and GT in particular have always been tough to pry players away from. UNC's pitching class in particular is very impressive.

 

I find it interesting that Justin Heyward, from Georgia, has committed to UCLA while Nick Noonan, from California, has committed to Clemson. Ryan Braun was a notable West Coaster that head to the opposite side of the country to go to college, but you just don't seem to see that very often, at least not from players from states that offer plenty of solid baseball programs.

 

Oregon State's CWS success is evident in their recruiting class.

[GagneCY03]

UNC's rotation would be amazing if Porcello, Harvey and Bumgarner all fulfilled their committments. It'll be interesting to see which guys are serious.

[colbyjack]

Here's a link to one more story from PG Crosschecker covering the WWBA tournament, this one from David Rawnsley. One name he brings up as a name to watch next spring is Ryan Dent, a SS from CA. His reports are very similar to a few things I have been hearing: He could very well be the most exciting player in the nation, and plays the game so effortlessly and easily, everything just seems to slow down for him. He's another player that will most certainly be in the top 30 the next time I update that list, possibly in the top 10.

 

www.pgcrosschecker.com/sh...piter.aspx

 

Ryan Dent, PG Showcase

[colbyjack]

BA chimes in on the recruiting classes (for all to read, within this link is a link to their updated top 25 prep prospects for subscribers, and they also updated their top 200 college prospects and top 300 high school prospects for Prospect Plus subscribers today):

 

www.baseballamerica.com/t...62821.html

[colbyjack]

It's time to add the free agents, by type, and by their Elias Bureau ranking. Keep in mind, Type C free agents will no longer draw any compensation.

 

Here's a link to all of the rankings of all of the players:

Elias Sports Bureau Rankings

 

Type A Free Agents

David Weathers 69.994

 

Type B Free Agents

Ron Villone 59.859

Chan Ho Park 57.680

 

Free Agent signings

 

Chicago Cubs: Type B FA Mark DeRosa

Rangers get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Baltimore Orioles: Type B FA Jamie Walker

Tigers get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Toronto Blue Jays: Type B FA Frank Thomas

Athletics get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Cincinnati Reds: Type B FA Alex Gonzalez

Red Sox get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Cincinnati Reds: Type B FA Mike Stanton

Giants get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Los Angeles Angels: Type A FA Justin Speier

Blue Jays get the Angels second-round pick (Matthews rated higher than Speier) and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Texas Rangers: Type A FA Frank Catalonotto

Blue Jays get the Rangers second-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Chicago Cubs: Type A FA Alfonso Soriano

Nationals get the Cubs second-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

New York Mets: Type A FA Moises Alou

Giants get the Mets first-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Los Angeles Dodgers: Type B FA Juan Pierre

Cubs get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round.

 

Los Angeles Angels: Type A FA Gary Matthews Jr.

Rangers get the Angels first-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Houston Astros: Type A FA Carlos Lee

Rangers get the Astros first-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Houston Astros: Type A FA Woody Williams

Padres get the Astros second-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Baltimore Orioles: Type A FA Danys Baez

Braves get the Orioles second-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Cleveland Indians: Type A FA David Dellucci

Phillies get the Indians third-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Baltimore Orioles: Type A FA Chad Bradford

Mets get the Orioles third-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

St. Louis Cardinals: Type B FA Adam Kennedy

Angels get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Milwaukee Brewers: Type B FA Craig Counsell

Diamonbacks get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Cleveland Indians: Type A FA Roberto Hernandez

Mets get the Indians second-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Seattle Mariners: Type B FA Jose Guillen

Nationals get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

San Francisco Giants: Type A FA Rich Aurillia

Reds get the Giants third-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

San Francisco Giants: Type A FA Dave Roberts

Padres get the Giants fourth-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Boston Red Sox: Type A FA Julio Lugo

Dodgers get the Red Sox first-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Los Angeles Dodgers: Type A FA Jason Schmidt

Giants get the Dodgers first-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Chicago Cubs: Type B FA Ted Lilly

Blue Jays get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Kansas City Royals: Type B FA Gil Meche

Mariners get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Oakland Athletics: Type B FA Alan Embree

Padres get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Seattle Mariners: Type B FA Miguel Batista

Diamondbacks get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

San Fracisco Giants: Type B FA Ryan Klesko

Padres get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Cleveland Indians: Type B FA Keith Foulke

Red Sox get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Milwaukee Brewers: Type A FA Jeff Suppan

Cardinals get the Brewers second-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

San Francisco Giants: Type A FA Barry Zito

A's get the Giants second-round pick and a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

New York Mets: Type B FA Scott Schoeneweis

Reds get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

 

Seattle Mariners: Type B FA Jeff Weaver

Cardinals get a compensatory pick in the sandwich round

[GagneCY03]

I'd love to know how Elias actually evaluates the players, seeing as how Gagne has barely pitched over the past 2 years and he's a Type A free agent.

[pogokat]

how is david bell not even a type b, while graffinino is an a?

[gbpacker40]

And how is Frank Thomas type B?

[deeswan]

IIRC, the FA ranking is based on the previous 3 years performance. No one is sure what the ranking system is, I don't think, but it's not just based on last season.

[colbyjack]

I hadn't thought about this before last night, but as long as the compensatory pick system in the sandwich round remains the same (meaning the worst teams get the highest pick, cycling through all of the teams one-by-one before starting over again for teams with mulitple comp picks), the Brewers could get the 5th pick in the sandwich long assuming Type B free agent Tomo Ohka signs elsewhere (I'm not counting on Graffanino being offered arby, but you never know). Neither Tampa Bay nor Kansas City have any free agents to lose, much less garner comp picks, while the Cubs have Pierre, the Pirates have Burnitz, the Orioles have Hawkins and the Nationals have Soriano, Guillen and Ortiz. Since Pierre, Burnitz and Hawkins are all Type B FAs, like Ohka, teams don't have to worry about losing their own draft picks anymore by signing them.

 

So, as long as these rules haven't changed, the Brewers could be looking at the 7th and the 35th overall picks next June, and exciting situation that we haven't seen the Brewers have in quite some time.

 

I have a quesiton in to BA to see if the comp picks for Type B FAs will be awarded after the ones for the Type A FAs have in the sandwich round. That detail has not been established, or at least not discussed publicly from what I have seen.

 

EDIT: As for the Elias Sports Bureau rankings, they are based on the player's past two seasons using some weird, and clearly outdated, system. This link doesn't really explain the process, but it is the lead-in (it mentions Pujols earned a perfect score of a 100) for the individual players rankings as linked above:

 

www.usatoday.com/sports/b...OE=SPOISVA

[foamboy1]

So, as long as these rules haven't changed, the Brewers could be looking at the 7th and the 35th overall picks next June, and exciting situation that we haven't seen the Brewers have in quite some time.

 

7th, 35th, and then their 2nd round selection shortly thereafter. Could be something like three of the top 45 to 50 picks.

[colbyjack]

I'm kind of expecting the Brewers to lose their 2nd round pick, particularly if the rumors about them pursuing Type A FA Dave Roberts are true.

 

And even if they don't lose their 2nd rounder, that pick could come much, much later than usual given the high number of Type B FAs that will likely fetch their previous teams a sandwich pick. That number of picks will go down next year when the Type A and B classifications are reduced significantly, but since Type B's no longer cost the signing pick a pick directly, I think the sandwich round next June could easily go 20-picks-plus deep.

 

Which would mean the Brewers 2nd-round pick would be more in the 55-65 range. Still pretty good for a deep draft pool, but not as good as it could be.

 

Of course the Brewers could be aided if Tony Graffanino signs earlier than expected. According to the MJS report from yesterday, his agent mentioned that they could know in the next couple of days where Graffy ends up, which of course is a good thing for the Brewers draft next June. I don't see Graffy garnering a couple of extra picks if he isn't signed by the arby deadline in early December.

[colbyjack]

Just so everyone knows, I have been updating the FA signings as they have occurred in the post on the first page of this thread. There are already 13 sandwich picks that will be awarded, with a lot of Type A and Type B free agents to go. The sandwich round could easily go 30-picks deep, meaning the Brewers second round pick could be in the 65-70 range as opposed to the 45-50 range overall.

[DHonks]

thanks Colby. Sure would be nice if teams would rush to sign Helling, Graffanino, and Ohka to pad our system

[lovehate]

So who are all the college mid infielders and relievers that the Blue Jays will be loading up on in the comp and 2nd rnds ?