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Good evening everyone. I hope you had a decent Saturday, especially for those of you along the East Coast following the snow and ice storm that hit late Friday night.
Two of my other sites, Rule 4 Draft and Rule 5 Draft, have now merged with At the Dish. All of the content from Rule 4 Draft can be found here on At the Dish. [Read more…]
Oklahoma right-handed pitcher Jonathan Gray. Credit: Ken Inness/ZumaPress.com.
With the MLB draft just hours away, we have put together our third and final mock draft leading up to the first selection at 7PM ET tonight.
Houston will pick first tonight, and it still remains to be seen who they will select.
Most mock boards have them picking either Mark Appel or Jonathan Gray. [Read more…]
North Carolina 3B Colin Moran.
The Amateur Baseball Draft is scheduled for Thursday June 6-Saturday June 8, with the entire first round occurring on Thursday night. The draft is scheduled to begin at 7PM ET.
After news broke earlier this week of Jonathan Gray testing positive for Adderall at a pre-draft program held by Major League Baseball, we have switched up our top 10 picks. [Read more…]
WBC Champs Dominican Republic. Credit: Mike Blake/Reuters.
Over the past couple of years, Major League Baseball officials have talked about instituting an international draft, or making the current Rule 4 Draft open to international players. Since we posted our first mock draft of the 2013 season, we are now tackling the idea of an international draft in baseball.
Many believe that an international draft is very close to occurring because of the new restrictions placed on international spending for amateur free agents who are not eligible for the draft in the United States. The new restrictions on signing bonuses take effect on June 1, 2013, but an international draft would not occur until at least 2014 if it is approved. [Read more…]
As we work on the redesign for our Rule 4 Draft site we have come to a decision to merge the site with JAV Baseball and will be moving content over for the next couple of days.
We would like to thank all of the readers of JAV Baseball for sticking with us since our inception even during times when the site was down because of problems.
We feel that by merging the two sites we can focus mainly on the Rule 4 Draft while also adding in some generic baseball content along the way. [Read more…]
A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to speak with Ed Wade, the former General Manager of the Philadelphia Phillies and Houston Astros regarding the Amateur Baseball Draft.
We discussed a variety of different topics regarding the draft, how organizations prepare, what scouting directors go through each year and what individual scouts look for based on the area of the country they are assigned.
We talked about draft strategy, which level players teams prefer to take (high school or college) and much more. I put together a lengthy essay regarding our conversation about the Rule 4 Draft and you can read it by clicking on the link below. [Read more…]