News and Notes: Everybody’s Thinking about the Draft and the Trade Deadline
News and Notes for Friday, June 14th, 2024
The Guardians had another off-day, so it was time for writers to reflect on the trade deadline and the MLB draft.
Zack Meisel has an excellent trade deadline primer out.
Perfect Game posted an incredibly thorough 500 name draft board.
MLB Pipleline updated their mock draft. Still sounds like most believe that it will be Travis Bazzana or a significant underslot savings for the Guardians. Interesting to see Pipeline move Chase Burns up to 2nd.
Matt Dallas and I spent time talking about the trade deadline, the draft, the shortstop position, and more on the latest Disgusting Baseball podcast.
Jhonkensy Noel has made some fairly significant approach changes of late:
Jhonkensy Noel has been on fire lately, and the improvements in the contact department are very encouraging
— Thomas Nestico (@TJStats) June 13, 2024
Noel possesses some of the greatest raw power in baseball. His Max EV of 118.4 mph ranks 4th amongst MLB and AAA batters https://t.co/RyPn4C7MPy pic.twitter.com/iISwoIrXBv
Much better! pic.twitter.com/Lk5IXddRBI
— Thomas Nestico (@TJStats) June 13, 2024
JJ Wetherholt was interviewed by Intentional Talk ahead of MLB’s draft combine next week:
"Going into college I wasn't really highly recruited... I just had to keep proving myself, put my head down and work."@WVUBaseball star JJ Wetherholt is ready to keep turning heads at the @MLBDraft Combine next week!@SieraSantos | @Dempster46 | @KMillar15 pic.twitter.com/OkPLAUWXdD
— Intentional Talk (@IntentionalTalk) June 13, 2024
Charlie Condon received the Dick Howser Trophy:
— Georgia Baseball (@BaseballUGA) June 13, 2024
The Dick Howser Trophy #GoDawgs pic.twitter.com/oFx4eMIH7K
The Guardians will be in Toronto tonight for a three game series starting at 7:07PM EST.