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2052 DRAFT POOL ANALYSIS

At this point, the draft was less than three weeks away, so why not think about the riches on offer with the, uh, #22 pick?

The shortlist for draft candidates had been compiled, and we have put a hotlist together with the dozen-ish most interesting prospects availa- … say, Pat Degenhardt, where are all the pitchers and catchers on the list? – A-ha. – Oh.

Looks like it’s more of a hitters draft class. Excluding catchers for the most part. Here’s the shortlist (*high school player):

SP Jaden Williams (14/12/8) – BNN #2
SP Rick Johnson (11/12/9) – BNN #1
SP Cameron Parks (10/13/12)*

1B Andy Metz (10/14/15)
2B/SS/CF Jesse Sweeney (10/6/11) – BNN #6
INF Billy Nichols (13/10/6)*

OF Ken Hummel (17/15/10) – BNN #9
RF/LF Perry Pigman (14/10/12) – BNN #7
OF Kyle Fisher (13/7/14) – BNN #8
OF Elijah Johnson (10/12/13)
OF/1B Chris Lovins (9/6/8)* – BNN #3

Hummel looked like the kind of guy that would end up on the Elks and torture us for the next 15 years. With Jerry Outram on the way out, this looked like perfect timing, too.

The left-handed Lovins, 19, was a bit the odd one out here, in that Pat Degenhardt didn’t like his composure much at all, but he had destroyed his high school league in its entirety with the stick. OSA was more friendly especially in the contact department, and we kinda hoped for a late-first-round steal there until BNN came out and ranked him third on their own hotshot list.