{"id":16682,"date":"2020-08-10T14:09:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T18:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16682"},"modified":"2020-08-11T10:19:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T14:19:06","slug":"fangraphs-updates-the-board-with-2020-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16682","title":{"rendered":"Fangraphs updates the Board with 2020 picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16684\" style=\"width: 217px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Henry_Cole-via-al.com_.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16684\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16684\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16684\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Henry_Cole-via-al.com_-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Henry makes fangraph's top 10. Photo via ai.com\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Henry_Cole-via-al.com_-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Henry_Cole-via-al.com_.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Henry makes fangraph&#8217;s top 10. Photo via ai.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A small diversion from the Nats increasingly awful 4-7 (the equivalent of 11-19 in a full season) start to the abbreviated season&#8230;currently in line for the 5th draft pick in 2021 and somehow missing the &#8220;basically everyone makes the playoffs&#8221; 2020 post-season.<\/p>\n<p>We posted a couple weeks ago about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=16665\">Baseball America&#8217;s updated prospect rankings<\/a> with our 2020 draftees &#8230; now by inference Fangraphs has done the same.\u00a0 They announced today that &#8220;The Board&#8221; has been <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fangraphs.com\/all-current-prospects-signing-bonuses-are-now-on-the-board\/\">updated with bonus amounts<\/a> (which must have been an amazing amount of work to do, especially to track down bonuses for post 11th rounders and for all the random July 2nd picks who don&#8217;t exactly go out of their way to announce paltry bonus figures), and I noticed our 2020 picks included in their system rankings.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s some quick notes on our 2020 draftees and how they slotted in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st rounder\u00a0<strong>Cade Cavalli<\/strong> pops up as our 4th ranked prospect, right after\u00a0<strong>Jackson Rutledge<\/strong>.\u00a0 This is basically what BA did as well.<\/li>\n<li>2nd rounder\u00a0<strong>Cole Henry<\/strong> is ranked 10th, as compared to BA&#8217;s 5th.\u00a0 This puts him just ahead of the likes of\u00a0<strong>Tim Cate<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Seth Romero<\/strong> and seem a more appropriate ranking spot than the lofty heights that BA put him.<\/li>\n<li>2nd round supp pick\u00a0<strong>Samuel Infante<\/strong> is placed 18th as compared to BA&#8217;s 10th.\u00a0 This puts him well below\u00a0<strong>Yasiel Antuna<\/strong> and right in the same range as <strong>Jackson Cluff<\/strong><b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>3rd rounder UCLA closer\u00a0<strong>Holden Powell<\/strong> did not make the top 24 ranked players, as compared to BA&#8217;s ranking of 14.\u00a0 This mean&#8217;s Holden is well below the other relievers ranked in our system, including\u00a0<strong>Matt Cronin, James Bourque\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Tyler Dyson<\/strong>.\u00a0 Again, a more sane ranking than what BA did.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Otherwise Fangraphs&#8217; rankings are unchanged from their Dec 2019 ranking, which means they continue to exclude some names from their list altogether that some Nats fans may call out.\u00a0 Guys like\u00a0<strong>Jake Irvin, Jackson Tetreault, Cole Freeman, Tres Barrera,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Ben Braymer<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jhonatan German<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Steven Fuentes<\/strong> get no love from the Fangraphs duo of\u00a0<strong>Eric Longenhagen<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Kiley McDaniel.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small diversion from the Nats increasingly awful 4-7 (the equivalent of 11-19 in a full season) start to the abbreviated season&#8230;currently in line for the 5th draft pick in 2021 and somehow missing the &#8220;basically everyone makes the playoffs&#8221; 2020 post-season. We posted a couple weeks ago about Baseball America&#8217;s updated prospect rankings with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4324],"tags":[3333,4394,3605,4396,3457,4367,4255,4181,3608,3871,2924,4301,2273,4185,4397,3565,3038,3763,3192,3656,4015],"class_list":["post-16682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prospects","tag-ben-braymer","tag-cade-cavalli","tag-cole-freeman","tag-cole-henry","tag-eric-longenhagen","tag-holden-powell","tag-jackson-cluff","tag-jackson-rutledge","tag-jackson-tetreault","tag-jake-irvin","tag-james-bourque","tag-jhonathan-german","tag-kiley-mcdaniel","tag-matt-cronin","tag-samuel-infante","tag-seth-romero","tag-steven-fuentes","tag-tim-cate","tag-tres-barrera","tag-tyler-dyson","tag-yasiel-antuna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16682"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16694,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16682\/revisions\/16694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}