1975 Rookie Draft

[buppers]

--The Gamblers select Mike Vail

--Since our pace has been so good I think we can levae the clock at 12 hours rather than switch to 8 hours for the 3rd round as scheudled.. I think we are going to run out of players worth drafting before we run out of time before the auction starts anyeway.

I believe we are still on 12 hour clock

[dust bunnies]

The change was not posted at the beginning. Mark L, if you want Baldwin, you can have him. I didn't mean to jump the gun.

Jack

[Sockeye]

That was for the 3rd round. We are now in the 4th round. I'm guessing the clock is now 8 hours. Mark would have to clarify that though. At any rate it has now been over 12 hours since the previous pick was made so I'd think the Baldwin pick should be safe now.

[mac195]

Not sure why... but HC have agreed to trade their 4th round picks in '76 and '78 for the Legends upcoming #56 and #57 picks.

[leecemark]

--We're just about out of usefull players and plenty of time til the free agent auction starts so we can stick with 12 hours for the duration.

[leecemark]

--The Gamblers select Billy Smith as a makeup pick for the expired clock. Cloverleafs are up and they can have a 12 hour clock from this post due to the confusion.

[tharpri]

Rick Cerone c

[catcher24]

Not sure why... but HC have agreed to trade their 4th round picks in '76 and '78 for the Legends upcoming #56 and #57 picks.

Legends confirm this trade.

With the trade of our two fourth round picks, the Legends are done drafting. We are extremely excited to have come out of this draft with Dan Ford, Greg Minton and Craig Reynolds. Probably one of the greatest drafts in Legends history.

[leecemark]

--I feel equally excited to have landed Mike Flanagan and Jerry Augustine - which I am assuming will be my entire draft class. One big year and alot of mediocrity. At least Flanagan delivers in quanity a few years .

[Sockeye]

The Angels are truly pleased with their draft. We have been able to come away with

#2 John Candelaria (#2 on our draft board)
#17 Eric Rasmussen (#7 on our draft board)
#20 Mike Norris (#8 on our draft board)
#26 Paul Mitchell (#13 on our draft board)
#30 Denny Walling (#14 on our draft board)
#39 Ron Pruitt (#16 on our draft board)

6 players among the top 16 on our draftboard. Yes, very pleased indeed!!

[J W]

Yeah, the Angels had a good draft by our board as well. Particularly the picks of Rasmussen and Pruitt.

[mwiggins]

Is Ron Pruitt really good enough to protect in expansion, though? Otherwise he probably gives you nothing but 120 useable PA's of a guy who does nothing well but draw walks.

But if you do keep him through expansion, you've got 133 PA's of a very nice platoon catcher in 1980 with the way he hits lefties that year (.323/.370/.448).

[leecemark]

--I can't imagine Pruitt will make the Angel's original 14 man protected list. OTOH I can't imagine he will be high on the expansion club's wish list. There should be a chance or two to pull him back and then he makes a very usefull part timer - something that makes him a 2nd tier talent in this very weak draft class 2nd tier is a compliment for a guy who went at that point in the draft).

[mwiggins]

--I can't imagine Pruitt will make the Angel's original 14 man protected list. OTOH I can't imagine he will be high on the expansion club's wish list. There should be a chance or two to pull him back and then he makes a very usefull part timer - something that makes him a 2nd tier talent in this very weak draft class 2nd tier is a compliment for a guy who went at that point in the draft).

Very true. Though my expectation was that teams would try and protect as much young (cheap) talent as possible, so that a guy like Pruitt would be fairly high on expansion teams draft boards. Though for the Angels, who've had so many draft picks recently, he'll very likely not be one of the first three guys an expansion team would want. Whereas on the Spikes, he would almost certainly be among the 3 most valuable unprotected players in '77. He'd actually probably make the Spikes protected list the way things are looking right now.

Btw, I love the Rasmussen pick. Great value there, though I didn't have him quite that high on my draft board.

[tharpri]

[buppers]

Badgers take P Gene Pentz

[mac195]

HC take Frank LaCorte and...

Bombo Rivera!

Without Lew's handy 6-year feilding compilation, we would have thought Bombo was just another mediocre part time outfielder and not worth drafting. Thanks again, Lew.

[catcher24]

At this point the Hard Cider are up for the two picks they got from me in trade - #56 and #57. I have only five names left on my entire board at this point and no one I really would have been thrilled taking. I hope Mac can get a couple of useful players for his team, but trading for future picks worked best for me.

[mwiggins]

With the 58th pick, the Spikes will select OF Larry Harlow.

[dust bunnies]

With the 58th pick, the Spikes will select OF Larry Harlow.

The DB have the next three picks, and were looking forward to drafting Larry Harlow. Rats. The management will regroup and announce their three picks sometime tomorow. They are out drinking tonight.

[mwiggins]

The Angels are truly pleased with their draft. We have been able to come away with

#2 John Candelaria (#2 on our draft board)
#17 Eric Rasmussen (#7 on our draft board)

With these two guys added to the mix, the Angels will be sporting an extremely deep, loaded rotation in '75 - Nolan, Christenson, Candelaria, Halicki, Kaat, Longborg, Rasmussen - plus Rollie, Eastwick, and Lindblad in the pen. I think we have an early favorite for leading the league in ERA.

[mwiggins]

The DB have the next three picks, and were looking forward to drafting Larry Harlow. Rats. The management will regroup and announce their three picks sometime tomorow. They are out drinking tonight.

Well, the Spikes were looking forward to drafting Bombo Rivera for about a week, so what can you do.

[catcher24]

The DB have the next three picks, and were looking forward to drafting Larry Harlow. Rats. The management will regroup and announce their three picks sometime tomorow. They are out drinking tonight.

Jack, you'd better drink a LOT to make any of the remaining picks look good...

[dust bunnies]

Jack, you'd better drink a LOT to make any of the remaining picks look good...

Red eyed and staggering, the DB management sees wonderful performances ahead for the following three draftees. They have decided to draft:

Mike Bascik
Preston Hanna
Bob Molinaro

Jack

[Sockeye]

With these two guys added to the mix, the Angels will be sporting an extremely deep, loaded rotation in '75 - Nolan, Christenson, Candelaria, Halicki, Kaat, Longborg, Rasmussen - plus Rollie, Eastwick, and Lindblad in the pen. I think we have an early favorite for leading the league in ERA.

Thanks Mark, that is what we were aiming at. Lets not forget a couple other key members of our pen Mickey Scott 1.13 WHIP in 68 IP, Paul Mitchell 1.05 WHIP in 57 IP, & our september specialist Mike Norris 0.84 WHIP in 16 IP. The Astrodome should only serve to help their production as well. The trade for Roy White should also have an impact on our pitching. His EX defense in LF allows us to move Hargrove from LF (FR) back to 1B (VG), and Rico Carty from 1B (FR) to DH where he should excel defensively. :-) Now if we could only find a decent starting 2B, SS, and backup C we might have something.