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2008 MLB Draft: New York Yankees Recap

Yesterday's 2008 MLB Draft aka First Year Players Draft or Rule IV Draft covered six rounds. As expected, Baseball America has the most thorough coverage with sortable databases by team and by round. FWIW, Day One covered the first six rounds, and today's action will cover seven through 50.

Keith Law of Scouts, Inc looks at the Tigers drafting of three college relievers in their first three picks and speculates the team could replace their major league bullpen quickly.  He also likes Arizona Diamondback 1st rounder, Daniel Schlereth, to move quickly - not that the D'backs are hurting in the pen.

Baseball America Draft Coverage

Baseball America 1st round recap

Baseball America Sortable database by round and or team

Keith Law's Best & Worst Picks

Here is what the New York Yankees did on the first day of the draft. The player that intrigues me most is second round selection Scott Bittle, a reliever from Ole Miss. In 70.2 relief innings, he struck out 130 hitters. Even more interesting, Bittle lead the SEC in strikeouts with teammate, and supplemental 1st round pick, Lance Lynn finishing second with 110 Ks. I can't help thinking Bittle will be fast-tracked to New York. Those numbers in the best college baseball conference make confident this is the intention.

RoundOverallPlayerPositionSchool
1 28 Gerrit Cole RHP Orange (Calif.) Lutheran HS
1s 44 Jeremy Bleich LHP Stanford
2 75 Scott Bittle RHP Mississipi
3 106 David Adams 2B Virginia
4 140 Corban Joseph SS/2B Franklin (Tenn.) HS
5 170 Chris Smith OF Centennial HS
6 194 Josh Satin 2B/OF California
6 200 Brett Marshall RHP Sterling HS

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Goldstein on Bittle
Jacob (Newton, MA): So much for the Yankees going for signability picks. Thoughts on their draft?

Kevin Goldstein: I don’t think I could like the Cole pick any more than I do. After that it’s a mixed bag. If they can sign some of these later guys, and I’m a big Higashioka fan, it could be a nice draft. I don’t like Bliech much at all, and I think Bittle is a bit of a fraud, but David Adams could be a great find if he returns to previous form.

by faketeams on Jun 6, 2008 2:11 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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ANTHONY (NYC): Any players besides Cole u like in the yankees draft? Keith Law: (3:35 PM ET ) Adams was a favorite of mine on the Cape who had a bad spring. Bittle’s worth a shot, probably won’t work in the majors, but why not try it? Lassiter had the BP of his life at AFLAC, but area guys down there all told me I got an inaccurate picture of him – curious if the Yanks share my opinion a little. On the whole, though, not a lot of shooting for the moon this year.

by faketeams on Jun 6, 2008 3:56 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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