And with your No. 1 pick, the Sex Panthers select, Chris Bassitt (Dude called it!).
The 32-year-old had a great 60-game season, going 5-2 with a 2.29 ERA and a 55:17 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
Was he worth the No. 1 overall pick?
I had Bassitt tagged for second or third round, so maybe this will be a winning pick.
Or, as the Jargon — yes, I went sudo-third person there — wrote last night, it will be yet another first-round pick failure.
For those who were maybe scratching their head at Bassitt going first overall, their confusion was quickly lost when Archie Bradley went second overall.
I have nothing for this. I wouldn't even put him No. 1 overall in an RP draft, so the fact that he went No. 2 overall is rather confusing.
Steroid ... Wow, I typed that. Guess it will take a little bit to get used to this. Boil'd Nuts grabbed Kevin Gausman at No. 3, which is a fantastic pick. I picked Gausman last year and wound up trading him after the draft for a reliever who I also liked, but at the end of the day, I should have held on to Gausman. He went 3-3 with a 3.62 ERA and 79:16 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
This led to Nelson Cruz dropping to me, which I was kind of shocked to see.
I told Crox, if Nelson drops to me, I will select him. And I did.
Parker did some weird stuff with his back-to-back picks — maybe he should have traded these picks. I like Charlie Morton, and honestly thought based on his signing in Atlanta he'd go higher, but Anthony Santander is an interesting first-round selection.
But hey, that was the theme.
David Price, Tommy Pham, also went, but let's get to the meat of this Jargon.
Tyler freaking Mahle was a first-round pick.
How on Earth does the World Series Champ do this?
Four of his starts last year (he had 9 starts) went 4 innings or less. He was 3-12 in 2019. He's not a keeper. He's not a first-round pick. He's a throw-in on a trade. You know, the kind of trade where you give up a crap-ton of picks and say about six other players. That's what he is. He's Player No. 7 in that deal.
And Dude had to go and pick him.
Justin Brown is long gone, so I can say this: Dude is a jerk. (I wonder if he gets this joke. If not, oh well.)
The second round came and the Panthers stole my pick of Robbie Ray — I think Ray has a chance to be a sleeper Cy Young pick. He won't win it, but I think wins-plus-Ks, added with the fact that he'll cut down on walks big time after fixing his arm slot, will propel him in to the conversation as a candidate.
Gina said, "I'm going to pick Ray."
...
"Why are you so silent?" she asked.
It was because I was upset.
That's why I wanted to draft him at my fourth-overall pick. But again, Cruz fell. I missed out
Choo got his first pick of the draft and last for a while, and he took Butter's favorite trade-bait dangle, Trevor Rosenthal. Which could lead to rounds of agony for him.
And I closed the night — of course I did, it's always about me — with the homecoming.
Salvador Perez is coming home. He was a Slammer prospect. He was a Slammer franchise player. And he was a Slammer vet cut loose just before the airport ACL incident. Now he's back to keep the plate warm until Adley arrives.
And that's where we're at, waiting for Parker to wake up and make another silly pick that I'll make fun of tomorrow night.
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