2005 Draft

[Taylor]

ok, enough with the RHPs from high school already...where's the love for my fellow lefties?

If you want to reach, go ahead. Fact is this draft is deeper in high schoolers/righthanders than college/leftys.

Of course, as we speak I'm sure Mr. Gammons is writing this up as "Moneyball's next strategic move - drafting flamethrowers from high school. The old scouts will be too busy focusing on painting soft tossers, they'll never know what hit em."

[Providence A's]

I'm sure they know more about what they want to do than I do...I was just saying it'd be nice to get some lefties. One from my university got drafted by the Cards in the 9th round, so I'm sure there were some, but I guess they wanted righties...and just because there were more RHP from high school in the draft, doesn't mean they're all quality...

I guess I'll never understand what is so wrong with these high school kids going to college and getting more experience against better players and then going into the draft. Are they afraid they're going to suck if they go to college? Are they too dumb to go to college? Are they just desperate for money?

[Providence A's]

581. Julio Rivera C Puerto Rico BB Academy High School
611. Stephen Bryant RHP U Hawaii
641. Michael Madsen RHP Ohio State U
671. Shawn Callahan C Central Missouri State U
701. James Bennett OF U Louisiana Monroe
731. Benjamin Ingold SS Wake Forest U
761. Ezekiel Parraz SS U Nevada Las Vegas
791. Ronald Madej LHP Bellevue
821. Jess Lacasse RHP Bellevue U
851. Michael Klug 2B U of North Alabama
881. Brad Kilby LHP San Jose State U
911. Tom Franco RHP U San Fran
941. Joshua Kay RHP U Cincinnati
971. Jake Hammons C Snohomish High School
1001. Matthew Singleton C Bal State U
1031. Edwin Mieles RHP Patrica La Torres Ramirez High School
1061. Steven Braun SS Los Angeles Pierce Junior College
1091. Shane Keough SS Northwood High School
1121. Anthony Huttenlocker LHP Edmonds Community College
1151. Nicholas Pulos C U Pennsylvania

A's passed in round 39, first team to do so, and therefore did not participate in further rounds...went to round 50

[Providence A's]

40 picks after 39 rounds and here's what we got.

6 SS
6 C
2 2B
1 1B
1 3B
2 OF, 1 RF
5 LHP
16 RHP

11 high schoolers
29 college players

only 3 OF out of 40 picks seems to be a small amount to me...about half of our picks were pitchers

[Providence A's]

we signed 13 guys the other day.

http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/NAS...=.jsp&c_id=oak

and before that we signed our first pick Pennington

http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/NAS...=.jsp&c_id=oak

hopefully, we'll sign our other 1st rounder from AZ State Travis Buck...saw him hit a homer in their super-regional game versus Cal State Fullerton