The 2015 First-Year Player Draft begins tomorrow afternoon, Monday at 4pm Pacific Time, and will include the first two rounds of the draft, and all supplemental rounds before round three. 75 picks in all. The LA Angels do not have the best draft position this cycle, but they do have two picks tomorrow, at #26 and #70.
This revises the draft board I presented a week and a half ago, bringing it up to date with the latest mocks presented in the last 10 days, since May 27. It is a weighted average of 11 draft mocks, 3 prospect talent rankings (MLB.com, Baseball America and Fangraphs), and the Community Mock at SBN MinorLeagueBall that was conducted last week. Fifteen lists in all. It incorporates the opinions of Keith Law, Jim Callis, Jonathan Mayo, John Manuel, John Sickels, Jeff Ellis, Kiley McDaniel and others. If you dig "wisdom of the (informed) crowd", this be it.
Many of these folks will post last minute draft revisions tomorrow morning, attempting to capture whatever gossip about signability and medical assessments they harvested over the weekend. This doesn't really matter. This isn't a mock draft. It's a "consensus" estimate as to who might the "best of the rest" at any moment during tomorrow's draft selection process. We hope you can use it as a reference as you watch, to help identify the surprises and the overdrafts, and to understand where the Angels' take on their own internal needs jives (or doesn't) with the consensus take on the "best of the rest".
Separately I'll post a "Turk's Board" (and here it is, fresh off the griddle!) to capture some of the names that I think might most improve the Angels' farm as it stands, and benchmark it against what we know the Angels are looking for via industry news and scuttlebutt. Until then, enjoy this table of the might-be-greats, newly expanded to 75 names, calibrated to the number of Monday evening picks.
Slot | Team | Player | Level & Position | Avg Rank |
1 | Arizona Diamondbacks | Dansby Swanson | College SS | 1.40 |
2 | Houston Astros | Brendan Rodgers | HS SS | 2.33 |
3 | Colorado Rockies | Alex Bregman | College SS | 3.67 |
4 | Texas Rangers | Dillon Tate | College RHP | 5.60 |
5 | Houston Astros | Kyle Tucker | HS OF | 6.20 |
6 | Minnesota Twins | Carson Fulmer | College RHP | 6.73 |
7 | Boston Red Sox | Tyler Jay | College LHP | 6.73 |
8 | Chicago White Sox | Daz Cameron | HS OF | 7.64 |
9 | Chicago Cubs | Andrew Benintendi | College OF | 9.60 |
10 | Philadelphia Phillies | Tyler Stephenson | HS C | 11.47 |
11 | Cincinnati Reds | Trenton Clark | HS OF | 12.47 |
12 | Miami Marlins | Jon Harris | College RHP | 14.64 |
13 | Tampa Bay Rays | Walker Buehler | College RHP | 14.80 |
14 | Atlanta Braves | Ian Happ | College OF/2B | 15.80 |
15 | Milwaukee Brewers | Garrett Whitley | HS OF | 15.80 |
16 | New York Yankees | Kolby Allard | HS LHP | 16.93 |
17 | Cleveland Indians | Mike Nikorak | HS RHP | 17.73 |
18 | San Francisco Giants | James Kaprielian | College RHP | 18.33 |
19 | Pittsburgh Pirates | Cornelius Randolph | HS SS/3B | 18.80 |
20 | Oakland Athletics | Kyle Funkhouser | College RHP | 20.36 |
21 | Kansas City Royals | Chris Betts | HS C/1B | 20.79 |
22 | Detroit Tigers | Phil Bickford | JC RHP | 21.47 |
23 | St Louis Cardinals | Kevin Newman | College SS | 22.79 |
24 | Los Angeles Dodgers | Brady Aiken | HS LHP | 23.67 |
25 | Baltimore Orioles | Ashe Russell | HS RHP | 24.86 |
26 | Los Angeles Angels | Nick Plummer | HS OF | 25.45 |
27 | Colorado Rockies | Michael Matuella | College RHP | 27.08 |
28 | Atlanta Braves | D.J. Stewart | College OF | 27.27 |
29 | Toronto Blue Jays | Nathan Kirby | College LHP | 27.80 |
30 | New York Yankees | Donny Everett | HS RHP | 28.85 |
31 | San Francisco Giants | Cody Ponce | College RHP | 31.91 |
32 | Pittsburgh Pirates | Richie Martin | College SS | 32.30 |
33 | Kansas City Royals | Scott Kingery | College 2B | 33.09 |
34 | Detroit Tigers | Justin Hooper | HS LHP | 34.25 |
35 | Los Angeles Dodgers | Beau Burrows | HS RHP | 34.50 |
36 | Baltimore Orioles | Donnie Dewees | College OF | 35.33 |
37 | Houston Astros | Ke'Bryan Hayes | HS 3B | 35.33 |
38 | Colorado Rockies | Alex Young | College LHP | 37.00 |
39 | St Louis Cardinals | Eric Jenkins | HS OF | 37.57 |
40 | Milwaukee Brewers | Austin Smith | HS RHP | 37.83 |
41 | Atlanta Braves | Juan Hillman | HS LHP | 39.11 |
42 | Cleveland Indians | Nolan Watson | HS RHP | 39.71 |
43 | Arizona Diamondbacks | Dakota Chalmers | HS RHP | 39.86 |
44 | Colorado Rockies | Jacob Nix | JC RHP | 39.88 |
45 | Texas Rangers | Blake Trahan | College SS | 40.13 |
46 | Houston Astros | Jalen Miller | HS SS | 40.75 |
47 | Chicago Cubs | Chris Shaw | College 1B/OF | 44.33 |
48 | Philadelphia Phillies | Mitch Hansen | HS OF | 45.60 |
49 | Cincinnati Reds | Triston McKenzie | HS RHP | 46.33 |
50 | Miami Marlins | Demi Orimoloye | HS OF | 47.00 |
51 | San Diego Padres | Drew Finley | HS RHP | 49.20 |
52 | Tampa Bay Rays | Tristan Beck | HS RHP | 49.33 |
53 | New York Mets | Peter Lambert | HS RHP | 49.40 |
54 | Atlanta Braves | Kyle Holder | College SS | 50.20 |
55 | Milwaukee Brewers | Tyler Nevin | HS 3B | 51.83 |
56 | Toronto Blue Jays | Mikey White | College SS | 52.20 |
57 | New York Yankees | Thomas Eshelman | College RHP | 52.83 |
58 | Washington Nationals | Brady Singer | HS RHP | 54.00 |
59 | Cleveland Indians | Riley Ferrell | College RHRP | 55.40 |
60 | Seattle Mariners | Cole Sands | HS RHP | 56.00 |
61 | San Francisco Giants | Alonzo Jones | HS IF/OF | 56.50 |
62 | Pittsburgh Pirates | Luken Baker | HS RHP/1B | 56.67 |
63 | Oakland Athletics | Kyle Cody | College RHP | 58.00 |
64 | Kansas City Royals | Kep Brown | HS OF | 60.00 |
65 | Detroit Tigers | Joe McCarthy | College OF | 60.50 |
66 | St. Louis Cardinals | Jahmai Jones | HS 2B/OF | 61.00 |
67 | Los Angeles Dodgers | Jake Woodford | HS RHP | 61.40 |
68 | Baltimore Orioles | Christin Stewart | College OF/1B | 61.50 |
69 | Washington Nationals | Kyle Molnar | HS RHP | 62.00 |
70 | Los Angeles Angels | Josh Naylor | HS 1B | 62.40 |
71 | Cincinnati Reds | Bryce Denton | HS OF | 65.75 |
72 | Seattle Mariners | Austin Rei | College C | 68.25 |
73 | Minnesota Twins | Josh Staumont | College RHP | 70.75 |
74 | Los Angeles Dodgers | Mike Soroka | HS RHP | 71.00 |
75 | Atlanta Braves | David Hill |
College RHP |
75.00 |
– | Andrew Suarez | College LHP | *75.00 |