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June 6, 2013 Draft CoverageWhat to Watch ForThis year, Baseball Prospectus has increased its coverage of amateur baseball and the MLB First-Year Player Draft. Over the past eight months, we’ve produced roughly 70,000 draft-related words, and you can find links to them all right here. This offseason, Baseball Prospectus also joined forces with Perfect Game USA—the premiere baseball showcase/tournament provider in the world—and our newly forged partnership has provided the Baseball Prospectus readership with access to further MLB draft and amateur baseball content from the insightful team over at PG. Finally, both Baseball Prospectus and Perfect Game will continue to roll out further draft content throughout the week (publishing schedule below), so check in regularly this week to make sure you’re teed up for the draft when it kicks off on Thursday evening. Scouting the Draft—Summer Recaps Scouting the Draft—Events WWBA World Championship (hosted by Perfect Game USA): Last October, Dan Evans, Joe Hamrahi, Jason Parks, and Nick Faleris headed down to Jupiter, Florida for the largest scouting event on the calendar, returning with notes and video aplenty. Coca-Cola Classic: At the end of February, Jason Parks, Jason Cole, and Nick Faleris headed out to Arizona for the four-team round-robin event featuring some top-tier collegiate talent. Baseball Prospectus and Perfect Game—Collegiate Coverage Scouting the Draft—Draft Preview
Dissecting the Draft
Perfect Game USA—Scouting Notes and Mock Draft June 4, 2013: Allan Simpson’s draft prospects 51 to 100, with player reports If your thirst for draft content is still not quenched, you can find class-wide rankings, state-by-state rankings, top prospect lists, draft chats, player profiles, mock drafts, and much more over at Perfect Game’s draft content link page. If you’re a draft fan and not already a subscriber with PG, please consider supporting our partners through one of their subscription packages.
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This is a terrific collection of resources to prepare for the draft. Thanks for providing them all in one location.
I was wondering, is there any way to provide data on the signability of a player or whether they are projected to ask for above, at or less than the slot recommended amount? It was about the only missing piece I could think of if trying to use these resources to try and follow along with the logic your team (or any team) is using when drafting certain players in certain situations.
Thanks again for the great work!
Thanks for the kind words! I'll speak with my colleagues here at BP about how we'll handle this in the future. Personally, I prefer not to speculate as to signability of players, and to the extent I am privy to specifics I think it's important not to pass along that information in order to maintain the integrity of the process of negotiation.
The only time signability numbers leak is when one side believes it to be to their benefit. I prefer to avoid assisting either side -- be it intentionally or inadvertently -- and there are plenty of media sources who are happy to speculate or float rumors.
Perhaps a nice compromise would be to look at profile types that have generally proved difficult to sign and identifying the players that fit into that historical grouping. Would be an interesting research project, as well, so let's circle back up on that at a later date.
Thanks again, both for the feedback and for the kind words.