APBA Blog reader Steve Stein writes in and tells me that his league’s draft is coming up soon. And like last year, the Transcontinental Baseball League draft will post their draft online so you can ‘watch’ it live. You don’t have to wait, though. If you go to TBL draft page now, you can see their teams’ rosters, draftable rookies and draft order.
Here’s what Steve has to say regarding their draft:
The Transcontinental Baseball League (TBL) kicks off its 30th season with its annual League Meeting and Draft in Fishkill NY on Saturday, February 12.
Every year, certain managers predict how the draft might go. This year there were three such predictions. Another manager, Paul Montague, took these 3 predictions and made a consensus ranking of the particularly talented 2011 Draft class.
Here are the results:
1. Buster Posey
2. Jason Heyward
3. Mike Stanton
4. Carlos Santana
5. Starlin Castro
6. Madison Bumgarner
7. Logan Morrison
8. Jaime Garcia
9. Pedro Alvarez
10. Jhoulys Chacin
11. Ike Davis
12. Stephen Strasburg
13. Austin Jackson
14. Jose Tabata
15. Neil Walker
16. Josh Thole
17. Domonic Brown
18. Daniel Hudson
19. Jeremy Hellickson
20. Travis Wood
21. Wade Davis
22. Mitch Moreland
23. Tyler Colvin
24. Joaquin Benoit
25. Mike Leake
26. Dayan Viciedo
27. Gaby Sanchez
28. Kenley Jansen
29. Jason Castro
30. Ryan Kalish
31. Justin Smoak
32. Chris Johnson
It’s nice to see some MLB rookie predictions up especially in the unique method that Paul has done. It’s tough to get a sense how rookies will get drafted without asking a manager to give up his hand (“Starlin Castro? Naww, he won’t go till the 3rd round.”).
I’m curious how close the actual draft will be to the predictions. It’s amazing at least in my league’s drafts how certain high-level rookies get passed by sometimes and don’t get picked till later rounds. Teams’ needs and managers’ biases for a certain type of player really do come into play.
Good luck to the TBL on the 12th. For those especially interested, don’t forget you can check the TBL website on Feb 12th and see how they are doing!
TBL not TCBL. But thanks for posting this! I hope it helps those with similar wealth of riches in the draft this year!
my bad… it was even in your email.
I hope Posey isn’t going that early. My team has its eye on him in our league. :)
The team with the #1 pick traded away Brian McCann. Can’t see them doing that if they weren’t picking Posey.
Hayward would be my #1 pick.
Heyward. (Gotta get in the habit of spelling it right – he’s going to be a force for some time.)
Ack! This one’s my bad – it was Paul *Montague*, not Paul Harrington who was responsible for the rankings.