Fake Teams Dynasty League Minor League Draft - Round 2

by Jason Hunt on Nov 30, 2011 2:00 PM EST in Baseball

We've been continuing on with our minor league portion of the draft over at the Fake Teams Dynasty League, and you can find those results below. Here's a reminder of the rules for the draft:

Players who have not made their Major League debut are the only eligible players for this draft. So players like Mike Trout, Jesus Montero, and Matt Moore are all ineligible to be drafted in this portion of the league.
The order was set via a random order generator, and as such is not related to the order for the Major League portion. Which of course makes it a bit tough for the Blue Jays as they had the last pick in both.

I will be profiling each of these prospects as a part of their team's Minor League Keeper Thoughts, as each of them are realistically top-25 prospects overall for the start of the season.

Round 2

1. Toronto Blue Jays - Jake Marisnick - OF - Toronto Blue Jays
2. Colorado Rockies - Martin Perez - SP - Texas Rangers
3. Carl Winslows - Carlos Martinez - SP - St. Louis Cardinals
4. Bronx Bombers - Josh Bell - OF - Pittsburgh Pirates
5. Atlanta Braves - Xander Bogaerts - SS - Boston Red Sox
6. Miami Marlins - Bubba Starling - OF - Kansas City Royals
7. Anaheim Angels - Matt Harvey - SP - New York Mets
8. Oakland Athletics - Manny Banuelos - SP - New York Yankees
9. New York Mets - Michael Choice - OF - Oakland Athletics
10. Los Angeles Dodgers - Taijuan Walker - SP - Seattle Mariners
11. Tampa Bay Rays - Brett Jackson - OF - Chicago Cubs
12. Brooklyn Nets - Will Middlebrooks - 3B - Boston Red Sox
13. Boston Red Sox - Nick Franklin - SS - Seattle Mariners
14. Fake Teams - Gary Brown - OF -San Francisco Giants
15. Arizona Diamondbacks - Hak-Ju Lee - SS - Tampa Bay Rays
16. Texas Rangers - Francisco Lindor - SS - Cleveland Indians

My Thoughts about these picks after the jump...

Bogaerts was a very popular player, as the complaining (myself included) that he didn't last longer, leads me to think he could end up as a top 40 prospect overall in a lot of rankings this offseason.
I ended up taking Manny Banuelos, as I wasn't really feeling particularly excited about any one of the prospects more than another at that point. Banuelos is likely to be in the Majors at some point in 2012.
We saw a few teams go with players that are still very far away, like Walker and Martinez. Both are likely to be at least 3 years away unless something unusual occurs.
I really liked Ray's pick of Gary Brown, and I'll be interested to see what Brown can do next year in AA. He did play in the California League last year, but 14 HR and 53 SB still look pretty good regardless of league.
Middlebrooks, Jackson, and Perez are all likely to have an impact in the Majors in 2012, with Jackson having a shot to win a job out of Spring Training.

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Has he really dropped that far?

Carlos Martinez – SP – St. Louis Cardinals, mid- year last year if you had this draft would have been top 10, did his struggles in the 2nd half really hurt him that bad? being so young with so much talent, I would have thought higher then Skaggs, Perez, and Jake Marisnick.
Just my 2 cents

by Jax5 on Nov 30, 2011 3:20 PM EST reply actions

Have to figure in who we have drafted in the Majors too

I’ve only got one outfielder so I needed to draft an OF and Marisnick is one of my favourite players.

by dudedudedude on Nov 30, 2011 4:15 PM EST up reply actions

Gotcha

I’m in a 16 team league, and thought I had kind of a weak system, but I have 4 players taken here in the top 2 rounds, so maybe not as weak as I thought.
I have:
Sano, Miguel
Bogaerts, Xander
Bell, Josh
Marisnick, Jacob

Maybe in the 3rd round these guys can go:
Hamilton, Billy
May, Trevor

by Jax5 on Nov 30, 2011 4:19 PM EST up reply actions

Hamilton

did go in the 3rd round.

I like the 4 guys you have. All should be top 100 or better this season.

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by Ray Guilfoyle on Nov 30, 2011 4:24 PM EST up reply actions

The reason I took a guy that was further away is that I wasn’t too sold on any of the others left. I like Gary Brown, but that was about it.

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by T.C. Engel on Nov 30, 2011 4:48 PM EST reply actions

Not thrilled with Choice

But he did look good in the AFL. Wish I had taken Cheslor Cuthbert here, since Ray snaked him from me in the 3rd.

by pooptallica on Nov 30, 2011 4:56 PM EST reply actions

Yeah

I expected to see Cuthbert by now, which I like much more then Middlebrooks

by Jax5 on Nov 30, 2011 5:31 PM EST up reply actions

I was all set to take

someone else….forget who…and I checked Sickels site and he liked Cuthbert alot….

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by Ray Guilfoyle on Nov 30, 2011 7:12 PM EST up reply actions

Also I thought Lindor

I thought Lindor was more glove then Defense, this is fantasy, not real life value, thought he was over drafted here.

by Jax5 on Nov 30, 2011 5:35 PM EST reply actions

Correction

Also I thought Lindor
I thought Lindor was more glove then Offense, this is fantasy, not real life value, thought he was over drafted here.

by Jax5 on Nov 30, 2011 5:35 PM EST up reply actions

he might be

but MIke Newman over at Fangraphs has a contact who said Lindor was the best player in the 2011 draft.

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by Ray Guilfoyle on Nov 30, 2011 7:13 PM EST up reply actions

I don't get that impression at all

Goldstein and Parks raved about his bat on a recent podcast.

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by Robert L. Bishop on Nov 30, 2011 10:00 PM EST up reply actions

Went back to confirm

They did go nuts about his defense, but said that his bat is good enough he could be the top prospect in all of baseball one day. Called him “somebody you could build a team around.” So, not as much praise specifically about his offense as I remember, but I feel good snagging him at the back of the second round.

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by Robert L. Bishop on Nov 30, 2011 10:12 PM EST up reply actions

Ok

I was unaware of his upside, I heard most about his + Glove, and his glove would get him to the show, and should hit, just nothing special in the Bat. I took Bell over him in my rookie draft. SS with potential upside, never hurts to have a couple of them.

by Jax5 on Dec 1, 2011 10:44 AM EST up reply actions

Close to majors talent vs. Higher ceiling and further away

It would seem more GM’s value prospects that have played at AA and above than further away guys hence Carlos Martinez, Cuthbert, and some others falling.

by Scott Clarkson on Nov 30, 2011 7:27 PM EST via mobile reply actions

long-term

I think that in future years we will see a lot more lower level talent go, but since nearly everyone on most top prospect lists was available, we are seeing that play out a bit so far.

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