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Rounds 31-50

Round 31: Jake Schlander, SS, Stanford
Round 32: Andrew Giobbi, C, Vanderbilt
Round 33: Doug Peterson, 3B, Gilbert HS (AZ)
Round 34: Tyler Whitney, LHP, Mississippi State
Round 35: Ethan Paquette, 1B, Hofstra U
Round 36: Forrest Snow, RHP, Washington
Round 37: Ryan Kiel, LHP, Marshall
Round 38: Ben Versnik, RHP, U of Wisconsin - Whitewhater
Round 39: Josh Krist, RHP, Cal Poly Pomona
Round 40: Nathan Reed, LHP, Kutztown U
Round 41: Billy Marcoe, C, Cal St Fullerton
Round 42: Michael Aviles, RHP, St. Thomas Aquinas College
Round 43: Matt Browning, 3B, James Madison U
Round 44: Timothy Boyce, RHP, U Rhode Island
Round 45: Stephen Kohlscheen, RHP, Auburn
Round 46: David Rollins, LHP, San Jacinto College North
Round 47: James Wood, RF, Trinity Col
Round 48: Patrick Brady, UTL, Bellarmine Col
Round 49: Colton Keough, CF, Tesoro HS (CA)
Round 50: Dave Holman, RHP, Hutchinson CC

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James Wood went to Trinity College

I am rooting for James Wood to be amazing.

James Wood went to Trinity College and is now, at least on some level, a professional baseball player.

Jeff Sullivan went to Trinity College and….got to live in Hartford for four years.

I could've batted .441

I just didn’t want to.

Your modesty is an example to us all in the me-first times in which we live
I thought you were supposed to be the left-handed Brian Sweeney.
I could've been awesome
In Japan, perhaps.
Motivation is an important part of being a professional athlete
Chemistry major, bitches
Hey Jeff, I'm a rising sophomore at Trinity.

At some point this year, I concluded that it was likely I was the only serious Mariner fan to ever have attended the school. Nearly everyone I’ve met resides in New England, New York, or New Jersey, so basically the entire population of baseball fans at Trinity sits on either the Yankees or Sox bandwagon and tends to be completely unfamiliar with sabermetric analysis and the proper tools for player evaluation. I began to assume that it was always this way. I guess I was wrong.

Holy shit
WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU FOUR YEARS AGO
He's not the only Trinity alum, though.

Although it’s six minor leaguers and Jonah Bayliss, so…

Yes, but this one is OURS
Kutztown U?

Somebody made that up.

My thoughts exactly.

Really?

That's where NFL hall of famer Andre Reed went!
Wait, HOW is Reed not in the HOF? Weird.
As someone that loved the Bills as a small child because he felt bad for them I agree wholeheartedly.
I was surprised to see a few of these lower pics come with videos.

Very nice!

Man, I can't believe Boyce went that early.

Horrible overdraft. He’s more like a 45th-round talent.

Billy Marcoe's a local kid, I believe. Bellevue? MI?
Not MI.

I am 100% certain I would know him because my brother is a coach of that team.

Also we would have been at school for two of the same years.

MI’s only “talented” baseball player at that time was Willy Reel. Or at least that’s what I’m told.

Bellevue. Went to Eastside Catholic.
I wish this list meant something to me.
How often do you see guys drafted as utility players?
And there's Brian Holman's kid

He had cancer.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mariners/2011619147_holman16.html

Brian Holman has had kind of a rough go of things
Wait, Colton Keough?

As in the kid from The Real Housewives from Orange County? That’s awesome.

Stupid question from a rookie draft follower...

On the conference call they’ve made a few teams clarify what position a draft selection will be listed as (second-baseman, left fielder, etc). Does this matter on a practical level, or is it just for the draftee’s benefit?

Probably the latter.

It let’s the player know what they’re getting into and possibly provides a vote of confidence, say if he’s a fringey defender but they say he can play short starting out.

never has a named defined canada so well
Forrest Snow, RHP, Washington
Dude was my best friend through high school

When we played little league he agreed that I’d be his agent when he played professionally. He’d better come through on this.

I hope you have a signed contract.
Golden Tate was draft-eligible?
Is there anyone interesting in this?
I'm sure at least one of them is quirky

and David Holman had cancer in his brain.

Cancer so nice they drafted him twice!

/not mocking cancer in the slightest it’s awesome that he’s fully recovered

So now you can identify with James Wood for Trinity and David Holman for brain damage.
Some people liked Peterson.

He has a commitment to Arizona I think.

We drafted somebody as a utility player?

Wow

I can't wait to see his MLB success.
POSITIONAL SUMMARY

LHP: 9
RHP: 21
C: 4
1B: 3
3B: 3
SS: 4
OF: 2
CF: 3
UTL: 1

RHP Madness!

As a novice to following the draft – is it “normal” to see such a heavy bias towards pitchers? Is it because so many of them are 1-dimensional in HS/College and only a few develop decent 2nd/3rd pitches in the minors?
  
I can see a need to pull a few more pitchers than position players (especially when you consider that roughly 45% of your 25-man roster is going to be staffed with pitchers); but drafting 60% pitchers seems a bit, I dunno, excessive.

I kind of like that strategy

Teams end up throwing a lot of money away when they sign free agent pitchers — due mostly to injury, but also to underperformance. Position players usually offer a better investment as free agents. Of course, you have to get your pitchers from somewhere, so drafting a lot of them is a good way to increase your chances of stocking your staff with cheap, club-control pitchers. If you run short of position players from your system, a team can buy them on the free agent market.

It was a draft heavier in pitching talent

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