D-Rays On Beckham (or, Money Changes Everything)

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Posey Requests Moon, Stars, Second Half of SaberScouting Mock Draft
Published 6/5/2008 by kileymcd at SaberScouting
By Kiley McDaniel & Frankie Piliere We’ve got the second half of the mock draft here for you, but you might want to take it more in spirit rather than at face value, since there’s been a lot of developments in the past 24 hours that may make this attempt moot, but one particularly that will shake up the first round. We won’t be re-mocking the whole first round, at least not with a commentary on each pick, because we’re lazy, but we did give you backup options at each pick in yesterday’s top 15 mock, so go choose your own adventure with all those options at your disposal. So, that ...

Draft - Today!
Published 6/5/2008 by Pistol at Batter's Box Interactive Magazine
The draft starts at 2 pm today. The Jays pick should come around 2:45-3:00. Bob Elliot seems fairly certain that the Reds will be taking Canadian Brett Lawrie at #7. In the same article he mentions that the Jays are interested in a college bat, with the usual suspects named, with Ike Davis and David Cooper as fall backs. And in a bigger surprise Elliot has Eric Hosmer going first overall to the Rays as apparently Buster Posey is asking for HUGE money. Most mock drafts lately have Brett Wallace falling to the Jays. MLB.com Baseball ...

Liveglogging the MLB First Year Player Draft
Published 6/5/2008 by Rob Iracane at Walkoff Walk
... Common knowledge says that Tampa Bay is deciding between two players with their top pick: FSU catcher Buster Posey and Georgia high school shortstop Tim Beckham. Word has it that the Rays will take Beckham because Posey's price-tag is too steep. There's also high school third baseman Pedro Alvarez, but his agent is Scott Boras, so that will most likely be ...

Draft Day Roundup
Published 6/5/2008 by Tim Dierkes at MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com
... Speaking of huge demands, Buster Posey's people are floating $12MM.  That might steer the Rays toward Tim Beckham at #1. ...

Rays Draft Day 2008; Rays Will Select Beckham
Published 6/5/2008 by Tommy Rancel at Outs Per Swing
... choices have been narrowed to SS Tim Beckham and C Buster Posey. The Rays are just the 8th team to have a winning record on the day they are making the 1st overall pick.  Some of those notable 1:1 picks by teams with winning records include: Harold Baines, Joe Mauer, Justin Upton, Ken Griffey Jr. and one of the biggest bust of all time Matt Bush. Here at OPS we’re hoping the Rays select Tim Beckham.  We think he has the highest ceiling and biggest upside of anyone. Kevin Goldstein saw it coming last night: “As we close in on midnight, the ...

[2008 RULE 4 DRAFT] Rays To Pick Beckham After Posey Makes $12MM Demand
Published 6/5/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (The Professor) at Rays Index
Word is starting to leak out that the Tampa Bay Rays will select high school shortstop Tim Beckham with the top pick in the draft. It had been thought that the Rays were deciding between Beckham and Florida State catcher Buster Posey. Many will say that the decision was based on drafting talent over the need for catchers in the organization. However, the decision may have been made based on contract demands Baseball Prospectus is reporting that the Rays were leaning towards drafting Posey, but switched to Beckham ...

Rays Will Select SS Tim Beckham First Overall in MLB Draft
Published 6/5/2008 by Josh Alper at FanHouse
... could fill an actual team need much sooner. Reports are that Posey is asking for $12 million which may have been the final push the Rays needed to go in Beckham's direction. Beckham's upside is tremendous but it seems likely that, if all things were equal, Posey could have been their first choice. ...

Meet the NL West Draft Picks
Published 6/6/2008 by Mullet at FanHouse
... nudged the Rays off the scent, and Buster Posey went to the other side of the country to join the San Francisco Giants. Posey's asking price of $12 million wasn't enough to scare the Giants off ... although $12 million has to be nothing to a team who's paying Barry Zito a gazillion dollars to go 1-9 for them. Posey has only been a catcher for two seasons after converting from shortstop, but has been a ...