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2047 DRAFT POOL ANALYSIS

Bit of a pitchers pool this year, which wasn’t a bad thing in itself – we’d need pitchers in three to five years, too. It’s not like they’re flight attendants – a whole caste of people suddenly unemployable because of airborne android servants that were both friendlier and more pleasing to look at.

118 players in total had made this year’s shortlist, 48 of those pitchers and 70 batters. Yes, I said it was a pitchers pool. Just take a look at the hotlist (*high school player):

SP Kennedy Adkins (13/14/13)
SP Jamie Kempf (13/12/7) – BNN #7
SP Jeff Boyce (12/11/13) – BNN #5
SP Blake Sparks (14/15/10) * - BNN #4
SP Troy Henrikson (13/12/6) * - BNN #10
SP Josh Clem (10/15/11) * - BNN #1

CL Mike Snyder (15/13/13)

1B Jay Rogers (9/12/13) – BNN #2
1B Bill Joyner (15/13/8) * - BNN #6
1B Harry Ramsay (12/11/8) *

LF/RF/1B Aubrey Austin (10/10/17) – BNN #3
OF Jason Monson (10/16/14) – BNN #9

Okay, it was also a first baseman’s draft, although those we had picked out here looked like good bets to be long gone before the Raccoons could have a sniff on them.

It was probably the first time that nine of the ten players on the BNN Top 10 made our dozen-or-so hotlist. We were missing #8, pitcher Justin Peterson.

Note that Pat Degenhardt, our scoutmaster, had been quite harsh on some of the hurlers in terms of control potential, but OSA was much kinder on those. I’d take any of the six starters in a heartbeat! Problem was, the Raccoons had won quite a few games last year and only held the #21 pick in every round. We had a supplemental round pick, too, which meant we’d pick three times in the top 60, which wasn’t too bad for a team with two rings in three years.