Originally Posted by
Benihana
To be clear, my strategy for the early rounds of this draft is quite simple: BBA or BPiA
Best Bat Available or Best Pitcher Available.
I'm not into drafting defensive whizzes with limited offensive upside- at least not in the first couple rounds. We already have DiDi Gregorius, Miguel Rojas, Humberto Valor, Felix Perez, Ryan LaMarre, Tucker Barnhart, and guys like that in the system. Before that we had Gookie Dawkins, Rey Olmedo, and many, many more. I want to see bats with huge upside- it matters a lot less to me what position they play (so long as they have the flexibility to play somewhere other than exclusively 1B). It just so happens that a lot of those bats are corner infielders or corner outfielders.
Best pitcher available is pretty self-explanatory, although perhaps I should add that I'd like to see upside better than a #4 starter- at least in the first two rounds.