Angels 2016 Draft Signings

[John Smith]

According to Walden, Angels sign 3rd round pick Nolan Williams, heading to LA on Sunday.

"Many thanks to Nolan Williams's high school baseball coach, George Walden for the information in this article!" 

http://la.suntimes.com/los-angeles-angels/7/88/511285/mlb-draft-2016-angels-sign-3rd-round-pick-nolan-williams

 

[totdprods]

Excellent news.

[Make Angels Great Again]

Awesome!!

 

A lot of us I know are hyped for him.

[Chuck]

Terrific. He's one of the guys I was hoping we'd sign quick. 

Now on to Marsh and Mathias. 

[Docwaukee]

Outstanding!!.  This kid is gonna be a beast.  I am telling you.  Got a real good feeling about his ability.  Pretty crazy that our 6th rounder - Cole Deunsing is his best friend.  Both were on my concern list for signability.  Marsh, Rodriguez, Molina, Peto are a few others I'd be concerned about. 

[totdprods]

According to that article, Cole Duensing has already signed too, and is good friends with Williams.

I noticed we picked quite a few teammates this year. After seeing this about Williams and Duensing I wonder if there's a slight intangible they're trying to work with by pairing up players who have played together.

[Troll Daddy]

4 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

Terrific. He's one of the guys I was hoping we'd sign quick. 

Now on to Marsh and Mathias. 

Mathias is funny but let's not jinx him so fast.

[m0nkey]

Nice. Reading about him has me excited about his future. Big raw talent

[Inside Pitch]

Great news!..   Most excited I've been about a draft class in ages....

[Docwaukee]

7 minutes ago, totdprods said:

According to that article, Cole Duensing has already signed too, and is good friends with Williams.

I noticed we picked quite a few teammates this year. After seeing this about Williams and Duensing I wonder if there's a slight intangible they're trying to work with by pairing up players who have played together.

thought of that as well.  what probably happens is that they are scouting these guys at the same time.  They put them on their board and if they are within one or two spots, they probably try to pair them up. 

 

[ksangel]

Great to here this news.

Will be fun to watch Jahmai Jones, Marsh and Nolan Williams climb through the minors...maybe form the nucleus of the Angels with Trout when he's 29 or 30!

[totdprods]

26 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

thought of that as well.  what probably happens is that they are scouting these guys at the same time.  They put them on their board and if they are within one or two spots, they probably try to pair them up. 

 

Yeah I'm sure some of it is simply coincidental but it seemed like this year it was a little moreso. Helps keep those players comfortable and able to feed off each other. 

[Second Base]

it's funny, he was supposed to be our hardest sign, part of the reason he went 3rd round was his commitment to LSU

[totdprods]

If they manage to lock up Thaiss, Marsh, Molina, Williams, Rodriguez, Duensing, Montgomery, and Del Valle I'd be thrilled. Most of the others are college seniors and likely to sign. Excited by the Kalawaia kid too.

Even without these guys hitting the field it looks to have been a promising draft, at least a legit step in the right direction. 

[Second Base]

This might be our best draft since 2009. 

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

^^^^^ Oh, boy! Here we go~

 

I'll be happy if they hit above the Mendoza line in AA.....

[Angel Oracle]

After the lack of success of draft prospects here since 2010, color me skeptical.

I want to believe it.    

[Jason]

I think what makes this more exciting is that they didn't go with the safe picks and went with the high ceiling guys. High risk, high reward is what is making this feel good as it gives us a little more hope for the near future.

[Second Base]

13 minutes ago, SlappyUtilityMIF said:

^^^^^ Oh, boy! Here we go~

 

I'll be happy if they hit above the Mendoza line in AA.....

It really doesn't take much to be our best draft since 2009.  In the last 5 years, the Angels have been notoriously awful in the draft, and most of that has to do with Dipoto's approach to the draft.  Low upside, high floor, cheap collegiate players.  The end result of that is a truckload of 26 year olds hitting .234 in AA. 

[Angel Oracle]

I'm glad Dipoto left.   What did he truly do for this org, looking back?

[Inside Pitch]

29 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

I'm glad Dipoto left.   What did he truly do for this org, looking back?

Pass the buck...

 

[Docwaukee]

Here is an interesting tid bit from the 2010 draft.  Harper were taken 1 and 3 overall in that draft.  We had the 18th pick and selected Cowart.  From the Cowart pick on, there are three position players with a WAR above 8 total selected within the first 8 rounds.  Yelich, Simmons and Calhoun.  There are a couple of other players who still may have a major league impact.  Adam Eaton was 19th rounder and Kiermier was a 31st rounder. 

A couple of other guys we missed out on from 2010 are Syndergaard, Aaron Sanchez, Castellanos, Taijuan Walker from the first round and in the second, Simmons and Smyly.  You've got a few guys with limited time in the majors except for a couple relievers and then it's calhoun.  There just wasn't a ton of talent in that draft. 

 

[Second Base]

1 hour ago, Dochalo said:

Here is an interesting tid bit from the 2010 draft.  Harper were taken 1 and 3 overall in that draft.  We had the 18th pick and selected Cowart.  From the Cowart pick on, there are three position players with a WAR above 8 total selected within the first 8 rounds.  Yelich, Simmons and Calhoun.  There are a couple of other players who still may have a major league impact.  Adam Eaton was 19th rounder and Kiermier was a 31st rounder. 

A couple of other guys we missed out on from 2010 are Syndergaard, Aaron Sanchez, Castellanos, Taijuan Walker from the first round and in the second, Simmons and Smyly.  You've got a few guys with limited time in the majors except for a couple relievers and then it's calhoun.  There just wasn't a ton of talent in that draft. 

 

You're right Doc, there wasn't.  And I like that the Angels were taking chances on guys with upside there.  The issue was, the Angels needed to do a better job of finding ball players that early in the draft.  Everyone misses on prospects, it happens more than anyone cares to admit.  The difference is, the Angels had several chances and missed on every last one of them.  There were guys projected to go right around where the Angels were picking, like Sanchez, Sydergaard and Walker and yet for whatever reason the Angels reaches on Lindsay and Bolden, went with Cowart (understandable), brought in Clarke (another understandable move) and scooped up Bedrosian (head scratcher).  

That's the type of draft that can make or break a farm system.  It's pretty clear it broke them.  

[Chris]

Do we still have a Future Angels forum?  or did it get merged over here?  haven't been paying attention lately

[Chuck]

16 minutes ago, Chris said:

Do we still have a Future Angels forum?  or did it get merged over here?  haven't been paying attention lately

Merged!