Note: Next Year’s Draft Order, Today’s Games
In a post to his blog for MiLB.com, Jonathan Mayo posts the reverse standings in MLB, i.e., who will get the No. 1 pick in the 2010 Draft.
As of now, according to Mayo, the Mets have the 10th overall pick.
…for those rooting for the Mets to lose, for the purposes of getting the best possible pick, they’re basically one, major losing-streak away from having the fourth or fifth overall pick in the draft…
…thanks to a talk with Joe DeMayo of NY Baseball Digest, i now know that if the Mets finish any place within the first overall 15 picks of the draft, they will not lose their first pick if they sign a Type A free agent, like, say, Matt Holliday… assuming things stay as is, in a holliday scenario, they’d surrender a second-round pick instead…
…to move up from the 15th pick, to a spot in which they could lose that first-rounder, the Mets need to catch fire and finish around .500, jumping ahead of the Cubs and Twins in the standings…
…of course, all of this depends on the team’s ability to draft a quality player, pay him, and then bringing him along in a way that works, while not botching his development or trading him too soon…
Speaking of DeMayo, he argues in favor of signing Holliday, here.
