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Originally Posted by Orcin
Let's compare him to the Astros 2013 round 5 pick: 2B Tony Kemp of Vanderbilt.
Kemp's resume: .398/.480/.496 with 35 walks in 256 at-bats
SEC Freshman of the Year. Freshman All American. SEC Player of the Year. First team All-American according to several publications. Golden Spikes Award Semi-finalist, Howser Trophy Finalist.
I am going to go out on a limb and say that you would prefer Kemp to the guy above. Baseball America says Kemp is projected to be an average fielder, same as my guy. Kemp is a super base stealer. Round FIVE.
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None of what you posted has anything at all to do with Kemp's eventual MLB career or more likely, lack of career.
Actually go back and look at guys with similar stat lines and college accomplishments from the past, see if they became MLB players. I'm guessing you'll find most didn't. Most fifth round picks don't, no matter how highly acclaimed they are in their college careers.
Now that being said, I'd actually tend to agree that that guy is too poorly rated for the third round, but as injury_log's mentioned several times, there are so many variables here that it's tough to tell if that player is typical of a third round pick in this version of OOTP. I'd say he isn't, I haven't seen any like him myself.
You may simply be creating a very small draft pool for whatever reason.