Archive for Draft

Jeff looks at the first five rounds of the draft and finds the players whose numbers benefited or suffered most from context.

Get the lowdown on the Top 50 players in the 2009 MLB draft.

Or deal with the draft. You choose.

For those who have missed it, there’s an extremely lively conversation going on in this thread about the pros and cons of abolishing the draft. The only thought I have on it that has yet to be voiced (at least I don’t think it’s been voiced) is that while there is a lot of surface […]

Pinto tears FOX’s Michael Rosenberg a new one over the latter’s half-assed draft column, and then invokes the nuclear option: Abolish the draft, and let these amateurs sign for what the market will bear. Then we can stop having these idiotic discussions about what’s wrong with the draft. The draft is just wrong, period. I […]

THT talks to Vince Gennaro about the economy’s effect on baseball.

Posnanksi has a big piece (not that he ever writes small ones) about trading draft picks. In it he cites yesterday’s Jayson Stark article approvingly, with a nod back at my comments about Stark. Two things: (1) Just to be clear, I don’t necessarily disagree with Stark’s overall “the draft it broken” argument. I think […]

In his debut article for The Hardball Times, Bruce Markusen examines the case of two-time draft king Danny Goodwin and what it could mean for potential No. 1 overall pick Steve Strasburg.

Reader Jason D. has a request: Please write about how damn stupid Stark’s ESPN.com piece on draft bonuses is. I’m bored at work. Gladly! Stark’s piece is about Stephen Strasburg and draft bonuses. Take it away Jayson: Fifty million bucks. Roll that around your tongue. Fifty million bucks. That’s not this week’s Powerball jackpot. That’s […]

Handicapping the 64-team NCAA bracket.