MLB Draft, 2021

[A Boy Named Seo]

I like that Clemson lefty. He's the kinda guy Omar would have drafted 1st and debuted the next week.

Also digging Rowsdey's hot pants

Those above-the-knee pants Rowdey's rocking are kinda NFL looking?

[dinosaur jesus]

They're Hunter Pence pants.

[A Boy Named Seo]

15th round

Wyatt Young 5'7" 160 lbs lefty, junior shortstop from Pepperdine. Dig these tequila sunrise jerseys yall

[A Boy Named Seo]

They're Hunter Pence pants.

Pence pants. Good call.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Was thinking Angus Young pants

[A Boy Named Seo]

Round 16

Trey McLoughlin - 6'2" 210 lbs senior from Fairfield CT. Trey was expecting to get drafted last year in rounds 10-15 but had to go back to school when they cut the draft to 5 rounds. I wonder how many guys had to do the same and tanked this year and didn't get drafted. :'-(

[A Boy Named Seo]

Round 17

Nick Zwack - 6'3" 230 lbs lefty senior out of Xavier, OH.

"I noticed there was only one set of footprints, Nick. Why did you bail on me, bro?"

"I did not bail on you, bro. I just gave you a chill, lil piggy-back ride."

[Benjamin Grimm]

Nick Zwack paddywhack, give your dog a bone. This old man came rolling home.

I thought the draft had been reduced to ten rounds? Or was that just a 2020 thing?

[A Boy Named Seo]

5 rounds last year. 20 this year.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Round 18

Kolby Kubichek. His middle name thankfully doesn't start with a "K". 6'0" 180 lbs junior out of Texas. Congrats, fella.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Round 19

It's like the end of a fantasy draft and the Mets realize they still need a catcher. Enter Drake Osborn from the Univ of Louisiana - Lafayette. 5'10" 190 lbs and lead-off hitter for your Ragin' Cajuns.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Round 20

The Mets go back to Fairfield to get their last guy, Justin Guerrera, a 5'9" 185 lb junior shortstop. How many HS kids did they take? 1? 2? Welp, that's all, folks.

[A Boy Named Seo]

One high school kid in the second round. here's the rundown:

https://www.mlb.com/draft/tracker/2021/all/team/mets

[Edgy MD]

Anaheim totally out-Metsed the Mets, going all-in and selecting pitchers in all 20 rounds.

[Edgy MD]

Kumar Rocker and his people agreed to a bonus amount very shortly after the draft. But now the Mets have all but three of their picks signed*, but Rocker is one of them.

Now some buzz out there is suggesting that Coobymar has a medical issue.

*I take that back. All Mets draft picks but Rocker have signed.

[nymr83]

So are they going to give him the RA Dickey treatment and reneg on the bonus they promised him?

[MFS62]

Very suspicious that they didn't (can't?) name the part of the body that has a medical problem.
If it is the arm, maybe that is why he "slipped" to # 10. Does this fall on the Medical staff?
I'm anticipating another LOL Mets moment.
Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

Maybe it's a body part that hasn't been named yet, because no other human has one.

That's MY guess, anyway.

[Edgy MD]

Very suspicious that they didn't (can't?) name the part of the body that has a medical problem.

Or they simply have no business naming it (assuming there is something to name). He's not even a member of their organization.

[bmfc1]

Shouldn't they have known this? Did the teams that passed on Rocker know but not the Mets?
The whole draft was built around that pick as they knew that they had to go over the slot for him which meant drafting other players that could be paid below-slot.

[kcmets]

Yikes-a-roonies...

https://nypost.com/2021/07/27/mets-agre ... -jeopardy/

[Benjamin Grimm]

Our billionaire owner should roll the dice and give him the $6 million and hope whatever is wrong with the elbow heals or is repaired some time over the next few years.

[Willets Point]

Could turn out like R.A. Dickey's missing UCL not being a problem.

[ashie62]

They drafted him so sign him.

It was a crap pick but they made it.

[bmfc1]

Today is the deadline to sign your draft picks and Jeff Passan says that as of now the Mets will NOT sign Rocker. I'll ass-ume that they checked his medicals so did they do a bad job? Did Boras try to hide something? The rest of the draft was based on picking Rocker with the knowledge that they had to pay above-slot for him which means that they drafted down elsewhere to get players below-slot. Theoretically, this means that they got worse players than they could have gotten because of the Rocker pick. If that's true, it hurts the farm system and we heard that the Mets had trouble making more trades this week because they didn't have enough second-level players to deal.