2015 Braves Draft Rumor Update

John Hart looks into the draft crystal ball and tries to pull out major league players Please credit Grpahic created by Fred Owens for Tomahawk Take from multiple sources

The Rule 4 Draft starts on  Monday and while the names have been rearranged a bit since my first post there’s no more certainty about where the Braves will go now than there was then.

The Draft – eh so what?

As much as Bud Selig wanted it, baseball’s amateur draft isn’t a must see event for fans the like NFL draft – I’m told it’s an event I never watch so I don’t know. Unlike other sports the difference between even the best college games and the major leagues is huge. The casual fan who here’s a name in the media or watches a player shine in the prep ranks rarely sees that player drafted and sent to the majors right away, so mostly they don’t watch.

A draft class like this one is worse because there’s no name for fans to hang their hat on en mass. The punditry – the ones who generate interest in players –  have had a hard time making up their mind  who was the “It Guy”  this year and resorted to saying the draft was “deep with shortstops” which isn’t exactly something you’d put on a bumper sticker.

This is not the bumper stick MLB would like to use but it’s true. Please Credit Graphic Designed and created by Fred Owens for Tomahawk Take

Televising the MLB Draft is something they have to do these days and for those of us willing – in fact eager – to wait and watch players become good enough to make it to ‘The Bigs’ it’s must see TV.  If draft day is a big yawn mock drafts are mostly fantasy and day dreaming. In a today’s post Ben Lindbergh described the difference like this.

". . . At best, draft day offers a moment of euphoria, followed by years of digging through minor league box scores and squinting at grainy video shot from oblique angles; mock drafts, however, are delicious, uncut speculation and anticipation. A minor drawback to mock drafts, though: They’re always wrong, often overwhelmingly so. So while they’re a fun way to familiarize oneself with the year’s top talent, they’re of dubious value as a predictive tool."

This year however the draft is so thin that some mock somewhere will be able to claim a good rate of success. . . or not. Since we all like to dream however let’s see what the ‘experts’ think the Braves will do on Monday.

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