1985 Rookie Draft

[scubadan]

The Boys have traded this pick (#46) and their 4th round pick in 1991 to the Iron for Brian Fisher.

Jason to confirm. Jason, I just acquired the Tyrants 4th round pick in this draft.. If you prefer that to the 1991 4th rounder it doesn't matter to me. Just indicate so with your confirmation.

[jaybird_1981]

The Boys have traded this pick (#46) and their 4th round pick in 1991 to the Iron for Brian Fisher.

Jason to confirm. Jason, I just acquired the Tyrants 4th round pick in this draft.. If you prefer that to the 1991 4th rounder it doesn't matter to me. Just indicate so with your confirmation.

The Iron confirm and will take the 4th in 91. Thanks! We will have our pick momentarily.

[jaybird_1981]

With the 46th selection in the 1985 first year player draft the Milwaukee Iron select:
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RP-Bob Kipper

[leecemark]

--The Corsairs select SP Edwin Correa. With 3 vacancies in next year's rotation his 200 IP might come in handy.

[jaybird_1981]

--The Corsairs select SP Edwin Correa. With 3 vacancies in next year's rotation his 200 IP might come in handy.

I think you put the incorrect time for what the Skipjacks have on the clock. it should be 10am instead of 4am I believe.

[leecemark]

I believe you are correct. I subtracted 3 hours instead of adding 3 hours from my time (PST). Not that I was going to be sitting up at 1AM waiting for his clock to expire anyway . The excitement of my 4th round selection isn't quite at that level.

[leecemark]

--Skipjacks clock is expired. Make up when you get a chance, Jason.

--The Knights select IF Mike Gallego.

[J W]

My pick? Ok, the Skipjacks will select P Bill Wilkinson.

Also, good god this is a sad looking board. I've got one guy left that I like.

[buppers]

Badgers sign Steve Lombardozzi

[scubadan]

Mark, the Boys acquired the Tyrants 4th round pick in this draft (#56 in the 84-85 thread). The draft list hasn't been updated to wanted to be sure you saw it.

[Erik Bedard]

My pick? Ok, the Skipjacks will select P Bill Wilkinson.

Also, good god this is a sad looking board. I've got one guy left that I like.

Wilkinson is a steal at this point. That '87 is a very good year and his '88 is nice as well. Which is about all you can hope for this late in such a weak draft. There's almost nobody left with more than one season where I'd actually want them on my roster.

[leecemark]

4th round in almost every draft is just about finding a guy who will give you one good year or maybe a couple sort of useless ones. Multi-year starters are going to be few and far between.

[Erik Bedard]

I believe Lew's clock is up now (it's certainly been twelve hours), and I'm not sure when I'm going to be around today, so the Gold Sox select Bob Melvin.

[Sockeye]

The 4th round pick we traded to the Tyrants was in 1986 (not 1985) thus we should still own the 4th round pick (59th overall) this season.

[J W]

4th round in almost every draft is just about finding a guy who will give you one good year or maybe a couple sort of useless ones. Multi-year starters are going to be few and far between.

Skipjacks 4th round picks, starting 1962, graded "C" or higher, meaning 25-man roster worthy two or more seasons out of six:

Fred Whitfield
Dick Green
George Mitterwald
Steve Brye
Vic Correll
Bill Stein
Tom Poquette
Jose Morales
Tom Johnson
Warren Cromartie (5th round)
Kiko Garcia
Marty Bystrom
Mark Davis
Tim Laudner
RJ Reynolds
Tom Foley
Jeff Heathcock
Jerry Willard
Ken Dixon

Sometimes I reached for a "D" in Round 4 if there was a particularly good year, but I went mainly for guys who would make good reserves for multiple seasons. Some of these guys were starters for several years (I consider Warren Cromartie my biggest draft steal so far).

I don't think there are any "C"s left on my board this year.