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2024 MLB Draft

Discussion in 'GatorGrowl's Diamond Gators' started by Gatorgal04, Jul 5, 2024.

  1. jdgator

    jdgator VIP Member

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    Where the 'experts' clearly lack in their overall knowledge of Jac is his fielding and arm. I saw most all of them except D1 Baseball that had his glove at a 50 or 55 and his arm at 55 it 60. Any TRUE expert who truly watched and scouted Jac would tell you his glove is easily a 60 to 65 with plus advancement and an arm that has hit 100 MPH. How the heck do you have someone who can throw that hard with a grade of 60 to 65?
     
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  2. 74nole

    74nole GC Hall of Fame

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    I’m sure that was the goal and I thought he did a good job with it. His ability to show and exercise patience at the plate this season I thought was the results of hard work and determination on his part.
     
  3. Gatorgal04

    Gatorgal04 Lowly Fan Moderator

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    Neely goes #86 to Red Sox - $878,800 slot value.
     
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  4. landogator22

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    The Red Sox always amaze me with how They always seem to get value in their selections. Virginia catcher last year, Montgomery this year, and now Nealy. I think nearly will surprise a lot of people and advance to the minors quickly
     
  5. gator1977

    gator1977 GC Legend

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    Good for Neely, he jumped ahead a round or two with his post season heroics. Deserving and lucks out going to a baseball crazy town.
     
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  6. burley

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    Gator Signee's ranking: 99-Jackson Barberi (RHP), 100 Joshua Whritenour (RHP), 156 Brendan Lawson (SS) from Toronto. Still undrafted. Others not ranked.

    Colby Shelton ranked 144. Tyler Shelnut unranked.
     
  7. ocalaman

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    The 2 I'm most interest in are Evans & Heyman.
     
  8. MadduxFanII

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    I assume Michael Ross (our big transfer portal pitcher pickup) hasn't been drafted yet?
     
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  9. neutrino_boi

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    200 picks in, slot values under 300k, no Gators (or recruits/transfers) taken since Neely. :knock wood:
     
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  10. GatorLurker

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    One thing that has changed a lot in college ball is that the strike zone has gotten smaller with all of the fancy stuff they can do on TV. Home plate blues have adjusted to it because they don't want to look bad. Some of them think that we come to the games to watch them. LOL.

    I know that Cags swung at some pitches out of the strike zone but with his size he could still barrel them up. He rarely swung and missed for strike three out of the zone. He was looking for pitches he could hit and sometimes those pitches were not over the plate.

    Yogi swung at a lot of pitches out of the strike zone to good effect, BTW.
     
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  11. Gatorgal04

    Gatorgal04 Lowly Fan Moderator

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    Fisher Jameson picked #288 by Colorado Rockies - $185,800 slot
     
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  12. GatorLurker

    GatorLurker GC Hall of Fame

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    He is better than that.
     
  13. Gatorgal04

    Gatorgal04 Lowly Fan Moderator

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    Correct. We're now through the first 10 rounds for a total of 315 picks made. Rounds 11-20 tomorrow for another 300 picks. No slot values for these last 10 rounds.

    3 Gator players picked and 1 incoming freshman. No incoming transfers have been picked. The lists on page 1 have been updated.
     
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  14. biggerigator15

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    has gone very well for us so far
     
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  15. GatorLurker

    GatorLurker GC Hall of Fame

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    The Gator brand does scare off MLB teams in the latter rounds.
     
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  16. stingbb

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    Really good day for UF as neither Shelton, Heyman, Barberi or Lawson were selected and while some team could throw any excess pool money at them over the last 10 rounds tomorrow, all four should make it to campus.
     
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  17. jdgator

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    And Evans let's hope.
     
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  18. apkgator

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    Might be worth throwing some NIL at Jameson to see if he wants to try another year
     
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  19. MadduxFanII

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    Aidan King has tweeted that he’s coming to Gainesville.
     
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  20. bigDgator

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    Travis Bazzana - 214 AB, 37 SO
    Charlie Condon - 231 AB, 41 SO
    Nick Kurtz - 173 AB, 42 SO
    Jac Cags - 248 AB, 26 SO

    The extra at bats Cags had were vs top level pitching in high pressure situations.
     
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