As we embark on the 2023 amateur draft his week, let's look back at the draft that happened 10 years ago. The players were drafted were generally between the ages of 18 and 22 and at the time when selecting teams might have been thinking they just signed a star for the future in those rounds. Or possibly just taking a waiver on someone late not thinking they would ever see a ML roster. I will warn you, the 2013 draft was light.......to say the least.
The 1st overall pick in the draft went to the New Orleans Looters who selected 5-tool potential CF Arturo Rodriguez out of Maris High School. He signed for $8M and was assigned to the Looters minor league system where he would spend nearly 5 years before making his debut in New Orelans during the 2018 season. He would spend 5 years there peaking in the 2020 season with a 7.4 WAR before leaving this past offseason and signing with Los Cabos. Career wise for a #1 pick his stats are a little under whelming. .285/.330/.456, 17.8 career WAR, 110 HR, 447 RBI.
Picks 2 and 4 were taken by Reno and Maui and were not signed, so let's take them out of the equation.
Pick 3 went to the Seattle...at the time....Kings, who selected SP Drew "Onion" Schaefer, 22 year old starting pitcher out of Texas A&M. He signed for $9.69M and was given a 2 year major league contract worth $2.9M. Less than 2 months after he was selected there was some controversy, but it will go down as Niagara Falls claimed Schaefer off of waivers. He would spend 2 season in the NFF system before being called up at age 25. He was traded to Jersey Shore 2 years later where he would struggle, bounce around the league to 5 more franchises before ultimately being released by Vista early this season. He is currently a 32 year old free agent. It was a tough ride. At the moment he has a 16-20 record, 6.20 ERA and a career WAR of 0.4.
Rounding out the Top 5, St. Louis selected 2B Joe Sanders out of Purdue University. He signed for $5.29M. He spent almost 3 years in the Browns system before being called up. He won the 2017 ROY award, has a gold glove and has been selected to 2 AS games. While he has a great bat and even better eye, injuries have really limited his production. Nonetheless at age 32 he is starting for the Browns, has 26.9 career WAR and a .310/.384/.379 line and is probably the best pick of the Top 5.
The best player overall in the draft is the unquestionable Dave Dodd of Jersey Shore. Selected as the 2nd pick in the 2nd round by Reno, Dodd was released the same year he was drafted. Jersey took a flyer on the power bat where he toiled around the Jersey Shore system for 3 seasons before making his debut in 2016. Always good speed and glove, Dodd started out as a boom or bust hitter, hitting a lot of home runs and striking out more often than not. Dodd since then has established him as one of the game's most feared hitters, posting a league record in WAR at 12.1, winning a triple crown and 2 MVP trophies.
Currently the best pitcher in the draft would be SP Carlos Lopez, selected by St. Louis as the 1st pick in the Supplemental 1st round. Lopez was drafted out of Texas Tech and made his debut in 2015. 2016 was his break out year where he would 10-3 and a 2.56 ERA. His season was cut short with major arm surgery and he was never the same pitcher. He would pitch in the Browns rotation until 2021 where he came out of the bullpen. He signed a 3 year deal with Austin prior to the 2022 season and is currently part of their rotation. His career stats stand as: 54-50, 4.11 ERA and 9.8 WAR.
Other notable picks include All-Stars OF Alden Lindsey picked 6th overall by Irvine, 3B Richard Coker picked 20th overall by Jersey Shore, and Eliot Helen selected in the 2nd round by St. Louis.
Late round steals include Ryan Campbell selected in the 4th round by San Francisco, Tom Carey 5th round pick of Baffin Island and Jose Padilla 6th round pick of Greenville. All 3 have played in more than 350 games at the major league level.
The 2nd to last pick in this draft actually made the Major Leagues, which is mind boggling. SS Finley Frogley was taken by Hendersonville out of the University of Michigan in the 10th round, pick 27. A pure utility infielder, Frogley appeared in 1 game for the Hitmen in 2018 and actually started 22 games for them in 2018. While his bat was well......not good. .167/.183/.218, he did put up a +1.7 ZR playing shortstop.
As for pitchers, the last pitcher selected to make the Majors was Ramon Soto taken as the 3rd pick in the 8th round by Seattle. He appeared in 3 different seasons from 2018-2020, pitching in 34 games to the tune of a 5.77 ERA. He is currently pitching for Maui's AAA club.
What will this year's draft bring? Will you draft a bust like Schaefer? Will you find a gem like Dodd in the 2nd round or maybe a utility man late? That's the fun in the draft, no one knows what will happen. Happy Drafting!
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Monday, May 6, 2013
June In Review; D-Bags Coast to Best Month in Team History
After two 20- win months to start the season people were ready for the "new season" shine to wear off. Waiting for Jersey Shore to fall back with the pack. The team apparently wasn't ready for that. For the 3rd straight month the team won 20 games and in the end it turned into the best month in team history. The Bags compiled a 24-4 record, which included a team record 18-game win streak and on July 1st puts Jersey up 9 games even on 2nd place Greenville not only for the division but also the best record in the BSA. The team continues to click on all cylinders, Top 2 in batting average, runs scored, ERA, runs allowed and defesive efficiency.
Players of the Month
1B/DH Matt Doyle: .384/.465/.705 10 HR 35 RBI 43 H 26 R. Why not start out with the BSA CL Player of the Month as one of our players of the month? After struggling through April, Doyle showed us why he is.....Matt Doyle. He had 14 multi-hit games, including back to back multi-HR games against Toronto, the 2nd being his 2nd 5 hit game of his career. He also hit 2 HR and knocked in 6 runs in that contest. Surprisingly this was the first time Doyle has been awarded the CL award for Batter of the Month in his short, but great, 4 year career.
C Warren Goyer: .280/.333/.731 13 HR 33 RBI 20 R. If a player not named Doyle was going to win Batter of the Month, it probably would have been Goyer. He played in 24 games and hit 13 HR, which as far as I can tell is a Jersey record, breaking the previous record of 12 set on several different occasions. Goyer was named Player of the Week in the CL for the first week of June, which was the first honor of it's kind for Goyer in his career. His best game of the month came against Toronto where he had his first career 3 HR game, had 4 hits, scored 4 runs and knocked in 7.
MR Jose Ruiz: 4-0, 1.20 ERA, 0.87 WHIP, 15IP, 20K. The 24 year old Ruiz keeps getting better. Not only this season but in his career as well. He posted his best month of 2017 while his stats across the board are the best in his career. Those numbers include ERA, WHIP, K/9, BB/9, K/BB, H/9 and HR/9. He seems to be on track to be another great reliever in the Jersey system.
MR Lucio Tapia: 3-0, 0.60 ERA, 0.93 ERA, 15IP, 13K. If anyone in the middle innings was better in June than Ruiz, it was Tapia. Allowing only 8 hits and 1 ER in 15 innings helped bridged the gap in a month where starting pitching wasn't THAT good. Tapia in his 7th year in the Jersey bullpen is currently posting the 2nd lowest ERA in his career and lowest WHIP. This is the 5th season where he has won at least 6 games. For his Jersey Shore career he posts a 36-11 record.
CL Jaime Saenz: 3-0, 9 saves, 0.48 ERA, 0.64 WHIP, 18.2 IP, 30 K. Why not save the best for last? Saenz won the CL Pitcher of the Month for June and well deserved. He as virtually unhittable. After a blip against Madison early in the month he went on a streak of 15 shutout innings giving up 9 hits and walking 3 in those innings. His 25 saves as of July 1st lead the CL. After having the lowest K/9 rate in his career last year, he has come back this year with a bang averaging a career high 12.49 K/9.
Questions, Answers and Concerns:
We asked this question last month, but what else is there to say? How many concerns can you have when the team is playing at such a high level? Towards the middle of the month leadoff man Peter Larson sprained a hamstring playing the outfield and missed the rest of the month. After rehab we expect him back towards the end of July. It's not the first time in his career he has been injured, but he has been relatively healthy over the last 2 seasons. Towards the end of the month of the 27th the outfield took another blow as Jose Ortiz strained his oblique making a sliding catch in the gap against the Titans. At first he seemed to be fine but was taken out of the game. He is expected to miss about 5 more weeks which will put him back on the team sometime in August. Expect to see Al Ryan and/or Taro Kino in the coming weeks. Ryan has been up since Larson got injured and has played well in his absence.
I would say this is a perfect chance for Top Prospect Fransisco Ibarra to make his debut but he is also shelved on the DL with tendinitis in his right knee. Updating the injury front, SP Art Ellis still remains 7 or so weeks out until he will start a throwing program and head for rehab.
The Bags made a trade that went on with little publicity trading for the often troubled SP Drew "Onion" Schaefer formally of the Niagara Falls Frenzy. Scouts still see him as having very talented but at age 26 time is running out for him to perform. Before coming to Jersey he posted a 2-11 record with a 7.69 ERA in 18 starts and having a WHIP above 2. In his only Jersey start for the month he was crushed by Toronto, being pulled in the 4th inning giving up 7 ER on 6 hits and 7 BB. With such a big lead Jersey may be able to be patient with him and see if he can mature and learn something playing with many veterans on the Jersey staff.
Even though Schaefer was struggling doesn't mean he was cheap. Jersey gave up promising 20 year old OF Guillermo Sanchez who Jersey's scout has rated 4* and learning CF for the past 2 seasons. Also leaving Jersey was 21 year old MR Ruben Rojas who was having a good year at A ball Manhattan. Rojas has an explosive arm and can hit 100 MPH on a good day, but with Jersey's MR depth he was far down on the list. Also leaving was 22 year old Jesus Herrera. Hererra isn't the most naturally gifted player, but with top speed and above average contact he had been a terror in AAA this season, hitting over .400 with Tuscaloosa and winning May's Minor League Player of the Month for Jersey. He project's as a 3rd-4th OF.
Minor League Players of the Month
Pitcher
SP Victor Rivera (A): 4-0, 1.60 ERA, 0.89 WHIP, 33.2 IP, 47 K. At 19, Rivera is starting to show up on scout's radars. He is hitting 99-100 MPH with his fastball, something we have never seen before. His 12.05 K/9 is 4th in the Midwest league for SP and the only pitchers ahead of him are 29, 30 and 30 years old. He posts a record of 8-4 and is coming off a 15 K game, which was only the 5th of it's kind in Midwest League history. Don't be shocked to see him get moved up to AA in the coming weeks.
Hitter
OF Fransisco Calderon (AAA): .407/.490/.889. 10 HR, 32 RBI, 33 H, 24 R. Calderon, just 22 years old, has always had that power, well....according to scouts. Before last season the highest amount of HR he
had hit in a season was 7. Between AA and AAA last year he hit 20. Through 3 months in 2017 he already has 19. The plus speed OF from Cuban was originally discovered by Greenville. He spent a month with the LA organization before being released in Feb 2013 before signing with Jersey. With his new found power, top speed and above average OF skills we might just see him in Jersey in the coming months.
July is a month where Jersey plays 16 of their 25 games at home, but will see teams Vista, Greenville, Austin, Chicago and Orlando. Not the easiest schedule. If the Bags can hold their lead on the 84er's through the month the Bags could be on their way to their first division title in the franchise's history. We hate to be to optomistic but with a lead of almost 20 games over the first WC team, we have good inclination that the Bags will reach the playoffs for the 3rd straight year.
GO D-BAGS
Players of the Month
1B/DH Matt Doyle: .384/.465/.705 10 HR 35 RBI 43 H 26 R. Why not start out with the BSA CL Player of the Month as one of our players of the month? After struggling through April, Doyle showed us why he is.....Matt Doyle. He had 14 multi-hit games, including back to back multi-HR games against Toronto, the 2nd being his 2nd 5 hit game of his career. He also hit 2 HR and knocked in 6 runs in that contest. Surprisingly this was the first time Doyle has been awarded the CL award for Batter of the Month in his short, but great, 4 year career.
C Warren Goyer: .280/.333/.731 13 HR 33 RBI 20 R. If a player not named Doyle was going to win Batter of the Month, it probably would have been Goyer. He played in 24 games and hit 13 HR, which as far as I can tell is a Jersey record, breaking the previous record of 12 set on several different occasions. Goyer was named Player of the Week in the CL for the first week of June, which was the first honor of it's kind for Goyer in his career. His best game of the month came against Toronto where he had his first career 3 HR game, had 4 hits, scored 4 runs and knocked in 7.MR Jose Ruiz: 4-0, 1.20 ERA, 0.87 WHIP, 15IP, 20K. The 24 year old Ruiz keeps getting better. Not only this season but in his career as well. He posted his best month of 2017 while his stats across the board are the best in his career. Those numbers include ERA, WHIP, K/9, BB/9, K/BB, H/9 and HR/9. He seems to be on track to be another great reliever in the Jersey system.
MR Lucio Tapia: 3-0, 0.60 ERA, 0.93 ERA, 15IP, 13K. If anyone in the middle innings was better in June than Ruiz, it was Tapia. Allowing only 8 hits and 1 ER in 15 innings helped bridged the gap in a month where starting pitching wasn't THAT good. Tapia in his 7th year in the Jersey bullpen is currently posting the 2nd lowest ERA in his career and lowest WHIP. This is the 5th season where he has won at least 6 games. For his Jersey Shore career he posts a 36-11 record.
CL Jaime Saenz: 3-0, 9 saves, 0.48 ERA, 0.64 WHIP, 18.2 IP, 30 K. Why not save the best for last? Saenz won the CL Pitcher of the Month for June and well deserved. He as virtually unhittable. After a blip against Madison early in the month he went on a streak of 15 shutout innings giving up 9 hits and walking 3 in those innings. His 25 saves as of July 1st lead the CL. After having the lowest K/9 rate in his career last year, he has come back this year with a bang averaging a career high 12.49 K/9.
Questions, Answers and Concerns:
We asked this question last month, but what else is there to say? How many concerns can you have when the team is playing at such a high level? Towards the middle of the month leadoff man Peter Larson sprained a hamstring playing the outfield and missed the rest of the month. After rehab we expect him back towards the end of July. It's not the first time in his career he has been injured, but he has been relatively healthy over the last 2 seasons. Towards the end of the month of the 27th the outfield took another blow as Jose Ortiz strained his oblique making a sliding catch in the gap against the Titans. At first he seemed to be fine but was taken out of the game. He is expected to miss about 5 more weeks which will put him back on the team sometime in August. Expect to see Al Ryan and/or Taro Kino in the coming weeks. Ryan has been up since Larson got injured and has played well in his absence.
I would say this is a perfect chance for Top Prospect Fransisco Ibarra to make his debut but he is also shelved on the DL with tendinitis in his right knee. Updating the injury front, SP Art Ellis still remains 7 or so weeks out until he will start a throwing program and head for rehab.
The Bags made a trade that went on with little publicity trading for the often troubled SP Drew "Onion" Schaefer formally of the Niagara Falls Frenzy. Scouts still see him as having very talented but at age 26 time is running out for him to perform. Before coming to Jersey he posted a 2-11 record with a 7.69 ERA in 18 starts and having a WHIP above 2. In his only Jersey start for the month he was crushed by Toronto, being pulled in the 4th inning giving up 7 ER on 6 hits and 7 BB. With such a big lead Jersey may be able to be patient with him and see if he can mature and learn something playing with many veterans on the Jersey staff.
Even though Schaefer was struggling doesn't mean he was cheap. Jersey gave up promising 20 year old OF Guillermo Sanchez who Jersey's scout has rated 4* and learning CF for the past 2 seasons. Also leaving Jersey was 21 year old MR Ruben Rojas who was having a good year at A ball Manhattan. Rojas has an explosive arm and can hit 100 MPH on a good day, but with Jersey's MR depth he was far down on the list. Also leaving was 22 year old Jesus Herrera. Hererra isn't the most naturally gifted player, but with top speed and above average contact he had been a terror in AAA this season, hitting over .400 with Tuscaloosa and winning May's Minor League Player of the Month for Jersey. He project's as a 3rd-4th OF.Minor League Players of the Month
Pitcher
SP Victor Rivera (A): 4-0, 1.60 ERA, 0.89 WHIP, 33.2 IP, 47 K. At 19, Rivera is starting to show up on scout's radars. He is hitting 99-100 MPH with his fastball, something we have never seen before. His 12.05 K/9 is 4th in the Midwest league for SP and the only pitchers ahead of him are 29, 30 and 30 years old. He posts a record of 8-4 and is coming off a 15 K game, which was only the 5th of it's kind in Midwest League history. Don't be shocked to see him get moved up to AA in the coming weeks.Hitter
OF Fransisco Calderon (AAA): .407/.490/.889. 10 HR, 32 RBI, 33 H, 24 R. Calderon, just 22 years old, has always had that power, well....according to scouts. Before last season the highest amount of HR hehad hit in a season was 7. Between AA and AAA last year he hit 20. Through 3 months in 2017 he already has 19. The plus speed OF from Cuban was originally discovered by Greenville. He spent a month with the LA organization before being released in Feb 2013 before signing with Jersey. With his new found power, top speed and above average OF skills we might just see him in Jersey in the coming months.
July is a month where Jersey plays 16 of their 25 games at home, but will see teams Vista, Greenville, Austin, Chicago and Orlando. Not the easiest schedule. If the Bags can hold their lead on the 84er's through the month the Bags could be on their way to their first division title in the franchise's history. We hate to be to optomistic but with a lead of almost 20 games over the first WC team, we have good inclination that the Bags will reach the playoffs for the 3rd straight year.
GO D-BAGS
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