Welcome to the inaugural Old Red Guard weekly discussion thread! This will be a new idea implemented for this forum to help promote discussion and recognize high-quality contributions.
Discussion will be expected to remain on the topic posted in the initial post of the thread. Readers are encouraged to like posts that they feel are quality contributions to the discussion at hand. After one week, the RedsZone member who has the post with the most likes will be recognized in the thread, and the user will have a trophy posted in their user signature with a link to the post that was identified as the best contribution to the weekly discussion.
For our first discussion, the topic will be recent Reds' draft picks. Discussion might contain analysis of draft trends, how the previous draft picks worked out, ways that the Reds could succeed or fail in the 2018 draft, or any related information. Here are the Reds first round picks from 2004 (the year that Homer Bailey was drafted). I apologize for formatting errors; if anyone can make this more readable, please let me know!
Year Player Position School 2004 Homer Bailey Right-handed pitcher La Grange High School 2005 Jay Bruce Outfielder West Brook Senior High School 2006 Drew Stubbs Outfielder University of Texas at Austin 2007 Devin Mesoraco Catcher Punxsutawney Area High School 2007 Todd Frazier Third baseman Rutgers University–New Brunswick 2007 Kyle Lotzkar Right-handed pitcher South Delta Secondary School 2008 Yonder Alonso First baseman University of Miami 2009 Mike Leake Right-handed pitcher Arizona State University 2009 Bradley Boxberger Right-handed pitcher University of Southern California 2010 Yasmani Grandal Catcher University of Miami 2011 Robert Stephenson Right-handed pitcher Alhambra High School 2012 Nick Travieso Right-handed pitcher Archbishop Edward A. McCarthy High School 2012 Jesse Winker Outfielder Olympia High School 2012 Jeff Gelalich Outfielder University of California 2013 Phillip Ervin Outfielder Samford University 2013 Michael Lorenzen Right-handed pitcher California State University - Fullerton 2014 Nick Howard Right-handed pitcher University of Virginia 2014 Alex Blandino Shortstop Stanford University 2015 Tyler Stephenson Catcher Kennesaw Mountain High School 2016 Nick Senzel Third Baseman University of Tennessee 2016 Taylor Trammell Outfielder Mount Paran Christian School 2017 Hunter Greene Right-handed pitcher Notre Dame High School 2017 Jeter Downs Shortstop Monsignor Edward Pace High School
Looking forward to seeing how our first weekly discussion thread works out! Please PM me with any suggestions for future discussion topics.
Originally Posted by westofyou
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