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Old 05-19-2016, 09:29 AM   #4
jmuelly
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Originally Posted by battists View Post
There are definitely a lot of people who put high emphasis on intangibles, the main ones being work ethic, intelligence, and leadership. Certainly those are great differentiators between like talents.

College players are more likely to be stay true to their potential than high schoolers, so if you need talent to get to the bigs sooner rather than later, I would focus on college players.

I would pay attention to stats to a certain extent, especially if you have feeder leagues.

Personally, as I get deeper into the talent pool, I tend to look for players who don't have a huge gap in one area. For example, you'll see players who have like 40-40-40-40-2 or something like that in their batting ratings or potential. I don't mind if it's power, but I don't want players who are absolutely strikeout machines or hopeless at taking walks.

Pitchers, I tend to look for multiple pitches. You need at least three good pitches to make an impact in the bigs. There are a million RPs out there, and can generally be found easily and cheaply, so when drafting, I tend to draft heavily SP, like I will draft a low potential guy with three pitches over a slightly higher guy that projects to be a RP.

Just a few thoughts from me.

Caveat: I don't exactly have a stellar track record when it comes to winning OOTP championships.


Thanks for the tips. It seems so demanding drafting, I often go back and forth this guy orthat guy, then the guy is available in the next round still and I find anotherguy and weigh the decisions. I’m only inround 5 right now. I fear my #5 overallpick may not sign. He was a very hardrating but I loved the upside. He’s a 20year old I think he was from Puerto Rico not by PC to recall. His projections were pretty good. He’s a 6’9 230 monster. Fingers crossed I can convince him tosign. Not sure what they consider whensigning but the path to the bigs in MKE as a potential elite pitcher may be forthe taking if he wants it.





Pretty excited, but I see myself overdrafting guys too oftenI think. By that I mean I really likeplayer A in this round and he’s still there 8 rounds later. Is that just me reading my scouting reportsand becoming excited whilte others teams miss and/or my guy whiffing on areport?
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