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Follow us on TwitterWith their second pick, the Yanks selected Jeremy Bleich, LHP, Stanford
Scouting Report: Neither BA nor Keith Law nor MLB have a report on the guy, so we’re out of luck. Here’s his video.
My Take: Don’t like the pick, it’s an overdraft. Can’t even find the kid on BA’s top 200 list.
Outlook: Bah. Staten Island I guess.
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Update: Got a scouting report: 88-91 with movement, good change and curve. Missed a good chunk of the season with an elbow strain.
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That pick just sapped all the Cole-excitement out of me.
John Manuel’s apparently really excited about the Bleich pick, thinks it was a great choice for the Yankees, and that he had first round talent before being hurt.
Just saw his scouting video on MLB.com
Sitting 87-90 with his fastball, decent curve, easy delivery. Nothing that stood out to me, or made me think he was worth a pick this high.
Cardinal Career: Updated Career Stats
Stanford’s active career leader in games started (29) • Has posted a 8-14 career mark with seven saves, one complete game and a 4.41 ERA in 47 appearances • Has limited opponents to a .288 batting average.
Nothing worthy of the 44 pick
wtf?
NM, his junior year looks sick
As A Junior In 2008: Has made six starts in seven total appearances with a 2-2 record, 1.24 ERA and 22 strikeouts in 29.0 innings pitched • Has had his ERA drop 92 points over his last four starts despite suffering two losses and a no-decision as 11 of the 12 runs scored against him during period are unearned • Opponents are hitting just .204 against him in 2008.
Wow, I was hoping with his less than stellar stuff, he would at least have a Kennedy-like college career.
That is quite disappointing.
Is he the next Adam O?
Hopefully someone falls to us our next pick…
“Bleich, a Louisiana native, returned from his elbow strain in late May and could move into the first five rounds with a strong NCAA postseason. At his best, he sits in the 88-91 mph range with his fastball that has natural lefty movement, complemented by a solid curveball and a plus straight change.”
Scouting report from a poster on the nyyfans.com forum.
Faith in Oppy people! Faith in Oppy
Dumb pick.
Repost: Did Opp just draft a LOOGy in the supplemental round or does this kid have a chance as a starter? Any idea?
Did anybody take Tanner Scheppers.I hope he falls to us.I rather him the this lefty IaN kennedy type.
hmmm … i wonder how you pronounce his last name … right now i’m feeling like its “blech”, like the sound you make when you clear your throat in disgust
Stupid pick. This guy would have been around in later rounds. If they were interested in a LHP Robbie Ross (BA Rank 43) or Kyle Lobstein (BA rank #45) would have made more sense.
Here’s my scouting report:
87-89 on the fastball, topping out at 90
has 2 curves–a 72-73 curve and a 75-77 curve. I like the first one better–more movement–but he has to learn how to command it. The second is more like a slurve with tight rotation. I just don’t see the use for it. Throws it too often.
79-81 slider. Has good cut to it, what you want in a true slider.
quick to the plate from the stretch.
smooth delivery other than showing the ball to 2b/cf, which creates stress; not much of an issue with everything else being fine
good pick off move.
In total, this guy isn’t anything special. He’s not particularly good at any one thing. He’s got some frame to fill out but not that much. Not worth a supplemental pick at all.
And with the 44th pick the Yankees draft…Buddy Groom!
Bryan Smith of Baseball Prospectus said this earlier this week:
Draft Notice: Jeremy Bleich. I go with Bleich here, because it’s rather substantial that the lefty proved he is back, though he did walk five in his four scoreless innings. This has definitely been a year in which some late risers have clouded the early rounds, making a guy like Bleich a bit of an afterthought. However, the Stanford lefty just missed in my Cape Cod League Top 30 list this offseason, and he’s a lefty that keeps the ball in the park with swing-and-miss stuff. Here’s to guessing he is drafted lower than he should be.
Any idea what he was “back” from?
Elbow strain.
Hey, it was the last two words of your write-up. Oops.
ESPN lists six other lefties still on the Top 75 board. Where did this pick come from? Did the Yankees think he wouldn’t be available in the third round?
I mean, Tim Murphy was still on the board…
Yeah Murphy was Pac-10 pitcher. I was saying murphy all year.
wow. I haven’t realized that.
With Robbie Ross on the board you take this joke…nice Yankees. Hopefully they take Ricky Oropesa sometime soon.
This makes no sense to me. Obviously the draft is a crapshoot, but there doesn’t seem to be any logic behind this. Need a lefty? Fine, take one of lefties rated way higher than Bleich. Really want Bleich? OK, take him in the 4th or 5th.
when he’s the #3 prospect behind Andrew and Gerrit in 2 years you all owe him an apology!
And I will gladly deliver it from my knees.
along with a coke
There was a deafening silence in Yankee blogdome a a result of a Google server melt-down due to the excessive Bleich searches. Any-hoo, its strange in that this pick only makes sense if the Yankees truly felt he would not make it back to them. Hard to say from our limited perspective. But on his Stanford Bio page (\http://gostanford.cstv.com/sports/m-basebl/mtt/bleich_jeremy00.html) its pretty clear that he was special in Cape Cod (not so much in the Pac10). Instead of muttering about left-handed Kennedys (which would be spectacular) let’s hope for the next Pettite.
The Yankees have to see something into this guy that was impressive. I trust the Yankee Brass
I read somewhere that it’s pronounced “blyshe” or b-lie-sshhhh
Nardi had better get his chisel out for both of them.
My God I feel old. All of these kids being drafted out of HS I’m older than. Can I start calling them kids yet?
Haha I’m a senior with 4 days of school left… this is really weird being the same age as a bunch of these guys. And I have the same birthday as Eric Hosmer
Well I’m the same age as Andruw Jones. Just wait til a guy your age hits homers in the World Series.
When does the second round start? I need some more action.
6:15
Could cliff lee be a comp??
I think this kid needs another pitch.
That is why I was thinking LOOGY when I saw the scouting report that says ‘keeps the ball in the yard and good swing and miss guy.”
Hopefully, he turns out to be much more than that.
If we are going to give all the credit for the great system to the guys making the picks maybe we should give them a little breathing room on their picks.
They do have a pretty good track record.
I couldn’t agree more. Cash and Oppenheimer deserve the benefit of the doubt. Let’s just wait and see. No one was that hot on Romine in the second round or pope in the third round last year.
What a mixed bag today has been in Yankee land. The Giambi walk-off, the Cole pick, the news that the Yanks are talking to Cashman about an extension then … this. The good still outweighs the bad.
It looks like he dominated the Cape Cod League. I bet that did a lot to improve his draft position in the Yanks’ eyes.
The pick’s intriguing, to say the least. Good ‘08 numbers + good Cape Cod showing + great make-up + some room on his frame for muscle? It’s interesting.
+ elbow strain…. but I see where you’re going with that
Hey, ESPN, the worldwide sports leader, here’s an idea… how about you have a FUCKING LINK TO ANY ROUND OTHER THAN THE FIRST on your “DraftCentral” site…
This production musta set ‘em back a couple of bucks…
What’s with the cuss words? Relax.
Sorry, just frustrated. Ironically, today I was dreaming about making a t-shirt that says “Fudge the Police”…
… I mean, they have a link that says:
“Sort By: Name | School | Position | Round”
… and the “Round” link gives you the First Round and no others, as if there’s only 1 round and not 51. Is this the first time they’ve ever covered a draft of a major sports league? Methinks not.
2nd Round starts now right?
any second now
Yeah, the tracker’s on a bit of a delay.
Do they take any more breaks inbetween rounds 2-5?
What happpened to the site formatting?
This falls in line with the way the Yankees draft. This kid is probably serviceable (and I say probably serviceable because I’ve never heard of him in my life), and he’ll sign relatively cheap. They’ll take their shots with signability guys in the later rounds and get them cheaper than if they took them at 44. The MLB draft is a different beast than the NFL draft. They saved cash here, and at least it’s a lefty. They’ll probably give a 8th round kid a $1 million bonus, ala Betances.