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Originally Posted by olivertheorem
I've been through 3 drafts in my Astros game, and once I get past the first 4-5 rounds I really start looking for guys with at least one MLB-quality potential or two, even if they're fringy. My thought is that "well, this guy will have good movement if it maxes, and if he catches some stuff and/or control improvements too, he could be a solid big-leaguer or org depth guy", just as an example. To me, it's all about finding the guys who have the fewest holes to fill to make the bigs. I've got a 1B I drafted in 2013 around the 5th pick who has really good gap, hr power, and eye potentials, but his contact potential was something like 35, not nearly good enough for MLB. But a couple years later that potential is up to 40, and if he gets it to 45 and maxes out I'll have a Carlos Pena type on my hands, which isn't so bad.
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Couldn't have said it better myself. After the first 5 rounds or so you have to look for players that do one, maybe two, things well or at least above average and hope maybe a few of them will get better over time. I've also been through 3 drafts in my game and I have a 16th round pick from my first draft, a college RP whose only qualities were a 16/20 movement and one above average pitch, who now three years later could potentially make my big league roster in the spring. You just have to try to find guys that are good at
something, not
everything.