Giants complement top pick on Day 2

[Bear]

06/08/2006 1:47 PM ET
By Ryan Quinn / MLB.com

A big part of any type of draft is the signability of each player.
When the Giants drafted Tim Lincecum from the University of Washington at No. 10 overall on Tuesday, they inherited a pitcher who led the nation with 199 strikeouts. That means the Giants are going to have to put up some money to match.

"Where we're picking, it really [didn't] matter, it's going to cost some money," said Dick Tidrow, vice president of player personnel for the Giants. "It's not like we [picked at] 24 or 25, we [picked at No.] 10 -- it's a sum of money that has to be there."

The Giants not only have to worry about signing Lincecum, but several others that were selected during the 2006 First-Year Player Draft on Tuesday and Wednesday.

In addition to Lincecum, the Giants picked nine other pitchers on Day 1.

On the second day, they did what many teams do and piled on 16 more pitchers.

San Francisco drafted 26 pitchers, five catchers, eleven infielders and eight outfielders with its 50 picks. The selections divided up into 31 college players, seven junior college players and 12 from the high school ranks.

In addition to the influx of pitchers on Day 2, the Giants also selected four more catchers and added six outfielders.

For the first pick of the second day, the Giants took Oregon State center fielder Tyler Graham in the 19th round. Graham helped the Beavers win back-to-back Pac-10 championships and advance to the NCAA Super Regionals this season. He hit .287 this season with 14 RBIs.

Adam Paul, a right-handed relief pitcher from UNC Wilmington, was taken in the 20th round and is a two-time All-Colonial Athletic Association reliever. Paul is one of six players drafted from Wilmington, and he anchored the Seahawks' bullpen with a 7-3 record in 36 appearances.

The Giants took Steven Calicutt, a left-handed pitcher from East Tennessee State, in the 21st round. He went from a starter to a reliever this past season and set a school record for appearances with 88. He posted an 8-5 record with 47 strikeouts and a 5.62 ERA.

The Giants took 5-foot-10 outfielder Bobby Felmy in the 22nd round. Felmy played for the University of Georgia Bulldogs and hit .290 this season with seven homers and 45 RBIs.


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The next three picks were high school players: Sitka (Ark.) High School right-handed pitcher Eddie Crow, Olympia High School (Orlando, Fla.) righty Jeffrey Walters and Williston (Fla.) High School shortstop Joseph Moos.

Shane Mathews, a right-handed pitcher from East Carolina University, was taken in the 26th round. The redshirt sophomore posted a 5-3 record with a 4.73 ERA and led the team with 75 strikeouts. He had Tommy John elbow surgery in 2005 and was selected to the 2006 Conference USA all-tournament team.

San Francisco took right-handed pitcher Daryl Maday from the University of Arkansas in the 30th round.

The 6-foot-2, 220-pound Maday finished the season with a 2-3 record, 3.14 ERA and five saves.

In the 33rd round, the Giants selected infielder/outfielder Chris Siewart from the University of Tennessee. San Francisco plans to turn the multi-talented Siewert into a catcher.

Left-handed pitcher Jared Cranston was selected in the 34th round. It was the second time that the Giants had selected the reliever from Nebraska. San Francisco also selected Cranston in the 46th round after his sophomore year at Seward County (Kan.) Community College.

Cranston went 2-0 this season with a 6.46 ERA in 21 appearances for the Cornhuskers. At Seward County, he earned first-team Jayhawk West all-conference honors.

In the 35th round, the Giants selected Adam Cowart from Kansas State University. Cowart went 6-7 with a 3.12 ERA this season for the Wildcats, striking out 72 hitters in 89 1/3 innings.

After Cowart, the Giants selected 11 more college players and four more from the high school ranks.

It is a Draft like many in the past! PITCHERS, PITCHERS,PITCHERS!

[SF Kid]

You would hope that couple of those pitchers would work out. The thing I hate about the baseball draft is it takes forever to groom a player for the major leagues. It's (generally) not like football and baskeball where these kids come in ready to help a team win immediately.

[Bear]

Yes, and the Giants track record with position players leaves something to be desired. We have a boat load of Pitchers right now, and I know you can get people in trade for them, but at this point we need one or two real prospects in the field. JMO

[SF Kid]

Look at the A's. Their farm system is good and they simply reload with young guys without spending all the money that many teams are these days. The A's have been pretty damn competitive considering all the good players who have left via FA.

The Giants ought to take a page out of the A's book on "How to build a farm system".

[Giants666]

Look at the A's. Their farm system is good and they simply reload with young guys without spending all the money that many teams are these days. The A's have been pretty damn competitive considering all the good players who have left via FA.

The Giants ought to take a page out of the A's book on "How to build a farm system".

How Playoff series has Billy Beane won? ZERO!!!!!!!!

[Bear]

666...The Kid loves the Giants just as much if not more than you do so what is the problem you have with him that you seem to what to confront him all the time. So he likes to look for info. on the web. BFD. You are not the only one who knows how to use a computer. Get a life and don't always be looking for a fight. JMO

[Giants666]

666...The Kid loves the Giants just as much if not more than you do so what is the problem you have with him that you seem to what to confront him all the time. So he likes to look for info. on the web. BFD. You are not the only one who knows how to use a computer. Get a life and don't always be looking for a fight. JMO

Wow WTF, I not looking for a fight.........calm your @$$ down BEAR..........I was just stating that Billy Beane hasn't won ****, so why take a page out of what the A's do.

[Bear]

This is not the impression you give. Take as you will but that is the fact!

[Giants666]

Well, whatever BEAR you took it the wrong way.......There's no malice intended. I'm not out to get no one.

[Dry1313]

Trouble in Paradise?

[Bear]

[SF Kid]

My point was simply the A's do better being competitive spending less money than most teams because they seem to know how to build and maintain a good farm system! And they do it consistently even after letting their own home grown stars leave.

[SF Kid]

Heh...we got like 5 people in participating in this Giants forum regularly and we can't get along?

Where is Rodney King when you need him.

[Bear]

Drunk on some street conor!

[SF Kid]

But he was the voice of reason, right?