4 future heroes

ReadingPhilly wrote:gelb points out ragsdale's last start came against #1 florida. 4 ip, 2h, 1 er, 1 bb,10 k

Almost a quality start

Smash taters for all the haters

Pretty big fan of Brian Barber after the last two days.

ReadingPhilly wrote:gelb points out ragsdale's last start came against #1 florida. 4 ip, 2h, 1 er, 1 bb,10 k

Sooo, POTENTIALLY two solid starters with star upside, a solid bullpen piece with back of the rotation upside and a solid lottery pick?

Gonna have Happ teach carsonrags_18 his changeup and we'll have a star on our hands.

Baseball America does a way too early 10 player mock for the next draft. Last year Casey Martin was #4

https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories ... y-edition/

So what he hit .270 for a couple of weeks in March and it dropped him to the middle of the 3rd round? I don’t get it.

I love the draft because you all seem to.

I also like that we drafted fake Chris Paul in round 5.

Per Gelb, Casey Martin and the Phillies reached a deal on Friday.

that's a baseball name if i've ever heard one

Bucky wrote:that's a baseball name if i've ever heard one

I’m not sure a better “names” draft exists than the 2020 Phillies class. It was like cool names was the new market inefficiency

KLAW write-up:
The Phillies were pretty adamant they wouldn’t take a high school pitcher in the first round … except for the best one in the class, Mick Abel (1), who has been an elite prospect at least since the end of his sophomore year. Abel has size, stuff, delivery — everything you’d want in a teenaged pitching prospect other than the part where he didn’t pitch at all this spring. He’s consistently 92-95 mph and looks like he’ll throw a little harder in the future, with a plus curveball, solid-average change and the ability to repeat his delivery to get to plus command. He’s a high school pitcher, and the success rate for those guys is lower than it is for any other class, but at least the Phillies got the best in the group.
Casey Martin (3) was a possible first-rounder coming into the year but was so bad in the early going that it knocked him well into Day 2. He’s a 70 runner who could stay at shortstop, with plenty of arm for that position or third base, but he’s a dead-pull hitter who doesn’t pick up spin and gets around the ball way too often. There’s a good regular in here, but the Phillies have a lot of work to do to get him close to an average hit tool. Right-hander Carson Ragsdale (4) is another power arm, a reliever for two years at South Florida who came back from Tommy John surgery to strike out 37 batters in four starts (46 percent of batters faced). He was up to 95 mph in his return with an above-average curveball but needs a third pitch to start. Baron Radcliff (5) is, in fact, not a rejected “Clue” character but an all-or-nothing power hitter who’s struggled to hit for average at Georgia Tech and might end up at first base or DH.

Squire wrote:Per Gelb, Casey Martin and the Phillies reached a deal on Friday.

Sweet anyone see $$?

Keith Law wrote:Baron Radcliff (5) is, in fact, not a rejected “Clue” character

ha

MoBettle wrote:

Squire wrote:Per Gelb, Casey Martin and the Phillies reached a deal on Friday.

Sweet anyone see $$?

just this from the article.

Martin said Friday he had agreed to sign for a “fair amount for where I was picked and for my value.” The draft slot called for a $689,300 bonus.

harper also touched base with him.

For now, Martin is still trying to process how this off-the-map Arkansas kid took a FaceTime call from Bryce Harper on Thursday, minutes after achieving his dream.

“I kind of blacked out in the middle of it, to be honest,” Martin said. “It was just so unreal.”

Baseball America UDFA Signing Tracker

Starting to dribble in but nothing for Phillies yet.

It’s not that shocking that a former mlb baseball player has a kid and gets drafted or in this case signed. What is shocking is that it’s Adam Loewen, who I swear is probably 35 or 36. Kid has to be 20.