That's because he was part of the class of 2025. We expanded the draft to 25 rounds that year, and I think we should make that a permanent change.
I just noticed that one of my "top prospects" was a 22nd round pick that year.
I'm going to make some more draft-related suggestions, after we sort out the financials. One of the suggestions is to permanently make the draft 25 rounds.
The key factor in the depth of the 2025 draft class was that something strange happened in connection with a switch to version 15. The draft class in 2025 somehow included 1,000 players, rather than the normal draft class of 200 or so. At the time, I wondered if in the switch between versions, we didn't somehow get several draft classes all at once. But I don't think that was really it. I don't know why the draft class was suddenly huge.
In any case, we had 270 players in that class that my scout had given more than 1*. We raised the draft class limit to 25 in response to the massive number of players in the draft pool. The causal arrows went like this:
Something in upgrade causes massive draft class, which then causes Zev to increase the draft from 15 to 25 rounds.
I don't know that increasing the draft to 25 rounds will result in an equivalently bountiful draft class again.
My testing has been interesting, I'll have more to share when we discuss it, but the gist is that it's not the number of rounds we draft, but the number of the players generated for the draft that matters.
I really need to stop hitting back after I post a comment and inadvertently double-posting. My apologies to the blog servers.
By the way, I don't know which of you irresponsible SOBs has offered Nigel Bryant so much money, but I'm out. I'm not giving one guy 25% or so of my spending, even if he is totally awesome.
Besides, he told me, "It's a sad day for Seattle when you can't offer a respectable wage in a contract proposal," as he turned down my ginormous contract. Entitled little jerk.
In his first full year in the majors, Arturo Sanchez set the league record for ISO. Not bad for a guy who was a 6th round pick 2 years ago.
ReplyDeleteThat's because he was part of the class of 2025. We expanded the draft to 25 rounds that year, and I think we should make that a permanent change.
ReplyDeleteI just noticed that one of my "top prospects" was a 22nd round pick that year.
I'm going to make some more draft-related suggestions, after we sort out the financials. One of the suggestions is to permanently make the draft 25 rounds.
Michael, is the rationale that there are likely to be a greater number of high quality prospects if there are more draft rounds?
ReplyDeleteThe key factor in the depth of the 2025 draft class was that something strange happened in connection with a switch to version 15. The draft class in 2025 somehow included 1,000 players, rather than the normal draft class of 200 or so. At the time, I wondered if in the switch between versions, we didn't somehow get several draft classes all at once. But I don't think that was really it. I don't know why the draft class was suddenly huge.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, we had 270 players in that class that my scout had given more than 1*. We raised the draft class limit to 25 in response to the massive number of players in the draft pool. The causal arrows went like this:
Something in upgrade causes massive draft class, which then causes Zev to increase the draft from 15 to 25 rounds.
I don't know that increasing the draft to 25 rounds will result in an equivalently bountiful draft class again.
I'll try to test that this weekend. I'm curious about it.
DeleteMy testing has been interesting, I'll have more to share when we discuss it, but the gist is that it's not the number of rounds we draft, but the number of the players generated for the draft that matters.
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ReplyDeleteI really need to stop hitting back after I post a comment and inadvertently double-posting. My apologies to the blog servers.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I don't know which of you irresponsible SOBs has offered Nigel Bryant so much money, but I'm out. I'm not giving one guy 25% or so of my spending, even if he is totally awesome.
Besides, he told me, "It's a sad day for Seattle when you can't offer a respectable wage in a contract proposal," as he turned down my ginormous contract. Entitled little jerk.
Note that "irresponsible SOB" equals nothing more than "guy with more money to spend than me."
ReplyDeleteI may have some extra cash floating around...
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ReplyDeleteWe clearly need to reduce Ohio's budget. That $140M is encouraging wasteful profligacy. (grin)
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