With the traditional first-round picks in the books, we’ll use this post to track the “sandwich” selections that come before the second round: compensatory picks awarded to clubs that lost QO-declining free agents as well as Round A of the competitive balance picks (tradeable choices that are awarded by lottery to low-revenue/small market clubs).
Here are the picks:
Compensation Picks
31. Rays: Shane McClanahan, LHP, University of South Florida (FL)
32. Rays: Nick Schnell, OF, Roncalli HS (IN)
33. Royals: Jackson Kowar, RHP, University of Florida
34. Royals: Daniel Lynch, LHP, University of Virginia
35. Indians: Ethan Hankins, RHP, Forsyth Central HS (GA)
Competitive Balance (Round A) Picks
36. Pirates: Gunnar Hogland, RHP, Dayspring Christian Academy (FL)
37. Orioles: Cadyn Grenier, SS, Oregon State University
38. Padres: Xavier Edwards, SS, North Broward Prep HS (FL)
39. Diamondbacks: Jake McCarthy, OF, University of Virginia
40. Royals: Kris Bubic, LHP, Stanford University
41. Indians: Lenny Torres Jr., RHP, Beacon HS (NY)
42. Rockies: Grant Lavigne, 1B, Bedford HS (NH)
43. Cardinals: Griffin Roberts, RHP, Wake Forest University
Minor quibble with the baseball draft…Comp Round and Competitive Balance picks shouldn’t be labeled as “first rounders”.
PS- Eric and Kiley at FG nailed the Pirates taking Gunnar Hoglund.
I think you should expand tradeable picks to Compensation picks (31-35) as well as Competitive Balance picks (36-43) Who says No? Teams should be allowed to trade the picks they get for losing QO FA. If No. 31-43 picks are teadeable, instead of just 36-43, it opens the door for more trades. Protect all other picks.
I don’t know if it’s possible but I’d like them to get rid of the slot values. Maybe there’d be less strategy, but I’m not a huge fan of reaching in the first round so you can spend more in the later ones.
Just a quick look says KC got 4 potential starting pitchers and the Florida 2 r complete steals.
Few teams need it more than the Royals
So nice of MLB to give the Cardinals extra picks so they can be competitive.
makes sense since the Cardinals “play the game the right way” and all. They’re so athletically and morally superior to every other organization that it’s a wonder they aren’t just automatically awarded the top pick in the draft each year.
Better than letting the Mets or someone ruin some kid’s career.
Thank you for noticing
don’t see how the cards deserve a competive pick it’s not like we met either qualifier were not low rev xp now that multi billion deal with fox and we’re not small market either we finish in the top 1/3 in the mlb in attendance tbh if feel if you finish year in and year out in the top 1/3 in mlb no team should get this pick that includes stl
Cards are in s small market, 22nd I believe, they just draw extremely well in that small market. This will be a fun one, because Griffin at a minimum is going to be a high level closer so everyone will get to botch about competitive balance picks every time he pitches.
at minimum, any player drafted yesterday never makes the show
At minimum, most players drafted in the first 43 picks do make the show.
Couldn’t agree more. Calling the Cardinals “small market” with the size of that fanbase, the attendance and the size of the revenue they bring in is ludicrous.
The competitive balance pick should be based on teams in the worst place organizationally.
Like they should quantify the farm system and average it with the W/L %. That way, teams with bad systems can get them. Its about making it competitive right? Might as well give it to the teams with the worst systems/ major league teams. (So…..Baltimore)
So teams who draft poorly deserve more picks? That’s stupid.
Um, yeah? If your goal is to actually increase the competitiveness of those teams, then giving them more chances to get it right would help that.
You can obviously argue that it doesn’t seem the real goals of these picks is to increase competitiveness around baseball, using the clear example that many have above, the Cardinals don’t need it.
Cry me a river.
Spot on..
Besides, the MLB draft is such a crapshoot, you could give a team an extra 2 picks each year, and it still wouldn’t assure that team of any further future success…
However, how the Cardinals are ever able to receive a “competitive balance pick” is beyond me..It just makes zero sense whatsoever..
Check out this link from Fangraphs–it explains it after the Spygate scandal and the fact that they lost a competitive balance pick to the Astros. fangraphs.com/blogs/do-the-cardinals-deserve-a-com…
You may not like it or agree with it but it is the owners who decide how this works and as 24th in market size, they get the pick based on the present rules.
What’s stupid is St. Louis getting any kind of “competitive balance pick”. Absolutely ridiculous.
i’m a cards fan and i still don’t understand why we get the pick also what determines small market is it regional based or size of your metro area because the only way cards qualify as 24th is if they only base it off metro area other than that the way we draw and how much money team generates we are by no means small market and tired of hearing that we are
The only metrics that should count are attendance and revenue. Size of the metro area is meaningless. You don’t see Green Bay getting any advantages because of the size of their “metro area”. This is nothing more than the beer boys holding sway. “Competitive Balance Pick”. What a joke.
tbh the whole draft needs to be done if your trying to be competive instead of giving the worst team the #1 pick xp now that tanking is acepted instead the teams that just missed out of the 2nd wc should pick 1st there should be some sort of reward for trying to field a winning team instead of the current trend “hey we’re going to suck for 3~6 years but we might be good after for maybe 2 years”
I love the Hankins pick by the Indians. They’ll probably have to reach for a few guys later to save slot money, but if he can put it together, he’ll be special.