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Scouting Report: Known as a defense first catcher, McMahan also has a potent bat and runs very well for a catcher. His defense is Gold Glove caliber, and he could blossom into a .280-.350-.420 hitter. He’s a strong student and committed to Florida. Here’s his scouting video.
My Take: Great pick. Let’s hope they keep him away from the Gators.
Outlook: If they sign him, we won’t see him in any games until 2009 because it’ll likely go don to the wire. He could survive a full season assignment next year based on his defense alone.
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A strong student and he chooses Florida??
Now that doesn’t make much sense
Damn yo, McMahan got down the line from the right side in ~4.5 seconds in his scouting video. That’s insanely fast for a catcher.
Gilespie just drilled one out. First pitch too.
He’s good at hitting baseballs.
Im guessing this is one of the few sign ability guys from Day 2.
They’ve done well on day two, I was overreacting earlier. Just because the guy is not a huge name doesn’t mean he isn;t a quality player.
Who are the other high ceiling guys from Day 2 that we should check out and keep an eye on?
The only other obvious ones to me are Maronde, Dicharry and Roach. There’s definitely others out there, just not sure who.
KLAW seems to think otherwise.
Mike, if you would comprise a Top Prospects List of the Yankees draftees (only) thus far, who would make out the top 5?
Man, I have no idea right now. I can tell you who’d be number 1, but I’m sure you can figure that out.
David Adams?
Not quite.
Ha! Sarcasm never comes out right in these things.
Heh, sorry, I thought you fell for the “Dustin Pedroia is a great player!” propoganda.
He isn’t ?? Give me a player who’s willing to max out his potential over a player with oodles of natural hitting ability but no will to make adjustments.
I know Cole, Marshall & probably Bleich would be there, but beyond that i’m turning to your expert analysis. Yet i’ll wait. . .
Cole is an easy #1. After that I’d probably go Matt Richardson, Scott Bittle, Brett Marshall, and Garrison Lassiter. Bleich would be #6.
Chris Britton pulled a rib cage muscle warming up in the bullpen yesterday afternoon, was put on the DL and Dan Giese was recalled to Scranton. Got this just this second from Michael Kay on his radio show.
I guess that is why Girardi hates fat relievers…
Girardi must be smoking his victory cigar right about now. He got fatty out with out having to send Britton down himself.
Do you think Giese will be used as a reliever or is here to follow Joba still as the long man?
Adam Westmoreland, was that the same Westmoreland everyone was talking about or was it that oher one drafted yesterday?
No, that was Ryan (or Rick, or something like that) Westmoreland. Sox grabbed him.
What’s with Boston taking ten million high school arms?
Red Sox are loading up on insurance plans if they can’t sign Casey Kelly. At least that’s how i hope it plays out. If they sign Meyer , the red sox draft automatically vaults over the Yankees.
This Westmoreland kid is a major signability issue. But it sorta reminds me of their Lars Anderson pick. And they managed to sign him.
No way the Sox take Kelly in Rd 1 if he wouldnt sign.
Westmoreland, Meyer and Marquis are going to take well over a million dollars each to sign, Marquis and Meyer over $2M. They won’t sign them all, more than likely just one (probably Westmoreland).
Mike A,
Don’t forget to add Ricky Oropesa to that list. What the Red Sox is doing is mind-boggling if their goal is to sign 1 of these 4 kids. Its the Oropesa pick that sorta reminds me of the Lars Anderson pick. California kid with plus raw power but who swings and misses alot too.
Could it be that the Sox know they aren’t players for Yorman Rodriguez?? Yanks haven’t drafted 1 impact bat. Do you guys think signing Yorman would make up for it?
Corban Joseph and Chris Smith are potential impact bats. I have no idea who Y-Rod is, sorry.
Y-Rod is one of the big names (probably second behind Michael Inoa) for this upcoming July 2nd IFA signing period. He is an OF from Venezuela, said to have grades of 70s on the 20-80 scouting scale in the speed and power department.
Who are the international free agents we should keep an eye on for July 2?
No idea, I don’t worry about those guys until they sign. There’s too much BS on the net about those guys. It’s like that there’s so little info available about them, that whatever little bit we know gets extrapolated out and the hype because immense.
The two I keep reading the most about are Michael Inoa, a tall 16 year-old flamethrower who some say is the next Felix Hernandez, and Yorman Rodriguez, who supposedly grades at or above a 70 in speed and power.
I agree with Mike A. — there is alot of BS out there. That’s why i’m iffy on Inoa. Look at what happened with Salcedo. Indians pulled that offer on the mounting evidence that this kid is NOT his listed age. Salcedo is an old name .. .ahem .. he’s not a hot property anymore.
Maybe the book on Y-Rod is more accurate. Venezuelan baseball pple keep better records. Jesus Montero turned out well (so far)…
Go with Y-Rod.
Isn’t Salcedo supposed to run like Mantle, throw like Mays, hit like Williams, and have the grace of Joe D???
LOL
I’ll have to check out Inoa and Yorman. Sound like top 10 guys to me.
Get this guys, you remember the recent crane crash in NYC? Well, Ryan Church being a class act offered some aid to the widow of one of the victims but she refused it because “Don [Leo, her husband] was a die-hard Yankee fan,” [Janine] Belcastro said in a statement. “It would not respect his memory if he accepted this.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_.....om_me.html
I don’t know what to say, like seriously.
Allegiances die hard I see.
Well, hats off to Church for trying. That was a very pleasant thing for him and his wife to do.
…did the Yankees just drop out of the draft?
Ugh. couldn’t grab Maronde just to keep him away from everyone else?
Did they seriously just drop out???
In the 36th round? Really? What the Hell just happened? Technical difficulties? Too lazy to just throw their last few picks on the signability guys just so no one else can take a flier on them? This is mind-boggling.
Looks like it could bbe technical difficulties, because the tracker skipped over their number, instead of putting Cleveland there.
Expect audio from a conference call between Gerrit Cole, Damon Oppenheimer and NYY beat writers “close to game time” from PeteAbe’s blog.
Cool.
They didn’t drop out, I heard them call in a pick. I’m not going crazy…
You see, they are up with pick #1130.
They wouldnt drop out. Right??
From NYYFans:
“No they didn’t, they took Chris Dwyer from the Salisbury School in Connecticut…
Dwyer is a signability pick. Clemson recruit…”
Thank God.
Phew, glad they didn’t drop out. Dwyer’s got a HUGE arm. 92-93 with a hammer breaking ball. He’ll be a DES in 2 years, so he has a little extra incentive to go to the school. Going to be a very tough sign.
And they just selected Justin Harper, RHP from Yavahai.
Power arm, moved to the pen late last year and took off. Committed to … San Diego I think? JuCo kid.
I assume you guys will be doing a nice sized review of the selections.
I hope that’s a joke.
Kinda rhetorical.
I hope.
LOL.
Great work the past 2 days. You must be exhausted Mike.
I might do a general overview, but not an exhaustive pick by pick breakdown.
Whew, I was looking at the Draft Tracker, and thought WTF?!?!
I might be the only one, but this draft is somewhat disappointing. They passed up on a lot of signability guys that I would’ve liked to see an attempt at.
Guys like Gose, Meyer, Shreve, Seaton, Melville, Landers, H-Martinez, Jordan Danks -Gose went in the 50’s (still would’ve liked him more than Bleich), but the rest either went late 100’s, 200’s, and even 500’s.
Maronde better not fall through either.
The D-Backs just drafted Jesse Orosco. The Cards also took Scott Boras’ son Shane a round or two ago.
is he represented by daddy Boras or does Scott only accept good players and turns down his sons request? Because if there is one person in the world I could see doing that it’s Scott