This is the Nats Farm authority draft tracker. with the signing of their #3 and #8 round picks, the Nats have really locked in basically every non-marquee draft pick of their 2010 draft. Who is left?
#1: Bryce Harper. Thanks to Mr. Boras, don’t expect any movement until August 15th at 10:30pm.
#2: Sammy Solis, a Jr Lefty from USanDiego. 6’5″ 240 big lefty, #48 Baseball America prospect so perhaps a slight overdraft on our part at the top of the 2nd round. Slight injury concern (ruptured disc in back cost him his sophmore season). 9-2, 3.00 era with 87/26 k/bb in 87ip. Sits 89-92, touches 93. Sounds kinda like a Detwiler with more bulk and thus less injury prone.
#4: AJ Cole; the most interesting of our draft picks. Cole was a 1st round talent projected, signed with Miami. He’s drawing comparisons to Justin Verlander in terms of his size/frame and his fastball (93-94, reportedly touching 98). This is a great test of the ownership group; will they offer overslot money on a high-end talent? Keith Law thinks its 50-60% that they sign him.
This would make for a pretty good drafting class if they get all three of these guys remaining.
They’ve already signed #3,5,6,7,10 positional players (all college juniors) and they’re all in Vermont playing short-A ball right now.
I was looking at the spreadsheet of draft picks and wonder though. Why does any team bother drafting a High School kid in the 40th-50th round who has a division 1 college scholarship commit? Is it just to impress the kid and make him feel good about himself? I guess some of these guys pan out; 2006 we drafted Brad Peacock in the 41st round out of High School, probably gave him $1000 to sign, and he’s still plugging away. He’s in Potomac now and isn’t doing too badly.