Vladdy Issues

funny cause I've seen moderators (not saying it's you but it could be you) shutdown topics that were 100% factual because of PERSONAL biases and beliefs

could it be the Angels are building a reputation for being an organization that will fast track you to the Majors if you're good and not play with your service time like other teams?

Right off the bat I made a bad statement by only mentioning draft spending when I also meant pick quality. With regards to what you wrote, thank you... yeah I agree and we all know that. My biggest issue is with the picks, we made a lot of picks in rounds 1-10 that don't seem like they're going to be getting over slot value for the draft round they were picked at (to I guess have more money to spend in rounds 11 - 20 for HIGHER UPSIDE picks like Caden Dana or a Mason Albright)... ... and yet we didn't seem to pick HIGHER UPSIDE guys like a Dana or Albright in the later rounds is my issue.

of all the years to be conservative with their draft spending than the year of the deepest draft #AngelWay

I like it

also third cousin of Kelvim Escobar

I wanted them to take Mike Trout or Shohei Ohtani

no I saw it, I was more concerned about pointing out another thing

bro what does Andrew Tate (a Livan Soto lookalike) have to do with any of this?

yeah but why does that sh*t not work for John Cena's opponents?

So when you say "not the case" here... does that apply to him being ranked #8 in this article below from a much more well known and reputable source than MaxPrep Rankings? https://www.perfectgame.org/Rankings/Players/NationalRankings.aspx?gyear=2009 ... just asking for a friend @Hubs, and please don't believe what you can see posted in the number eight spot in the link above

did you just post shame me?...

Yup finding a guy with a Sean Casey like 16.5 Career WAR potential would be a huge win for this organization. Now if only we could've found a Max Muncy (17.3 WAR) type of player through a minor league signing like the Dodgers did on April 27, 2017.

that's cool bro... that's the highest you could find and I found you one higher from a more well known and reputable source.

Funny because Perfect Game (who I saw all over the place in yesterdays MLB draft broadcast) had Trout ranked 8 in their publication... (no snark here) but who the hell is MaxPrep Rankings? Seriously I never heard of them before you bringing them up now. While the Perfect Game guys seems to have been around since like forever . https://www.perfectgame.org/Rankings/Players/NationalRankings.aspx?gyear=2009

Braves getting the player I wanted at 24th

No he wasn't... here's a couple quick google search of mock drafts from 2009 http://projectprospect.com/article/2009/05/24/2009-mlb-mock-draft/ projected to be picked 16th here https://baseballdraftreport.com/2009/06/05/mock-draft-3-0/ projected to be picked 20th here http://www.mymlbdraft.com/MLB-Mock-Draft-2009 projected to be picked 26th here

Casey Kotchman vibes for me

Like I said earlier, I think we could've done much better than this. For hecks sake, we have a second baseman playing first base for us with Brandon Drury

No I know... I was making that comment because the Jared Tims side by side video clip tweet

Yup, let's pick up the 26 best pick at 11... the Angels way

Eff it... let's also try him at Catcher, Short and Bullpen too

Lol... is this suppose to make us feel better?? Also is this what y'all meant by Matt Twice?

Really?... I'm getting more of Casey Kotchman kind of feel

Lol... remembered having the same underwhelming feelings with those guys too. But whatever, we needed a first baseman and we all know those are hard to find in baseball.